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Enmore NDC raid…Opposition politicizing Enmore NDC raid – says SARU CEO
The Head of the State Asset Recovery Unit (SARU) Aubrey Heath-Retemyer has said that the
Aubrey Heath Retemyer, CEO SARU
Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is using its supporters as political pawns to foster an agenda.
Retemyer was of this view because of the way that party dealt with the issue of the seizure of 15 desktop computers and the eight back up devices from the Enmore Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC).
Retemyer said that his organization had dealt with similar issues at the Black Bush Polder and Port Mourant NDC’s. He said that when that party was in power it distributed a number of these computers to communities and there was little or no oversight to ensure that the state’s property is being properly used.
He said that SARU was not being the ‘big bad wolf’ but rather it was ensuring that the state’s resources are properly utilized. The SARU head said that at present systems are being put in place to ensure that these computers are accounted for and that communities are able to benefit as was the intention when they were gifted.
Last Thursday a number of officials from the State Asset Recovery Unit (SARU) and the E-Governance unit which has oversight of the government ICT assets descended on the NDC office and seized the computers and power packs after receiving information that there was a plan to sell them.
According to Aubrey Heath-Retemyer, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SARU, the computers as far as he knows, were gifted to that NDC by the E-Governance Unit during the tenure of the previous administration.
The NDC actually recorded in its minutes at a statutory meeting its intentions to sell the equipment.
The minutes dated 12th December, 2016 stated that “councillor Deochan enquired about the computers in the computer room, council made a decision to sell all the computers”; the minutes were subsequently signed by the chairman.
The Ministry of Public Telecommunication in a release confirmed that the computers are the property of the state.
The statement said that the computers were a donation from the Basic Needs Trust Fund and were intended for the use by the residents of the community. The statement went on to say that upon learning about the impending sale, steps were taken to prevent the illegal act.
The release also said that the computers will be returned to the Enmore community once it has been agreed that they would not be sold or otherwise disposed of.
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