September 05, (THEWILL) – The Chief Customer Officer of MultiChoice Nigeria, Martin Mabutho, has passed on. Martin died a few weeks ago in Cape Town after a brief illness. MultiChoice Nigeria, the company where he worked, was thrown into great mourning after his death was announced and many of his close pals have not recovered from the rude shock of his death.
Contrary to the news making the rounds, Mabutho did not die of COVID-19. THEWILL reliably gathered that he contracted malaria while in Nigeria, got adequate treatment for it and recovered fully from the illness before embarking on a trip to Cape Town. His colleagues in Nigeria were therefore shocked when they got news of his death a few days after he arrived in South Africa.
From Botswana in Southern Africa, Mabutho joined the Botswana branch of the company in 1999 as the Customer Service Supervisor. He rose through the ranks and became the Brand Manager of M-Net, one of the sister companies of Multi Choice Group in 2003. He led the Marketing and Sales effort for Digital Satellite Television (DSTV), another sister company of MultiChoice Group in Sub- Saharan Africa.
In 2013, Mabutho became the Nigeria General Manager, Sales and Marketing. In 2018, he was appointed as the Chief Customer Officer responsible for driving the MultiChoice Nigeria customer group strategy till his demise. Known as the Babaloja of MultiChoice and fondly addressed as Chief Chukwuemeka Martin Mabutho, he was a man of great energy, warmth and good humour. He worked behind the scenes to build capacities in most creative enterprise before his unfortunate demise. He is survived by his wife, Thato Mulligan Mabutho and four children.
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