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Kenya's Safaricom to pay special dividend of 0.68 shillings

An employee serves a customer inside a mobile phone care centre operated by Kenyan's telecom operator Safaricom; in the central business district of Kenya's capital Nairobi, May 11, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (Reuters)

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan telecom operator Safaricom will pay a special dividend of 0.68 shillings ($0.0067) per share, it said on Tuesday. "There is room for this one-off special dividend of 27.5 billion shillings due to the cash position of the company, and the significant retained earnings of 82 billion shillings," said Bob Collymore, Safaricom's CEO, in a statement. ($1 = 101.4500 Kenyan shillings) (Reporting by Duncan Miriri; Editing by Mark Potter)