Prime Minister Ariel Henry has pledged for the year 2024 the return to the free movement of people and goods, the eradication of armed gangs with the support of the international force for Haitian security forces equipped with more resources and equipment, in his speech on the occasion of Haiti's 220th independence on January 1, 2024. "2024 must be the year of return to normalcy and the resumption of free movement of people and goods (...) In this year 2024, be calm, stay serene. We will start moving again in all neighborhoods of the capital and in all areas of the country," said Prime Minister Ariel Henry in Creole, promising that those who "frighten us" will be contained. "Every barrel has its cork. Those who want to scare us will have to find their own cork," Ariel Henry continued, counting the days before the deployment of the security support mission voted by the UN Security Council last fall. "Today, we are getting even closer to the arrival of the security support force to deal with the bandits and all groups involved in illegal activities, smuggling, arms and ammunition trafficking, drug trafficking," said Ariel Henry, who believes that achieving peace, a return to security and normalcy, requires eradicating armed groups. "To achieve our goals, we must eradicate armed groups that terrorize the population, kill for nothing, kidnap, rape women, prevent Haitians from moving freely on this land bequeathed by our ancestors after bitter struggles," said Ariel Henry. "The monopoly of the use of legitimate force must remain with the State. We cannot let armed people make the population believe that they can replace the State or make them believe that they are the ones who make the law," he affirmed, saluting the men and women of the Haitian security forces, the memory of those who died in duty. "We will not abandon their families," reassured Ariel Henry, promising means and equipment to the security forces.

Prime Minister Ariel Henry emphasized that the fight against criminal gangs that exasperate cannot be done in any way. "The show we are giving today is very bad. I understand that you are tired of these delinquents. I understand that you are tired of the acts committed by the bandits. I understand that you aspire to a rapid change in the situation. But it cannot be done in any way," said Ariel Henry at a time when a government commissioner, Jean Ernest Muscadin, is in the sights of the RNDDH because he engaged in summary executions of alleged bandits, some after their arrest.