A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES: Judge Kumar shamelessly issues rulings in Sangam case despite conflict of interest and Minister Akbar - the new "Aunty Make-Up" breaks parking law with immunity

A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES: Judge Kumar shamelessly issues rulings in Sangam case despite conflict of interest and Minister Akbar - the new "Aunty Make-Up" breaks parking law with immunity - this time in Ba town

16/4/2017

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HEALTH Minister Rosy Akbar's Ministerial Car was photographed parked close to the pedestrian crossing in Ba last Thursday, in front of Chands restaurant. The ministerial car should be three metres away from the crossing line; many drivers in Ba have been slapped with fines for parking similarly in the same bay but she is breaking the parking law for she is above the LAW in Bainimarma-Khaiyum's FFP Fiji:

CONFLICT OF INTEREST but like Rosy Akbar the serial parking law breaker, this JUDGE Kamal Kumar does not care about perceived or real conflict of interest. He has stopped all meetings of Sangam Fiji that were scheduled to be held in Labasa at the weekend. Justice Kamal Kumar is

(a) the current President of the second Sangam organisation in Fiji, The Dhakshina Andra Sangam of Fiji - this Sangam is rival to TISI Sangam;
(b) Sangam Fiji had filed an application before Justice Kumar a few weeks ago, asking the Judge to recuse himself from hearing all Sangam related cases based on the above "conflict of interest";
(c) Justice Kumar heard the appeal and said a ruling will be made on notice;
(d) Last Friday's decision handed down by Justice Kumar was made pending the Judges' decision on his recusal application;
(e) Last year Justice Kumar ruled in favour of Praveen Bala in the case against TISI Sangam executives; and now:

Justice Kamal Kumar's Sangam is planning to build a primary school:

Dakshina India Andhra Sangam of Fiji plans to build a Primary school in Nadi.

This has been revealed Dakshina India Andhra Sangam of Fiji National President, Justice Kamal Kumar at their Annual General Meeting during the Andhra Convention in Nadi today.

He says that at this stage Andhra Sangam is looking to buy property in Nadi and Suva, on which to build the school.

Justice Kumar adds that as Andhra Sangam has a school in Sigatoka, Lautoka, Ba, Tavua and Rakiraki and will now look to having a school in Nadi.

Justice Kumar has also commended the committee members for their hard work and continued commitment.

He says that through their commitment and hard work, there have been able to add a 3-classroom building at Lautoka Andhra Sangam College with the assistance from the Japanese Embassy.

The Japanese Embassy donated $176,000 to build the classrooms in Lautoka.

Justice Kumar adds that Andhra Sangam is now currently trying to build a 4-classroom building at Olosara Andhra College in Sigatoka.

He says that now, Andhra Sangam will continue to do what it is supposed to do, with their voluntary service and try to improve the facilities they have in their schools.

Dakshina India Andhra Sangam of Fiji currently has 2 Colleges and 5 primary schools across the Country. Source: Fijivillage News, 14 April 2017

And FFP government has also announced the building of $1.6million Bau Central College which will be ready by January next year. Fijileaks: The Government's priority should be to rebuild Cyclone Winston damaged schools first, and then new schools, for students are still studying in tents. There are, after all, enough schools in Nausori: Lelean, Sila Secondary, Vunimono High School, Shreedar Secondary, Noco Secondary, Dilkusha High, Baulevu High, ACS, and Nausori High (converted to technical college). Is the decision motivated by politics and coming election, to build a school in Mokani, Bau tikina?

The contract to build the Bau Central College has been awarded to Super Construction, owned by a FFP donor Sunil Sharma of Golden Point Resort, Ra

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Fiji First Party

16/4/2017 10:35:51 pm

A Judge being squint eyed to blind when it comes to conflict of interests is totally unacceptable. It is a bad precedent and a bad karma. This judge must resign.

Conflict of Interests – is a reoccurring phenomena and a worrisome issue in Fiji and has been for a very long time. Our understanding of it or lack thereof – has now assumed an importance of vital national interests. We request Fiji law schools to bring awareness and generate discourse, publications and activism on this important subject – which goes to the very core of jurisprudence, of ethics, of morals and of professional integrity of being a member of the esteemed legal fraternity. Non observance of conflict of interests – is mother of all Corruption.

We have often seen our ‘Minister of Everything’ (and a pitiable IP thief), Khaiyum and our ‘Chairman of Everything’ Kodagoda, arrogantly careless about what constitute a conflict of interests. They are both corrupt as STINK. But we can’t have one, like them, on the bench –certainly not!

Chiku

16/4/2017 10:37:39 pm

Become a minister in Bai and Khai's " true" democratic government and become above the law. Become a regime lackey ( like this judge ) and become above the law. That's why crooked people have gravitated to the Bai-Khai regime. The law does not apply to them. They have made a mockery of the rule of law in the country.
What a rotten lot!

Gulong

17/4/2017 03:21:35 am

The attack against the TISI Sangam is part of a general strategy by Bainimarama and Khaiyum, a strategy revealed by Khaiyum in his Master's thesis and further refined by regime change specialists, the American Qirvis PR firm of spin artists. The strategy is to break up institutions like the Council of Chiefs, the Methodist Church, the TISI Sangam and so forth as according to Khaiyum's belief, they perpetuate a culture and identity for its members that he and Bainimarama see as perpuating of values, ideals and motivations such as a racial consciousness that brought about the political conflicts and coups of the past. This is the essence of the Bai'Khsi revolution that Bai boasted about in one of his addresses to the United Nations General Assembly. The aim of the strategy is, to create a "new man." Bai and Khai want to create a new generation of culturally neutral citizens. This is the new Fiji that they want and all institutions who are seen as purveyors of the old values need to be destroyed or reformed. Khaiyum had been vocal as a student against the Fiji Muslim League in his famous polemic against its leaders for being self seeking and self indulgent. With the number of Madarasdia's, fundamentalist schools where Islam is taught by rote learning to young biots, springing up in Ba,Tavua,, Labasa and Lautoka funded by Saudi Arabia we can see where Khaiyum selectively applies his theory. The creation of a new culture-neutral human being has failed wherever it was tried around the world such as in the Soviet Union, Pol Pot's Cambodia, socialist Mozambique and in socialist Nicaragua. China is only able to maintain its uniform culture through force on its citizens. The human being is not an empty vessel to be topped up by state sponsored dogma and propaganda. To practise one's culture is a fundamental human right. All cultures have a right to exist and thrive in Fiji. Fiji will find out the hard way about the futility of Bai and Khaiyum's experiment.

Welcome Home

18/4/2017 08:19:28 am

There is no excuse for anyone to claim ignorance or insufficient knowledge and understanding of the basic tenets of Good Governance. Madame Huguette Labelle, Canadian President of Transparency International and Chancellor Emeritus of the University of Ottawa, came in to spend a weekend with TI Fiji Board Members in 2006. The visit was timely in view of events later. Mme Labelle was unstinting of her time. Transparency International ought again to be requested to assist in rating Fiji and be permitted access to cast an independent and quizzical eye. New Zealand has a consistently high rating on the TI Index as do Finland, Norway and some other small countries. What has the Fiji TI Board done recently to propose a new rating? The one and only was achieved apparently in 2005. Considerable room for improvement was noted at that time. Conflicts of Interest, perceived or actual must be consistently and fully declared in ALL spheres of governance and in judicial, legal, economic and academic areas of activity. The teaching of ethics and civics should be embedded in secondary schools and all tertiary institutions of learning. Leadership by example from the front and the top. All political parties must include this in their manifestos : those that fail should be discounted as ' Not Serious Contenders'.

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