BAMB loses vital data in IT system crash

Friday, November 12, 2010

* Crash delays external audit and accounts for the year ending March 2010
* Lack of controls blamed for the IT crash

The entire IT system for the Botswana Agricultural Marketing Board (BAMB), including the back up server, crashed on April 29, 2010, resulting in the loss of all data in the process. The data lost is from the month of September 2009. The annual report for the parastatal says the cause of the crash is still unknown.

As a result of the crash the external audit had been delayed and accounts for the year ending March 2010 were not yet available, says the report.

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* Lack of controls blamed for the IT crash