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A BITTER PILL FOR PUBLIC TO SWALLOW: Mahmood Khan says he was appointed to USP Council by Minister Akbar after he responded to press advertisement. Akbar appointed Fiji Sun's Jyoti Pratibha to FNU Council

25/9/2020

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We wonder if FFP Government and Fiji National University (owned by all Fijians) advertised for individuals to serve on FNU Council, and whether Pratibha and Aunty Nur Ali Bano, presently leading the Council, also APLLIED and were selected by Education Minister Akbar. As we reminded Electoral Commissioner Kavita Rangia it is perception of BIAS that matters - A BITTER PILL FOR THE FIJIAN PUBLIC TO SWALLOW. The Ranigas donated thousands of dollars to FFP, and so did Bano and her husband, and Fiji Sun's Donation: From WatchDog to LapDog

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Fijileaks: The former CEO, Vodafone Fiji, ASLAM KHAN, is NOT on the FFP's Donor List. However, some of the Gujarati merchants portrayed in the cartoon,  as individuals of those companies, and their families, along with other big Gujarati business house families donated nearly $3million between 2014 and 2019 to KEEP FijiFirst Party in POWER. Non-Gujaratis were mostly Indo-Fijian businessmen from Hindu, Muslim, Punjabi and South Indian families. Your ordinary Ram and Khan only voted for FFP after these big business families bankrolled FFP. They were too busy eating Macdonalds in 'Mr Macdonal's' outlets, unaware that part of their meagre purchases were going towards the funding of FFP. There ain't something called Free MacDonalds unless you have donated to FFP. We have forensically identified over 90 per cent of individual donors, their companies, etc, so bear with us, as we continue to reveal the donors

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The Tappoos, the Punjas, CJ Patel gave thousands of dollars as individuals to FijiFirst Party. Aslam Khan is NOT on the Donation List
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Fijileaks to Edwin Nand: Please, can we have your response to the 'Porn King' photo we sent to you. Its over six months. Take a lesson from Mahmood Khan in responding swiftly to questions when it comes to you. On the issue of BIAS, here is what we pointed out to KAVITA RANIGA:

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Fijileaks Founding Editor-in-Chief: CRY MY BELOVED Fiji Sun:

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IT IS NOT YOUR FATHER'S MONEY, USP Fijian students whose families have either voted for HIM or are keeping HIM in Power through their taxes should tell Khaiyum. NFP president condemns halt of Fiji grant to USP

24/9/2020

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SECRET FFP DONOR: During the 2014 election, the late Dixon Seeto, as Chairman of the Tertiary Scholarship and Loans Board, had terminated, on 21 MAY 2014, the iTaukei Board scholarship of USP student Tamanirarama J. Seruraduvatu after allegations were made that Seruraduvatu was campaiging for the independent candidate Roshika Deo. Now, from Aiyaz Khaiyum's FijiFirst Party list that he submitted to his nephew Mohammed Saneem, it has emerged that on 11 September 2014 Dixon Seeto went onto DONATE $3,000 to FFP. His co-Chinese community leaders (which we will reveal) donated over $50,000 to the FijiFirst Party. One of them went on to desecrate part of the popular Malolo Island without environmental permits. He carved a channel out of Malolo Island's reef, destroying fishing grounds, mangrove beds and damaging the foreshore. He had Khaiyum and Bainimarama in his pocket, for he had donated thousands of dollars for them to win election.
From Fijileaks Archives, 2014:

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National Federation Party Statement on USP grant scandal:
Holding USP Grants is Gross Abuse of Power; Victimises Fiji’s Students

"It is shocking that Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, the Minister for Economy, has decided to withhold Fiji Government’s grant to the USP on flimsy allegations, which the USP council has rejected.

By holding the grants on the basis of allegations made by the Minister’s own relative placed on USP Council under his influence, is the worst case of abuse of power by Sayed-Khaiyum.

The law of the land is clear: USP is a legal entity founded by a number of Pacific Island Countries which by law are obliged to fund the University on pre-agreed basis. The University’s financial accounts are audited by credible accounting firms registered to practice in Fiji. Audited accounts for 2019 are unqualified. There, thus, is no basis for the Government to withhold any fund.

If the Government is unhappy with the way its grants are used, then it has recourse to the provisions of the Finance Management Act, under which it can itself audit the funds it has contributed. Without this, holding any grant, is bordering on the illegal and absolute bad faith.

It is widely known that USP has been mired in corrupt practices, which were the subject of a report by a New Zealand based accounting firm, the BDO New Zealand. This accounting firm confirmed massive instances of abuse of funds uncovered by the present Vice Chancellor. The Fiji Government has demanded that this report not be made public.

This is unbecoming of any Government which stands for transparency and good governance. We demand that this report be made public. Public funds are used at USP. The public has a right to read the report by the accounting firm.

By holding the grants, the FFP Government has sent a clear message to Fiji’s students and parents: that the FFP Government does not care for the education of students.

