How old is bob collymore of safaricom

President Uhuru Kenyatta, who worked with Collymore on a joint government and private sector initiative to draw up anti-corruption strategies, mourned his passing. Employees at the company also spoke warmly of Collymore, praising his friendly personality and care for their welfare. Collymore had traveled to Britain in October and received treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia, a cancer of the blood.

He had since been undergoing treatment locally, the company said. As a country, we've lost a distinguished corporate leader whose contribution to our national wellbeing will be missed," Kenyatta said in the tweet. Read More. M-Pesa: Kenya's mobile money success story turns The Guyanese-born British businessman joined the company in and has been praised for driving Safaricom innovative mobile payment system,.

Collymore held the line, refusing to slash prices in his drive to provide better services. Subscribers stayed. He fired corrupt internal procurement officers before seeing off two attempts by the state regulator to break up the company due to its dominant size, arguing poor customers relied on the network for banking services via M-Pesa, the money service that helped propel Safaricom to its status as the first multi billion-dollar-a-year revenue company on the Nairobi bourse.

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