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BOMBING Fiji with Pack of Lies. Aiyaz Khaiyum: 'I personally went to Chaudhry’s house one night on instructions from Bainimarama who was concerned that Chaudhry's tax matters were bringing regime disrepute..'

20/7/2021

Aiyaz Khaiyum: Chaudhry was forced to resign

TRUTH: Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Khaiyum protected FLP leader and Interim Finance Minister until our Founding Editor-in-Chief revealed Chaudhry's 148 page 'Haryanagate TAX File', leading to legal writs and deportation of Fiji Sun's then publisher RUSSELL HUNTER out of Fiji. One of these days we will publish more incriminating documents and expose the serial liar and master bombmaker's pack of LIES. We must not forget that Chaudhry ran and propped up the dictatorship, informing the US ambassador Larry Dinger: 'This [2006] is different because the Qarase Government was so awful...Fiji could not have survived another five years.' It is time when THIEVES fall out, the common Fijians on the street must be told the TRUTH about how Fiji became a DICTATORSHIP

From Fijileaks Archive, 15 September 2014

FIRST EVER REGIME THUG ESCAPES BRITISH JUSTICE BY WHISKER. His victims inside Fiji were reluctant to provide back up documents to support their affidavits to REDRESS and the British Metropolitan Police

18/7/2021

TORTURER'S PRIDE

THE torturer Qiliho's vile historic crimes were protected by the British High Commission in Suva. The United States and New Zealand flew him out of Fiji to attend the course in London. Qiliho was accused of beating, opening up Professor BRIJ LAL's mouth, and spitting deep inside Lal's throat (Lal's affidavit). He poured hot boiling water all over the thighs of BEN PADARATH after taking him to the military barracks to beat him up. He was involved in the murder of SAKIUSA RABAKA in Nadi, and was the military officer who fired shots over blindfolded Suva lawyer RICHARD NAIDU at Vatuwaqa. Now, the TORTURER is being touted as next COMMANDER of the RFMF. If the rumour mills in Fiji are correct, he will join his buddy and 1987 master bomber AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM, another thug who has escaped justice because his co-bombers changed their minds, and have refused to come forward to put KHAIYUM on TRIAL

Fijileaks: What right did Dr Rosemary Mitchell have to withhold medical records of one of Qiliho's victims that was requested by the London human rights lawyers who were collecting evidence against Qiliho?

ON NOTICE: They can hide from us, Qiliho's victims, but they won't be able to sweet talk the VOTERS at the next election. Talk of SNAKES, Isa! We salute Professor Brij Lal for going to the wire with us to arrest Qiliho

THE DIPLOMA OF SHAME

IN THE END: Sadly, none of the SIX came forward to verify their beatings

"Qiliho and other members of the Fiji Military Force have families and children and it is important that we as conscious adults choose a path that will not kill their spirit with anger, hatred and revenge but to protect and bless them with much love from our heart space. This is the only way we can all overcome the malevolent and controlling take-over spirit in Fiji and the world. Vinaka.."
Laisa Digitaki to Fijileaks. 27 April 2021

"MULLAH'S" MINAM appointed as new CEO of Fiji Development Bank. He is still refusing to answer our questions how he obtained Fiji citizenship

16/7/2021

MP ASERI RADRODRO SLAMS APPOINTMENT OF SAUD MINAM

"The Shadow Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Hon. Aseri Radrodro has slammed the appointment of Mr Saud Minam to the position of Chief Executive Office of Fiji Development Bank. Hon.Radrodro says the appointment of the Pakistani turned Fijian passport holder, is another slap in the face for hard working Fijian people born and bred in Fiji, to pursue career paths in their country of birth. Hon.Radrodro stated that this was not the first time such foreigners have used their work positions to gain citizenship in Fiji and from then on, they have competed against the Fijian people to gain top positionsin the employment sector." SODELPA press statement

BOYCOTT ANZ FIJI BANK: It is time Fijians took matters into their own hands and boycotted the bank. It has become a conveyor belt for its outgoing CEOs to take up Fiji citizenship and control our lives with FFP

