He was a member of the Kenyan delegation to the 1960 Lancaster House Conference, which negotiated the country's independence from the United Kingdom.
[1] Mwendwa then served as Minister for Labour within President Jomo Kenyatta's first post-independence 15-member cabinet.
[1] His brother, Kitili Maluki Mwendwa, became the first African-born Chief Justice of Kenya.
[1] Mwendwa was first elected to the Legislative Council of Kenya (Legco) from Kitui in 1963 after the country gained independence.
[2] Ngala Mwendwa died from complications of a heart attack at the Nairobi Hospital ICU unit on June 8, 2016, at the age of 93.