It has sent a clear message that it will not support the education of Fiji’s students unless corruption is allowed to flourish at the University and the regime’s favoured people are allowed to make undue gains from University education. Parents and students are treated with utter contempt by this government.

It is known that in the past, the same FFP Government had threatened USP with not paying its grant unless it fired renown academic Professor Wadan Narsey.

It is also well known that in the past the same Government effectively fired the Vice Chancellor of FNU when he did not cower to the whims of a few Ministers who wanted to control the FNU and usher-in corrupt practices there.

It is widely known now that the FNU’s Labasa campus works, which were tendered out for $28m, haven’t been completed and is unlikely to be completed in anything less than $32m.

We ask – is it true that under the reign of the then VC, the same scope of works which were contracted out for $28m were estimated to cost less than $10m?

The same FFP government has also effectively fired 2 Vice Chancellors at the University of Fiji, in one case by not extending the workpermit, and in another by withdrawing the workpermit on clearly illegal grounds.

Now the Fiji First regime wants the USP Vice Chancellor to be fired.

The Fiji First Government is known to be threatened by academic freedom. It is now known to be threatened by Fiji’s students and academics, who are now exposing the corrupt practices under the regime. It is time for Fiji’s students, academics and parents to demand that Fiji First stop playing with academic freedom, and the future of Fiji’s children.

We demand that taxpayers money not be withheld by the Minister for Economy from USP. We demand that the funds be immediately released. We demand that the Fiji First government allow USP to be governed by the USP Council as established by law.

We demand that Fiji First Government stop playing with the future of Fiji’s students.

Authorised by: -
Pio Tikoduadua
President

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USPGATE, FIJI SUN, AUNTY, UNCLE AND AIYAZ KHAIYUM: Here we go again - FFP FRAUDSTER who stole party name, LIED on US Visa Form, on his Asset Declaration, and Donor Lists - asking USP to account to him

24/9/2020

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MUSICAL CHAIRS: He put his Uncle Mahmood Khan as Fiji's representative to USP Council (who made complaint against Professor Pal Ahluwalia) and his Aunty Nur Bano Ali was moved from USP Council to become Acting Deputy Chancellor at Fiji National University, and Fiji Sun's Managing News Editor Jyoti Pratibha, he appointed to Aunty's FNU Council. We may recall that we called on Pratibha to step down in the interest of journalism but she is still up there, and now The Fiji Sun, on his 55th birthday (24 September) reported: 'In a letter obtained by the Fiji Sun, Government has raised concerns about the lack of investigation into the serious allegations that have been identified by the Pro-Chancellor (Winston Thompson) and Chair (Mahmood Khan) of the Audit and Risk Committee(ARC)."
The two have lost and now heads were out to roll, so steps in the Narcissistic BULLY BOY to stop the Fiji Government grant. It is most likely he has no money in the coffers to pay up, so making excuses. The Fijian students should simply RISE UP and overthrow this DICTATOR before he causes irreparable damage to their lives - he has already inflicted enough suffering on their families through corruption and croynism. His Aunty Nur Bano Ali donated to FijiFirst Party. He keeps on handing out Government contracts to her company despite Auditor-General's reports and Fiji Court of Appeal ruling in Rewa Dairy case.
Instead of doing the dirty work on behalf of his UNCLE, he should hand himself to Fiji Police and the Military who want to interview him over the 1987 'dirty' bombs which he is alleged to have exploded in Fiji, and RESIGN from Government as recommended by the Military Council

THOMPSON v Ahluwalia

Result of the match so far and consequences of trend.

8 June 2020:
Suspension by Executive Committee of Council based on ARC Chair’s allegations of 1 June 2020 (Round 1, PC WT)

19 June 2020: Reinstated by Council (Round 2 VCP) 10 working days wait.

1 September 2020,  SpC3/20/2.1
: Confidential Special Executive Committee ‘Report’ on ARC Chair’s 33 Allegations of 1 June. Recommendation: 9 allegations deemed immaterial. 10 relate to internal processes and require channeling to relevant standing processes. 14 to be handled by an external and independent process, because they involved issues likely to be contested, raise potential conflict of interest, highlight ‘factional’ views or alternatively involve financial matters.

4 September, 2020:  Council terminated investigation against the VCP (Round 3 VCP) on the basis that ‘… there being no allegations sic) where the consensus or clear majority view were deemed material’.

Late September:  A minimum of 10 members asked for a Special Council reconvened. Most likely agenda items: Motions of no confidence in PC and ARC Chair, and election of new DPC. (Round 4, 5 and 6). PC, DPC, ARC).

Rounds 4. 3 or 4 Oct. Special council on the above motions.
Current score:

Rounds 1 – PC Rounds,  2 and 3 VC. Rounds 4 is about rolling of heads.

Hence the latest letter to terminate funding.

