By Our Reporter
The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has reshuffled its Regional Directors (RDs) in what appears to be an attempt to delocalize the offices.
Several County Directors were also affected in the various TSC administrative decisions.
Under the new changes, Nyanza RD, Stephen Ajanga has been transferred from Nyanza to North-Eastern. He will be replaced by Jane Njagi who has been the Nairobi RD.
Coast RD, Victoria Muoka on the other hand will be heading to Nairobi to replace Njagi as Central RD, Juliet Kariuki moves to the Coast to take over from her.
Kariuki will be replaced by Elijah Omwenga who has been promoted to be the regional TSC boss. He has been the Nyeri TSC Director. And contrary to our earlier reporting, Alex Cheruiyot has been promoted and actually deployed to Eastern as RD and not NEP. He has been the Makueni director.
Education News has learnt that Olendo Onono who has been the Eastern RD has been recalled to the TSC headquarters for assignment of new duties.
RD positions were created by the TSC in order to coordinate activities of teacher management at the regional level. Under the new arrangement, County Directors report to the RDs unlike before when they used to report directly to the TSC Chief Executive Officer or at times the Director in charge of Staffing at the headquarters.
In recent months, the new positions have become powerful and holders of the dockets are known to hold significant clout and decide on teachers’ matters such as transfers, discipline, recruitment and deployment.
Also affected in the changes are direc
tors serving in a number of counties. They include Joe Atwota who has been the Deputy County Director in Siaya County who has now been promoted to full County boss and deployed to Samburu County in Rift Valley.
Atwota will be taking over from Geoffrey Chemos who goes to Uasin Gishu County in similar capacity. Chemos will replace Edward Mwanthi who now moves to take charge of Laikipia County.
Mwanthi will replace Nimrod Kimathi whose fate was not immediately known.
At the time of going to press, TSC was yet to name the directors for Nyeri and Baringo.
Other changes involved some Sub-County Directors. For instance, John Paul Wepoke who was in Lugari in Kakamega County. He has been transferred to Marakwet West in similar position. Brimin Rotich who has been the SCD at Kimilili in Bungoma County has been posted to Tinderet in Nandi County.
It has been established that more changes are expected in the coming week on a number of field offices. Education News will be at hand to update you.
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