Kenyans on Monday petitioned the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stop the lender from giving Kenya an extra loan of Sh255.1 billion (approximately US$2.55).

The petition, which has so far attracted over 100,000 signatories online, was drafted after Kenyans camped on Twitter and Facebook telling off the IMF board over their recent approval of extra billions for Nairobi ‘to fight COVID-19’.

The board approved the loan with the terms that President Uhuru Kenyatta government would start repaying it within three years. But this did not sit well with Kenyans.

“Previous loans to the Kenya government have not been prudently utilized and have often resulted in mega corruption scandals. The scandals have not deterred the ruling regime from more appetite for more loans, especially from China,” reads the petition in part.

Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA), which disburses all the medical equipment in the country, has been the talk of the country after around Sh2.3 billion got lost in dubious tenders and payments of the COVID-19 equipment last year, the auditor general established.

Earlier this year too, President Kenyatta conceded that graft was a deeply-seated problem in his administration as he gave an approximation that the East African country could be losing Sh2 billion in corruption every day.

Currently, Kenya’s public debt sits at Sh7 trillion as of numbers given November 2020.