{"id":1019595,"date":"2026-07-09T08:18:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019595"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:49:35","slug":"safaricom-shareholders-to-vote-on-vodafones-right-to-pick-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/09\/safaricom-shareholders-to-vote-on-vodafones-right-to-pick-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Safaricom shareholders to vote on Vodafone&#8217;s right to pick CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI: Shareholders of Kenyan telecoms firm Safaricom are due to vote on whether to give Vodafone Kenya the right to nominate the company&#8217;s chief executive officer, once Vodafone holds more than 50% of Safaricom&#8217;s shares, Safaricom said on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Vodacom , which \u200calready owned \u206039.9% of Safaricom \u2060through Vodafone Kenya, agreed in December to buy Kenya&#8217;s 15% stake for about $1.6 billion, a deal that lifted its holding to 55%, while the Kenyan government&#8217;s stake fell to 20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI: Shareholders of Kenyan telecoms firm Safaricom are due to vote on whether to give Vodafone Kenya the right to nominate the company&#8217;s chief executive officer, once Vodafone holds more than 50% of Safaricom&#8217;s shares, Safaricom said on Wednesday. Vodacom , which \u200calready owned \u206039.9% of Safaricom \u2060through Vodafone Kenya, agreed in December to buy Kenya&#8217;s 15% stake for about $1.6 billion, a deal that lifted its holding to 55%, while the Kenyan government&#8217;s stake fell to 20%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019607,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019595\/revisions\/1019607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}