Trans Nzoia County Chief Officers who were drawn from the teaching profession are facing the hardest career future after their County jobs contracts expired on January 10, 2026.
This comes after the County Public Service Board (CPSB) declared positions of all the other departments vacant and invited for applications for interviews, except for three COs Emmanuel Masungo of Finance, Dorothy Nyukuri of Water and Judith Simiyu of Health.
It is reported that CPSB in consultations with Governor Natembeya has split and created new departments, raising the number to 18. For example Education department has been reorganized to create for the Vocational Training, Irrigation was added to the Agriculture department as Livestock and Cooperative department become independent ministries.
The new departments include Procurement and Accounting Service; Tourism, Culture and Talent; and Performance Management.
In the advertisement circulated in the social media, the CPSB has put strict qualifications including 10 years of experience in the relevant fields, five of which should have been covered in the senior management, raising questions as to whether or not they will attain the prospective candidates.
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It was not immediately established whether or not the exiting COs were asked to re-apply but inside sources divulged that the board was looking for new brooms, where the outgoing officials had been found to be compromising in the service delivery.
The CPSB advertisement read in part: “the contract is tied to the reminder of the tenure of the current county government”.
Among the teacher Chief Officers to be affected in the new roll out for the jobs include Dr Roselyne Nasiebada, Kennedy Etyang, Simon Sichangi and Jane Masika. Another teacher who will be escaping the shocker is the Chief of Staff Dickson Wamocho by the virtue of being a direct appointment of the governor.
But as the CPSB seeks to replace the COs, the board formally chaired by Peter Wamocho doesn’t have members whose contracts expired late last year and a panel appointed by Natembeya to institute the board is the rush to complete the recruitment exercise. The questions abound: in the absence of the accounting officers, who will stand in to execute the daily roles of the COs ? How long will the exercise take to be finalized without legal interruptions? An affected COs described the situation as complicated and wondered how some of his colleagues would be able to pay for the loans and mortgages that covered for five years “except for engineers and doctors who can easily move on”.
Internal reports has also revealed that the county government can source for external services before the appointments of the accounting officers is completed.
And as the relationship between the local MCAs and Natembeya continues to widen, questions were also being asked whether the County Assembly could comfortably approve the nominees the CPSB will have passed.
Also on the brink of the expiry of the performance contract is the county Attorney general Charles Wabwoba who was inherited from the previous administration of Governor Patrick Khaemba. In November 2025,Natembeya led an exercise of renewing of performance contracts of senior officers that included CEC members and directors of departments warning of dire action for whoever will not have met the targets.
By Abisai Amugune
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