Calls are growing for Teachers Service Commission (TSC) CEO and Secretary Dr. Nancy Njeri Macharia to leave office as teachers are planning to storm TSC offices in Upper Hill, Nairobi #OccupyTSC.
On Saturday and Sunday Gen Z, activists and teachers took to social media a campaign for her to vacate office after she oversaw massive corruption in teacher employment at the Commission.
Macharia is also accused of mistreating teachers during her period as well as killing their giant union Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT).
Some teachers say Macharia stopped recognizing their Diplomas and Degrees from January 2014 hence causing job stagnation and low morale.
Since 2022 when President William Ruto took office, politicians aligned to his side including MPs and Cabinet Secretaries have been seen dishing out TSC employment letters to teachers publicly in funerals and harambees.
Latest one was done by former Education CS Ezekiel Machogu in Kisii county which sparked social media protest.
TSC has not been conducting teacher replacement interviews to allow the replacement of teachers on merit.
The slots are left for politicians to fill. Some teachers who graduated later are given opportunities than those who graduated earlier.
The politicians do not consider merit in employment by checking things like year of graduation, grades scored, age or if the teacher was interned.
One activist Gabriel Oguda said on X, “Nancy Macharia Mackenzie should resign immediately. She has allowed corruption in TSC by giving MPs employment letters to give their relatives and girlfriends. Nancy must go or we occupy TSC. We are clearing this country”.
Nancy Macharia who is serving on a ten year term is supposed to leave office on 30th June 2025.
She was born in Murang’a in 1963. She took over from Gabriel Lengoiboni who retired on June 30th, 2015
Ms Macharia is the 9th Commission Secretary/CEO after Mr Jesse Muhoro (1967 to 1974), Mr James Kamunge (1974 to 1977), Mr Duncan Mwangi (1978 to 1980), Mr Joseph Lijembe (1980 to 1982), Mr Jackson Kang’ali (1982 to 1998), Benjamin Sogomo (1998 to 2003), Mr James Ongwae (2003 to 2004) and her predecessor Mr Gabriel K Lengoiboni.
Macharia who is now 61 years old maybe forced to resign after President Ruto ordered public servants aged 60 years and over to retire.