Aiyaz Khaiyum has welcomed Minam’s appointment and says he is an excellent choice given his reputation as a commercial banker and his knowledge of the Fijian market

SUGAR Politics versus Healthy Nation. As Fiji and other Pacific Island countries face a number of health challenges, especially obesity and diabetes, it is time to tackle effects of sugary snacks and unhealthy diets

15/7/2021

POST COVID: After COVID is banished, Fiji and other Pacific Island countries will still be experiencing a high burden of diet-related non-communicable diseases; and consumption of fat, sugar and salt are important modifiable risk factors contributing to health crisis

"Sugar is a basic consumer item. It is also a price control item.
Increasing the price of sugar will once again hit the pockets of the poor who are already facing extreme difficulties buying food for their families.
“Furthermore, it will substantially increase the cost of a multitude of other products that use sugar such as biscuits, sweets, soft drinks, chutneys and pickles, canned foods, and so on. Our people are in no position to absorb such an increase'.
FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry

We’ve all had those moments in the supermarket when we’re tired, harassed and time-poor.

Suddenly, it seems that only ready meals will do, and something satisfyingly sweet to comfort us afterwards – a pudding or cake, a packet of biscuits or a bar of chocolate.

Guilt-stricken, we fling them into our trolleys and head for the tills. And for many it is indeed just a guilty indulgence, an occasional reward in a stressful life.

Yet for tens of millions of people, it is quite the opposite. They are regulars in the aisles where cheap, addictive carbohydrates, highly processed meat, salt-laden pre-prepared meals and sugar-rich fare lurk in abundance.
Along with takeaways, that is what forms the basis of much of their diet.

That this national reliance on junk food – there is no better description – has drastic consequences for our health, our life span and the NHS is no secret. It has been underlined over the decades in countless news, scientific and medical reports, in research findings from think-tanks, and charities, and in the Government’s own research.

What we eat and drink is slowly killing too many of us. And yet fuelled by a vast and hugely profitable industry that aggressively promotes these foods – and lures in youngsters – we continue to consume it in vast quantities.

That horrifying fact is again laid bare today in the latest National Food Strategy report by the British Government’s ‘food tsar’, Henry Dimbleby.

It details our ongoing and increasing reliance on heavily processed foods – something that no public health initiatives seem able to challenge.

Be THEY finger-wagging or encouraging, such campaigns seem to have put little dent in the national appetite, while the food industry shows no inclination to take itself in hand.

It is for this reason that, in his plan to reform Britain’s diet, Dimbleby, who is co-founder of the Leon chain of restaurants, wants mandatory reporting by manufacturers of the sugar, salt, fat and additive content of their products. More radically, he wants a tax imposed on the wholesale suppliers of the sugar and salt used in our unhealthiest foodstuffs.

Dimbleby’s recommended levy will, he believes, force the profit-driven food giants to reformulate their products to reduce the quantity of unhealthy and now costly ingredients.

There is little question that some of this cost will be passed on to the consumer – it’s already been dubbed a ‘snack tax’. And no doubt that will be greeted with dismay in some quarters, particularly by those who believe that such a tax will hit the low-income households who are the biggest consumers of branded meals.

I have some sympathy with that view but, as a long-time food campaigner, I wholeheartedly welcome Dimbleby’s proposition. It is only by such a dramatic top-down change that we can slow down the junk-food juggernaut that is destroying lives and costing the nation billions.

This is not something I write lightly. I am not generally in favour of increased taxation at any level. It smacks of Big Government. But only drastic action at corporate level is going to tackle the scale of the public health crisis facing us.

In Britain currently there are 13 million obese adults – a figure that has doubled in 20 years. Nearly one in four children start reception overweight or obese, rising to more than one in three by the end of primary school.

At the moment, £1 in every £8 spent on healthcare is going to fight type 2 diabetes, the form of diabetes largely related to diet and weight and brings with it a heightened risk of cancers and cardiovascular disease.

