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    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I appreciate this opportunity. First, I want to appreciate Hon. Melly and the Departmental Committee on Education for expeditiously answering to an issue that is of national concern. We have to identify the two issues here. One, that squarely falls on the administration in the Ministry and the second one, that is purely a systems issue that has to do with technologies and the teething problems in a technology. What is necessary is for the Ministry to be extremely forthright because, systems are just like infrastructural installations. For example, a road can only take up so much traffic at any given time. That is the same with bandwidth. If you have a conduit or a channel that is digital, it is only able to carry so much traffic at any given time. If systems are crowded, clustered or jammed, the Ministry just needs to admit that there is a capacity issue that can be addressed technically. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I also wanted to ride on the Statement that has been presented to bring up the issue that is also facing KUCCPS, lower cadres of education, secondary and primary school. It also has a technological element to it. The Chairman is aware that our students are normally registered on the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS), and for you to be boarded onto NEMIS, you are required to have a birth certificate and registered at school. All of us in this House know that there are families upon families that have never collected their birth certificates. When we appropriate money in Parliament, we normally take into account the entire student component. Where does the money for capitation that is allocated to children who do not have birth certificates and are not registered under the NEMIS go? The Ministry claims the entire allocation, however, they only disburse capitation to children who are on-boarded to the NEMIS platform. If you go to schools, you may find that three-quarters of the students are not on-boarded to the NEMIS platform. Where does the remainder of the money that is allocated to children who are not registered under the NEMIS go? That is a question that we, as the budgeting House, should get an answer to."
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