[1][2] Leornard Mambo Mbotela was born at Lady Grigg Hospital, Mombasa on 29 May 1940.
The programme continues to air on KBC radio to this day, making it the oldest in the industry.
[11] In 1967, he went to the British Broadcasting Corporation in London for one year of journalist training.
[12] In 1982, in an attempted coup to overthrow the then president Daniel arap Moi, led by a Kenya Air Force private, Hezekiah Ochuka, Mbotela was captured and forced to announce on live television that the country was under military control and that the president had been overthrown.
The situation was then put under control by the GSU and later the regular Police led by Major General Mahamoud Mohamed and Mbotela was asked to announce that the rebels had been defeated and that the country was under the president's control.
Then President Uhuru Kenyatta came to his aid and paid Kshs 1.1 million.