The Hope/Enmore Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) is maintaining that the 15 computer systems that were seized by State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) were not government property and is calling their seizure an act of “executive lawlessness.”
NDC Vice-Chairman Mohammed Dawud, in a statement issued on behalf of the NDC on Friday night, denied that there was a plot to sell the computers to a councillor, as has been alleged by both SARU and the Public Telecommunications Ministry.
“There was no such plot and nothing clandestine or unlawful was intended,” the statement said. “The truth is that these computers are the property of the NDC. They are outdated and most of them were malfunctioning. As a result, a decision was taken by the NDC that these computers would be sold, if possible, and replaced by the NDC with a new complement, so that the community can continue to benefit from their use,” it added.