NIS Protests

Kenya’s spy agency has warned Parliament against effecting a Sh10 billion budget cut, arguing it will hit its efforts to secure the country against security threats including terrorism. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) told Parliament that the massive budget cut will affect intelligence gathering, hiring of new officers and the ongoing construction of a hospital for its spymasters. The Treasury slashed the budget of the NIS by Sh10 billion in an austerity plan for 2022/2023. The Treasury cut the budget for security intelligence from Sh46.127 billion to Sh36.127 billion in the financial year ending June 30.

“The decrease of Sh10 billion is on account of budget rationalisation,” the Treasury said in Supplementary Estimates No.1. The details of the Sh10 billion budget cuts were not disclosed in the supplementary budget as the Treasury only indicated cuts on security intelligence vote.

The Defence, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committee told the Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC) to reinstate the Sh10 billion that the Treasury cut from the NIS.

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Parliament thinks that it approves the NIS budget but NIS is the one that approved even the Treasury’s budget

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Kila mtu akaze mshipi. CS treasury alisema kenya is broke.