Ford Kenya leader and chairman of Agriculture Development corporation, Soita Shitanda is dead.
Mr Shitanda died on Tuesday morning at a Nairobi Hospital after suffering from diabetes.
Until his death, Soita was the chair of Agric. Development Corporation, a position he served for three years.
Soita represented Malava constituency since 1997, after he ousted the then, Minister of Health, Mr. Joshua Angatia in the general election, vying on a Ford Kenya ticket. He was re-elected to parliament in 2002 on the NARC ticket and served as an assistant minister in the office of the president, before he was appointed minister for housing in a cabinet reshuffle in 2005. He was again re-elected in the Kenyan parliamentary election, of 2007and re-appointed Minister for Housing.
The soft spoken former minister has kept out of politics due to illness, which started shortly after 2013 general elections.
