- Prof. Magoha was immediate former Education Cabinet Secretary, the helm held in March, 2019 after the retired former President Uhuru Kenyatta appointed him
- He was previously, Kenya National Examination Council Chairman from 2016 to 2019. This is after leaving University of Nairobi as the Vice Chancellor from 2005 to 2015
- He had already been appointed to head the department of the school of Medicine at Maseno University, where they had expressed their optimistic on Magoha’s synergy in spurring the department
It’s all tears and torment when a family losses their distinguished members within a span of one year. The family of late former Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Albert Omore Magoha has been hit so painfully
According to family’s confidant, Walter Mwanda, they were already making preparations to bury one of their kin who passed away in Texas, America, this coming weekend, when the career surgeon also passed on
Prof. Magoha died at the Nairobi Hospital where he had been taken after collapsing at his home, and efforts to resuscitate him by his son Dr Michael Magoha went unsuccesfull.
His younger brother, Prof. Richard Alex Nyabera Magoha, passed away on December 6, 2022 in Allen, Texas, United States, with the cause of his death yet to be disclosed by the family.
As a matter of fact, Nyabera’s body arrived in Nairobi on Tuesday, shortly after news of the former CS’ passing was made public.
Mwanda disclosed Nyabera’s funeral details that was slated to take place on Saturday, January 28, 2022 in Siaya County.
“The cortege will leave Agha Khan Funeral Home Kisumu, on Saturday 28th January for a memorial requiem mass at Township Primary School Yala at 10:00 am followed by intermitent at his Umiru home in Yala, Gem, Sub-County,” reads the obituary in part.
It remains unclear whether the family will now postpone Nyabera’s final send-off or whether they will reschedule the interment in order to have the deceased brothers buried on the same day.
“Magoha, Alex Richard Nyabera 68 was a loving, caring, devoted husband and father. He was very involved in the lives of his children and family, ‘‘ an obituary published by Bedford Memorial Funeral Home on December 6, added.
He will be greatly missed by his loving wife Janet Achieng Magoha, and three children namely; Crystal Magoha, Ashley Magoha and Bernard Magoha, who all reside in the US.
The family also buried their elder brother Prof Charles Arnold Agunga Magoha in August, 2021, who died of similar short illness at his home in Stockholm, Sweden