POPULAR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT IS DEAD.

The former legislator died in the morning of Monday, August 30.

Mwavumo’s demise was announced by Mombasa businessman, Suleiman Shahbal, who hailed the politician as a father figure who showed him through the ropes.

“I have, with deep sorrow and profound sadness received news of the death of Mzee Salim Mwavumo, the leader of Likoni Wamiji Council of Elders,” Shahbal stated.

“Mzee Mwavumo, who also served as Likoni MP was like a father to me, I respected and valued his wise counsel.”Mwavumo served as a Likoni MP from 1992 to 1997 and he served as a councilor in the defunct Municipal Council of Mombasa in the early 1960s.

Sourced from Kenyans