Minister orders audit of $60 million project

The Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion and Ar­ti­fi­cial In­tel­li­gence, Do­minic Smith, is warn­ing the Op­po­si­tion that an in­de­pen­dent au­dit has been or­dered in­to what he de­scribed as a ques­tion­able project un­der the for­mer ad­min­is­tra­tion that was set to cost tax­pay­ers over USD 60 mil­lion.

Speak­ing late on Fri­day evening as the Sen­ate de­bat­ed the Fi­nance Bill 2025, Smith said he un­cov­ered a list of ex­pen­di­ture items that caused him great con­cern.

“One par­tic­u­lar project, Mr Pres­i­dent, was par­celled nice and neat as an up­grade un­der the Min­istry of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion. I am told, Mr Pres­i­dent, that this project has been run­ning for over 24 years,” he told the Up­per House.