Former Cabinet Secretary Raphael Tuju celebrated his former colleague, George Magoha, as a kind-hearted man who helped his family when his mother was sick.
In a tribute he shared in Magoha’s funeral programme seen by Kenyans.co.ke, the former Jubilee Party Secretary General revealed that the former Education CS treated his mother pro bono.
Tuju also divulged that he was related to the former Education CS praising him for supporting some members of their family financially during their school-going years.
“He paid school fees for so many of my cousins who are today successful people in our society. I am grateful to God that I shared experiences of being an alumnus of Starehe Boys Centre and serving in the same Cabinet with him.
“The most memorable of all was that he was a cousin we depended on and a doctor who treated my mother pro bono for many years,” Tuju eulogised.
The former CS without portfolio also reminisced about his last conversation with the deceased revealing that he was with Magoha the day before his death.
Tuju detailed that he had gone to console his former colleague following the demise of his brother.
The former Jubilee SG added that Magoha had a premonition of his death during their last conversation.
“I was with Prof Magoha at his house a day before he passed on. I had visited in connection with the burial arrangements for his younger brother, Richard.
“He mourned the fact that he, like me, was losing our younger brothers and remarked that we should also get ready because we might be next,” Tuju wrote.
The CS was named the Master of Ceremony (MC) for the late Magoha’s three-day funeral service.
Magoha passed away on January 24 aged 71 years while receiving treatment at a Nairobi-based hospital.
The former CS is will be buried on Saturday, February 11 at his rural home in Siaya County.
Source: kENYANS.CO.KE