By Ihechi Enyinnaya
Kenya’s High Commissioner to Nigeria, Wilfred Gisuka Machage on Saturday collapsed in his home in Abuja shortly after he took lunch. He was rushed to an undisclosed hospital where he was confirmed dead.
The Kenyan Embassy confirmed the death of 65-year-old High Commissioner but did not disclose the cause of his death.
The Standard of Kenya quoted Machage’s twin brother, Sospeter Magita as confirming the death of the High Commissioner in Nigeria.
Magita who is also a former Kenya Ambassador to Russia added that his brother enjoyed relatively good health. “It is a very sad moment that I have today lost my best friend and confidant,” he said.
Dr. Machage was elected as Migori senator in 2013 under the ODM ticket. He did not contest for the senatorial seat in 2017 after falling out with ODM. He opted to contest for the Kuria West MP seat which he lost to Jubilee’s Mr. Mathias Nyambabe Robi. Ben Okello Oluoch (who later died of throat cancer) succeeded him as Migori senator.
In July 2018, Dr. Wilfred Gisuka Machage announced that he had retired from elective politics.
He was thereafter, appointed as ambassador by President Uhuru Kenyatta in January 2018.
He was also lawmaker before he was appointed as an Ambassador.
He also served as East African Community Affairs docket as Cabinet minister and assistant minister of Home Affairs in the office of the Vice President before he was deployed to Nigeria, according to The Standard of Kenya.
Machage, had in July last year denied claim that Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was arrested in Kenya and deported to Nigeria.