Kibati leaves Vision 2030 as five-year term expires

PHOTO | FILE Editors Guild Chairman Macharia Gaitho (left) with the then Vision 2030 Director General Mugo Kibati (right) during the Ministry of Devolution and Planning second medium term plan media breakfast at the Sarova Stanley on August 27, 2013. Mr Kibati has exited the secretariat after the government failed to renew his contract.

What you need to know:

  • Mr Kibati, who has been at the helm of the secretariat for five years said he will be returning to the private sector from where he was picked in 2008 to head the agency.
  • Within the last five years, the Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat has coordinated roll-out of key flagship projects covering the economic, social and political pillars, including the development of the eight-lane Nairobi-Thika Superhighway, the Kenya Constitution 2010 and a raft of education and agricultural sector policy reforms geared at fostering national development.

Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat director-general Mugo Kibati has exited the state agency after government declined to renew his contract.

Mr Kibati, who has been at the helm of the secretariat for five years said he will be returning to the private sector from where he was picked in 2008 to head the agency.

“I am making an exit from VDS proud of the gains we have made and the numerous challenges we have also managed to overcome in the gruelling effort to firmly establish Vision 2030 as the national development strategy,” Mr Kibati noted in a statement sent to newsrooms. His contract expired in June.

Devolution and Planning Secretary Anne Waiguru had earlier, in an interview with the Business Daily, said that the government was not keen on renewing his contract.

“He has left the office,” she said, noting that it was up to the President to name his replacement.

FLAGSHIP PROJECTS

Within the last five years, the Vision 2030 Delivery Secretariat has coordinated roll-out of key flagship projects covering the economic, social and political pillars, including the development of the eight-lane Nairobi-Thika Superhighway, the Kenya Constitution 2010 and a raft of education and agricultural sector policy reforms geared at fostering national development.

Other major flagship projects recently rolled out are the Lamu Port Southern-Sudan Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) Corridor Development Authority to manage the implementation of the Lapsset project on behalf of the government of Kenya.

To ensure the timely implementation of all flagship projects, the VDS has also managed to embedded Vision 2030 projects into the Government performance contracting platform through the inclusion of performance indicators. This inclusion is geared at ensuring that all state institutions focus on the national development agenda Vision 2030.