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Twitter goes over-drive with Collymore succession debate

Safaricom head offices in Nairobi.

NAIROBI, KENYA: The appointment of Michael Joseph as an interim Chief Executive Officer of Safaricom has elicited a succession debate on social media on who will be next honcho at East Africa’s largest telecommunication company.

The position of Chief Executive Officer fell vacant on Monday following the death of long-serving CEO Bob Collymore who died of cancer in the morning of July 1, 2019.

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