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BIRTHDAY BLUES: FFP DONORS $7,698,021.24 MONSTER GIFT TO FIJI. Mr '24 CENTS' Who Rose to Become Millionaire Narcissistic BULLY in Bainimarama's regime celebrates 55th BIRTHDAY TODAY: 24 September

24/9/2020

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DANCING to his Uncle's Tune: Now, he has stopped, with immediate effect, Fiji Government's Grant Contribution to USP, informing Professor Pal Ahluwalia and Winston Thompson in a letter dated 22 September: “We note that notwithstanding the USP Council appointed special executive committee stating that at least 14 of the 33 allegations by the Chair ARC required independent investigation, the Council ignored this recommendation. Given the above, please be notified that until such time a thorough and independent investigation into all the allegations by the Pro-Chancellor and Chair ARC are carried out to our satisfaction, the Fijian Government will, with immediate effect, cease its grant contribution to USP.” 
Fijileaks: Mahmood Khan's wife is his mother's sister, and so is Nur Bano Ali

https://www.fijileaks.com/home/turning-the-table-on-the-turbanator-mahmood-khan-chair-of-audit-and-risk-committee-claims-professor-pal-ahluwalias-report-was-drafted-by-professor-arvind-patel-and-yet-ahluwalia-regarded-as-author

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The $7million Birthday Boy:

The Midlife Investments Ltd Owner. He has removed his mother Latifa as a shareholder and has made his wife one of two directors now. Again, he lied in his Asset Declaration of 2018. We will reveal why, based on new documents on us.

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Donations by the Directors and Owners of Big business houses, construction companies, bus companies, etc, etc, including private individuals from 2014 to 2019 has kept this BULLY Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum in POWER, and who has gone on to PERSECUTE FIJIANS OF ALL RACES. The donations were made by company owners, families, and even staff because the farcical Donation Decree forbids companies and corporate entities to make donations to politcal parties but not their owners, shareholders, directors and staff. We will keep naming the donors in coming days, including "Doyleen" - a staffer - who we suspect was coerced into donating, or was unaware that a huge sum was donated on her behalf, by one of the donor companies. She has blocked us after we asked her about the donation to FijiFirst Party

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As Khaiyum celebrates his 55th birthday today, with his 'CRYING BABY' Bainimarama the first one to suck up to him, scores of hard-working civil servants, of all races who have turned 55 with him, will be leaving their jobs because under Bainimarama-Khaiyum Retirement Decree, they must go at 55, plant cassava, and drink homebrew, a month before Fiji celebrates (WEEPS) her 50th Independence Anniversay from Great Britain. From Mahendra Chaudhry to Graham Davis, they have learnt their lessons the hard way. The only person who is still suckling him is Bainimarama, for as we have seen from the headline, he needs
'Birthday Boy' to get him MONEY from Big Business to stay in POWER
ISA, WAKE UP FIJI

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FIJI is for SALE, YES, 50%
DISCOUNT
All Proceeds to FijiFirst Party

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The Fijian Military sold its soul for a few rounds of bullets from Khaiyum

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COMING SOON ON OUR Fijileaks BIG SCREEN:
DAMODAR CINEMAS DONORS AND FIJIFIRST PARTY'S 'KADER KHAN'

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FIJI NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND BOARD chairman DAKSESH PATEL and Board Member MUKHTAR ALI, appointed by Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum, donated $10,000 (2015) and $5,000 (2014) to Khaiyum's FIJIFIRST PARTY

22/9/2020

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On 25 June 2014, the California based Mukhtar Ali donated $5,000 (Receipt No 420) to FFP Head Office and so did Daksesh Patel, on 14 October 2015. He donated $10,000 (Receipt Number 457)

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DREDGING Deep into THEIR POCKETS: STAFF of Vuksich & Borich who worked on Fiji Government projects like Momi Bay Rd, Momi Bay Resort, Naisoso Island, dug deep into their wallets (or did they) to donate to FFP

22/9/2020

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THREE CHEERS TO FIJIFIRST PARTY
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DUG DEEP INTO HIS WALLET TO MATCH DONATION OF HIS COLLEAGUES, Arnesh Kumar
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BORN TO WIN? WHO, Arnesh Kumar? He donated $10,000 to FFP in 2017
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Reportedly owns a plot of land on the Naisoso Industrial Sub-Division. Previously, he was general manager at Tuna Pacific Co Ltd, 1994-1998. He donated $10,000 to FFP in 2017

