The government has spent 600 million US dollars to prepare some of the police officers earmarked for Haiti deployment, Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki. https://bit.ly/46cKAxj
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00:00 The overall budget for the mission, for the one-year mission pending review, because after
00:09 the one year the UN will make a decision whether there will be another request or not, the
00:14 total budget is 600 million US dollars.
00:20 And that involves monies for preparing the forces, the officers, keeping them, transporting
00:33 them, sustaining them there, transporting them there in Haiti, their logistics, their
00:40 communications, their food, their allowances, and all that goes with that, and also bringing
00:46 them back home at the end of the mission.
00:50 And as the IG perhaps will clarify, we are not taking their thousand officers at once.
00:57 It's not even strategic.
00:59 We will take them in batches.
01:03 That is the strategic thing to do.
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