Question NW1986 to the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services
17 October 2016 - NW1986
Shinn, Ms MR to ask the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services
Did he institute any internal disciplinary actions against each (a) employee and (b) former employee, excluding the deputy directors-general, of his department who were involved with the Media Corner contract; if not, why not; if so, (i) how many of the specified persons were subjected to disciplinary actions, (ii) what was the nature of the charges against each such person, (iii) what is the status of each disciplinary process still underway and (iv) what was the outcome of each disciplinary action completed to date; 2. What is the current status of the civil proceedings instituted by his department against Media Corner?
Reply:
I have been advised by the Department as follows:-
1(a) Yes,
(b) Yes
(b) (i)10.
(b) (ii) Approving the issuing of a tender for a project based on flawed terms of reference, and failure to evaluate bids against the minimum qualifying score for the functionality in order to assess bids.
(iii) As yet incompleted .
(iv) One case was concluded and the employee was found guilty and a two (2) months suspension without pay was imposed.
2. The Media Corner matter is at the exchange of pleadings .