The late Education CS George Magoha somewhat knew his time to leave this world had come hours before he collapsed and died.
His colleague Walter Mwanda told the media at Lee Funeral Home where Magoha’s remains were taken after his death on Tuesday that he had a premonition he was going to die.
“He had a premonition and told his wife, I suppose, that his time had come and he was happy everything was done,” he said.
“He then asked the wife to call the son and also the daughter in-law and then at that time he also said he wanted to see me and the wife did the same. Called the soon, called the daughter in-law and called me in that series,” Mwanda narrated.
He said the call came through at around 3pm while he was attending to a patient at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
Mwanda said he handed over to a colleague and headed straight to the late former CS’s home.
He revealed that the CS had been extremely busy over the past few days following his engagement in the preparation of his late brother Alex’s burial.
Mwanda said the body of the younger brother was coincidentally supposed to arrive in Kenya from the US on Tuesday.
“May I say that for the first time he didn’t reply to my call on Saturday but then later on I called him using another number and we discussed the way forward with regards to his brother’s death.”
Mwanda said Magoha collapsed at least four times before he was pronounced dead at the Nairobi Hospital where he was rushed. Two times he collapsed in the house but was resuscitated by his son who is also a doctor. He was in a sitting position when his friend arrived. He recognized him and they talked before he collapsed again and brought around. The final collapse was massive just as the entered the hospital and all efforts to resuscitate were unsuccessful.
His death is a double blow to the Magoha family as his brother, Prof Richard Nyabera Magoha, was set to be buried this Saturday after passing on in the US on December 6, 2022.
The family was already going on with burial arrangements when they were hit with news of the death of the former CS.
In August 2021, the Prof Magoha lost another brother, Charles Agunga Magoha, who died in Sweden.
Before being appointed to cabinet five years ago, Prof Magoha served as Vice-Chancellor at the University of Nairobi (UoN) for ten years (2005 to 2015). He also served as a Professor of Urological and Transplant Surgery at UoN’s College of Health Sciences. His medical career includes work and training in Nigeria, Ghana, Ireland and the United Kingdom. He also trained in Executive Management at Stanford University.
In Nigeria, he began his career as an intern in Surgery at Lagos University Teaching Hospital and rose to become Senior Resident and Clinical Lecturer in Surgery. He later joined UoN as a Lecturer in Urological Surgery in 1988 and rose through the ranks to become a full Professor of Surgery in 2000.
Discover more from Makao Bora
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
Join The Discussion