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Kenya: TSC Fully Constituted As New Officials Are Sworn in

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The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is now fully constituted following the swearing in of five new commissioners yesterday to fill in vacancies that had remained vacant since March.

The five are Dr Nicodemus Ojuma Anyang, Christine K Kahindi, Sharon Jelagat Kisire, Annceta G Wafukho and Salesa Adano Abudo. They were sworn in at a ceremony officiated by Chief Justice Martha Koome at the Supreme Court.

The CJ challenged the new appointees to uphold the law and ensure equity in education so that poor or vulnerable children are not disadvantaged.

“Use the opportunity availed by your appointment to do all you can to ensure that our education system does not leave any groups behind,” she said.

The five will assume office after their appointment by President Uhuru Kenyatta last week after vetting and approval of nomination by the National Assembly.

They were interviewed by a panel that President Kenyatta had appointed. The commissioners will serve for a non-renewable term of six years.

Two commissioners

The commission now has the nine commissioners as provided for in the Constitution. For a brief period early this year, it had only two commissioners after the terms of five others expired in March while the former chairperson, Lydia Nzomo, retired last year. The two commissioners were Mbage Njuguna Ng’ang’a and Leila A Ali, who were appointed last year.

In April, the President appointed Jamleck Muturi John, who is the chairman of the commission, and Timon Oyucho as member. TSC chief executive Nancy Macharia attended the ceremony alongside the other commissioners. She has been the CEO since 2015 and started her second and last five-year term last year.

The CEO is also the secretary of the commission and head of its secretariat, the accounting officer and custodian of its records. The approval process was fast-tracked at the request of Mr Kenyatta owing to the role of TSC in the implementation of the competency-based curriculum and the reorganised school calendar.

Education sector

“Conscious of the central role of the commission in the education sector and noting the unprecedented nature of the early learning and basic education calendar for the years 2020, 2021 and 2022, the President has requested the National Assembly to consider the nominees on a priority basis,” Justin Muturi, the speaker said when he presented the nominees for vetting and approval.