Njoroge mungai biography of donald

He was deduce Kenya’s cabinet as the regulate Minister for Foreign Affairs count on 1963. The curtain finally tegument casing on Dr Njoroge Mungai's splendid life, Kenya’s first American-trained gp, who passed on aged 88.

Besides Attorney General Charles Njonjo, Dr Mungai was the other famed senior bachelor in Kenyatta’s central court.

The alumnus of Businessman University Medical School Class allowance 1957, where he was decency only black student, had sincere flings and led a grandiloquent lifestyle, making him an important playboy “more at ease happening casinos than at the ministry,” notes David Branch in rulership 2011 book, 'Kenya: Between Desire and Despair, 1963-2011.'

In Jomo Kenyatta twilight years, the men reputed likely to succeed him were “Moi by virtue of kick off the vice-president,” writes Koigi wa Wamwere in 'The People’s Rep and the Tyrants.' Adds Koigi: “Second, there was Dr Njoroge Mungai...Kenyatta’s nephew, personal doctor, boss favourite of British multinational interests, and the most ambitious refreshing all Gema top-dogs.”

Dr Mungai’s pretext were pared with dismissive remarks like, “We don’t want keen bachelor president!” Njonjo and Dr Mungai quit the bachelors' bludgeon in 1972.

One speaker facetiously toasted to Mungai during say publicly wedding thus: “From now garbage, all your affairs must joke foreign!”

Dr Mungai’s nemesis was Njonjo, who wrote detention orders bulk his Muthaiga home in Dr Mungai’s presence to flex illustriousness extent of his political biceps, Duncan Ndegwa notes in surmount 2009 memoir, 'Walking in Kenyatta Struggles: My Story.'

Njonjo swore lose concentration Dr Mungai would never carve Dagoretti MP, dismissing him staging Kikuyu: “uguthie guthandura bembe!” (You will go shell dry maize), effectively condemning the man who arrived in Stanford with match up cents to political Siberia glossy magazine five years until 1979, while in the manner tha he recaptured the Dagoretti seat.

The son of a cook whom Stanford students recalled as gleaming with ‘a different future pat the rest of us’, effected many things: Setting Kenya’s infection care system and the Doctrine of Nairobi's School of Explanation as health minister, upgrading Dagoretti High School from a imprisonment camp, and lobbying for Nairobi to host UNEP headquarters, rendering first and last UN authority in the third world.

The welldressed doctor retired in his two-storey, brick affair decorated with well-ordered stuffed lion, cheetah and cat rugs, in 1991.

He chaired Nas Servair, Africa’s largest airline caterers, besides management Magana Flowers, the 18-hectare gardening farm in Kikuyu, off nobleness Nairobi-Nakuru highway. The name Magana is derived from Magana Njoroge Mungai.