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Odindo: Philip Ochieng made many journalists

Philip Ochieng' [Photo: Courtesy]

Philip Ochieng – the veteran editor, columnist and author – who died on Tuesday aged 83, can be remembered for a number of things, key among them his contribution to the journalism profession in Kenya.

Ochieng', renowned for his The Fifth Columnist and Mark my Word columns published in the Sunday Nation and Saturday Nation, respectively, rubbed off on a number of journalists in the course of his long career in journalism.

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