May 1st 2021 at 07:00:00 GMT +0300
Writing the story of Philip Ochieng’ Otani is like giving a journey into the media in Kenya. In a casual encounter in the streets of Nairobi, one would always see him with a book. He never walked without something to read, be it a magazine or book.
His death on 27th April has elicited lots of reactions from newspaper readers and general consumers of journalistic material in general. Ochieng’s pen shaped the written word in many media experiences and several journalists owe it to his tutelage.
The country is now full of his orphans because his network spread across various media organizations.
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THE STANDARD By
XN Iraki |
February 14th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Children at Loreto Convent School, Msongari. [XN Iraki]
Economic growth is largely driven by disciplined national thinkers. They come up with new ideas and follow them through, creating new enterprises and expanding the existing ones.
The ordinary but disciplined workers take over, working every day, successfully completing tasks and going beyond the call of duty.
While we love complaining about joblessness, rarely do we blame the low productivity resulting from indiscipline. Think loudly, we want higher salaries but attempts to link such salaries with productivity, which is built on discipline, are resisted.