{"id":1380780,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1380780/?format=json","text_counter":604,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Ezekiel Machogu","speaker_title":"The Cabinet Secretary for Education","speaker":{"id":13458,"legal_name":"Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki","slug":"ezekiel-machogu-ombaki"},"content":" Thank you very much. Let me start with the last question. Thank you very much for raising it. I want to assure the Members of this House and Kenyans as a whole that I am very much aware of this problem. Technology sometimes fails us. Like in this particular aspect, technology has been failing us. I have a team that includes representatives from the Ministry and KUCCPS, as well as the Principal Secretary for the State Department for ICT and Digital Economy, Mr. Tanui; the Principal Secretary for the State Department for Citizen Services, Prof. Bitok; and the Konza team. I usually receive reports every morning. If you were to check my phone, you would see the kind of reports I have received. That is why I have given an extension up to 4th March 2024. I am being given reports on a daily basis and I hope the engineers and experts in ICT will sort out this particular problem for us so that, our students can successfully apply. I am monitoring the situation and by 4th March 2024, I will assess how many applications have gone through. In case there will be any that might have not gone through, I will make another informed decision depending on the way things will be and the information that I will have received."}