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 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 December 2007 Kenya parliamentary election.Members of the 10th Parliament . Parliament of Kenya. Accessed June 19, 2008. He served as Assistant Minister of Home Affairs' Office of Vice President, Office of the President, Health, and Roads.Kenya: Battling malaria in western region, IRIN, July 13, 2006; retrieved August 23, 2013 Machage was elected as the first senator of Migori county serving from 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.
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