Hon. Paul J. Ngei was born on the 18th October,1923 at Kiima Kimwe near Machakos township. Machakos was the first administrative centre for the British until they moved to Nairobi the Capital of Kenya in 1989. He was the grandson of paramount Chief Masaku after whom the town and the district were named.

The Family moved from Kiima Kimwe to a new settlement at Kangundo Division in a small village called Mbilini in 1929. This was a good mountainous area with inexhaustible source of water and good rainfall for agriculture. His father had been converted into christianity by the African Inland Mission pioneered by Mr.Scot.

Paul Joseph Ngei attended primary school at DEB Kangundo from 1932, intermediate school at Kwa Mating'i in Machakos town from 1936 and Alliance High School in Kiambu district. He then joint the army KAR (King's African Rifles)for a 4 years stint and after that he enrolled at Makerere University in Uganda as a jourlism student between 1948-1950.

Most anti colonial movements gathered mometum in Kenya in the 1940s when opposition to colonial rule emerged. Political upsurge which lead to the Mau Mau rebellion and declaration of state of emergency in October 1952 lead to the arrest of Ngei, Kenyatta and others "The Magnificent6" Fred Kubai, Bildard Kaggia, Ochieng Oneko and Kungu Karuba. Of the six only Mr Ochieng Oneko is with us. Several tribes were involve in this MAU MAU revolt namely, the Luos, Nandis, Maasai, Kamba, Kikuyus, Merus and Embus.

Hon. Ngei's history generates much interest when examined within the context of these post-world war II protest politics that eventually ushered independence to Kenya.These were protest politics characterised by party politics and violence as was manifested by the MAU MAU rebellion. Ngei lived and actively participated in both of these facets of Kenya's historical trajectory. Indeed it was for this participation that later, in post-colonial Kenya he was to evolve a suave,daring and engaging political disposition.

Ngei comes from the Akamba tribe of Kenya who lead the first political protest against the British in 1937 lead by Mr Samuel Muindi Mbingu. The Akamba were also the best choice for recruitment to the KAR because of their skills in war.

He served through out the Kenyatta government from 1964-1978 as a cabinet minister and in post-Kenyatta government lead by President Moi from 1978-1990 where he held several ministerial positions. He died on the 15th August 2004 and his body rests buried at his country home in Mbilini and his 27 years constituency of Kangundo. He was given a guality funeral befitting a King, a mausoleum has been build by the Kenya government in his honour.