Leaders mourn Mwahima, 78, a fiery but witty former MP

Likoni residents taking the body of Masoud Mwahima for burial at a family cemetery in Likoni. [Kelvin Karani, Standard]

Mombasa was thrown into mourning yesterday following sudden death of veteran politician Mwalimu Masoud Mwahima, from what family members described as high blood pressure.

The former Likoni MP, 78, who was also battling hypertension and diabetes died on Monday night at his humble Vyemani home where he was buried yesterday afternoon. Some accounts indicate Mwahima, who never attended formal school as a child, was born in 1949.