Veteran Swahili scribe Bob Roberts Okoth breathes his last at KNH

NAIROBI: A former Managing Editor at the Standard Group Bob Roberts Okoth has died.

Mr Okoth, 66, had an illustrious career spanning over a decade with the then East African Standard’s swahili publication - The Baraza newspaper until 1979.

He died of diabetes-related complications last Monday at the Kenyatta National Hospital. Okoth is remembered by his readers for the Hodi Hodi Mitaani column in the Baraza- Kenya’s first Swahili publication, before he moved to the Nation Media Group’s Taifa Leo.

The University of Nairobi-trained editor left practice in mainstream journalism in 1999 and started working as a media consultant for various media outlets and non-governmental organisations.

Among his last major assignments was editing a weekly publication, Yawezekana.