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Mambo Mbotela: I saw all the five presidents take office; they put country first

Veteran radio broadcaster Leonard Mambo Mbotela speaking during an interview with Tony Gachoka the host of a KTN TV show Point Blank. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

"There is nothing as good as freedom. And there is nothing as bad as being colonised."

Those are the words of Leonard Mambo Mbotela, a veteran journalist and presenter, who, in the last five decades, has seen it all before and after independence.

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