This archive report was first published on 1 July 2019.
July 1, 2019 - Safaricom's chairperson, Nicholas Nganga, held a media briefing on Monday to address the passing of the company's Chief Executive Officer, Bob Collymore.
Collymore, 61, died at his Nairobi home in the company of close family members after a long battle with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, a cancer for which he had been seeking treatment since 2017.
Nganga assured stakeholders that the company will continue with the plans and vision that Collymore had set for the company.
“The Safaricom family will continue building on Bob’s legacy and we will honor him by completing the work he began which he was so passionately espoused,” Nganga said.
Nganga further assured that the board will get a replacement by Tuesday as they had already started looking for one when Collymore’s health worsened in the last few weeks.
Since 2010, Safaricom has continued to register improved gains, with recent results showing a 14.7 percent increase in net profits standing at Sh63.4 billion for its year ending March 2019.
