The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has dismissed reports on social media which claimed that Dr Nancy Macharia has been replaced as the Commission’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
TSC on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, flagged the post which claimed that the Commission has appointed Cheptumo Ayabei as its acting CEO, as false.
The post, published on Facebook claims that Ayabei, who is the commission’s director of finance, had been elevated, replacing Nancy Macharia as CEO.
“Cheptumo Ayabei appointed as TSC acting CEO,” reads the flagged post.
However, TSC has flagged the post as false maintaining that Macharia still holds the CEO position.
According to TSC’s website, the Commision is a state agency charged with registering, employing and overseeing the welfare and conduct of teachers in the country.
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Besides TSC flagging the post, The Kenya Times conducted a fact check on TSC’s website for any such communication, but there was none.
TSC Leadership
In its Secretariat leadership section, Dr Macharia is still listed as the overall boss while Ayabei is the director in charge of finance.
Additionally, the hiring of the commission’s CEO must be a competitive process, meaning a vacancy ought to have been declared and the position advertised according to the TSC Act.
The flagged post forms a series of several other posts that have been shared earlier on the replacement of the TSC boss who has held office for 9 years.
A post shared in 2023 also claimed that Ayabei had replaced Macharia as CEO.
Additionally, another one made in 2022 claimed that Macharia had been replaced by former Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) Secretary General Wilson Sossion.
The claims of Macharia being replaced came at a time TSC is embroiled in a row with Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers.
JSS teachers from various parts of the countries had taken to the streets protesting against TSC while demanding to be employed on permanent and pensionable terms.
TSC later announced that it plans to spend Ksh28.88 billion in the next financial year to employ the striking intern teachers on permanent and pensionable terms, recruit additional interns and promote teachers.
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According to TSC Half of the 46,000 intern teachers could now be absorbed into service on permanent and pensionable terms by July this year.
The announcement came after the Commission sent show-cause letters to the teachers who have been holding weekly protests over their contracts.
Career of CEO Dr Nancy Macharia
Dr Macharia was appointed as the Teachers Service Commission Chief Executive in 2015 for a renewable term of five years.
Her first term which expired in 2020 was extended by another five years in 2020, meaning that she is expected to hold office until 2025.
The TSC chief executive who is a trained teacher was born in the Central region of Kenya. He pursued her basic level training in the same region before joining Kenyatta University for her higher education.
Dr Macharia graduated from Kenyatta University with a Bachelor of Education Degree in English/Literature in 1987.
After graduating, she was immediately posted at Kahuhia Girls’ Secondary in Murang’a, where she taught for five years.
The tough-talking TSC boss was then promoted to the rank of deputy head teacher at Kianderi Girls’ Secondary in the Murang’a County.
Upon her exit as a practicing teacher, Macharia joined TSC as a staffing officer where she rose through the ranks to the current post.
She succeeded the then long serving TSC boss, Gabriel Lengoibon.
The former teacher beat 69 other applicants and also achieved a record of being the first ever female TSC CEO since its inception.
Macharia also holds a master’s degree in education from Bristol University in the United Kindom, where she pursued the post-doctorate specializing in management of policy studies.
She has undergone training in diverse fields including Corporate Governance, Public Procurement, Policy Formation, Information Communication Technology (ICT), Proactive Management and Business Excellence Models, among others.
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