Paul Ngei: Power, Scandal, and the Untold Affairs Behind Kenya’s Rogue Minister

Love, Power, and Tragedy: The Untold Story of Paul Ngei

Paul Ngei: The Womaniser Cabinet Minister Who Dated Uhuru Kenyatta’s Sister

According to Kenyatta, the eponymous bio of 1973 by Jeremy Murray-Brown, Ngei wrote love letters filled with catchy Swahili phrases to Mzee Kenyatta’s daughter Margaret. At one time, Mzee Kenyatta caught one of the letters and confronted Ngei.

“Hi, what are you going to say now. I’ve caught you, ehee! You’ve kept mum for a long time and you are a son-in-law… and never said a thing, hey?” Murray-Brown quotes Kenyatta as saying.

According to a report by the Standard, Ngei was also mentioned in the 1978 murder of Captain Judy Angaine whom he was dating at the time. She was the daughter of late former Cabinet Minister Jackson Angaine.

On the night of March 29, a day before she was found dead, Judy had visited her father at his office in Ardhi House. She had come from Molo after running a few errands.

She met Ngei who was then Minister for Cooperatives and had an office in the same building. He offered to take her home.

According to the publication, Maj Kisila, Judy’s boyfriend came home and found her taking whiskey in the company of Ngei. They later suggested they go out drinking but Kisila declined to go.

Ngei and Judy started drinking at Langata Club and then went to Woodley Club.

“It was on the way back that Ngei, while still driving, touched Judy on the br*ast and told her he loved her,” Angaine quoted Maj Kisila as saying during an inquest into Judy’s death.

She reportedly denied Ngei’s advances resulting in a struggle that caused the car to roll three times. They survived the accident and were rescued by a white woman. She offered Judy a dress since her’s was torn.

While a student at Makerere University, Ngei was expelled for stabbing a fellow student over a woman during a college dance.

In an article titled Paul Ngei, the rogue minister who respected no law, the late legislator comes out as a man whose appetite for women did not mellow down even with old age. As soon as an amputated Ngei was wheeled in for an interview with Daily Nation Kamau Ngotho, a friend of the journalist told Ngei:

“Paul, you amaze me, you mean you still have an appetite for beautiful ladies even in your condition!” Ngei replied: “But Charles, one doesn’t need three legs to do it!”

That was the man Ngei was.