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Missing OLPF laptops…Lie-detector tests fail to identify the culprits
Lie detector tests to determine who stole 100 laptops from a special government programme have failed to find the thieves, Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon said on Thursday.
Dr. Roger Luncheon
Last August, 100 laptops bought under the One laptop Per Family (OLPF) project disappeared from the project’s Queenstown, Georgetown office. The Criminal Investigations Department of the Police was called in.
To date, no one has been arrested and according to Dr. Luncheon, the result from the lie-detector test “has not really allowed us to put our finger on the actual thief who disappeared with 100 laptops.”
The Cabinet Secretary said that on the basis of the investigation by the police and the result from the lie-detector test “we haven’t got any closer to identifying who specifically is or was the thief.”
Kaieteur News was told that all the people who came under suspicion took the test and the response of quite a few of them “generated considerable doubts in the minds of the analyst.”
Dr. Luncheon said that the investigation hasn’t reached to the point where officials can pinpoint anyone. He explained that the probe is ongoing.
The OLPF is meant to distribute 90,000 computers to poor families who cannot afford one over a three-year period.
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