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Magana Njoroge Mungai, M.D. EGH (January 7, 1926 – August 16, 2014) was a doctor, Politician - Member of Parliament, Cabinet Minister, Businessman, Farmer, Nationalist, one of the of the Republic of .


Early life and education
Njoroge Mungai was born in Gichungo village, in in colonial Kenya. His parents, Leah Gathoni Kūng'ū and George Segeni Njoroge, were pioneer Christians who attended Church of the Torch which had been founded by the famous Church of Scotland minister, John William Arthur. In fact, John Arthur was the attendant at his birth.

Njoroge Mungai was educated at Alliance High School, Kikuyu, and was part of the famous class of 1946, of which six of its fourteen students were part of Kenya's first cabinet including his good friend and later successor in the Foreign Affairs Ministry Dr. . After high school, he would work as a bus driverl before joining the British Overseas Airways Corporation. He wanted to travel to the United States to study medicine but was denied a passport by the British authorities; he therefore attended Fort Hare University in South Africa where he studied . Thereafter, his dream came true when he was accepted to Stanford Medical School where he graduated in 1957.


Political life and business activities
Njoroge Mungai was a first cousin to Kenya's first President, . When Kenyatta was arrested, Dr. Njoroge Mungai served as his personal physician, a role he would continue until the President's death. He was intrigued with Kenyatta's political ideology and the ideals of achieving freedom for Kenya. He soon joined the Kenya African National Union, Kenya's freedom party, for which he served as the organization's Secretary. He was part of the Kenya Delegation that negotiated independence from Britain at the Lancaster House Conferences of 1960.

In independent Kenya, Njoroge Mungai would serve first as Minister for Health in which capacity he established Kenya's first medical school. He was later moved to the Defense Ministry and it was during his tenure there that the between Kenya and broke out. He led a mediation team to which resulted in the Arusha declaration of 1967, bringing a close to the conflict. But he would gain fame during his term as Minister for Foreign Affairs. An astute diplomat, he successfully lobbied to have the United Nations Environmental Programme headquartered in Nairobi. He further successfully lobbied the now called to supply arms to forces fighting the regime in and the colonial regime in . Kenya also had a seat on the during his tenure and he was instrumental in pushing for sanctions against South Africa and Southern Rhodesia. Njoroge Mungai Tribute to Special cyprianfernandes.blogspot.co.ke August 2014 He was with at the Commonwealth meeting, pushing for the British to cease supplying arms to South Africa, when Idi Amin overthrew the President. He famously restrained Obote from returning to Uganda where Obote would have been killed.

In business, Njoroge Mungai had a private clinic at Riruta, Nairobi, among other clinics, all of which he ultimately donated to the government. He would later start the Magana Farm in the 1960s where he practiced farming. In 1973, he expanded his interests to real estate and information technology through Magana Holdings Limited. He would later venture into farming and established Magana Flowers Kenya Limited in 1994 on an 18 hectare farm. He served as the Chairman of Investment Airport Kenya Limited and was instrumental in merging the airline catering company, NAS, with the French catering company, Servair, in 2010. In 2016, his name appeared in the data release as a shareholder of Bevatron Ltd, an with address based in Charlestown, Nevis.


Personal life
Njoroge Mungai was married and the father of six children. In the late 1990s, he was estranged from his wife, Lillian Mungai, and they were engaged in court battles over some of the properties they jointly owned. In the latter years of the Kenyatta Presidency, he controversially led a faction that tried to prevent the vice president from ascending to the Presidency which would have been unchallenged if Kenyatta died. It was a move that was thwarted by the leader of the Moi faction, AG . His opposition to South Africa and British involvement was considered one of the factors that he lost to Njonjo. In 1974, he lost his Parliamentary seat in Dagoretti South but was later nominated as a Member of Parliament. He would rejoin the Cabinet in 1990 as a Minister for Environment before quitting active politics in 1997. In 2002, he came out of retirement to campaign for but Uhuru lost that election. However, Uhuru Kenyata would win the presidency eleven years later in 2013.

Njoroge Mungai was honoured with a Commander of The National Order of Merit from the French government in April 2014 for his contribution to business, democracy and international diplomacy. Dr. Njoroge Mungai died on August 14, 2014, at the age of 88 at Nairobi Hospital. At his funeral, Kenya's President, , was a of his casket in his honour. It is the first and only time a sitting President of Kenya was a pall bearer. Uhuru wins admiration pallbearer role the-star.co.ke

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