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SINKING TEETH IN FNU DENTAL SELECTION UPROAR: 'The Dentist's Daughter got onto the course on MERIT. Her all three choices were for different courses in dental': Fijileaks source close to selection process!

28/1/2016

"Unlike the others who chose to apply for MBBS as their first choice and other courses as second and third choice. Thus by the time the result came out, second and third choices were full i.e. those students whose first choice was for dental was taken in and this procedure has been practiced all along." - Fijileaks source close to FNU selection process

http://www.fsm.ac.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=570:department-of-oral-health&catid=82:cmnhs-departments.

"The Minister also told the teachers that the opposition will always try to defame the new initiatives of the government but they must take ownership and have the passion for delivering these initiatives and ensuring that the quality is not compromised."

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STEPS DOWN: Peter Waqavonovono resigns as President of SODELA Youth Wing; he will explain in detail his reason to step down at the party's youth wing AGM in March but will remain active in party politics!

28/1/2016

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Waqavonovono

The General Secretary
SODELPA PARTY
McGregor Road
Suva

Mr TABAIWALU

I humbly tender my one month notice of resignation as the Party's Youth Wing President.

I resign, to prepare for the 2018 General Elections.

In March, during our SODELPA YOUTH AGM, I will explain in detail my reason to step down from the Presidency of SODELPA YOUTH and I will not seek re-election.

I believe that the SODELPA YOUTH WING has grown tremendously, and the Party has a large number of young people who are shaping our new Democracy along side the seasoned politicians in the Party.

I offer my services and support to the Party and look forward to helping SODELPA prepare for the 2018 General Elections

Peter Waqavonovono

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INJECTING POISONOUS CORRUPTION IN FNU (Medicine) SELECTION: Parents and students scream favouritsm after the rich and connected get in with lower marks; Fijileaks sources say a dentist's daughter GOT IN!

27/1/2016

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When daughter's GPA was not even near 4.0. In order to get into FSM there is a cut off mark, e.g. MBBS and Dental will only accept students with a foundation GPA of 4.0+ and a Form 7 result of 350+. There are students who are getting places who don't meet the cut off mark when their GPA is below the cut off mark. But those students with higher marks are not getting the places. And in their effort to hide their corruption, FNU is avoiding giving anything in writing - driving deserving students CRAZY!

“Unlimited Tamaashaa” - The rot continues as Ian Rouse has resigned and left, with Kafoa at large - one of many post-coup UNTOUCHABLES - and its no laughing matter!

And Education Minister struts around with Bainimarama with IMPUNITY! Grog-bowl rumours of his resignation seems to be UNTRUE:

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STINKING REASON: Now, we are told that because MINISTER Bala's trial clashed with a judicial workshop, it has to be moved to new date - JUNE!

26/1/2016

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WORKSHOP BEFORE JUSTICE? The Judicial Department had announced Bala's trial date long ago, so when and why was the hurry to cancel the trial and conduct a training workshop for judicial officers? Who conducted the workshop? Are DPP and Police Prosecutors so bad that on the day they were supposed to prosecute Bala, they had to be sent on judicial training workshop? The ready motormouth so-called Law and Order Minister Khaiyum must provide answer to the general and mostly law-abiding public! What is so SPECIAL about Parveen Bala that a bloody Judicial Workshop was more important than his TRIAL? Since Bala will be freed in a stage-managed trial, let this killer GO FREE NOW, instead of subjecting his victim's widow and her three children to further anger, helplessness, stress, pain and humiliation until June 2016;
Fijileaks to FFP government defenders: How would you have felt or reacted if every time this Bala was summoned to appear in court charged with killing one of your own family members, either the magistrate was hiding in sugarcane fields or in this instance, the entire judiciary (including State prosecutors) were sent on some dubious judicial training workshop?

