Popular Vioja Mahakamani actor Charles Kimani Kangara popularly known as Masaku has passed on at Mbagathi Hospital.

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He was undergoing treatment for kidney failure, diabetes and anemia.

According to his son David Kimani Kangara, who was speaking to Standard, his father was first hospitalized last month. 

He was taken to Mama Lucy Hospital where doctors suggested that he could be suffering from tuberculosis and anemia and where he was immediately referred to Mbagathi Hospital.

He was admitted at Mbagathi for a week before being discharged. 

Reports indicate that his condition worsened a week after being discharged and was taken back to hospital where he died last Friday.

Actors have paid tribute to the the fallen comedian.