Daudi Mwiraria, a former Treasury technocrat, Democratic Party MP, and later Finance minister, born on September 3, 1938, succumbed to acute respiratory infection. Of all the confidants that former president Kibaki rolled over with from the opposition to government in 2002, none was as close and shared as many mannerisms as Mwiraria. Mwiraria was Finance minister from January 2003 to February 2006 in Kibaki’s regime. Mwiraria was in the group of Kibaki’s trusted confidants who in 1991 convinced the ever cautious former vice-president to march out of Kanu and launch DP. ALSO READ: Former President Kibaki pitches for nephew in Laikipia gubernatorial race

Source: Standard Digital April 13, 2017 19:41 UTC