Veteran broadcaster Leonard Mambo Mbotela is dead
National
By
Mate Tongola
| Feb 07, 2025
Veteran radio broadcaster Leonard Mambo Mbotela is dead.
Mbotela died on Friday, February 7, aged 84, after a short illness, his family has confirmed.
Best known for his signature program "Je, Huu Ni Ungwana?" on Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) Radio Taifa and TV, Mbotela retired from the state broadcaster in 2022.
He had been on air for 58 years upon his retirement.
Born in 1940 in Mombasa, he joined the then Voice of Kenya (VoK)—now KBC—in 1964.
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Mbotela is also remembered for being forced, at gunpoint, to announce on radio that former President Daniel arap Moi’s government had been overthrown during the failed 1982 coup.