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We could not identify a donor in the 2017 FFP Donor List, wrongly recorded as MCADEN MUTALIC who, on 18 April, donated $10,000 to FFP (Receipt No 1718). Now, it turns out he should have been listed as MLADEN MLADEN MATULIC, General Manager, Vuksich & Borich (Fiji) Pte Limited. Another, MANOJ JEET, Office Manager and Finance, on the same day, 18 April, donated $10,000 (Receipt No 1717) and another staffer ARNESH KUMAR donated, again on 18 April, $10,000 (RN, 1719). And, WHO is Rajnesh Prasad who, on 18 April donated $10,000 (RN 1716) to FFP? Mutalic, Jeet, and Kumar donated a total of $30,000 in 2017. Did they donate on behalf of the company? Have they disclosed their donations to FRCA?
We apologise for the time it is taking to identify and reveal the donors, for the FFP LISTS reek of FRAUD, so we are forensically following the
MONEY and DONORS, especially relating to INDO-FIJIANS. We suspect many BIG BUSINESS houses added the names of their staff, through coercion and intimidation, or behind their backs, to swell their donations. CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY:
The donors list remind us of the Chiefs, Thieves, Indians, and Others who bled the National Bank of Fiji dry under that rabid racist and fascist Sitiveni Rabuka. In 2010, a decade ago, our Founding Editor-in-Chief had exposed most of them in a 24 part series on C4/5 website - Who was Who! Alarmingly, a recent Fiji Times headline screamed A Clash of the Titans - Rabuka v Bainimarama. And a Fiji Sun Opinion Poll claimed Voters were gearing up for Bainimarama, Rabuka and Chaudhry. What is wrong with the people of Fiji, to crave for Two Coupists and a Currency Convict, as if there are no other individuals available to lead Fiji? These Floatsam and Jetsam must be consigned to the dustbin of history. 
Lets not forget, that for many people in Europe in the 1930's, Herr  Adolf Hitler too had a 'very compelling position'.
For six years, the Opposition sat on their bums in Parliament until I began the journey last week to track down the DONORS. That alone should be reason to KICK THEM OUT! We have made no secret of our position whenever Niko Nawaikula opens his big mouth on Indigenous Rights, as if Fiji's problems will go away once native Fijians are back in POWER. If anything, we need to keep Waqavuka's Fiji Airways planes on standby in case of a SODELPA win under Rabuka - for Indo-Fijians will be frog-marched out of Fiji under the banner of indigenous rights. Believe US!!! In May 1987, the old Fiji Sun was forced to cease operations in the country after it published allegations that Rabuka had bought a house in Suva favoured by wealthy Indo-Fijians and expatriates, on a 100% mortgage from a prominent Alliance politician. Veteran Fiji Sun journalists like Nemani Delaibatiki were hauled up to the military barracks at gunpoint to endorse the nationalist coup, which he resolutely refused to accept, and his life was made so unbearable that he had no choice but to move with his family to New Zealand.  
History will repeat itself, and once again losers will be commoner Fijians. The rich Indo-Fijian businessmen will continue with their taralala, enriching themselves under a Rabuka government. We notice one of the donors to FijiFirst Party is Ugesh Narayan of BW Holdings/Touchwood Investments Ltd. In Part Eleven of the series (22 June 2010), our Founding Editor-in-Chief had identified Narayan as one of many Indo-Fijians who had joined the scramble for Rabuka's loans: 'BW Holdings Ltd's road to more than $1million from collapsed NBF", concluding,

"I am not sure if BW Holdings ever cleared its loan to the NBF, for the company has not replied to my e-mail regarding its debt of over $1million to the collapsed bank. If BW Holdings has not settled its loan, than it becomes imperative for a Commission of Inquiry into its loan dealings and a retrospective decree to re-coup from it the $1million loan, to be set aside for the poorest of the poor, who were deprived of $327million of taxpayers’ money with the collapse of the NBF. I also notice that the Fiji National Provident Fund on 11 May 2010 had publicly identified BW Holdings on its official website among one of the many companies who had not paid its FNFP contribution: “B W Holdings Ltd: January 2010 to March 2010.” But what about BW Holdings Ltd’s $1, 146,012 loan from the collapsed NBF? To repeat Nazhat Shameem, who has noted that what was supposed to be an affirmative action program to advance soft loans by the NBF to the disadvantaged indigenous population was in fact a slush fund for the privileged, many of whom were not indigenous and some of whom were cronies of people in authority.  In the words of a great Muslim sage: “Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people.”
We say Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum is the new 'Chiefly Robber Baron of Fiji', and we will back our claims when we begin revealing the Indo-Fijian FFP donors from his LISTS (2014-2019) that he submitted to the Supervisor of Elections

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SPICED UP: IN 2017, FIJIFIRST PARTY raised $1,552,469 and the LAST donor was MARC McElrath, the owner and operator of McDonalds Fiji. But in list of donors, FFP spiced up his name as 'Marc Mcelrath Mcdonal'

