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    "id": 1356352,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheptumo",
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        "legal_name": "Cheptumo William Kipkiror",
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    "content": "In the interest of time, I believe my colleagues have received the Report of the Joint Committee. Our Report takes the form of four chapters. Chapter Three is about the security situation in Haiti. This House needs to note that Haiti has faced many challenges over the years. It has faced economic, political and social difficulties. After the assassination of their President in July, 2021 the Prime Minister took over as the President. Since that time, the security situation in Haiti has not been stable. There have been a lot of killings and harassment of the population. This House needs to note Chapter Three. In this Chapter, we were able to look at the consideration of the request of the United Nations Security Council. This is where my brother, Sen. Wambua, was trying to find out; the resolution to deploy security forces to Haiti is a resolution of the United Nations Security Council. The UN requested support from the member states. Kenya received this request from the UN, just like other countries. This is when the National Security Council decided to bring this request to this House. Chapter Four of this Report is on the legal framework. As a country, we hope to comply with our Constitution. This is why the provisions of the Constitution require that Parliament, both the National Assembly and this House, approve the deployment of our forces to Haiti. This is what we mean by separation of power. If you allow the Executive to do what they want, they would deploy without the people's representatives being informed. This House is playing a critical role in complying with Article 240(a), so that we debate the merits and demerits of the Motion. Is this okay? Sending our sons and daughters to Haiti would have been done with the approval of this House. There is a serious issue that has arisen on who will meet the expenses of the deployment of our forces. Will the Kenya resources be applied? From the presentation of the Cabinet Secretary, it is clear that no single coin from our resources will be applied either in the training, paying salaries, medical expenses, insurance for the forces and every other element of expenditure will be borne by the United Nations. This is a fundamental issue. It is not the Kenyan Government funding this. Kenya is a respected Member of the international community and it is under obligation to abide by the international commitment. Article 2699 of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approves Kenya as the Multi National Security Support Mission (MSS) lead nation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are many countries in the world that are going to provide their forces to Haiti. As a Kenyan and a leader in this country, I am proud that Kenya was approved by the Security Council as the lead country in this particular mission. That speaks to many things; that this country is respected, it has the confidence, expertise and a disciplined military. This is not the first time that we are availing forces for security missions across the globe. It has been done before. I am happy that our country has been recognised to lead this particular mission. The question that arises is; what is expected of Kenya? Our police will help in capacity building of the Haiti National Police, investigations, information, intelligence sharing, conducting intelligence, lead operations and expertise on general operations within Haiti."
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