Fijileaks: When military dictators form political parties, devise electoral system that could be easily rigged, and use threats, fear, and bribery - endorsed by willing collaborators (like Professor Vijay Naidu and others)- what one gets is corruption, tyranny, and abuse of power - for those supporting 'dictator's party and government' know that the people have no recourse to either MILITARY or POLICE (and even JUDICIARY and the PRESS) for redress: what we are witnessing in Fiji is real 'Orwellian Animal Farm': for the military and police are FijiFirst Party government! Minister Parveen Kumar Bala's case is the PROOF! Fjileaks: Why didn't Lautoka Magistrates Court hold the trial in some piggery farm once it found out that the trial was clashing with workshop? Who is running it?

From Fijileaks Archive, 19 January 2015:

SURPRISED? Oh, no, another example - after getting rid of ACP Brown; Qiliho will be appointed to make sure that Bainimarama, Khaiyum and other cronies never face justice and come election time, he will decree that Fiji is not ready for a general election given the law and order situation in Fiji, just like when he asked that deposed PM Qarase be confined to Mavana after the 2006 treasonous coup; after all Qiliho fears trial for he is one of the most vile human rights abuser since 2006:

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/hounded-out-assistant-police-commissioner-henry-brown-resigns-ending-30-years-of-illustrious-police-career-informs-qiliho-the-team-tasked-to-investigate-him-brown-are-facing-criminal-and-other-charges

And this EU Ambassador Andrew Jacobs should go and see Bala's victim family to learn first-hand the state of access to justice in Khaiyum's Fiji:

This "Mr 800 Votes" whose law firm is representing Bala is another case in point - hiding behind the sulu of military, police and judiciary, he has been threatening all and sundry who are not singing praise to FFP:

THE SHAMEFUL SEVEN: AIYAZ KHAIYUM'S WILLING 'EXECUTIONERS'

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/the-interview-that-lifted-the-lid-on-election-commissioner-fijileaks-reproduces-professor-vijay-naidus-interview-with-bruce-hill-of-pacific-beat-radio-australia-he-did-not-give-us-adequate-respect

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INTERNET OWNER SINGH AND PLOT TO TOPPLE GOVERNMENT: We look behind the scene about the businessman and his allegations which thicken plot; how he also ends up implicating FFP MPs in his statement!

26/1/2016

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KUT-IN-TWO: Rumours swirl that Education Minister Mahendra Reddy who used to allegedly refer to Aiyaz Khaiyum as "Kattu (Snipped) Minister" has been SACKED? Was he colluding with his Ministry staff to put in late procurement orders with Finance Ministry, a portfolio he told voters will automatically be his if he was elected to Parliament?

TODAY'S DIARY REMINDER:
Renee Lal v Reema Gokal: According to ILPC, the Suva lawyer Renee Lal was served summon to appear before the ILPC TODAY (27 January 2016) charged with
7 counts of professional misconduct and one count of unsatisfactory professional conduct

Who is Rajneel Singh? We let him tell through his own Police Statement:

In his police statement he finger points to one of the Ra sedition suspects but claims "I can only identify the customer by face and not by his e-mail address found in my computer...but Singh then names one: ***************

Fijileaks: To be continued

KUT-IN-TWO: Rumours swirl that Education Minister Mahendra Reddy who used to derisively refer to Aiyaz Khaiyum as "Kattu (Snipped) Minister" has been SACKED? He was colluding with his Ministry staff to put in late procurement orders with Finance Ministry, a portfolio he told voters will be his if he was elected to Parliament!

Fijileaks: Reddy has made many similar appointments (see letter below). Another one is at Jai Narayan College where someone named Krishna Pillay has been appointed from 5d to 1d level jumping 7 steps

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Wadan Narsey: Whose data is it anyway - extracted from Fijian public?

25/1/2016

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By Professor Wadan Narsey

Every year, large amounts of tax payers’ money are used by government departments (including the Fiji Bureau of Statistics) to extract data from a reluctant public.

The public, including households and companies, answer hundreds of tedious questions giving sometimes quite sensitive data to government survey staff.
More money (taxpayers and donors) is then used to convert the raw data into useful “reports” with tables of statistics, often accompanied by solid, policy recommendations.

Once the reports are published, they can be used not just by government ministries, but also NGOs, donors, academics and the public, to try and understand whether our society and economy are going in the right or wrong directions; whether government policies are working or not; and what policies we need to make our lives better.