21/9/2020

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And it seems the Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem did not object to the stated name, 'Marc Mcelrath Mcdonal' which FFP listed as a donor. On 12 October 2017 'Mcdonal' donated $10,000 (Receipt No 860). How many other FFP donors have used different names to donate? A search for 'Mcdonal' surname was returing ZERO hit. Was it a deliberate ploy on the part of FFP? Unlike previous lists, the 2017 LIST does not have a column Received By: Treasurer, Head Office, DD (Direct Debit), and Shailesh Kumar (Founding FFP member) who, in 2016, solely received a total of $515,000 on behalf of the FFP.
We will be revealing those donors and also why Shailesh Kumar might have breached the donation decree for he is listed in one of the lists as having donated $70,000. The VOTERS must hold Saneem to account, including Grahame Southwick and Kavita Raniga, the two Electoral Commissioners who donated $10,000 each to FijiFirst Party.
Did Saneem match DONOR Names with the VOTER LIST on him? If he had, and that is what he should have done, he would have thrown back the list at FijiFirst Party general secretary Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum. We apologise for the time it is taking to identify and reveal the donors, for the FFP LISTS reek of FRAUD, so we are forensically following the
MONEY and DONORS.
We could not identify another donor in the 2017 list, recorded as
MCADEN MUTALIC who, on 18 April, donated $10,000 to FFP. Now, it turns out he should have been listed as MLADEN MATULIC,
General Manager at Vuksich & Borich (Fiji) Pte Limited

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ONE MAN COLLECTOR:
And received on behalf of FijiFirst Party a total of $515,000 in 2016.
The financial vandalism wreaked by 'Crony Capitalists' MUST stop in Fiji. We will also reveal the DONOR to FFP who put up the party billboards

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POLLS APART: Graham Davis, 'In an “analysis” piece that reeks of the customary Fiji Sun spin - some of it directed against Grubsheet – white haired Rewa sage Delaibatiki, downplays the significance of poll result"

21/9/2020

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"True to form, the Fiji Sun has tried to please its political masters in government by burying the latest results of the Fiji Sun/Western Force research poll published in today’s edition of the paper. It leads with the relatively unremarkable news that the Fiji Labour Party has “leapfrogged the smaller parties to secure third place after FijiFirst and SODELPA” when the truly big news is the collapse of the government’s vote, along with a 10 per cent fall in personal support for the Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama...Your paper receives money in the form of exclusive government advertising and in return, has surrendered control of its editorial pages to the AG. It’s an arrangement kept from Fiji Sun readers while the paper trumpets the quality of its “journalism”. That, Nemani, is corruption and a breach of even the most basic journalistic ethics. And you and your fellow “journalists” should hang your heads in shame." - Graham Davis, Grubsheet Feejee, 21 September 2020

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TRUE to form, the Fiji Sun has tried to please its political masters in government by burying the latest results of the Fiji Sun/Western Force research poll published in today’s edition of the paper. It leads with the relatively unremarkable news that the Fiji Labour Party has “leapfrogged the smaller parties to secure third place after FijiFirst and SODELPA” when the truly big news is the collapse of the government’s vote, along with a 10 per cent fall in personal support for the Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama.

In an “analysis” piece that reeks of the customary Fiji Sun spin – some of it directed against Grubsheet – the white haired Rewa sage and sometime New Zealand resident, Nemani Delaibatiki, attempts to play down the significance of the poll result. But the numbers speak for themselves and even he is obliged to acknowledge them.

“SODELPA is the other big performer. It has for the first time overtaken FijiFirst in responses to the question: “Who do you think will win the (2022) election?” It has polled 41 per cent to FijiFirst’s 37 per cent”.
“The economic crisis backlash also continues to have a detrimental impact on Voreqe Bainimarama’s standing in the preference for Prime Minister stakes. He has dropped from 43 per cent to 33. It correlates in the movement in the party ratings. This is the lowest he has polled in Fiji Sun opinion surveys since the return to elections”.

“SODELPA caretaker party leader and opposition leader Sitiveni Rabuka has been the beneficiary of the swing in opinion. He has jumped from 18 per cent to 27 per cent”.

So a ten per cent fall in support for the Prime Minister to his lowest ever number and a nine per cent increase in support for his opponent, Sitiveni Rabuka. Plus a four per cent lead for SODELPA over FijiFirst when voters are asked to pick the likely outcome of the 2022 election result. All buried in the body of the story on page 2.

So who is to blame for all this unpopularity? Well partly me, apparently. Because this is the extraordinary “analysis” by Nemani Delaibatiki of why the government is now in a losing position and the Prime Minister’s support has collapsed.

“This is predictable at the moment given the economic impact of the pandemic and the constant strident negativity promoted by anti-Government media elements and social media keyboard warriors.

FijiFirst, like governments in many parts of the world, is being hit by the economic impact of the global pandemic. This despite the proactive initiatives quickly rolled out by the FijiFirst Government to address the economic pain. People are still blaming Government for the job losses and the hardship many businesses and families are going through.

But the Prime Minister’s decisive comments in yesterday’s Fiji Sun directly address some of the negativity, especially his description of Australian blogger Graham Davis. Mr Davis and his anti-government followers made much of his supposed inside knowledge. This from a spell working in Fiji for the American public relations firm Qorvis, which does work for the government.

The PM makes it clear Mr Davis was neither a significant player nor an insider, and was prone to making drama when there was none. He was also scornful of the Davis claims about leadership and divisions within FijiFirst."

