Body of slain police officer Kennedy Mutuku Nzuve arrives in Nairobi 

Koplo Kennedy Mutuku Nzuve, afisa wa Kenya aliyefia nchini Haiti. Picha|Hisani

The body of a police officer who was killed in Haiti where hundreds of Kenyan police officers are fighting criminal gangs arrived in Nairobi on Friday night after weeks of waiting.

Corporal Kennedy Mutuku Nzuve lost his life in a road traffic accident on September 1, 2025 while serving with the Multinational Security Support Mission (MSSM) in Haiti.

He is the third police officer to die in Haiti since the team arrived there in June 2024.

The body of one of the officers who died is yet to be recovered after the criminal gangs behind the murder escaped with it more than six months ago.

There is pressure at home to find the body of Benedict Kabiru Kuria.

Multi agency teams are still searching for the body after his death on March 25, 2025 in an ambush.

Following the reception of Nzuve’s body, it was transferred to Chiromo Mortuary for preservation. Burial arrangements will be communicated at a later date.

The National Police Service (NPS) fraternity, led by the Commandant of the National Police College Embakasi ‘A’ Campus, Isaac Alimaa, received the body of the late JKIA on September 26, 2025.

The officer’s family, led by his mother, Serah Nzuve, was also present during the solemn occasion.

Since the MSS arrived, gangs have spread increasingly into rural areas, seizing swathes of territory in the agriculturally critical Artibonite region.

Violence in Port-au-Prince has led to record levels of displacement, exacerbating humanitarian conditions, UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said during a press briefing on Wednesday.

Nearly 23,000 people were displaced.

The crisis has also cut into vital supply lines across the country.