The reactions come in the face of the government committing taxpayers to repay K300 billion in fresh domestic bank loans over the next seven years. To date, the government has secured K200 billion for the 58.4-kilometre Golomoti-Monkey Bay Turn-Off Road with K100 billion each from FDH Bank plc and National Bank of Malawi plc. Besides financing the road projects, the government also borrowed K100 billion from FDH Bank for maize procurement by the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA). He said the road loans are being treated as off-budget because repayment will come from the road maintenance fuel levy via the Roads Fund Administration (RFA) over seven years. Government also plans to finance a K2.852 trillion budget deficit, equivalent to 6.8 percent of GDP, through further domestic and external borrowing.