Activists Launch a Case Questioning Nancy Macharia’s Service Term
Activists Launch a Case Questioning Nancy Macharia’s Service Term. An activist claims that Nancy Macharia’s term as CEO of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) terminated in February of this year due to her advanced age and has launched a lawsuit asking for the appointment of a new CEO.
Actor Francis Owino asks the High Court Judge Lawrence Mugambi to decide that Dr. Macharia’s ongoing leadership is unlawful because she has allegedly attained retirement age in his appeal.
He asserts that Macharia’s term ought to have ended in February of this year.
He claims, however, that Macharia’s employment as TSC CEO was extended in July 2020 for an additional five years in the same court filing.
Gabriel Lengoibon, who stepped down in June 2015 after winning the competition, was succeeded by Macharia.
After a difficult screening process that started on May 1, 2015, when the position was announced and 69 applicants applied, four were chosen for further consideration.
After Jesse Muhoro (1967–1974), James Kamunge (1974–1977), Duncan Mwangi (1978–1980), Joseph Lijembe (1982–1982), Jackson Kang’ali (1982–1998), Benjamin Sogomo (1998–2003), James Ongwae (2003–2004), and her predecessor, Gabriel K Lengoiboni, Ms. Macharia is the ninth Secretary/CEO of the Commission.
She was the first female CEO of the commission since it was established.
The respondent’s five-year term was extended in July 2020, which was supposed to be the end of her stay in office. “According to the petitioner, the respondent’s term expires in February 2023,” asserts Owino.
The commission continued it till 2020 after the first term finished. Owino has enlisted the assistance of both the instructors’ employer and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission in this matter. According to the protester, Macharia’s detention was unjustly prolonged.
“The petitioners aver that there was an illegal, unlawful, and irregular extension and subsequent re-appointment of the respondent as CEO and Secretary of the TSC,” says he.
Owino hasn’t brought a lawsuit, but he thinks that the education committee members are utterly silent regarding her tenure. He asserts that Macharia was born in 1963 and is now of retirement age.
Since the respondent was born on May 11, 1963, she has attained the legal retirement age of 60 and is, thus, eligible for retirement. He asserts that the respondent is currently around 61 years old.
According to Owino, Cabinet Secretary Aisha Jumwa of the Ministry of Public Service, Gender, and Affirmative Affairs reportedly canceled all requests for term extensions for all public civil servants over the age of 60 on February 16 of this year.
He is also asking for a court order to stop Macharia from continuing to run the commission.