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AirtelTigo announced today that Its CEO, Roshi Motman has decided to leave the company to pursue new opportunities.  She will be replaced by Mitwa Kaemba Ng’ambi.

Ms Motman has enjoyed considerable successes during her time with Tigo Ghana and subsequently AirtelTigo.

Having joined Tigo Ghana in 2014, she steered the company to significant achievements, including the successful completion of the merger between Airtel and Tigo last year.

During her time at Tigo Ghana, she revived the company and gained recognition for the financial and operational turnaround of the business and built a strong record of developing and nurturing talent. Her transformational leadership won her the Africa Telecommunications CEO of the Year award at the 2015 AfricaCom.

She was appointed CEO of AirtelTigo in October 2017 upon the completion of the merger of Airtel and Tigo. She was instrumental in ensuring the successful start of the merger.

Roshi will be succeeded by Mitwa Kaemba Ng’ambi who was the CEO of Tigo Senegal until its recent sale. Mitwa Kaemba, prior to her appointment as Tigo Senegal's CEO, spent two years with MTN in Benin as the Chief Marketing Officer and also worked for Airtel in Zambia.

In a farwell message by Roshi, she said, It had been a fantastic journey and felt privileged to have led a great group of people to the creation of AirtelTigo, now one of the leading mobile operators in Ghana.  She said, she was excited to see the newly merged business to be in great shape and happy to hand the reins to Mitwa, who has been an outstanding colleague at Tigo, to take it to the next level. she expressed her confidence that AirtelTigo will progress rapidly under the leadership of Mitwa.

Mitwa Kaemba Ng’ambi in response acknowledged the honour done her to have been chosen to lead AirtelTigo to the next phase of its development. "It is an exciting time to be joining the business and I really look forward to getting to know our colleagues, partners and customers. she said"

Tim Pennington, a member of the Board of Directors of AirtelTigo meanwhile thanked Roshi for her tireless leadership and in ensuring the successful birth of the Airtel Tigo merger, and as well, expressed his optimism of Mitwa's equal competence.

Ms Motman, meanwhile will remain in an advisory position to Ms Kaemba Ng’ambi during the CEO transition period.