Everybody has a period of their lives they wish they could forget, but for one cabinet minister during the Jomo Kenyatta government, some of his darkest moments were chronicled in the media and will forever be available.
In a 2017 article, The Standard reported that the late Paul Ngei, a former minister of land, was involved in a violent incident at Makerere University that kept him from completing his coursework.
The story goes that the cabinet minister, who went to the school between 1948 and 1950, lost control at a party in Uganda, which led to disaster.
Following an argument with the lawmaker about a woman he was seeing, the congressman is said to have struck a colleague, leading to his removal from the group. He was there at the time studying journalism. A few years later, the ex-minister who had been close to Jomo Kenyatta would disagree with the founding president when he made an attempt to seduce Margaret Kenyatta while the two were serving their sentences.
Ngei and Mzee regularly wrote to Margaret while they were both detained in Kapenguria, but one day their letters got mixed up and Kenyatta received what Ngei had written to Margaret. In the intercepted letter, Ngei reportedly lamented the prison’s torturous seclusion, according to Kenyatta’s biographer Jeremy Murray-Brown. The conversation was “Flowery, Passionate and Full of Neat Kiswahili Phrases,” as Brown put it.
When Kenyatta confronted Ngei about dating his daughter, he did it in a mocking manner.
Right now, what are you going to say? Ehee! I’ve got you in my grasp! You are a son-in-law, and yet you haven’t spoken anything for a very long time, Mzee jokingly observed.
Kenyatta didn’t appear to care because their relationship remained intact. Captain Judy Angaine, the daughter of the late Jackson Angaine, a fellow cabinet minister with whom he was rumoured to be dating, was mysteriously murdered in 1978. The politician’s name was prominently associated with this case. On the evening of March 29, Ngei reportedly suggested buying her drinks after Angaine had left to meet his father.
A man who only went by the name Maj Kisila confronted Ngei and Angaine before they headed to a club in Lang’ata. Maj Kisila was rumoured to be Angaine’s boyfriend. The lawsuit claims that Ngei made advances toward her on the way back, which led to a fight that caused their car to roll three times. The next morning, Judy was discovered dead.
Source:
https://www.kenyans.co.ke/news/46940-kenyattas-minister-who-stabbed-colleague-party-over-woman?amp=1
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