Yes, Nemani. Anything you say. Correction. Anything the Prime Minister and his Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, tell you to say. Despite the fact that I am Fiji born and a Fijian citizen, I’m an Australian blogger, as if this somehow makes me less qualified than you to make pronouncements on events in Fiji when you are a New Zealand citizen having worked for many years in NZ until you were brought back to play for the pipers who call your current tune.

Not once in his statement about me did Frank Bainimarama deny a single thing I have written in the past few weeks. Not one. Ergo, they are the facts. The truth. The Military Council has asked for changes to be made to the government, including the removal of the AG. The cabinet is divided, largely along ethnic lines. And the Prime Minister has also told the Military Council that his choice to succeed him is Inia Seruiratu.

You know all this, Nemani. It’s just that you are not a journalist but a government propagandist. And the difference between you and me is this: When I was at Qorvis, everyone knew it. But with you, it’s clandestine – the dirtiest secret in the Fijian media.

Your paper receives money in the form of exclusive government advertising and in return, has surrendered control of its editorial pages to the AG. It’s an arrangement kept from Fiji Sun readers while the paper trumpets the quality of its “journalism”. That, Nemani, is corruption and a breach of even the most basic journalistic ethics. And you and your fellow “journalists” should hang your heads in shame.

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PEARLFISH DONATIONS TO FIJIFIRST PARTY: Justin Hunter, Savusavu Special Administrator and founder of pearl farming in Fiji, his wife, and Grahame Southwick, CEO, Fiji Fish Marketing donated TOTAL: $18,500

20/9/2020

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On 9 September 2014, Grahame Southwick, the CEO, Fiji Fish Marketing Group Ltd donated to the FijiFirst Party Head Office $10,000 (Receipt No 1041) and Justin Hunter, founder of J. Hunter Pearls Fiji, donated $1,000 on 10 September 2014 (Receipt No 812). Four years later, Justin and Leanne Hunter jointly donated $10,000 on 9 November 2018. No receipt number is listed for this donation. We must add a cautionary note: FFP have, for reasons best known to them, recorded the receving dates and years in British and English styles interchangeably: 6/11/2014 or 6/15/2014. The above donations are legal under the donation decree.

7 fishing companies to receive the $3.2M Tuna Support Fund, FijiVillage, 7 October 2017

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Fijileaks Founding Editor-in-Chief: In 2008, my deep throats inside FIRCA had dumped on me scores of tax files belonging to Interim Cabinet Ministers, former politicians, individuals, companies, lawyers and businessmen; not to mention the tax file of Frank Bainimarama's Interim Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry who was also line Minister for FIRCA. Among the heaps of files was one relating to an investigation on JOSEVA NAMISI LEANO, FIRCA's then Acting General Manager, Risk and Compliance. When I exposed Chaudhry's $2million that he was hiding in an Australian bank account, FIRCA issued a press release on 24 February 2008 stating that Leano had been dismissed for misconduct and abuse of office. The press release went on to state as follows: "The Authority is unable to divulge the facts of the various allegations made against Mr. Leano because they involve other taxpayers affairs." The next day, on 25 February 2008, Fiji Sun's then publisher Russell Hunter was abducted from his home, detained overnight by the military, and deported out of Fiji- to prevent us from exposing other tax dodgers and fraudsters based on their own tax files.  The Investigation Report on Leano was concluded in 2007. I never came around to revealing its contents but when I saw Grahame Southwick's photo with Aiyaz Khaiyum and a story on the Tuna Support Fund, my photographic memory jolted me to dig up the 'Leano File involving Leano, the Southwick Family, and Nur Bano Ali's BDO firm. After a lengthy consideration, we have decided to withhold the findings until we have obtained comments from Grahame Southwick and Nur Bano Ali on FIRCA's Report  regarding Leano and the Southwick Family. In passing, both Nur and her husband are also listed as DONORS to FFP. We will deal with them when we come to the Indo-Fijian donors. 

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TRUMPIAN OUTBURST: Bainimarama attacks his former Spin Doctor Graham Davis: "I don't know why he's dealing in gossip these days but I also remember even in the best of times he seemed to find drama. And.."

20/9/2020

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"If he (Davis) couldn't find it, he would make it up' - Frank Bainimarama

GRAHAM DAVIS, Grubsheet Feejee, 20 September 2020:
"I have quoted from the Military Council document almost in its entirety. It is from an impeccable source and as we’ve seen, the PM doesn’t dispute its contents. Nor has he disputed the announcement of his designated successor, nor indeed any of the facts that I have reported over the past few weeks. All of which makes this the astonishing statement that it is. Ask yourself this: If I was so unimportant and prone to fits of melodrama, why is this the most prominent story in the Fijian media today – not only the pro-government FBC and Fiji Sun but Fiji Village/CFL and Fiji One News? It is because I was a witness to the inner workings of the Bainimarama government for six years up close and wrote much of its narrative. And someone is extremely worried about the damage being done to his own position and what may be to come."

