On Monday last week, Bharat Thakrar, the ousted chief executive of WPP Scangroup, made yet another attempt to reclaim influence over the company he founded more than four decades ago. The effort was always destined to fail.
At the annual general meeting of the Nairobi Securities Exchange-listed marketing services firm, Thakrar and a group of minority shareholders sought to remove the entire board and replace it with a slate of directors led by the company's founder.
