Experts warn over plan to slash protection of water towers budget

Queens Fall inside the Aberdare national Park. Experts say reduction of budget will distabilise the Government's plan to rehabilitate 500 hectares in the country's water towers in the current fiscal year. Photo: Mose Sammy/Standard

The National Treasury's proposal to cut the budget for protection of water towers will expose at least 120 acres of public land to possible grabbing.

Further, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) says in its report on the supplementary budget, that the proposed reduction in the budget of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources will distabilise the Government's plan to rehabilitate 500 hectares in the country's water towers in the current fiscal year.