BRITISH AID TO KENYA
COST OF FIGHTING MAU MAU RISES (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) NAIROBI, July 14. Britain is to give Kenya a further £5,500,000 to help finance the fight against Mau Mau terrorism, which is now costing £1,000,000 a month. The Finance Minister (Mr E. Vasey) announced this yesterday at a meeting of the Legislative Council. He told the council that the British Government had agreed to advance £5,000,000 as a free grants and £500,000 as an interest-free loan to meet an estimated £5,500,000 deficit in Kenya’s budget by the end of March next year. With this latest grant. Britain will have contributed £11,500,000 towards the cost of the Mau Mau emergency, and a grant of £5,000,000 to help finance a five-year plan for African agriculture and rehabilitation in the colony. Mr Vasey told the Legislative Council that the present cost of running the war against terrorism in the colony might rise to £1,250,000 a month within the next six months. Expenditure was mounting very quickly with the increase of pressure on the terrorists.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27403, 16 July 1954, Page 7
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