Veteran politician Kimani Wanyoike dies in hospital

Veteran politician and parliamentary aspirant Kimani Wa Nyoike is dead.

According to his family, Mr. Wanyoike died on Wednesday morning at a Nairobi hospital after a long illness. He passed on at the age of 85.

Kimani, who is a former detainee and a trade unionist, ran for president in 1997 on a Ford People ticket.