The “virtuous data cycle” is complete, thereby encouraging the public to willingly take part in the next cycle of data gathering.

But, for the last five years, this virtuous cycle has been broken by the Bainimarama Government, which has suppressed useful reports and denied the public important useful information, some of which may have negative results.

This points to a much deeper malaise in Fiji- that the decision-maker(s) in government are freely able to reduce public access to information, resulting in a manipulated “democracy”.

Why are individual Cabinet ministers not challenging this suppression of reports which they themselves would like to see publicized and discussed in order to advance their own work?

I refer to just four examples, but no doubt there are more.

The 2007 Census Reports
With a census held every ten years (one planned for 2017), every household is required by law to give detailed information on the household, every occupant, their age, their relationship to the head of household, the number of children women have had, and all kinds of other information such as the kind of dwelling, numbers of rooms, the household assets etc. A gold mine of information.

When the reports for the 1996 Census were published in 1999 by the then Government Statistician (the late Mr Timoci Bainimarama) many end-users were dismayed that it had taken three whole years to produce the required reports, while the ABS or NZBS would take only a year.
Sadly, Fiji’s delays in publication have got worse, since then.
For unstated reasons, some of the analytical reports for the 2007 Census have still not been published, NINE YEARS LATER, while the FBS is now even preparing for the 2017 Census.
These Census analytical reports contain enormous amounts of useful information about birth, education, work and death in Fiji; about women’s fertility; about infant mortality; about adult mortality and life expectancies; about education levels.
They can tell the government and the public exactly what is happening to the development state of all the inhabitants of our country, in a comprehensive manner, far superior to sample surveys.
Who therefore in the Bainimarama Cabinet has refused to allow the Fiji Bureau of Statistics to publish some of the reports, the first Fiji government to ever to do so, and why?

Employment and Unemployment
In 2010-11, the FBS conducted an excellent nation-wide survey of employment and unemployment.
The households recorded how much time each person in the household worked, paid and unpaid, in what occupations and industries, for how much time, for how much income received; and also how much time each person devoted to playing sports, religious activities, kava drinking, TV/videos, etc. all of interest to Ministries of Health, Women and Social Welfare, Education, Youth and Sports.
The Reports document fascinating results, and differences by urban/rural, males/females, elderly and young, by districts, all of enormous use to government ministries such as Labor, Women and Social Welfare, Youth, Health, as well as civil society organizations like FWRM, FCOSS, and organizations concerned about NCDs.
For the 2004-05 EUS, which I had also analyzed, the findings were discussed and used by all the stakeholders in national workshops held in Suva, Nadi and Labasa, co-organized by the FBS and myself.
Funded by AusAID, I again did this analysis for the 2010-11 EUS, and the Final Report (Fiji Women and Men at Work and Leizure) was prepared and ready for publication in late 2013.
But the Bainimarama Cabinet has refused to allow its publication, the first time that a Fiji government has ever interfered thus with the work of the FBS.
Was it because there were a few negative results about employment and real incomes between 2005 and 2011 which may not have helped the Bainimarama Government in the 2014 Elections?
But it is now two years after the Report was completed and it has still not been published, while the FBS is preparing for the next EUS.

Income and Expenditure Surveys
When income and expenditure surveys are done, households also record their incomes and expenditures for the year as well their detailed expenditures for two weeks through a diary.
The findings have great use for a wide variety of policy measures: poverty analysis and alleviation measures; a wide range of food security issues; social welfare policies;
Virtually all government departments and civil society organizations are interested in the findings, and the previous survey results (which I also analyzed for the FBS) were also disseminated through national workshops held in Suva, Nadi and Labasa.
With the USP Economics Department ordered not to host these workshops, they gleefully facilitated by Fiji National University and Dr Mahendra Reddy, the current Minister for Education.
The 2013-14 Household Income and Expenditure Survey has been completed, the data finalized and the World Bank is apparently analyzing the data.
But the local consultant who assisted in the previous analysis and the national workshops (yours truly), has been shut out, for reasons that can only be guessed at.
[The FBS has just released some results (19th January 2016), but it is not known what poverty line standards were used, and what were the WB-guided adjustments made to the income measures. Such adjustments can make a big difference in the results. They have in the past (see the next edition of USP’s Journal of Pacific Studies)]
The previous Government Statistician (the late Mr Timoci Bainimarama) refused to allow the Fiji Government to interfere politically with their choice of consultant.
As in other technical spheres of government, the process of localization has also been now reversed in statistical analysis.

