Ibrahim Mumin who is also the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Director for Administrative Services has been appointed as the Chief Executive Officer and Secretary for the Commission to replace Nancy Macharia in acting capacity.
Yesterday Mr Mumin appeared in Parliament in place of Nancy Macharia after Senator Onyonka questioned KNEC’s alleged decision to stop 32 teachers from marking 2024 KCSE.
Onyonka said the teachers’ removal amounted to victimisation.
Dr. Nancy Njeri Macharia who has served at the helm of the Commission for a decade will leave office on March for a terminal leave ahead of her retirement in July 2025.
Ms Macharia took over the Commission from Gabriel Lengoibon, who retired in June 2015, after emerging as the best.
Her appointment followed the conclusion of a competitive recruitment process that started on May 1, 2015, when the position was advertised and attracted 69 applicants of which four were shortlisted.
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.
Born in Murang’a in 1963 Ms Macharia became the first female CEO of the commission since its inception.
She holds a Master of Education (Policy and Management) degree from Bristol University, UK and a Bachelor of Education degree in English/Literature from Kenyatta University.
After graduating from Kenyatta University with a Bachelor of Education in English/Literature in 1987 she started working at Kahuhia Girls’ Secondary in Murang’a, where she remained for five years until she was promoted to deputy head teacher at Kianderi Girls’ Secondary in the same county.
Mrs. Macharia is credited for automating teacher services hence making things easier for teachers.
Automated services include Tpay (Payroll), Leave, Casualty (Entry/Exit), Recruitment, TPAD, EDMS, Wealth Declaration and now Pension.
In 2014, she was awarded the Order of Grand Warrior by former President Uhuru Kenyatta for her contribution to development in and outside her workplace.
She was a member of the team that steered the national integrated data system for TSC, including negotiating and getting funding from the World Bank.
In her CV, Ms. Macharia has listed travelling, gym, music, farming and assisting the less fortunate as some of her hobbies. Nancy Macharia Biography.