Time flies with great content! Renew in to keep enjoying all our premium content.
Prime
Airtel founder meets Uhuru amid Sh2.7 billion licence row
President Uhuru Kenyatta with the founder of Bharti Airtel, Mr Sunil Bharti Mittal, when he called on him at State House, Nairobi, February 16, 2016. PHOTO | PSCU
Sunil Bharti Mittal, the Indian business mogul who founded the giant telecoms company Bharti Airtel, Tuesday made a quiet but high profile visit to Kenya with a date at State House Nairobi where he met President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Mr Mittal, who is the chief executive of Bharti Enterprises, the conglomerate that owns the telecoms firm Bharti Airtel, made the visit at a time when the company’s local subsidiary Airtel Kenya is grappling with a number of regulatory challenges.