Long before the Covid pandemic cast its shadow, my GP told me the NHS was overwhelmed simply dealing with the consequences of obesity – from damaged hips to diabetes and its many debilitating consequences.

This new report makes clear the link between obesity and poor diet, particularly among lower-income families, and the UK’s high Covid death toll. The big food manufacturers can no longer continue to feed our nation an unfettered supply of sugar, salt and trans-fats with barely any penalty.

And we know financial penalties work. The Government introduced the Soft Drinks Industry Levy in April 2018. This ‘sugar tax’ worked: a March 2019 report showed that sales of high-tier sugary drinks – those containing more than 8g of sugar per 100ml – dropped by 44 per cent per household over the following year.

It also made some manufacturers rethink their recipes, among them Italian soft drinks manufacturer San Pellegrino, which reduced the sugar content of its sparkling fruit flavour drinks to almost zero. Other companies have followed suit.

It’s a clear example of enforcing change from the top: no-one, be they an individual or a big corporate, wants to pay more tax. Nor, of course, do they want to lose sales.

If wholesale suppliers of sugar and salt are taxed at source, the manufacturers to whom they will in turn pass it on will have to improve the quality of their food – by reducing salt and sugar – if they want to avoid it.

This ‘snack tax’ must be firmly aimed at the manufacturers who use salt and sugar to conceal the low-grade ingredients in their chicken nuggets, pizzas and other ‘grabbable’ food, and not responsible and artisanal producers who use good quality, natural fats and seasoning and sugars.

But I would go further and target the fast-food chains and delivery services which are also fuelling the country’s obesity epidemic. Sixty per cent of us now have food delivered on average twice a month, a mind-boggling £10 billion-a-year market.

Of course, tax is only part of the answer, and must go in tandem with other methods.

Last week, we learned that adverts for junk food would be banned on television before the 9pm watershed – an announcement that while welcome, felt rather late in the day given a vast swathe of the population has turned from mainstream television to streaming services.

And to the politicians who fear being accused of playing ‘Nanny’ to the nation, what is wrong with highlighting the bad and praising the good?

During the Second World War, the Government proved very adept at this. Good food was scarce, but they managed to teach people to make do with what they had. It was tough, but our population has never been healthier or slimmer since. We are no longer in a war, but a different sort of crisis – one which is every bit as threatening to life.

 Rose Prince is a food writer and activist

Traditional Fijian Diet

Traditionally, Fijians consumed a diet of fish, seafood, root crops, fruit, wild plants and legumes. In recent years, this traditional diet has been abandoned. In 2014, 50% of the population ate rice daily, 43% ate roti daily and 15% ate instant noodles daily. These unhealthy choices became popular while fruit and vegetable consumption declined, with only 15% of adults getting the recommended five servings daily.

Health Consequences

The major health consequences that arise from hunger in Fiji stem from obesity. One-third of adult Fijians are obese, and the rate of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as type-2 diabetes is correspondingly high. Obesity increases the risk of NCDs, thus increasing the risk of mortality. Consequently:

70-75% of deaths in Fiji are due to NCDs
The average life expectancy is low, with 69.2 years expected for women and 65.6 years for men
Fiji has a high age-standardized NCD mortality rate of 803, compared to the 417.9 of the United States

In comparison to its Pacific Island neighbors, Fiji possesses great food security. However, Fiji’s problems with poverty, trade policy and climate change perpetuate hunger. For Fijians to be able to afford and consume healthy foods once again, Fiji will need to invest in climate action, limit trade tariffs and promote native crops.
– Lily Jones

NO JAB, NO JOB. If so, why was Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum and the KHERAS permitted to land in Fiji. We have never seen Khaiyum taking the JAB nor disclosing that he had both his doses - one in Singapore, another in India

