He once lunged from his seat at a Cabinet meeting to stop Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga going physical over a heated argument. Eliud Ngala Mwendwa who was Minister for Labour at the time has taken the final bow.
Mwendwa, 93, died at the Nairobi Hospital on Wednesday, June 8 at 6 am after a long battle with old age complications that culminated in a heart attack according to his eldest son, Kitavi Mwendwa. Ngala breathed his last while under treatment at the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit.