The outgoing BAT Kenya managing director, Crispin Achola, has an obsession with words, carefully cherry-picking them and cobbling them together into phrases that any journalist would readily turn into a headline.
His latest line, when we asked him to reflect on his time in the C-suite of BAT Kenya, was how, over the years, the cigarette maker had become “the dividend king on the Nairobi Securities Exchange” due to the exceptional returns the company has consistently forked out to its shareholders.
