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Safaricom apologises after harsh succession tweet to government

Safaricom Headquarters, Nairobi. 

NAIROBI, KENYA: Safaricom has apologised after a system glitch led to unauthorised messages some touching on succession at the giant telecommunication company.

One of the tweets suggested that the telco was not comfortable with government appointee to head the firm after the death of its Chief Executive Officer Bob Collymore on Monday.

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