 The Defence Space Administration, DSA, has appealed for an improved emolument of $14.5 billion in its 2020 budget. This will enable it to meet the mandate for which it was established. The Chief of Defence Space Administration, Williams Coyote, made a request on Tuesday during a budget defence session before the House Committee on Defence. Imaila Ahidjane reports. Security. No doubt needs to be looked into in Nigeria. Some of the areas of improvement includes the upward review of the DAS proposed personal emolument budget of $1.38 billion for 2022, among others. The Chief of Defence, Williams Coyote says the agency will perform better if funded adequately. It will actualise its core mandate of supporting other security agencies' operations and provide resilient cyber security tools in protecting the Nigeria cyber space. This year, the ceiling that was given to us was $1.4 billion. Considering that a lot of development has been in place and needs to be sustained and even completed, reducing the capital from $3.2 billion which we got last year to $1.4 billion which is the ceiling for 2022, will grossly reduce our capacity to complete some of the projects that are ongoing, and even to embark on new ones. So sir, once more, it is my prayer that this esteemed committee can please intervene and review upward the capital budget ceiling figure for the administration for 2022 fiscal year. Chairman, House Committee on Defence Honourable Baba Jimmy Benson promised legislative interventions to increase funding for the administration for the agency. Defence space administration, the agency that is charged with providing geospatial and space information to our armed forces, we looked at their capital budget, we looked at their overhead, and we looked at their personnel. As usual, they want more because they want to do more, but the resources are scarce and limited, so we've asked them to leave things with us. We will try as much as possible to see how we can help our system. The DSA is an agency that we don't toy with. In other jurisdictions, the DSA chief is also a service chief, so committee members are all geared up to ensure that they get the necessary assistance so that they can live up to expectations that we expect from them. The DSA was established to complement the security agencies to fight more sophisticated cybercrimes through intelligence cardings and information.