{"id":83227,"date":"2023-02-09T11:53:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T11:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service"},"modified":"2023-02-09T12:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T12:34:40","slug":"tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service","title":{"rendered":"Tuju: No politics during Magoha\u2019s funeral service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Former Jubilee Secretary Raphel Tuju has announced that former Education CS George Magoha\u2018s funeral service will be politics-free. Speaking during the requiem mass at Consolata Shrine on Friday, he said that the family had requested a politics-free service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe family has decided and requested most politely that on this occasion we keep the service dignified and that there will be no politics in our encounter,\u201d Tuju said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease bare with us as a family because it has been extremely difficult.\u201d Tuju explained that the family had been through a lot the past year and politics was not welcomed at the service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2021 we buried one of the brothers of Magoha. It was a twin funeral,\u201d he said. Magoha&#8217;s brother Alex Nyabera Magoha passed on in Allen, Texas in the US on December 6, 2022. The cause of his death was however not made public.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2021, the CS lost his other brother, Charles Agunga Magoha who died in Sweden. Recounting his last moment with his cousin before he died, Tuju said that Magoha talked about death and said that they should be ready to die anytime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the day before Magoha died I was in house, we were discussing with the professor about the funeral plans of his brother. He said that we should be ready because our time can come at anytime. A day later he passed on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Magoha\u2019s died on January 24, 2023, after suffering a cardiac arrest. The former SG said that Magoha was prepared to receive his brother\u2019s body at JKIA that Tuesday, only for him to die.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was to go to JKIA to receive his brother\u2019s body only for it to arrive in the same mortuary that Magoha was,&#8221; Tuju said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. Former Jubilee Secretary Raphel Tuju has announced that former Education CS George Magoha\u2018s funeral service will be politics-free. Speaking during the requiem mass at Consolata Shrine on Friday, he said that the family had requested a politics-free service. \u201cThe family has decided and requested most politely that on this occasion we keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":83226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-83227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tuju: No politics during Magoha\u2019s funeral service - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Jubilee Secretary Raphel Tuju has announced that former Education CS George Magoha\u2018s funeral service will be poli ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tuju: No politics during Magoha\u2019s funeral service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former Jubilee Secretary Raphel Tuju has announced that former Education CS George Magoha\u2018s funeral service will be poli ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-09T11:53:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-09T12:34:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675930989.55.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"651\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tuju: No politics during Magoha\u2019s funeral service\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-09T11:53:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-09T12:34:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service\"},\"wordCount\":310,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675930989.55.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/tuju-no-politics-during-magohas-funeral-service\",\"name\":\"Tuju: No politics during Magoha\u2019s funeral service - 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