Away with cemeteries: Is cremation the way out?
By Harriet James @harriet86jim The death of Safaricom CEO, Bob Collymore sent shockwaves across Kenya and the world. The Guyanese-born-British businessman, who died after battling cancer, will be remembered for his leadership in a corporation that assisted in placing the nation in the global scene in the financial and technological spheres. What’s more striking is that […]
Why Safaricom picked Michael Joseph as interim CEO
Peter Okong’o @PeopleDailyKe The market expects the successor to Bob Collymore to continue Safaricom’s path of investing in innovation and data services to keep the integrated communications company at the top of competition. Safaricom delivered a strong financial performance in the financial year ended March 31, 2019, with a 13.1 per cent growth in EBIT (Earnings […]
How media bid Bob farewell
Lewis Njoka @Lewisnjoka The death of Safaricom chief executive Bob Collymore received wide local and international media coverage, with many news channels describing him as a corporate titan and a model citizen. People Daily, the leading free newspaper in Kenya, dedicated its front page to Collymore’s death with the headline, “Bob saw his death coming”. It carried […]
Wambui Kamiru stood by Bob Collymore through good and trying periods
By Evelyn Makena @evemake_g “My wife is a fantastic woman who stood by me.” These are the words Bob Collymore used to describe his wife Wambui Kamiru in a media interview when he returned to Kenya following his treatment in London last year. Theirs was a heartwarming love story of a wife who steadfastly stood by her […]
Bob Collymore: The long walk to helm of Safaricom
By Noah Cheploen @cheploennoah When news filtered in that Safaricom’s founding chief executive officer Michael Joseph was leaving the company after 10 years at the helm, many people wondered if the telecommunication giant would survive such a transition. The news of Joseph’s retirement was inevitably greeted with scepticism because many believed his shoes were too big […]
Bob Collymore: What doctors told him days before his death
“I have lived a good life. I have some regrets. It is not a perfect life, nobody is perfect but I am ready now,” Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore told close friends two days before his death. It was on a chilly Saturday afternoon when Collymore, having known that he did not have long to live, […]
Bob Collymore: Burial date set
The late Safaricom Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bob Collymore will be laid to rest on Tuesday July 2, telecommunications giant board chairman Nicholas Nganga has said. Collymore, who succumbed to cancer at his home in Nairobi on Monday, will be buried in a private event open for family members only. Nganga declined to reveal further […]