Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday stated that the much-vaunted $3.1 billion E-Governance fibre-optic cable project is in need of remedial work while adding that over $1 billion has already been spent.
The project had been initiated and championed by the Bharrat Jagdeo administration even though critics had raised a number of concerns about the burying of the cable and the use of the Chinese firm Huawei, among other issues. In recent months, government officials have not said anything about the long-delayed project.
When questioned yesterday, Luncheon said that he could not provide an exact figure of the project’s up-to-date cost but that “it has cost a pretty penny…
