Salaries of Kenyan police officers in Haiti will soon be paid according to the agency overseeing the Multinational Security Support Mission.
This comes after police officers complained of not receiving their salaries.
Police officers and their families said for months since landing in Haiti they are yet to get anything or any assistance.
The officers said each of them in the mission is supposed to get at least KSh100,000 above their salaries that they get as police officers in Kenya.
The Multinational Security Support Mission to Haiti confirmed that salaries will disbursed in the coming week.
“The process for the disbursement of salaries to the MSSM officers accounts has been finalized and it is expected that the same will soon be reflected in their individual bank accounts in the course of this week,”
“Going forward, elaborate mechanism has been put in place where payments will be promptly done at the end of the month,” said a statement from the mission.
The U.S. military has announced it would deliver 24 additional armoured vehicles to Kenyan police deployed in Haiti.
The Kenyan police are heading a long-delayed security operation in the conflict-ravaged island nation.
400 Kenyan police, leading a U.N.-ratified security mission are mandated to fight heavily armed gangs in Haiti.
The gangs have taken over most of the capital.
The U.S. Southern Command, the Department of Defense’s joint military command.
Which covers Latin America and the Caribbean known as SouthCom, said it would deliver the mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) MaxxPros.