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Fijileaks to Fiji Media: "Go and ask Bainimarama if he was Inciting Sedition Against Khaiyum, citing Fijileaks. He can look up the Laws of Fiji, which are on his bookshelf (photo)"

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In his press statement, he told us: 'If you've read our Constitution, you know Fiji is a Democracy.'
Well, Fijian journalists should have retorted, "If you've read Khaiyum's Constitution, the Military Council is NOT your Cabinet. You had no right to approach the Military Officers."

FRANK BAINIMARAMA WAS INCITING SEDITION IN DECEMBER 2018
 IF the contents of the Military Council's 'Secret 26 Point Blueprint for Change' to Bainimarama is authentic (and we believe it is authentic), then Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum must REPORT his Prime Minister to the Police Commissioner for INCITING SEDITION against him (Khaiyum), for Bainimarama as a Civilian Prime Minister had no right to approach his former Military Officers to seek advice on how best to remove Khaiyum and take back control of FFP machinery. For, Fiji was not in a state of anarchy and there was no need for the invocation of DOCTRINE OF NECESSITY (unlike 2000 and even dubious 2006 where Bainimarama had manufactured one) to run to the Military Council. What should Bainimarama have done? He should have conducted a post-election FFP post-mortem, with or without Kahiyum's permission, not by running to the Military Council but by summoning FFP candidates and party members. Bainimarama, by approaching the Military Council, and the Council by giving him its Blueprint, both committed TREASON against Khaiyum, a sitting Government Minister and Minister for Law and Order. The Military Council (RFMF) is required under the 2013 "Khaiyum Constitution" to be NEUTRAL, except when there is utter chaos, anarchy, and deeply mired in 'corruption' in Fiji. The former Land Force Commander Brigadier-General Pita Driti was jailed for approaching Frank Bainimarama with evidence of corruption against Aiyaz Khaiyum, and for he and his co-officers calling for Khaiyum's removal. We can't have two parallel laws when it comes to INCITING SEDITION, for Graham Davis is standing by the contents of the Military Council's 'Secret Blueprint for Change' Document, issued to Khaiyum's Prime Minister Bainimarama in December 2018.
The Military Council should have told Bainimarama to
"Piss Off", for in December 2018, he was a civilian Prime Minister calling on them to abuse their powers under the 2013 Constitution. But the right course of action was to take him up to the barracks, make him run around the military grounds (an expert in dashing through the cassava patch - "it was raining that day but there was dust in the air!"), LOCK him UP in a military cell, and then call the Fiji Police to charge him for inciting sedition against his own Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum.
It is still not too late, for the late Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase was convicted and jailed for offences committed in the 1990s. The 'Driti Precedent' must be applied to Frank Bainimarama, the Prime Minister of Fiji. Ironically, Bainimarama is not only alive but is Prime Minister today, courtesy of none other than Driti. It was Driti who led troops under his command to put down the November 2000 mutiny, provided cover from firing rebel soldiers, and escorted Bainimarama down the embarkment into the cassava patch so he could make that famous dash for his life. On his way, Bainimarama famously defecated in his pants, whether out of sheer fright or because of the call of nature, and had to be hosed and cleaned at the temporary Walu Bay hideout.
Unfortunately, Khaiyum not only ensured that Driti was behind bars but has turned Bainimarama into a 'CRY BABY', asking him to lash out at any legitimate criticism of Aiyaz Khaiyum's dictatorial rule in Fiji

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GRAHAM DAVIS RESPONDS TO BAINIMARAMA ATTACK ON HIM:

Stung by successive Grubsheet articles revealing how the military wants changes to the government and also revealing the name of his designated successor, Frank Bainimarama has made an astonishing personal attack on me on the front page of the government-controlled Fiji Sun newspaper and on the government-controlled Fijian Broadcasting Corporation. (“PM slams claims made by ex-Qorvis worker”). While conspicuously failing to deny the substance of anything I have reported, the PM accuses me of trading in gossip and makes a number of snide personal references that are gratuitous and totally beside the point.


Once again, the PM has evidently been used by his Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, to engage in an ill-considered public relations blunder that elevates me personally and the substance of what I have written and drives even more Fijian readers to my website. Whether it was on the advice of my former colleagues at Qorvis Communications is an open question. One of them has already commented that: ” Someone should tell him (the PM) to keep a cool head.  He’s doing his own negative pr by being so aggressively defensive”. If Fiji is going to pay Qorvis $800,000 this year in highly straitened circumstances on top of the many millions it has expended over the years, the Prime Minister and his de-facto number two could at least heed their advice.
Here’s the text of what the Prime Minister said to the Fiji Sun:

“It’s funny, people outside of Fiji often have the most to say and the least to offer the country. Graham is no different. I know him, and he did some work with Qorvis, but that ended sometime back.

I think I remember the stress was sometimes too much for him. I don’t know why he’s dealing in gossip these days, but I also remember even in the best of times he always seemed to find drama. And if he couldn’t find it, he’d make it up.