The 2011 STEPS Report?
When health and nutrition surveys are done, great effort is taken to find what people consume as food, their substance abuse such as consumption of alcohol, tobacco and kava, their weights and heights, their general state of health, the diseases they have, and many other useful matters concerning good and bad health,
Look at the excellent Report on the 2002 STEPS done by the Ministry of Health, WHO, FSM, and the Menzies Center for Population Health Research (available on the Internet).
There was a similar 2011 STEPS done, but the Report is not being released, except in dribs and drabs.
Why is the full Report not being released, Minister of Health?
What can the public think when it is told by one MoH expert (Fiji Times, 11 January 2016) that the current NCD situation is so bad that optimistically, it will take three generations for the NCDs problems to be resolved. Oh dear. I suspect he is not exaggerating, and is even optimistic].

The wider issues
This article started by asking “whose data is it”?
Of course, the data belongs to al the citizens of Fiji who provide the data and the resources for the data analysis and writing of reports, which are intended to be used for public policy formulation.
The data does not belong to any one Minister or the government of the day.
If there is to be public confidence in FBS data, no Minister should interfere at all with the work of the FBS or the publication of its reports.
Today, the FBS is under the tight control of the Minister of Finance and Attorney General and all things important (Aiyaz Khaiyum) and Cabinet permission is required before any publication is approved.
Sadly, as with other similar claims, the Bainimarama Government also has the dubious honor of being “the first ever government in the history of Fiji” to suppress the reports of the FBS.
Some proactive government Ministers might want to see the reports published, but do not have the required influence in Cabinet because the election results clearly indicate that they had minimal electoral support or “mandate”.
It is now endemic that civil servants themselves will not complain for fear of losing their jobs, while they can expect no support from the PSC.
The Reserve Bank of Fiji could consider reviving the now defunct “Statistics Users’ Committee” which included representatives from the RBF, the private sector and the universities, so that the FBS may be supported in their quest for total independence, integrity and timeliness of their statistics. But will they? I seriously doubt if they will.
The fact that the end users of statistics have so far failed to raise their voices is indicative of the total shallowness of Fiji’s current “democracy”.
The Bainimarama Government is succeeding in filtering and censoring the data that reaches the public, aided by a collaborating media: any hint of good outcomes is widely trumpeted; data on things going wrong is suppressed or simply not given prominence.
While the intelligent and well-off in Fiji have recourse to the Internet, the ordinary rank and file among Fiji has succumbed to a Stalinist style control of information, while happy to be fed a daily diet of information about rugby sevens and Bollywood escapism.
Addition The Fiji Times of 25/1/2016 quotes Aiyaz Khaiyum pouncing on the FBS Press Release to boast about the reduction of poverty in Fiji based on the 2013-14 HIES. He has refused to explain why he has not given permission for the 2010-11 EUS Report to be released (that report had adverse statistics). The public should note therefore that the Bainimarama Government readily releases any bit of positive information, while suppressing the negative.

The public may be asking: are the results accurate? They may be so, but the FBS has so far refused to give me the detailed raw data to verify that their results are correct, or whether differences in methodology may also explain some of the supposed reduction in poverty.
There is likely to have been some reduction of poverty in some sectors in the economy, but the FBS report does not clarify the origins of the reduction of poverty.

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HURLING ABUSE: As ILO Team arrive in Fiji, former High Court judge turned diplomat Nazhat Shameem becomes subject of abuse - former Fiji lawyer Rajendra Chaudhry brands her "Regime Whore" on his Facebook

24/1/2016

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If so, can these former post-coup interim regime cheerleaders be described as "Regime's Pimps' who perpetuated tyranny on Fiji?

