Running Diageo in Europe is very easy, it is just business. Running Safaricom will be siasa from day one. I can assure you in his first month he will receive calls from Sonko who will first ask for favors, somea him, threaten him, insult him, record the phone conversation and post in on twitter, Atwoli will call him shenzi, Baba will also call, Ruto.....

Then there will be Bob Collymore's boys club..... unafikiri walikuwa marafiki wa Collymore kwa sababu ya sura yake... these guys need those connections and I am sure they are already calling.

Halafu there will be his classmates from nursery school mpaka University. I am sure there are more than 1000 people today who on reading the news proclaimed loudly for all to hear, "Ndegwa ni my friend muno, twathomaga nake" (Ndegwa is a very good friend of mine, we used to read (go to school) together).

No Kenyan has ever led a Kenyan company with 250 billion shillings in revenue. It is almost equivalent to what the 47 governors combined control na ndio huwa wanaturingia. I really sympathise with Ndegwa. I would never want to be in that position. I hope he does well.

world Bank

This guy has been appointed just in time to be struck by lightning. He is walking into a perfect storm. Safaricom and banks are the only companies in Kenya making money everyone else is suffering and things are about to get worse. Payments for the Suswa-Duka Moja SGR will more than triple in the next 3 years most likely with zero revenue. KRA will be squeezing for more money and then we have a referendum and an election coming up.

Those Vodacom guys of course know all these macroeconomic factors and I think they knew hard times were coming. So they did what all smart investors do; they got their money out. Check out Safaricom's dividend payout over the last 5 years. They have been getting more and more generous. Everyone has completely recouped their investment from dividend payments only and whatever capital they hold is a bonus. Even Bob Collymore before he died was on his way out.

These guys have seen the gathering clouds ahead and have appointed a Kenyan to stand in the rain.

So is the problem that Kenyans cannot run with integrity a business they don't own??

Exactly what i think.. Ndegwa should be given a chance to do his thing

Who wrote of Collymore..remember the quote that he was a white man in nyeuthi skin?

Anyway about EABL,here is the the top management:
Andrew Cowan - Group Managing Director, East African Breweries Limited
Gyorgy Geiszl - Group Finance and Strategy Director
Jane Karuku - Managing Director, Kenya Breweries Limited
Alvin Mbugua - Managing Director, Uganda Breweries Limited

Nywele ngumu works well under supervision.

Sad that after >50yrs of independence and with so many Kenyans having PhDs, MBAs etc we still want foreigners to come and run local companies. So after how long, after how many yrs, are we supposed to stand on our feet and run our businesses?

Not bothered by your inane comment.
It has been proved time and again that institutions collapse when handed over to Kenyans. Wait and see what will happen to SGR when it's handed over.
Gulana Kulalu is the first Israel supported project to fail in the world!