For­mer Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter and ret’d Brig Gen­er­al John Sandy says he was alarmed to hear re­cent re­ports al­leg­ing that ap­prox­i­mate­ly 25,573 rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion were miss­ing but hopes the mat­ter can be set­tled and made pub­lic to ease the na­tion’s con­cerns.

Sandy served as the De­fence Force’s Chief of De­fence Staff (CDS) from 2000 to 2002 and was ap­point­ed as Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter in 2010 by the then Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship coali­tion gov­ern­ment be­fore he was ap­point­ed as the per­ma­nent rep­re­sen­ta­tive for T&T to the Unit­ed Na­tions (UN) Of­fice, Gene­va, Switzer­land, in 2012.

Ac­cord­ing to me­dia re­ports last week, the miss­ing am­mu­ni­tion was re­vealed dur­ing an au­dit at the Cu­mu­to Bar­racks ear­li­er in Feb­ru­ary.