The lax security for items purchased for the public sector was highlighted during a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing last week Monday, when it was heard that more than US$18,000 worth of items were purchased and received for the Synthetic Track months before the stores were actually established, and more than US$3,000 worth of that equipment cannot be found.
The missing equipment, a Seiko Track and Field Electronic System and a Starting Gun valued at US$2,985 and US$159, respectively, according to the Auditor General’s 2015 report, were received by Department of Culture, Youth and Sport officials but the items were never entered into the register, Education Ministry Permanent Secretary (PS) Melissa Tucker told the PAC.
Tucker, updating the committee, said that she had received