French national and MTN Uganda’s chief marketing officer Olivier Prentout, Rwandan Annie Bilenge Tabura and head of sales and distribution, Franco-Italian citizen and general manager for mobile financial services Elsa Muzzolini, and Belgian national and the company's chief executive Wim Vanhelleputte have been deported from Uganda over national security. PHOTOS | MTN | NMG
The dramatic falling out between Uganda’s largest telco MTN and the authorities, which culminated in Thursday’s arrest and deportation of the company’s chief executive, Belgian national Wim Vanhelleputte, may have left President Yoweri Museveni at a crossroads.
The president has to juggle between believing intelligence from his security agents or the pleadings of a multinational backed by the diplomatic power of three countries.
