The National Assembly’s Defence and Foreign Relations Committee chairperson Nelson Koech said the NIS budget has been revised from Sh46.35 billion to Sh55.65 billion, an increase of Sh9.3 billion.
He told the National Assembly’s Liaison committee that the upward revision of the NIS budget is “on account of the need to enhance security operations due to regional instability in Somalia, DRC, Ethiopia, Uganda, Sudan, and South Sudan.”
Regional instability, increased Al-Shabab threat, use of drones by insurgents to conduct attacks on key installations and rising cyber-attack cases have led the Treasury to allocate the National Intelligence Service (NIS) Sh9.3 billion to cater for “increased operations.”
The National Assembly’s Defence and Foreign Relations Committee chairperson, Nelson Koech, said the NIS budget has been revised from Sh46.35 billion to Sh55.65 billion, an increase of Sh9.3 billion.
