Pres­i­dent pro tem­pore and Co­or­di­na­tor of the Tran­si­tion Coun­cil, Lau­rent Saint-Cyr, has wel­comed the lat­est batch of Kenyan troops who will re­in­force the Gang Re­pres­sion Force (FRG) in Haiti.

The fifth con­tin­gent of 230 spe­cial­ized po­lice of­fi­cers was wel­comed on the tar­mac of Tou­s­saint Lou­ver­ture In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port, and ac­com­pa­nied by Kenya’s Deputy Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Ad­vi­sor, Joseph Boinett, and Prin­ci­pal Deputy In­spec­tor Gen­er­al James Ka­mau.

The GSF lead­er­ship, head­ed by Com­man­der God­frey Otunge; the Com­man­der of the Armed Forces of Haiti, Lieu­tenant Gen­er­al Der­by Guer­ri­er; the Act­ing Di­rec­tor Gen­er­al of the Hait­ian Na­tion­al Po­lice (PNH), Vladimir Parai­son; mem­bers of the High Com­mand; and mem­bers of the diplo­mat­ic corps, in­clud­ing Am­bas­sadors An­dré François Giroux (Cana­da) and An­toine Mi­chon (France) and the Kenyan Con­sul Gen­er­al in Haiti, Noor Gabow were al­so present to greet the troops on their ar­rival on Mon­day.