During a Wednesday night interview on Citizen TV, Wiper leader Kalonzo Musyoka sharply criticised President William Ruto’s public complaints at the UN General Assembly over Kenya’s role in the Haiti mission.
Kalonzo described the deployment as inherently flawed and politically risky.
“The mission was misadvised and it did not even in its initial stages get a nod of the UN Security Council, and without it, it was a mission impossible,” he said, putting the mission’s legitimacy into question.
He added bluntly: “The Haiti mission is a failed and misadvised mission.”
Kalonzo reminded viewers that, as opposition, they had warned from the outset against sending troops to Haiti.
He revisited a sombre moment when he attended the burial of a Kenyan soldier in Kitengela, where he urged the president to recall the contingent — a plea he says went ignored.
“Now he is complaining to the whole world,” Kalonzo said.
He accused the Ruto administration of defying court orders in dispatching the first batch of officers.
“On the day the Gen Z visited Parliament is the day that the first batch to Haiti actually left, against a court order,” he said, claiming the government showed “no regard for constitutionalism, for rule of law.”
According to him, this undermines Kenya’s moral standing.
Kalonzo also took issue with Ruto’s approach to foreign policy, saying the president acted unilaterally, bypassing consultations with regional blocs like the African Union.
He questioned why few heads of state showed up at Ruto’s UNGA high-level session on Haiti, interpreting the low turnout as symbolic of weak international backing.
“This whole thing is a disaster,” Kalonzo said, reiterating the demand: “Our boys should come back home.
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