MRDC - Mineral Resources Development Company: Trustee of the People's Resources of Papua New Guinea

Wednesday 2nd March 2011: Port Moresby, NCD

MRDC Assists National Fraud and Anti-Corruption Squad - Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary

Mineral Resources Development Company (MRDC) Ltd understands the hardship being faced by the National Fraud and Anti –Corruption Division of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary and today assisted the Squad with desktop computers and a laptop under the company’s Public Relations Program. The assistance included four desktop bundles including personnel computers and monitors and a laptop and other accessories include colour printers worth over K10,000. The laptops will be used by the director of squad while the computers will be for office support services.

Managing Director Mr Augustine Mano and General Manager –Commercial Mr Clifford Kasi made the presentation on behalf of MRDC. Mr Mano said the National Fraud and Anti –Corruption Division works under difficult circumstances and most times two officers are sharing a computer thus delaying jobs

National Fraud Squad and Anti Corruption Division Director Timothy Gitua (left) officially receives the computers, computer accessories and a laptop from MRDC Managing Director Mr Augustine Mano (right) and General Manager Commercial Clifford Kasi as staff from the Division look on. Picture Courtesy of MRDC Public Affairs.

“MRDC knows that our assistance is small but it will go a long way to ease the burden of the police fraud squad officers who share computers to do their jobs,” Mr Mano said. “We have witnessed ourselves that the Division works under difficult circumstances trying to cover the whole country with limited resources.”

“As a leading corporate company in the country, MRDC will continue to look at how we will assist the National Fraud and Anti –Corruption Division Police better do their in the future again.” National Fraud and Anti –Corruption Division Director, Detective Inspector Timothy Gitua thanked MRDC for the assistance and said it was timely as it would ease the burden on the existing machines that are shared by the 35 officers that work under him.

He also commended MRDC for seeing firsthand the hardship that the directorate goes through to ensure that the whole country was served. Mr Gitua also said that with the rising fraud and corruption cases, the computers and the laptop would ensure that there were reports filed on time and stored safely.

He said a recent meeting of police officers was told that half of the country’s budget was lost through systematic fraud and the value of money stolen through fraud had tripled over the past couple of years. “What MRDC has given will help us address these chronic problems and ensure we attended to them and filed reports professionally,” he said.