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 219

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