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Bomb blast anniversary: Photojournalist Jacob Otieno on the day Nairobi would rather forget

Jacob Otieno, a veteran Photo Journalist who covered the 1998 bomb blast in Nairobi narrates what happened on that disastrous day 22 years later. (Collins Oduor Standard)

Jacob, tell us where you were when it happened?

I was actually off duty that day and had spent the better part of the morning in my house at Donholm. I had planned to go to town and the turn of events started the moment I boarded a matatu to town.

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