Safaricom Chief Executive Officer Bob Collymore has just landed a new government job courtesy of President Uhuru Kenyatta.
In a Gazette Notice dated December 21, the president appointed Mr. Collymore a member of the Kenya Vision 2030 Delivery Board.
Other corporate heads who wewre also appointed include the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) Group CEO Joshua Oigara who was also appointed as a member of the board.
The two and four other high profile individuals appointed to Kenya Vision 2030 Delivery Board by the president will serve for a period of three years starting December 14.
Others appointees to serve in the Board include; Juliana Rotich, Rita Kavashe, Nick Nesbit, Muchai Kunyiha.
Bob’s appointment comes a few months after his return from London where he had been undergoing treatment haviung diagnosed with cancer.
This was the first time that Collymore said he had ever been admitted to hospital and the first test they did involved removing bone marrow from his body and testing it.
It is at this point that Dr. Silverstein told him that the problem could be with this blood and since he is not an expert on such issues, he referred him to a specialist in the U.K.
This was back in 2017 and with the Kenyan election coming up and his company’s end-year events, he told the doctor that he would oblige after he discharged his duties.
However, Dr. Silverstein was adamant that Collymore should leave the country that very night.
He left for London and it is there that a hematologist diagnosed him with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: a type of cancer that starts in the blood-forming cells of the bone marrow.