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The late Philip Ochieng. [Courtesy]
Veteran editor and long-serving
He died at Ombo Mission Hospital in Migori on Tuesday evening.
Ochieng’s daughter Lucie Adhiambo said her father succumbed to pneumonia and other complications associated with old age.
“It’s true he passed on an hour ago. He has been ailing from a series of illnesses including pneumonia,” a devastated and sobbing Lucie told
The Standard on phone.
The Fifth Columnist and
Nation editions.
The Standard.
Ochieng was also an established author who published several books including
I Accuse the Press: An Insider s View of the Media and Politics in Africa in 1992 and
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