The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) was upbraided by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament yesterday for allowing the Port Kaituma Hospital project to continue without a bond in place to protect public funds.
The ministry’s engineer Bruce Wills had related to the committee that after the expiry of the mobilization bond for the site development works in March 2016, there had been a renewal, but the bond expired again two weeks ago.
The Auditor General’s 2015 report, which the PAC is examining, stated that five contracts totalling $158.231 million were awarded by the National Procurement and Tender Administration