Leornard Mambo Mbotela

Leornard Mambo Mbotela is a Kenyan veteran journalist famous for his show "Je, Huu Ni Uungwana?" that is relayed on state-owned KBC Chanel 1 and KBC Radio Taifa. Born in 1940 in Mombasa, Kenya, Mbotela joined Voice of Kenya (VoK), now Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), in 1964 and has had a successful career that spans more than five decades.He briefly worked with Kenya Weekly News and the East African Standard before joining KBC. During the attempted 1982 coup, Mbotela was forced at gunpoint to announce on air that Moi's government had been overthrown.