Safaricom pays $171m in final dividends early

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Safaricom PLC Chief Executive Officer Peter Ndegwa at a past event. PHOTO | POOL

Safaricom has started disbursing Ksh24.84 billion ($171 million) final dividend to shareholders two days earlier, helping boost liquidity in the economy.

Shareholders of the giant telco received their final payout on Tuesday at a rate of Ksh0.62 a share, a drop of 17.33 percent compared with Ksh0.75 per unit last year.