By NATION REPORTERAN attempt by officials from the Ministry of Technology and Science to hoodwink the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) into accepting delays by some suppliers for some construction projects by furnishing them with “fake” exculpatory letters was yesterday thwarted by the committee.Committee members found that the letters which were purported to have come from different contractors were similar in many ways, an indication that they were written by the same person.This was when Ministry of Technology and Science officials, led by Permanent Secretary, Brilliant Habeenzu, appeared before the committee to answer queries for the defunct Ministry of Higher Education arising from the 2020 Auditor General’s report.The Ministry of Higher Education engaged 10 suppliers for a contract sum of US$10, 631, 846 to supply, deliver, instal, commission and train key staff on the use of the equipment for 18 training institutions.Although the suppliers had delivered various equipment worth US$10, 187, 739 between July 2020 and […]
PAC exposes ministry’s fake suppliers’ letters
