By OBED SIMIYUMore by this AuthorKenya Airways boss Mbuvi Ngunze is set to step down and exit the troubled airline in the first quarter of 2017. While accepting Mr Ngunze’s departure, KQ board chairman Michael Joseph said Mr Ngunze, after working for the company for five years, “felt it was a natural point in the company’s evolution to pass on the baton.”“While I regret this decision, I respect his position. Mbuvi will stay on until a successor is found which is expected to take some months,” said Mr Joseph. Mr Joseph, who took over as the board’s chairman on October 26 this year, said the process of picking Mr Ngunze’s replacement will take three months. Shortly after assuming the hot seat at KQ, the former Safaricom chief said Mr Ngunze was part of his team to turn around the airline as he rejected demands by pilots that the CEO leave.

Source: Daily Nation November 24, 2016 14:00 UTC