AS the investigations into the missing laptops at the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) Project continue, six staff members have been sent home with immediate effect to facilitate the completion of these investigations by the Guyana Police Force, the OLPF said in a release issued yesterday.
The missing 150 laptop computers were reportedly stolen from the OLPF’s warehouse on Forshaw Street, Queenstown, Georgetown.
The OLPF project was the brainchild of former President, Bharrat Jagdeo, and is aimed at bridging the digital divide between Guyana and the rest of the world. A target of 90,000 laptops is to be given out to families across the country during the life of the project.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, earlier this week, told media personnel that while the investigations are continuing, investigators have declined to provide day by day reports on their findings.
“They however insisted on completion of the investigation before information on the findings is provided to the management of the One Laptop Per Family programme,” he said.
The police will submit a formal report to the management of the OLPF once the investigations are completed.