The Chief Executive Officer of telecommunications company MTN Uganda, Wim Vanhellputte was on Thursday deported from the country over ‘national security’ concerns.
However, a section of the Ugandan media has reported that Vanhellputte’s deportation is related to the company’s suspicious relationship with the increasingly popular Ugandan musician and politician Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine.
According to Daily Monitor, the South African owned company has been under investigations for irregularly facilitating the transfer of an undisclosed amount of funds to Bobi Wine.
In the interim, MTN Uganda’s chief technology officer Gordon Kyomukama has been appointed the company action chief executive officer.