Rajendra Chaudhry's post raises questions of wider import: was his father Mahendra, Daniel Urai, Felix Anthony and others also part of the inner circle who plotted the coup with Frank Bainimarama?; US ambassador Larry Dinger has revealed what Mahendra Chaudhry conveyed to him:

""Mahendra Chaudhry, former PM deposed by the 2000 coup and still head of the FLP, phoned today to let the Ambassador know he intends to accept Bainimarama's offer of the Finance, Public Enterprises, and Sugar Reform portfolios. He put it in terms of having to move Fiji forward and get back to democracy ASAP. When the Ambassador noted how disastrous the past coups had been for Fiji and for Chaudhry personally on two occasions, Chaudhry suggested this coup is different because the Qarase Government was so awful...Fiji could not have survived another five years...Interim Finance Minister Chaudhry is showing his vindictive side. Under the interim government, Chaudhry crony Vayeshnoi is Sports Minister and Chaudhry son Rajendra is on the FSC board."

Coming soon:

“I have always maintained that the initial Victor Lal articles (published in the Fiji Sun) were motivated by spite, malice and outsized ego. The articles were the product of a conspiracy hatched between Lal and certain media people here, including the departed publisher of the Fiji Sun [Russell Hunter], to not only defame me and have me removed from office but also to divide and weaken the interim Government” - Bainimarama's Interim Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry denying he received a single cent from Haryana

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INTERNET CAFE OWNER SINGH AND CONSPIRACY TO OVERTHROW GOVERNMENT: His Police Statement accuses one of the Ra sedition suspects and reveal him liaising with Khaiyum, Qiliho and Rosy Akbar!

24/1/2016

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Full statement coming soon!

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/fantasist-or-suspect-in-alleged-assassination-plot-e-mails-found-in-internet-cafe-owners-computer-police-and-military-sources-claim-they-suspect-kishore-kumaar-and-rajneel-singh-duped-qiliho-into-action

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TEXTBOOK DICTATOR: Education Ministry is not in his Ministerial book but he makes it his right to lodge complaint with FICAC against Education officers after requests to waive the tenders for the printing of textbooks

24/1/2016

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This 'Textbook Dictator' should ask FICAC to investigative him and Reddy over the nepotic appointment of FFP election loser Mohammed Dean!

Fijileaks Archive, October 2015:

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/insider-appointment-reddy-to-ministry-of-education-transfer-ffp-election-loser-mohammed-dean-to-dr-saukhat-ali-sahib-campus-in-nadi

As in 1987, the campaign to get rid of the present crop of corrupt and lawless thieves will have to be intensified, locally and internationally! But we must make sure that Mahendra Chaudhry like imitators are no way involved - for remember he used racism, captivity and tyranny to become
$2million plus secret millionaire, gifting $50,000 to his daughter!

THE HUNT FOR MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY'S HARYANA MILLIONS - THE INSIDE STORY. In response to requests from Fijian journalism students and journalists in Fiji, we have agreed to serialize soon Victor Lal and Russell Hunter's three-year hunt for Chaudhry's secret millions which he was hiding in Australian and New Zealand bank accounts, and how Bainimarama and Khaiyum tried to prevent the revelation! Moreover, if Hunter had caved in to threats, intimidation and lawsuits - and not run the revelation, Chaudhry might have become a FFP Minister in 2014!

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Henry Brown's interrogators re-appear in court with others charged with RAPE of the late Viliame Soko; also facing court was Bainimarama's former bodyguard Pita Matairavula, now a military intelligence operative

21/1/2016

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Their case has been adjourned to 5th of next month; Sitiveni Qiliho re-instated them and now they are part of the team tasked to investigate former ACP and Director of Intelligence, Henry Brown

