President Uhuru Kenyatta has led Kenyans in mourning following the death of Kabuchai Member of Parliament James Mukwe Lusweti on Friday. 

Lusweti is said to have been ailing for a long time and was being treated at the Nairobi Hospital but he lost the battle on Friday morning.

The lawmaker was a second term MP elected on a Ford Kenya party ticket in the 2013 general election and was a councilor before joining the National Assembly.

In his condolence message, Kenyatta described Lusweti as an adept grassroots leader whose projects uplifted lives of many in Kabuchai Bungoma County.

"It is unfortunate we have lost a very effective leader, an accomplished grassroots mobiliser whose development conscious politics shall be dearly missed by the people of Kabuchai and the entire nation.

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"I remember Hon Mukwe as a man of few words who let his transformative work speak for him," the President eulogised.

Deputy President William Ruto remembered the MP as a “progressive, selfless and enterprising leader who has been instrumental in the unity and transformation of Western region.”