The National Assembly Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is now seeking a comprehensive audit of the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS), amid Auditor General's queries on lack of ownership and controls.
The committee, led by Butere MP Tindi Mwale, also questioned the need to move from NEMIS to Kenya Education Management Information System (KEMIS), even as the Government prepares to pilot the new system starting next month.
According to the audit report for the year ending June 30, 2023, an amount of Sh239.7 million was spent on re-engineering of NEMIS under the Primary Education Development (PRIEDE) project.
The scope of work for NEMIS strengthening installation of one of the servers at a secondary site on an existing Government cloud infrastructure, to enable the server harness the existing resources of the cloud, such as processing and storage capabilities, load balancing, intelligent system monitoring, system scalability, data security and business continuity.
