Safaricom chief executive officer Bob Collymore died the early morning of 1st June 2019 in Nairobi city
In October 2017, he took a long medical leave to fight cancer.
“He has been undergoing treatment for his condition since then in different hospitals and most recently at Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi. In recent weeks, his condition worsened and the succumbed to the cancer at his home in the early hours of Monday,” Safaricom chairman Nicholas Ng’ang’a said in a statement.
Collymore took over Safricom from Michael Joseph in November 2010.
Mr Collymore leaves behind a wife and four children.
RIP.
