Wilfred Machage Explained

Wilfred Machage
Office:Member of the Kenyan Senate
Term Start:28 March 2013
Term End:2017
Constituency:Migori County
Office2:Member of the Kenyan Parliament
Term Start2:2003
Term End2:2013
Constituency2:Kuria
Birth Date:10 August 1956
Birth Place:Kenya
Death Place:Abuja, Nigeria
Nationality:Kenyan
Party:Jubilee
Residence:Kuria
Alma Mater:University of Nairobi
Profession:Medical Doctor
Cabinet:East African Community

Wilfred Gisuka Machage (10 August 1956 – 19 February 2022) was a Kenyan politician.

Biography

Machage was first elected as Member of Parliament to represent the Kuria Constituency in 2002. He has served in several government 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 he was the Democratic Party candidate and was elected to represent the Kuria Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya in the December 2007 parliamentary election.[1] He has also served as Assistant Minister of Home Affairs' Office of Vice President, Office of the President, Health, and Roads.[2] Machage was elected as the first senator of Migori county in 2012 to 2017. He was a businessman with interests in different sectors globally. He was appointed Ambassador by H.E. Uhuru Kenyatta on 27 January 2018. Machage was the Kenyan high commissioner to Nigeria and accredited to 12 other countries in central and west Africa. He died in Abuja on 19 February 2022, at the age of 65.[3]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.bunge.go.ke/members.php Members of the 10th Parliament
  2. http://www.irinnews.org/report/59642/kenya-battling-malaria-in-western-region Kenya: Battling malaria in western region
  3. News: Njeru . Betty . Nyarangi . Edwin . Kenya's High Commissioner to Nigeria Wilfred Machage dead . 19 February 2022 . The Standard . 19 February 2022.