The Commission on Administrative Justice and popularly known as the Ombudsman is investigating Teachers Service Commission over alleged gross irregularities and indiscriminate recruitment of senior managers, their deputies and commissioners at the commission.
Investigations by CAJ chaired by Florence Kajuju comes in the wake of a petition filed by Pauline Mumbua.
The petition dated November 23 claims that the appointment of senior managers and the commissioners at TSC favours one region and does not, therefore, reflect the face of Kenya, contrary to the constitution and the National Cohesion and Integration Act of 2008.
The petition which was copied to the Director of Criminal Investigation George Kinoti and the Director of Public Prosecution Noordin Haji claims that of the 11 senior managers at the TSC, five are from Mt Kenya, two from Rift Valley and Nyanza with the rest shared by the other regions, The petition lists CEO Nancy Macharia, Rita Wahome (director staffing), Reuben Mugwuku (director quality assurance), Charles Gichira (director ICT) and Isaak Ng’ang’a (director internal audit) as from Mt Kenya.
They all hold plum positions. Wahome’s office of staffing is plum and she is part of the cartel minting millions of shillings from teachers looking for transfers and those unemployed. Ng’ang’a’s name features prominently in tendering scandals revolving around insurance of teachers that runs into billions of shillings.
The manner in which Mugwuku landed the plum director quality assurance is the talk at headquarters.
Other commissioners distributed in other region are Kennedy Mulunda (deputy commission secretary), Cheptumo Ayabei (director, finance), Ibrahim Mumin (director, administrative services), Julius Olayo (director HRM and D), Mary Rotich director (field services) and Calvin Anyuor (legal, labour and industrial relations). Ayabei although not from Mount Kenya, is said to be part of the powerful cartel at TSC. Mugwuku names features prominently in recent lucrative of award of multibillions training of teachers programme.
“It is unlawful for a person to discriminate against another in the arrangements he makes for the purpose of determining who should be offered that employment,” states part of the petition.
“Whereas the commissioners and senior managers are supposed to reflect the face of Kenya, the current composition at TSC gives a different picture,” Mumbua’s petition reads.
Section 7 of the Act provides for ethnic diversity in staffing of public entities and that all public establishments shall seek to represent the diversity of the people of Kenya in the employment of staff.
The law further goes on to state that no public establishment shall have more than one third of its staff from the same ethnic community.
“When you take a close look at the composition of senior managers and commissioners at the TSC, it is evident that Mount Kenya region is favoured as it has the lion’s share,” says Mumbua.
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