Why was Jovenel Moise the Haiti President assassinated

The president of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, has been assassinated in his private residence by unknown armed men who also seriously injured his wife, according to a statement from the interim prime minister’s office.

Moise had been ruling Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, by decree after legislative elections due in 2018 were delayed and following disputes on when his own term ended.

While speaking on a local radio station, Claude Joseph the prime minister confirmed the killing, saying the attack had been carried out by an “armed commando group” that included foreign elements.

“Around one o’clock in the morning, during the night of Tuesday 6th to Wednesday 7th of July 2021, a group of unidentified individuals, including some speaking Spanish, attacked the private residence of the president and fatally injured the head of state,” Joseph said in a statement quoted in media outlets.

Jovenel Moïse was born in Trou du Nord, Nord-Est, Haiti on 26 June 1968. In July 1974, his family moved to Port-au-Prince, where he continued his primary studies at École Nationale Don Durélin, and followed up with his secondary studies first at Lycée Toussaint Louverture, and then at Centre Culturel du Collège Canado-Haïtien.

In 1996, he married his classmate Martine Marie Etienne Joseph. That same year, they left the capital and established in Port-de-Paix to develop rural areas.

However, there is growing speculation that it may be due to his dictatorial rule and for staying longer in office after his tenure as elapse led to his untimely assassination.