Ex-minister Ngala Mwendwa's son dies two days after father's burial

A son of the late Cabinet minister Eliud Ngala Mwendwa has died barely two days after his father's burial.

Billy Ngala died at their Ithookwe village home in Kitui Central Sub-County on Monday evening during a family meeting.

His elder brother, Kitavi Ngala, said Billy complained of high fever before succumbing to what he said was cardiac arrest.

Kitavi said: "My brother was contributing to the discussion before he realised he had forgotten his blood pressure drugs in his house. He asked to be driven back home to pick them. He collapsed and died in his house," Kitavi said. Billy served as an ODM-Kenya nominated councillor between 2007-2012 at the defunct Kitui Municipality.

The family said the deceased is survived by wife and two children.

His body was moved to Jordan Mortuary in Kitui Town.

Mwendwa, 93, and a former minister for Labour in the independence Cabinet of President Jomo Kenyatta was buried last Saturday.

He died on June 8, 2016 at Nairobi Hospital's ICU unit where he was undergoing treatment after suffering a heart attack.

Mwendwa, a brother of the first African Chief Justice in Kenya Kitili Mwendwa, had been battling with old age complications.