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Prof Obel was brilliant, eccentric and uncompromising to the end

Professor Arthur Obel, his wife and his daughter Gloria Margaret Obel and her husband John Mbithi, after their wedding ceremony at the All Saints cathedral, Nairobi.  [Elvis Ogina.Standard]

Professor Arthur Obel, who died on Saturday at a Nairobi hospital, was a strict disciplinarian who never circumvented rules.

His brother-in-law, Charles Onyango, says the professor was a brilliant and very strict man.

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