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A FROG IN THE WELL SYNDROME: There is an age old saying that 'The higher the MONKEY climbs the TREE, more of his BUTT you'll see.' The unpalatable characterization neatly sums up Khaiyum's climb to power

6/12/2017

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"People are commenting [on social media] on comments without even checking out the facts. If somebody says today a frog has eaten a horse, then people will start commenting, "Oh my God what color was the frog?" as opposed to actually checking out the fact if the frog had eaten the horse or not. And frankly, you can verify those facts very, very easily." - Khaiyum

In his keynote address at the International Anti-Corruption Day celebrations in Suva, Aiyaz Khaiyum stated that there is a culture in Fiji of people commenting on social media posts without verifying their facts. It was vital, he said, that people addressed issues in a factual manner instead of just basing their information on rumors.

Fijileaks: In the last five years we have presented to him and the world a series of factual stories (including our Founding Editor-in-Chief VICTOR LAL informing him in 2008 that his fellow Interim Finance Minister Mahendra Pal Chaudhry was hiding $2million in Australia) but like our analogy of the FROG and the MONKEY, he not only makes no effort to verify our facts but condescendingly dismisses them, and ensures through his media decree that these revelations remain hidden from Fiji's local media readers. Why didn't he, as a lawyer, and a fellow Muslim, make any effort to verify the credentials of the Islamic cleric scholar and 'barrister' Zain Siddiqi? Since 2011, he has been hob-nobbling with Siddiqi at Indo-Fijian Muslim gatherings. Has he now issued a banning order against Siddiqi? Since when has he woken up to preach about transparency and accountability? What about the Auditor-Generals Reports? What about the Ministerial Salaries? What about the Prime Minister's Cyclone Winston Funds? The list is endless, and Fijians like the FROG IN THE WELL, are struggling to get the facts out from him

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BUT THE FROG STILL BELIEVES THAT IT IS
KING OF THE WELL (Raja!)

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