According to the Defendant, there were Specific Ministries that received
Allocation of Funds on a Monthly Basis and when questioned on what type of
Instruments effect the release of Allocations, he could not remember the
Person who Signed, the Date, the Author and where the Instruments were as
he did not keep control of Government Documents.
Under Cross Examination, the Defendant stated that he stood by his
Statements in Exhibits Z4 to Z6. He only started receiving Security Votes
during the last Three or Four Years of his Eight Years Administration and he
needed to be guided by the Records from Government House as he could not
remember whether it was the last three or four years of his First or Last
Tenure in Office.
He considered it a possibility that during his Tenure in Office, there were
Budgets on Security Votes from 1999 to 2007 and he needed to be guided by
the Records from Government House and not from the Budget Office to
know when they started receiving Security Funds adding that not all Funds
budgeted for were Cash Spent.
By all indications, the Defendant was the Sole Accounting Officer for the
Security Funds and despite his uncertainty as to whether he signed Exhibit
PP, he tacitly claimed authorship of this Letter when he stated that as of the
16th of December 2005, there were no more Misconceptions because there
was an Officer who takes Charge of Security Funds.
By his own Statement before the Court, he has thrown one individual by
name, Mr. Hilkiah Bubajoda into the Mix. This individual was not a Civil
Servant but his Senior Special Assistant and a Political Appointee. More
interestingly, he stated that Mr. Bubajoda had a Register showing the
disbursement of Funds.
This Statement of the Defendant is very strange indeed. He had in Exhibit Z6
stated that he usually directed his Dispensation or Security Funds to be
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