President Uhuru Kenyatta has recounted his last phone call with the late Safaricom boss Bob Collymore.

"About three weeks ago, I was on a trip to Canada, with the time differences and everything at some strange hour consistently for two days in a row, at 2 O'clock in the morning, Bob Collymore called. On the second day, I picked up and asked, 'Bob, why are you calling me at 2 O'clock in the morning?" Uhuru said.

Collymore said, 'Ahhh, I did not realise you were travelling.' I say yeah. I am and it is 2 O'clock in the morning where I am. So can I call you when I come back?

He said, 'No. I have got something urgent I want to discuss with you but I suppose it can wait till you get back but I just want to tell you, I made you a promise that I could hang on for another year with the company but I think I'm going to break that promise.'."

I asked him, why?

He said, 'We will talk about it when you get back.'

I started asking myself a couple of questions. Collymore then said, 'Please don't tell anybody what I have said. We will talk about it when you are back.'

So I get back, I give him a call, he says, 'Oh you are back?!"

I said yeah, So I went over to the house. I found him there calm. He then told me, 'I'm going to break my promise.' he is saying this with a smile on his face. So I thought, 'Wambui must have put him under pressure. Because Collymore kept telling me, 'You know, I don't know if Wambui will allow me.' So I said, 'She succeeded right?'

"It is not quite like that. But I don't think I have more than a couple of weeks to go." Collymore added, "I have given up. I have tried everything, but my time has come."

"So we spent a whole afternoon chatting and my biggest question was, why are you talking to me about Safaricom. What about you?" Uhuru reminisced.

But Collymore said, "No, my chapter is closed and I have accepted so, all I want to know is, how is the future of the company going to be like?"

Uhuru said, "As we spent three to four hours speaking of nothing else."