All schools will now have to re-register through the Kenya Education Management Information System (KEMIS) as the government seeks to eliminate the threat of ghost schools.
Speaking during an interview on Egesa FM on Tuesday, August 5, Education Cabinet Secretary Migos Ogamba revealed investigations are ongoing to weed out all ghost schools; however, a more stringent strategy was needed to ensure such schools don't crop up again.
To ensure transparency and proper oversight, the ministry will deploy KEMIS, which will be used to register all legitimate schools and update existing data. ''Going forward, to solve the problem of ghost schools, it is to have all schools which had registered on NEMIS re-register at KEMIS, the new system, so that we have clean data,'' Ogamba explained.
Education CS Julius Ogamba during a retreat with Chairpersons of Councils of Public Universities in Mombasa on June 18, 2025.
