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Senior Counsel Philip Murgor during an interview with The Standard at his office in Nairobi, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. [David Njaaga, Standard]
To understand Senior Counsel Philip Murgor, one must peel off countless layers of a man who is intensely motivated, devoted to his family and a public servant. You sense a little impatience in him, enough to declare he is no pushover.
The son of former Provincial Commissioner Charles Murgor, by any measure the Lenana School old boy was raised with a silver spoon in his mouth.
But the former DPP would like to be seen as a product of both worlds. He has hobnobbed with the who-is-who in the country, including working for former presidents Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki, but suggests that he has not lost his common touch. In fact, he maintains an uncommon panache.
Image: PEXELS • A wedding column launched back in the day became a national sensation Writing about my early years in journalism recently made me nostalgic and had me digging out my early scrapbooks in which I posted my published stories for my first three to four years as a reporter.In the first one I opened, I was reminded of the time when I wrote, among other things, a popular little column titled “Weddings of the Week” in the Sunday Times.