Team recovering vehicles

By REBECCA KUKU
A TEAM of officers from the Finance Department and police are working to recover the 148 vehicles used during Apec in November last year and yet to be returned to the pool.
Finance Minister Rainbo Paita told The National yesterday that the 10-man team had recovered seven so far, leaving 141 “outstanding”.
“Of the 141 Apec vehicles still outstanding, some are still with the organisations which used them during the Apec Leaders’ Summit. They have not returned them,” he said.
“Some involved in accidents are damaged and still to be recovered.
“A few have gone missing.”
Paita said of the 148 vehicles, 80 were “low-end” and 68 “high-end”.
“There was a 14-day notice given for the cars to be returned but no one returned them.
“So now we have a team that will go out and get those vehicles,” he said.
“I’m not going to issue them another notice or deadline to return the vehicles.
“The team will go and retrieve the vehicles.”
Paita has also received a report on Apec which is now being audited by KPMG.
“Once the audit is completed, I will table the report in Parliament.”