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Date: 06:12 06/10 2009

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IT WAS a case of the missing CPUs and computer monitors at the Justice Ministry, valued at $435,000 that sapped the energies of members of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday, as they tried unsuccessfully to get answers from Permanent Secretary Robert Rainford to what appeared to be a complex puzzle.

The PAC members wanted to know how seven monitors and six CPUs could be taken from a storage area on the second floor of the building, which had limited access to staff.

Youth programme donation

Committee members were told that the computers were a donation from a non-governmental entity to assist a youth empowerment programme.

Rainford told the committee that the computers went missing in July 2008 and the ministry approached the commissioner of police in an effort to get a speedy investigation into the matter.

However, he told the committee that, to date, the police have not made a breakthrough in the investigation.

Quizzed about how many persons had access to the storage area, Rainford could not provide an answer.

The permanent secretary was also unable to say when the computers were last seen in the storage facility. He did not know how many computers the ministry had received for the programme.

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