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When Bob Collymore, the CEO of Kenya’s Safaricom, wanted to know about his poorest customers, he would catch a local bus or walk around Kenya’s slums with a prominent anti-corruption activist.
The visits, related to Reuters after Collymore’s death from cancer on Monday, epitomised the popular touch that helped make him a household name as he led East Africa’s most profitable company.
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