10/7/2021

Fijileaks Comment: Ploy to reduce Death Numbers
It may be legal for Fijian companies to insist on new staff being vaccinated as a condition of their employment.
However, bosses cannot make existing workers have vaccines under their current contracts (that is if FFP big donor company bosses have contracts with their employees).
* It would be discriminatory to order people to be vaccinated to keep their job, especially the Fijian civil servants, most who already have contracts.
* Of course, one can argue that when these civil servants signed their contracts, Khaiyum had not introduced Indian COVID into Fiji.
The legality of “no jab, no job”* would depend very much on the terms of employment and the particular contract.
* Generally speaking, we would be surprised if there were contracts of employment existing now that did make that approach lawful.
* We think frankly the issue would have to be tested before the Fiji High Court, turkey staffed by FFP regime judges.
* What if a claimant can prove they are exempt from having the vaccine for some reason, or unable to access it. There should be grave concerns, for example, that "no jab, no job" policies would disproportionately affect young people who are last in line to get the jab.
* We once again challenege Aiyaz Khaiyum to show us proof that he has got his jabs. If not, he has no right to hold down the nation with his policy pithily summarised as 'no jab, no job'.
* There is a human rights (if we have human rights) issue here. Wearing a mask, ordered to self-isolate or told to social distance is very different from being told to inject a substance (AstraZeneca) vaccine into your body.
* It is clearly a much more intrusive requirement than wearing a mask or even taking a COVID test.
STOP jabbing your FINGER, BAINIMARAMA!

Rear Admiral VILIAME NAUPOTO is reaguard snake for FFP at the RFMF. Its total waste of ink to belabour him, to read out military's constitutional role to intervene and save Fiji. He needs cushy job after he leaves RFMF

10/7/2021

Iowane Raturaga
P. O. Box 8830
Nakasi.
16th June, 2021

The Commander RFMF
Rear Admiral Viliame Naupoto
RFMF HQ, Berkley Crescent
Suva

Dear Sir
Re: RFMF Constitutional Role – 2013 Constitution

I write to you as a concerned citizen of this country who has watched with deep concern the direction our national leaders have taken this country in the last 15 years.

At the outset I must make it clear that I do not represent a political party or organisation which is directly opposed to the government of the day. I have prayed fasted and sought advice before making this important decision.

Attached is the Case List of blatant corruption, nepotism, cronyism, mis-management, abuse of human rights etc that have been allowed to happen right under our noses and for which I personally believe the RFMF is required under the 2013 Constitution to intervene and ensure the well-being, safety and security of the citizens of this country are met and that a healthy democracy remains firmly established at all times.

It is now blatantly clear that the current government has allowed rampant corruption to manifest at all levels of government and statutory organisations I demand that given the above-mentioned explanations the RFMF is duty bound under the 2013 Constitution to lawfully intervene in order to save this country from sliding into anarchy and become a failed state. [Section 131(2) is relevant].

We are currently surviving on donations from other countries to keep our economy afloat which is a direct result of the mis-management and failure of the Attorney General to effectively manage our economy - a fact which has been continuously raised by prominent economists like Professor Biman Prasad and Savenaca Narube.

The government has continuously boasted about the Bainimarama boom, an economic boom unprecedented in Fiji’s history yet when Covid-19 struck15 months ago, the reality of the true status of our economy was finally exposed. It finally dawned on us how our Attorney General has deliberately misled us and cooked up figures to reflect a rosy picture of our economy which was farther from the truth.

I’m also concerned and disturbed at the recent incidences of members of the public openly protesting at the lack of food supplies provided for them when their neighbourhoods were placed under lockdowns because of the surge in infections of the Covid-19 virus. That has never happened in the history of our beloved country. It clearly shows that government has not seen it fit to provide the people with basic food supplies to sustain them in the lockdown periods.

Again, these are issues that a responsible and respectful government would address as it concerns the welfare of its people. These are just some examples of the failures of this government with the cases of alleged corruption and abuse which has made our country the laughing stock of the Pacific and probably the international community as well.

I hope my letter will convince you of the need for the intervention of the RFMF to ensure that this country is led by capable and upright leaders who have only the best interests at heart for those who call Fiji home.

On a final note I have also decided that I will not hesitate to initiate legal proceedings towards your good self as Commander of the RFMF if you should fail to carry out your legal obligations under our Constitution for the reasons that I have outlined above.

