*Nairobi Conference👥 to Unlock Opportunities👍 in Blue Economy*

Kenya will be spending $8 million on the International Blue Economy Conference, how will the country benefit?

The $8 million is the estimated budget of the conference. This is not a government conference, but an international event convened by President Uhuru Kenyatta, who invited other countries and the United Nations to join.

So far, 134 countries have responded and we have 5,340 delegates who have registered.

The government is mobilising funds and is not getting money from the Treasury because it is not wise to always put the burden of holding conferences on the taxpayers, even though the beneficiary will be taxpayers.

The government will only spend on two delegates per country from poor countries who need assistance.