Wiper Party leader Kalonzo Musyoka on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, attended the burial ceremony of a police officer who was shot dead in Haiti during their patrol against the Gran-Grif gang in Ségur.
Samuel Kaetuai was killed after suffering gunshot wounds during an operation on February 23, 2025, while working as part of the Kenyan contingent in Haiti.
Kalonzo was accompanied by Kajiado governor Joseph Ole Lenku, Democratic Action Party (DAP-K) leader Eugene Wamalwa, Kajiado East MP Kakuta Maimai, Kajiado Senator Peris Tobiko, Deputy Inspector-General of police Gilbert Masengeli and former Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinet who is the Deputy National Security advisor of the government.
Support wife
Maimai asked senior police officers attending the ceremony to consider offering the deceased Samuel’s wife Naomi a job to support her children.
On her part, Tobiko asked the government to ensure that the family of the late police officer was promptly compensated.
Leaders also called on the government to fulfil Samuel’s dream of drilling a community borehole.
Samuel became the first casualty of the Kenyan mission in Haiti after he lost his life during an operation to flush out armed gangs from the troubled Caribbean nation.
Body flown back
His body was flown back and received by his father Kaetuai Salaash on March 10, 2025, from where it was transferred to the Chiromo Mortuary.
“The Deputy Inspector General of the Administration Police Service, Gilbert Masengeli, this evening, March 10, 2025, received the body of the late Police Officer Samuel Tompoi Kaetuai at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA),” a statement from the National Police Service read.
“The body was later transferred to Chiromo Mortuary for preservation, with burial arrangements set for a later date.”
On March 12, 2025, police officers in Haiti held a memorial service for the late Samuel, just two days after his body was flown to Kenya.
“Father Wilder Jean-Baptiste, the parish priest of Saint Jerome Parish in Petite Rivière de l’Artibonite (Diocese of Gonaïves), presided over a memorial Mass in honour of Kenyan police officer Samuel Tompoi Kaetuai. Saint Jerome Parish, founded on December 25, 1725, was filled with worshippers, including schoolchildren, who gathered to pay tribute to Samuel who lost his life in the line of duty on February 23, 2025, during an operation against the Gran-Grif gang in Ségur,” the Multinational Security Support Mission to Haiti stated on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.