I hope that you will sincerely consider the contents of my letter in the light that it is written and do all that is necessary in your power to save our nation from further deterioration.
God bless Fiji and its peoples.

Yours faithfully,
Iowane Raturaga
Nausori.
[PH: 8095433]

ccs.
1. His Excellency the President Major-General (Ret’d) Jioji Konusi Konrote
2. Honourable Prime Minister Rear Admiral (Ret’d) Ratu Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama
3. Honourable Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayad Khaiyum
4. Leader of the Opposition Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu

LIST OF CASES OF MISMANAGEMENT AND ABUSE OF THE FIJI FIRST GOVERNMENT:
Summary:
Fiji is indisputably now in the most serious crisis it has ever been in its history. Never before has Fiji been in such massive debts, with hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds being unaccounted for. Unemployment, poverty, nepotism and cronyism are at unprecedented levels. There have been lots of unanswered questions on a very large number of “projects” which the Government was involved in since 2007, each costing taxpayers millions of dollars, and taking Fiji to its knees to the point where its international credibility is at possibly its lowest point ever. These include:
* Covid assistance from foreign donors - Unaccounted $401 million.
* Fiji Airways/Waqavuka Holdings Airbus purchase and recent lease of planes (direct instructions from one cabinet Minister to fly Fiji Airways plane to certain destination for his personal use)
* Veronica Malani interference case.
* Nepotism and Racism in appointments of statutory board members.
* Nepotism in appointments to executive positions.
* USP fraud and Vice Chancellor deportation debacle.
* NADRA Election scam.
* Fiji First Party donation scam.
* Lautoka swimming pool out of control costs.
* Churchill Park land scam.
* Shirley Park land scam.
* Questionable Government tenders.
* Rewa Dairy fraud.
* $33 million digger hire scam at Water Authority of Fiji.
* 100 sands Denarau casino scam.
* Waila City scam.
* Satellite City, Grantham Road scam.
* Grace Road racket.
* Bio - security scam.
* Tappoo City using FNPF money without proper consultation.
* Leasing of vehicles for Government scam.
* FBC scam.
* FDB scam.
* Fijian Holdings scam.
* Fiji TV interference.
* ANZ scam.
* FNPF scams leading to almost the collapse of the superannuation fund now.
* FSC multi million dollar fraud.
* AFL multi million dollar fraud.
* Tropik Woods multi million dollar fraud.
* Drugs rackets.
* Illegal arms racket.
* Water Authority scams.
* NAIM corruption and scams.
* Immigration rackets.
* FNU Labasa campus scam.
* Bus card scam.
* Appointment of expatriates ahead of better or equally qualified locals.
* Cyclone Winston unaccounted aid funds.
* Infrastructure scams amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.
* Fiji flag fiasco.
* ITLTB Scam.
* Mahogany scam.
* Fishing licenses scam.
* New Village by-laws proposal.
* State land transfers scam.
* 2018 voter buying scam through cash handouts and granting of taxi permits.
* Naisoso Island scam.
* Fantasy Island scam.
* FRCS software scam.
* Government ICT scam.
* Fuel prices out of proportion to world oil price.
* Parliamentary salary increase scam.
* Sale of Ports shares to Sri Lankan company.
* FEA/EFL scams ( including sale of shares)
* Granting of operations of our public hospitals to Australian companies.
* Maritime school operations granted to Sri Lankan company.
* 9th floor lockup of Government MPs.
* Housing Authority scams.
* Tax issues not handled well (waiver of duties, increase in departure taxes etc).
* Certain Parliamentarian salaries paid through private accounting firm.
The abovementioned matters have not only brought poverty and misery to the people of Fiji but has burdened every Fijian with a $15 billion debt and contingent liability. These matters have brought down Fiji’s standing and reputation as a nation in everyone’s estimation. These issues and others not mentioned have brought down every individual Fijian’s standing that was once held in very high regard around the world.
Our National Integrity has been destroyed.
Such corruption and mis-management in Fiji has to be stopped before it’s too late!