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Tributes from Yala: George Magoha, the village darling who inspired lives

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When former Cabinet Secretary Ministry Of Education George Magoha spoke during the National launch of re-engineered national education management information system (NEMIS). [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

To the rest of Kenyans, he was a strict, orderly, tough talking educationist, a scholar and surgeon who transformed every docket he laid his hands to.

But to the residents of Umiru village in Yala, Siaya county, professor George Magoha was a brother, a son, a village boy and an inspiration to several people budding for academic success.

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