Economy & Politics Kibaki’s first Finance minister Mwiraria succumbs to cancerFormer Finance minister David Mwiraria presenting a past budget at Parliament buildings. FILE PHOTO | NMGFormer Finance minister David Mwiraria died Thursday aged 79, bringing down the curtains on a man who has lived an illustrious but reclusive life of public service and politics stretching back five decades. Mwiraria, a two-term Imenti North MP and career public servant, succumbed to cancer at the Karen Hospital in Nairobi. He was re-elected again to serve a second term in 1997, a period when he was also the Opposition’s shadow Finance Minister. As Finance minister, one of the longstanding changes that the father of five implemented was to introduce laws in 2005 which banned the sale of alcohol in sachets.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 13, 2017 12:12 UTC