The Spider Defence System—a high-tech missile defence system—that Kenya plans to buy from Israel will cost at least Sh4 billion, underscoring the high cost of modernising the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF).
Disclosures by the National Assembly Committee on Budget and Appropriations show that the Treasury has allocated Sh3 billion to top up a Sh1 billion loan that Kenya will tap from Tel Aviv to acquire the high-tech defence system.
