Emergency $19M purchase for National Intelligence Centre still to be delivered 17 months after

The Ministry of the Presidency has not yet received $19.108 million worth of emergency CCTV system supplies, paid for in full since December, 2015, for the National Intelligence Centre using monies from the Contingency Fund.

This was revealed yesterday at a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing, which was also told that that the supplier, California-based company Moonblink Communications, has declared bankruptcy.

Pressed by PAC Chair-man Irfaan Ali on the resort to the Contingency Fund for the purchase, the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary (PS) Abena Moore stated that such monies are