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    "id": 1380626,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1380626/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ezekiel Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
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        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": "We have 32,000 primary schools, over 11,000 secondary schools and over 500 Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) institutions countrywide. We also have over 70 universities. As the Cabinet Secretary for Education, there is a structure. If you decide that you want to cover every primary school in this country or you want to cover every secondary school, it is not humanly possible. What I have done in the Ministry of Education is to create an environment where the officers are able to work and deliver. I thank the Members of this House because you assisted me in that effort. We have provided transport to a number of your constituencies in the sub-counties and the few that we have not given, we are giving them vehicles and Appropriations-in-Aid (A-in-A) so that they can move around doing the work which is supposed to be done. Equally, those that have not received vehicles will receive them. We are also creating a system in such a way that regional county directors of education, country directors of education and quality assurance officers will understand their mandate. At the ministerial level as a Cabinet Secretary, when I am overseeing the entire country and getting reports on a daily basis, I am sure my people are working because it is through those people that the impact of the Cabinet Secretary can be felt everywhere in the country. It is through them that whatever policies the Government has in matters of education can for sure be achieved. Before the establishment of National Education Management Information System (NEMIS), you know the kind of problem we had because we were operating manually. This is the same problem that we are having in TVET institutions and universities. But with digitalisation, we are coming up with a system which we are going to call the Kenya Education Management Information System (KEMIS) covering every level of education right from basic, primary, junior school, senior school all the way to TVET institutions and universities. In four months’ time, we should be able to roll out that system where we will capture the data of every individual. It is that particular information that will take him all the way from primary to university. The NEMIS has helped us to a large extent. We insisted that in order for one to be registered under NEMIS, he had to have a birth certificate. There are parts of this country, as you are aware, where a number of our young ones have not obtained that particular document and, hence, it also has few problems. Not all the people are registered under that system and this denies them the opportunity of accessing capitation."
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