The
President of the African Development Bank Group, Donald Kaberuka,
received the Forbes Africa Lifetime Achievement Award, December 4 during
the magazine’s 4th Annual Person of the Year Awards ceremony in
Nairobi, Kenya.
In
a statement delivered on his behalf by Gabriel Negatu, Director of the
AfDB’s East Africa Regional Resource Centre, Kaberuka expressed his
appreciation for the award, which he dedicated to the 2,000 Bank staff,
whom he said, “it is my privilege to lead. “Anything I have achieved in
my ten year stint at the helm of this great Bank has been achieved with
their unfailing support, skill and dedication.”
Kaberuka
saluted the leaders present at the evening’s awards, and called on them
and others to carry the torch: “As I look back on my time in the
service of Africa at the African Development Bank. I know we are
winning, but we have not won yet. “Leadership will take us to the goal,
and I salute the many of you tonight who are leaders. Your followers
constitute the youngest and most dynamic population in the world. Africa
has shown that it is a place of immense opportunity for its young
people.” Nigerian business man Aliko Dangote received the Forbes Africa
Person of the Year Award for 2014. Kaberuka, Nigerian author Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie, South African advocate Thuli Madonsela and Arunma Oteh,
Director-General of Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission, were
among the high-profile nominees. Kaberuka’s tenure as AfDB President
comes to an end with the election of a new Bank President in May 2015.
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