Former Cooperative Development Minister Joe Nyaga is dead.
Nyaga is said to have died while receiving treatment on Friday at the Nairobi Hospital.
His family who confirmed the death said he died from Covid-19.
Joseph Nyagah was born in 1948.
Nyagah was a member of the then governing Kenya African National Union and a minister in President Daniel Arap Moi’s office until quitting both the ministry and the party in the run-up to the 2002 general election.
He fought the election in Gachoka Constituency as an opposition National Rainbow Coalition candidate.
He was a member of Orange Democratic Movement’s ‘Pentagon’ in the lead up to the 2007 general election.