– education ministry pursuing litigation
Two years after paying a contractor $18.5 million to supply equipment for technical/vocational projects, the Ministry of Education is still to receive the equipment or a refund of the payment, the latest Auditor General’s Report reveals.
“In 2008, the ministry entered into a contract for the supply of equipment for technical/vocational projects in the sum of $18.470 million. However, the contractor failed to honour the terms of the agreement, even though the ministry had paid over the full contract sum,” the Auditor General said in his report. The equipment ordered,