Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and
procedures are controls and other procedures that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our reports filed
or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s
rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information
required to be disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management,
including our Chief Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
As required by paragraph
(b) of Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our Chief Executive Officer carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of
the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2024.
The Company identified
errors in the accounting for a settlement agreement entered into with a vendor. Therefore, the Company restated it’s unaudited
condensed financial statements as of and for the period ended March 31, 2024. Based on the evaluation, and further supported by the error
identified and associated restatement, our Chief Executive Officer and Principal Financial Officer concluded that, due to the material
weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting previously identified in Item 9A, “Controls and Procedures” of
our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 and filed with the SEC on April 15, 2024, as amended on April
29, 2024 our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at the reasonable assurance level as of March 31, 2024.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial
Reporting
We are implementing certain
measures to remediate the material weaknesses identified in the design and operation of our internal control over financial reporting,
including hiring additional qualified personnel, further documentation and implementation of control procedures and the implementation
of control monitoring. Other than those measures, there have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as such
term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended March 31, 2024 that have materially
affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. that have materially affected,
or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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