Nairobi, June 17 -- Kenya's security agencies are the biggest winners in the freshly tabled second supplementary budget for the current 2025-26 financial year, which proposes to raise spending by Sh17.29 billion to a total Sh4.66 trillion.

Documents from the National Treasury tabled in the National Assembly show that the National Intelligence Service (NIS) is earmarked for a Sh3.5 billion increase in its budget to Sh64.9 billion, while the allocation to the Internal Security and National Administration would be raised by Sh1.6 billion to Sh57.9 billion.

Together, the NIS and the State Department for Internal Security account for 29.2 percent of the proposed mini-budget.

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