Politics hurting Vision 2030 projects in some counties

Vision 2030 Secretariat director-general Dr Julius Muia. FILE PHOTO | NMG 

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• The secretariat's director-general Dr Julius Muia says different priorities by county leaders making it difficult to implement projects in some regions
• Mr Muia said Mombasa and Kisumu governments were yet to provide land for establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZ) in areas identified as strategic and attractive to foreign investments in the manufacturing sector.
• Dr Muia said Lake Victoria basin should heavily invest in fish-based industries to attract private investments thereby creating jobs for the youth.

The Vision 2030 Secretariat is finding it difficult to implement projects in some regions due to differences with county leaders on prioritisation of projects.

The secretariat's director-general Dr Julius Muia said this had seen counties implement projects based on their own strategies that were against the envisioned 2030 flagship projects.

“What we would wish to see is institutionalised planning where politics is totally divorced from our Vision 2030 flagship projects,” he said during a one-day workshop convened by Strathmore University for business journalists.

“As a secretariat, we identified fisheries as a key sector for the Lake Victoria-based counties where all infrastructural development would be geared towards attracting private investment in the fisheries sector.

"But uncoordinated projects currently underway hurts the national good since one county is doing something different from another county denying them the benefit accruing from coordinated