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David Mwiraria, the buddy who shared Kibaki’s quirks

Former minister for finance David Mwiraria

A political ally of former President Mwai Kibaki, with whom close associates say shared many similarities, succumbed to a long illness Thursday at the Karen Hospital in Nairobi.

Daudi Mwiraria, a former Treasury technocrat, Democratic Party MP, and later Finance minister, born on September 3, 1938, succumbed to acute respiratory infection. He has been suffering from cancer of the bone.

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