NAIROBI (Halbeeg News) – The United Nations has compensated for Kenya for troops in Somalia with KSh3.75 billion paid in March.
The payment has boosted Kenya’s Treasury’s cash reserves at the end of the third quarter of the current financial year ending June.
The compensation by UN represents 44.2 percent of the KSh8.5 billion the Treasury has budgeted for the current year, which has two and a half months to run.
Kenya is demanding more compensation this year from the UN than Sh6.1 billion it has budgeted for in the last four years but the UN has, however, been facing a record cash crunch, which its boss Antonio Guterres warned July last year would affect the delivery of its mandate if not expeditiously addressed.
According to the local media, the latest document on exchequer transactions by Treasury secretary Henry Rotich shows refunds from African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) stood at KSh 3.757 billion as of March 29 thus approximately USD 300 Million.
Kenya has about 4,000 soldiers that are part of the AMISOM peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
Each soldier receives USD 1028 but government back home deducts USD 200 for services.
Kenyan troops were inside southern Somalia since 2011 when they launched operation against armed group al-Shabaab following a wave of attacks along the border.
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