2017 Election allocation

2017 election budget increases by 40 percent

Electoral Commissioner Patilias Gamato revealed that next year’s election budget increased by 40 percent from the 2012 election budget.

He said of the K400 million in 2017 election budget, K121 million will be for security operations while K297 million will be for election operations.

In the last election the National Government allocated K180 million whereas for 2017 it allocated K297 million, an increase of K117 million.

Gamato outlined the 2017 election budget break-up as follows:

             Logistics – K127.30 million