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Partnership for Change

P.O Box 63535 -00619 Nairobi Kenya

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Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Managing Director

The International Monetary Fund

700 19th Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20431

For the attention of the Board of Directors

30

th

March 2009

Dear Sir,

RE: LOAN REQUEST BY THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA FOR ONE HUNDRED

MILLION DOLLARS

We understand that the Kenya Government has applied to the International Monetary

Fund for an emergency credit for US$ 100 million to cushion its currency. We also

understand that this application is due for consideration at your next Board Meeting.

The Partnership for Change is concerned that while Kenyans continue to demand

accountability from the Government of Kenya on our Public Debt, the Government

continues to ignore the Public and continues to borrow and indebt the poor people of

Kenya.

The position of the Partnership for Change is that transparency requires that Kenyans

know what they owe, to whom they owe, and for what purpose they have a debt. The

Partnership for Change wants no further contracting of International Debts unless and

until the Government of Kenya accounts to the people of Kenya through Parliament by

tabling the complete list of all loans and Debt registers for the period 1963 to date for

public scrutiny. We also want the Law amended before any further borrowing, so that it

is illegal for the Government of Kenya to borrow without prior Parliamentary approval

and full debate on the merits of the borrowing. We request that all future lending to

Kenya be pegged to accountability and transparency. We submit that that most of the

debts that Kenya is listed as owing are bogus, corrupt debts which have impoverished

Kenyans who repay these debts annually to the tune of 24% of our National budget. The

effect of making poor, starving Kenyans pay these unconscionable debts can easily be

described as a crime against humanity.

It is in this context that we write to your organization as hereunder.

Three years ago, when he was the junior Senator for Illinois, US President Barack

Obama, famously said in Nairobi that “while corruption is a problem we all share, here in

Kenya it is a crisis - a crisis that’s robbing an honest people of the opportunities they

have fought for - the opportunity they deserve.” If he were to visit Kenya today, he might

feel that the situation is no longer a crisis but has reached the tipping point. In fact,

corruption in Kenya is no longer a crisis; if one understands crisis’ to mean that point