Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i landed in trouble after a software developer came out to protest the alleged theft of his idea.
Daniel Kimencu, 30, claimed that the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) project Dr Matiang'i commissioned during his tenure at the Ministry of Education (MoE) is his original idea.
Kimencu alleges that he holds the copyrights to the system yet MoE employees insist that they were the original innovators of the system.
"I never thought it would happen. They took advantage of our age and stole from us," he told Daily Nation in a past interview.
Kimencu and his team of developers have threated to seek legal redress if the ministry does not compensate and recognize their contribution.
Education Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang, who presided over the launch of NEMIS in January 2018, responded to the claims stating that the matter would be investigated.
Speaking from Nyeri County on Wednesday, Dr Kipsang stated: "I am aware and we are looking into it."
The PS further insisted that he had no involvement in the alleged theft of intellectual property and was hesitant to respond to the demands from Kimencu.
NEMIS is a portal that the ministry of education uses to collect information on students, teachers and schools, it was created in collaboration with the World Bank.
"The NEMIS data will be validated in a systematic manner. The first phase of NEMIS reform will ensure that every student in Kenya will have a six-character Unique Personal Identifier (UPI).
"No one else will be able to alter the data submitted online by the schools," Dr Matiang'i explained during a past event.
The system was designed to curb cheating.
