{"id":12601,"date":"2022-02-20T12:50:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T12:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=12601"},"modified":"2022-02-20T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T12:57:19","slug":"former-mp-and-current-envoy-dr-machage-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/?p=12601","title":{"rendered":"Former MP and current envoy Dr Machage is dead."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta has condoled with the family, relatives and friends of Kenya&#8217;s High Commissioner to Nigeria Dr Wilfred Gisuka Machage who died on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Machage, a two-term Kuria East MP, Migori Senator and former Cabinet Minister, is reported to have collapsed and died suddenly at his home in Abuja, Nigeria.<br>In his condolence message, the President eulogised the departed Machage, 65, as a seasoned politician, consummate diplomat and committed public servant who served the country with distinction and utmost dedication<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/3 President Uhuru Kenyatta has condoled with the family, relatives and friends of Kenya&#39;s High Commissioner to Nigeria Dr Wilfred Gisuka Machage who died on Saturday afternoon. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X9SSomqd2Z\">pic.twitter.com\/X9SSomqd2Z<\/a><\/p>&mdash; State House Kenya (@StateHouseKenya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateHouseKenya\/status\/1495282559672102914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2\/3 In his condolence message, the President eulogised the departed Machage, 65, as a seasoned politician, consummate diplomat and committed public servant who served the country with distinction and utmost dedication.<\/p>&mdash; State House Kenya (@StateHouseKenya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StateHouseKenya\/status\/1495282562842906626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As the envoy to Nigeria, Dr Machage was also accredited to Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Benin, Togo, Niger and six other countries in Central and West Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Machage was appointed to the position by President Uhuru Kenyatta in January 2018, prior to which he served as an elected Senator for Migori County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He joined politics in 2002 when he won a parliamentary seat to represent the then Kuria Constituency. He retained his seat in 2007, before running for the Senate position, under the new Constitution that created counties in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2017, he lost his seat, after which he receded from politics before taking up the ambassadorial role .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Machage, a two-term Kuria East MP, Migori Senator and former Cabinet Minister, is reported to have collapsed and died suddenly at his home in Abuja, Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12607,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12601\/revisions\/12607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodmorningkenya.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}