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Pioneer Mvita MP passes on after a long illness

Former Mvita Member of Parliament Mohamed Jahazi. [File, Standard]

The first post-independent Mvita MP Mohamed Jahazi is dead.

Jahazi, 89, who served as assistant minister for Health in President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta's government, died on Sunday at a Mombasa hospital where he had been admitted for 15 days.

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