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Ex-soldier’s fearless face against prostate cancer

Martin Kimanthi at the Texas Cancer Centre,Nairobi. [Photo: Elvis Ogina/Standard]

If you ask 76-year-old Martin Kimanthi what he loves most, he is quick to give a precise list: his family, God and cancer.

Mr Kimanthi, who served in the Kenya Defence Forces for 35 years, fell in love with the disease recently, probably as a tactic for survival when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

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