The President's Delivery Unit on Wednesday, September 23, 2020, moved its base of operations..
The team unveiled its new headquarters in the Ksh1.4 billion Tourism Fund building with a visit by Interior CS Fred Matiang’i.
He was received by PDU Secretary Andrew Wakahiu and his deputy Lee Kyonze and was taken around the various rooms and signed the visitor’s book.
The CS reminded the staff that their core responsibility is to whip the government into delivering the best services for the people of Kenya without wasting time or resources.
The PDU was moved from the office of State House Chief of Staff Nzioka Waita who was its head to the Ministry of Interior via an executive order on August 22, 2019.
PDU is a key component in the National Development Implementation and Communication Cabinet Committee that oversees the delivery and oversight of national government development programmes and projects.
The team is made up of about 45 personnel, consisting of, among others, former journalists and former politicians.
Some of the media personalities include Nixon Ng’ang’a who was Royal Media Services’s Managing Editor, Mumbi Warui (ex-Citizen TV Business reporter) and Laban Cliff Onserio who was picked from the NTV business newsdesk.
Other staff are Patrick Ngatia, who was moved from the NEMA Board, politician Silvanus Onyango, who was the Kasipul Kapondo MP, Michael Rotich (Bomet politician) and Boniface Kinoti (former Buuri MP) among others.
The other staff at the unit joined in 2015 alongside Andrew Wakahiu, Lee Kyonze, Eliud Lelerai, Nyamu Githaka and Cindy Kuria who are directors in the presidency overseeing various sectors of the economy.
Recently, President Uhuru Kenyatta has been keen on inspecting government projects with his latest being in the Coast where he toured Mombasa, Kwale and Kilifi counties.
His development tours have kept contractors on their toes as he seeks to complete all ongoing projects before his retirement in 2022.
The hands-on approach comes barely six months after he declared that he would oversee government projects himself.
