Former Central Imenti MP Gideon Mwiti has died after a short illness, the family has announced.

Sources close to People Daily Digital say that Mwiti,57, died at a Nairobi Hospital in the morning of Sunday, July 25.

The former MP is said to have developed diabetes-related complications and he was rushed to hospital where he succumbed before he was attended to by a doctor.

Mwiti who won the Central Imenti Parliamentary seat on a Jubilee ticket represented the constituents of Imenti for five years between the years of 2013 and 2017.

After his loss to current MP Moses Kirima, Mwiti said that he had taken a short break from active politics to venture into the corporate world.