Last surviving Legco member Kyale Mwendwa dies
By George Kebaso, November 6, 2020Kyale Mwendwa, left, the last surviving member of Kenya’s Legislative Council (Legco) has died. He was 94.
Kyale succumbed to myriad health complications including old age on Tuesday at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi.
He was the last of the famous Mwendwa brothers with his death heralding the end of a famous generation.
A family said the veteran politician was taken ill last weekend and rushed to hospital where he was admitted.
“Mzee has been sickly for some time and his health has been deteriorating perhaps due to old age.
We took him to hospital on Monday morning but he never made it back home,” the family member said.
In an obituary, the family announced yesterday that a condolence book will be opened today at The Office Park, Riverside Drive with funeral and burial meetings and other arrangements to be announced later.
Born in 1926, Mwendwa served as the First African director of education; minister in both Jomo Kenyatta and Moi governments. He was co-founder of the Democratic Party (DP).
He was a member of the Kenyan delegation to the 1960 Lancaster House Conference, which negotiated the country’s independence from the United Kingdom.
Mwendwa then served as Minister for Labour in Kenyatta’s first post-independence 15-member Cabinet.