I have no idea what he wants now. Maybe attention, maybe a job. I really don’t know. I don’t care and we don’t want to give him either. But he needs to understand that an attack on Fijian democracy, our Constitution, any of our independent institutions, or any of my ministers is an attack on me.

If you’ve read our Constitution, you know Fiji is a democracy. We are not a dynasty and I do not handpick my successor. The only ones who choose the Prime Minister of Fiji are Fijian voters.

I know, because they have picked my government twice. As the leader of FijiFirst, I am appointed under our party’s constitution, like all our office bearers. And I will once again work hard to earn the votes of the Fijian people when I lead FijiFirst into the next election.

Until then, we have to recover our economy and get industries running again, get jobs back and get help to those who need it most. I am working on these issues every day. We don’t have time to waste on gossip blogs. But for old time’s sake, I wish Graham all the best in his retirement in Australia.”

And here is the text of the statement that I have released to the Fijian media in response and that it is obliged to publish under Fiji’s media laws guaranteeing the right of reply to criticism of this nature:

I thank the Prime Minister for drawing public attention to my blogsite – grubsheet.com.au – in that many more Fijians will know that far from me criticising him or eroding his position, I am in fact trying to strengthen it by calling for the government to re-invent itself so that it can win the next election.

I take it as confirmation that what I have said is fact that in his statement, the Prime Minister does not deny anything at all that I have reported over the past month or for that matter, dispute any opinion that I have expressed.

In relation to his comments about the Constitution, the Prime Minister knows that a political party such as FijiFirst decides its candidate as leader before the people get to vote on that selection.  So his preference as party leader is critical and as I reported, he has told the Military Council that his designated successor is Inia Seruiratu. 

While I thank him for his best wishes, I am far from being retired – being of the same age as the Prime Minister – and am working for his re-election to prevent him from going into enforced retirement himself. He remains a person for whom I have a great deal of respect and affection. 

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF: Bainimarama has a history of lashing out at TRUTH, fed by those surrounding and manipulating him. In 2008, on the instigation of his then Interim Finance Minister Mahendra Chaudhry and Interim Attorney-General Aiyaz Khaiyum, he (Bainimarama) had attacked our Founding Editor-in-Chief, and even ordered the kidnapping and deportation of Fiji Sun's then Publisher Russell Hunter out of Fiji, for our revelation that Chaudhry was hiding $2million in his Australian bank account. When they fell out, Chaudhry was arrested and convicted over the $2million stash in Australia. In Graham Davis case, he has turned on his very own who was a witness to the inner workings of the Bainimarama government for six years up close and wrote much of its narrative

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Bah, Bah, BARR: And remember Bainimarama lashing out at Father Kevin Barr, suggesting that if he didn't like his plan to change the Fiji flag, he (Father Barr) should relocate from Fiji to CHINA. Thank God, Father Barr remained in his beloved Fiji and died peacefully at the Home of Compassion last week

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Father Barr Passes Away. Archbishop Peter Chong: "We thanked Fr. Barr for his service and gift to Fiji. We helped him pass from this world to God'. Mercifully, Father Barr was not dragged and deported to CHINA

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Fijileaks: BOTH Frank Bainimarama and the miliatry officers who entertained him, and then went on to present to him the Military Council Blueprint, are guilty of inciting sedition and hatred against Aiyaz Khaiyum in his capacity as a duly elected Minister in the Bainimarama Cabinet. The precedent is the charges laid against Pita Driti

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Graham Davis on Military Council Document, 10 September 2020

"Shocked to the core by his near defeat in the November 2018 election, the Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, summoned the people he trusts most – his military colleagues who helped him seize power in 2006 and who are still the ultimate authority in Fiji. They are the members of the Military Council – senior military officers still in uniform...The Military Council had been dormant for several years when it was suddenly reconvened by the Prime Minister in the election aftermath. His old comrades were given a specific invitation to advise him about how to respond to his near defeat at the hands of his bitter opponent – Sitiveni Rabuka, the former Prime Minister, RFMF commander and instigator of the 1987 coups who led the SODELPA  opposition into the 2018 election and came within a small margin of winning. 

The Military Council produced a 26-point blueprint for the direction it believed Frank Bainimarama should take his government and the nation. The contents of that advice have never been revealed – until now – and the Prime Minister is yet to act on its recommendations. But elements of the military and some of his cabinet colleagues want him to do so as a matter of urgency as the clock ticks inexorably towards the next election in 2022. 

It is, by any measure, an astonishing document that even 20 months on, will send shock waves through the Fijian establishment and body politic. Not least because it shows the Military Council laying the blame for the government’s poor election showing squarely at the feet of Bainimarama’s Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, who it accuses of arrogance and of putting the Prime Minister’s legacy at risk.

The document is bound to cause a collective tightening of sphincters in the AG’s immediate circle. Because pressure is building on the PM to end his 20 months of prevarication and at least implement the most pressing of the Military Council’s recommendations. It is also clear that the only thing between Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and political oblivion is the support of one man – Frank Bainimarama."


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