President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday morning unveiled the statue of Kenyan independence hero, pan-Africanist and former Cabinet Minister, the late Ronald Gideon Ngala on Ronald Ngala Street at Nairobi’s downtown.
The Head of State was accompanied by Sports CS Amina Mohamed and Head of Public Service Dr Joseph Kinyua among other senior Government officials.
Also present was the family of the late political supremo, celebrated for 'majimboism', a precursor of modern-day devolution, led by his son and former long-serving Cabinet Minister, Hon Noah Katana Ngala.
Ngala was a member of the political group of the African educated elite, who established a new political tradition in Kenya's nationalist struggle to counter imperialism and colonialism.
This resulted in creating the right conditions within which independence was handed over to the African majority.
Ngala was also elected leader of the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) at a meeting of leaders of small parties, which represented the minority tribes, in Ngong on 25 June 1960.
Ronald Ngala was made Minister of Cooperatives and Social Services in the Kenyatta government where he remained active in politics until he died in a road accident in 1972.
He left behind his wife Esther Ngala and several children including Noah Katana Ngala.
Edited by D Tarus