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UN offers Kenya Sh3.7bn refund for Somalia operation

March 31, 2015 4:40 AM / by samrack

KDF soldiers attached to Amisom patrol Kismayu’s Old Airport on 21 January, 2014. The operation to hunt Al-Shabaab militants is more than three years old. PHOTO | FILE

Kenya has been awaiting the cash from August last year.
The UN failed to refund Sh2.03 billion in the quarter to September and another Sh2.01 billion in the three months to December.
The refund looks set to ease budgetary constraints from a government reeling from a shortfall in taxes as the KRA failed to hit revenue targets by Sh23 billion in the first half of the year.

The United Nations has offered Kenya Sh3.7 billion as refund for money spent by its troops fighting Al-Shabaab militants in Somalia after months of delay READ MORE

UN offers Kenya Sh3.7bn refund for Somalia operation Reviewed by samrack on March 31, 2015 .

KDF soldiers attached to Amisom patrol Kismayu’s Old Airport on 21 January, 2014. The operation to hunt Al-Shabaab militants is more than three years old. PHOTO | FILE Kenya has been awaiting the cash from August last year. The UN failed to refund Sh2.03 billion in the quarter to September and another Sh2.01 billion in