TSC CEO Nancy Macharia Faces Legal Scrutiny Over Sh.3B Salary Scandal
A Nairobi-based activist, Francis Awino, has initiated a legal battle against Nancy Macharia, the CEO of the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), regarding allegations of fund misappropriation within the TSC.
Awino is concerned that Macharia’s continued tenure as TSC CEO may result in financial losses for taxpayers due to questionable financial practices.
The accusations stem from a report by the Auditor General covering the period up to June 2021. The report implicates the TSC in a salary scandal amounting to Ksh. 3 billion, allegedly facilitated by Nancy Macharia.
This scandal involves overpayments to TSC staff despite a shortage of teachers. Additionally, the report reveals that Macharia failed to remit over Ksh. 2 billion in taxes deducted from staff.
The report also suggests that some of these financial discrepancies date back to historical issues, including the possibility of payments to ghost teachers between 1988 and 2000 when teachers were paid in cash rather than through banks.
According to the petition, it is alleged that Nancy Macharia advanced Ksh. 10.5 million in salary advances, some of which were undocumented, and others were not being recovered at all.
Additionally, an amount of Ksh. 4,264,665 owed to 145 staff has remained stagnant over the last twelve months, with no explanation provided by the TSC.
The petition also claims that the TSC failed to clarify how it overpaid staff by Ksh. 352 million, some of which has remained unrecovered for several years, with certain teachers being overpaid by as much as Ksh. 33 million. Furthermore, it alleges that over 5000 TSC staff are non-tax compliant, with taxes totaling Ksh. 2.2 billion never remitted to the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).
Additionally, the Auditor General’s report alleges that the TSC paid a total of Ksh. 1 billion to nonexistent schools from the Free Primary Education (FPE) fund, with Ksh. 919 million purportedly channeled to various primary schools not registered in the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS).
TSC CEO Nancy Macharia Faces Legal Scrutiny Over Sh.3B Salary Scandal