LAW AT THE LOWEST EBB IN KHAIYUM'S FIJI

Fijileaks to Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice: "Would you allow yourself and your family members to be interrogated by a bunch of police and military officers who are charged with BRUTAL RAPE and INSTRUCTING OTHER POLICE OFFICERS TO MAKE FALSE STATEMENTS? We are not defending ACP Henry Brown but what we are objecting to is the presence of these alleged rapists, liars and torturers tasked by acting Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho to interrogate Brown! Why these police and military officers have not been suspended from duties? Why are they allowed to investigative other suspects in your Police Stations? Like other citizens they should be IMMEDIATELY SUSPENDED - ACP Brown was sent on leave pending investigations. What guarantee do we have that Superintendent Manasa Talala and Corporal Viliame Vereivalu, who are charged with rape, and instructing other fellow Police Officers to make false statements, will not shove their police batons like they did on Soko, up yours or your wife's rectums if and when you two are taken in for questioning over the false declaration of assets under your political parties decree? Qiliho's cock-up must not be followed by a cover- up"

* The composition of the Commissioners Task Force team [tasked to investigate Brown] led by Superintendent Manasa Talala who together with another member Corporal Viliame Vereivalu are currently facing criminal charges in relation to Vilikesa Soko’s death in custody in Nadi. These charges were laid with other Police Officers by an Internal Affairs investigation when Internal Affairs Department was under my portfolio. How can a police officer investigate a senior officer when he is facing criminal charges in open court under my direction through Director Internal Affairs?
* "The presence of Military Intelligence officers daily in the Task Force office also does not augur well for me, as these are the military officers I had ordered investigated in the ‘You Tube’ beating." - Brown to Qiliho, resignation letter

MAD DOG Gaddafi captured, dragged through the streets, punched and kicked and shot dead

The once powerful dictator Saddam Hussein captured and later hanged for crimes against his own people. Military intervention breeds power hungry satans who will steal and cheat to become political leaders and run government

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"The Minister also told the teachers that the opposition will always try to defame the new initiatives of the government but they must take ownership and have the passion for delivering these initiatives and ensuring that the quality is not compromised."

“Unlimited Tamaashaa” - The rot continues as Ian Rouse has resigned and left, with Kafoa at large - one of many post-coup UNTOUCHABLES - and its no laughing matter!

And Education Minister struts around with Bainimarama with IMPUNITY! Grog-bowl rumours of his resignation seems to be UNTRUE:

From Fijileaks Archive, 19 January 2015:

And this EU Ambassador Andrew Jacobs should go and see Bala's victim family to learn first-hand the state of access to justice in Khaiyum's Fiji:

This "Mr 800 Votes" whose law firm is representing Bala is another case in point - hiding behind the sulu of military, police and judiciary, he has been threatening all and sundry who are not singing praise to FFP:

THE SHAMEFUL SEVEN: AIYAZ KHAIYUM'S WILLING 'EXECUTIONERS'

TODAY'S DIARY REMINDER:Renee Lal v Reema Gokal: According to ILPC, the Suva lawyer Renee Lal was served summon to appear before the ILPC TODAY (27 January 2016) charged with7 counts of professional misconduct and one count of unsatisfactory professional conduct

Who is Rajneel Singh? We let him tell through his own Police Statement:

In his police statement he finger points to one of the Ra sedition suspects but claims "I can only identify the customer by face and not by his e-mail address found in my computer...but Singh then names one: ***************

Fijileaks: Reddy has made many similar appointments (see letter below). Another one is at Jai Narayan College where someone named Krishna Pillay has been appointed from 5d to 1d level jumping 7 steps

If so, can these former post-coup interim regime cheerleaders be described as "Regime's Pimps' who perpetuated tyranny on Fiji?

Coming soon:

Full statement coming soon!

This 'Textbook Dictator' should ask FICAC to investigative him and Reddy over the nepotic appointment of FFP election loser Mohammed Dean!

Their case has been adjourned to 5th of next month; Sitiveni Qiliho re-instated them and now they are part of the team tasked to investigate former ACP and Director of Intelligence, Henry Brown

LAW AT THE LOWEST EBB IN KHAIYUM'S FIJI

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TODAY'S DIARY REMINDER:
Renee Lal v Reema Gokal: According to ILPC, the Suva lawyer Renee Lal was served summon to appear before the ILPC TODAY (27 January 2016) charged with
7 counts of professional misconduct and one count of unsatisfactory professional conduct