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 […]
Bob Collymore: From art hawker to Safaricom CEO
Bob Collymore, who died in the wee hours of Monday July 1, 2019, was born in 1958 in Guyana. He was brought up by his grandparents before he moved to the United Kingdom to stay with his mother at age 16. He attended Selhurst High School in the UK before he was offered a place […]
Uhuru, Ruto and Raila mourn Bob Collymore
President Uhuru Kenyatta has led other leaders in mourning the passing on of Safaricom Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bob Collymore, describing him as a “distinguished corporate leader whose contribution to our national wellbeing will be missed.” The President said Collymore was an accomplished corporate leader who steered Safaricom to a position of great admiration as […]
Safaricom CEO Bob Collymore passes on in Nairobi
Safaricom Chief Executive Officer Bob Collymore is dead. Collymore died early Monday at his home in Nairobi after a long battle with leukemia. In October 2017, Collymore went to the UK to receive treatment for Acute Myeloid Leukemia and returned in July 2018 to resume duties. “He has been undergoing treatment for this condition since […]
Safaricom rolls out “reverse call” feature for all customers
Safaricom has today announced the availability of its “Reverse Call” feature enabling its more than 31 million customers to pay for calls for loved ones. The service enables a caller to transfer the cost of a call to the receiver by adding ‘#’ before the number they are calling. For instance, to transfer the cost of […]