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Taxpayers will fork out 7.2 billion a year to support the Kenya Defence Forces troops peace-keeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
The details emerged when Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale appeared before the National Assembly's Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations seeking approval for the deployment of KDF to Eastern DRC as required by law.
However, Deputy Chief of Defence Forces Francis Ogolla stated that the Sh7.2 billion is a provisional figure and that funding for the military program is done from multilateral organisations supporting the peace efforts at the East African Community (EAC) level and the African Union's Peace and Security Council.
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