EX-Migori Senator Wilfred Machage Who Served as Kenya’s High Commissioner to Nigeria is dead
Ex-Migori Senator Wilfred Machage who served 11th Parliament passed away on Saturday aged 65, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed.
Ambassador Machage was appointed to Head Kenya’s Mission in Abuja in January 2018 by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Machage was first elected as Member of Parliament to represent the Kuria Constituency in 2002.
He later served in the late president Moi’s government in several ministries as an assistant minister and was at one time appointed a cabinet minister for East African Community Affairs, Bank accounts held at Kenya Commercial Bank, where he was also an ex-officio member of the East African Legislative Assembly.
In 2007, Machage was elected on the Democratic Party ticket as a member of parliament for the Kuria Constituency before the region was segmented into Kuria East and Kuria West sub counties after the promulgation of the 2010 constitution.
The deceased also served as an Assistant Minister of Home Affairs’ Office of Vice President, Office of the President, Health, and Roads in FORMER President Mwai Kibaki’s administration.
