We also call for the removal of the banning orders issued against us

REDDY COURT UPDATE: As widely anticipated, the Chief Magistrate finds Mahendra Reddy NOT GUILTY on one count of bribery and one count of undue influence.

The court case was brought against Victor Lal and Fiji Sun staff in 2008 following Lal's disclosure that Aiyaz Khaiyum's fellow Interim Cabinet Minister Mahendra Pal Chaudhry, as Interim Finance Minister and line manager of FIRCA, was hiding $2million in Australia. We see no reason why the case should still be pending against Victor Lal when, in 2014, the Fiji Labour Party leader Chaudhry was found guilty by the Fiji High Court (and conviction affirmed by the Fiji Court of Appeal) of defrauding
the Reserve Bank of Fiji regarding the $2miilion

The Plaintiffs who rushed to take VICTOR LAL to court are no longer on FIRCA Board: Peceli Vocea passed away in Brussels in 2014; Arvind Datt, a Chaudhry lackey, moved to Australia; Jitoko Tikolevu is now Fiji High Commissioner to London, and Pio Tikoduadua is now president of NFP

Fijileaks: Is the DPP saying that every article published by the Nai Lalakai in vernacular Fijian should have been read, vetted, and approved by Fred Wesley and Hank Arts, who does not even speak the Fijian language? Its like claiming that Frank Bainimarama (as party leader) and Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum (as general secretary of the FFP) should have vetted their Cabinet Minister Mahendra Reddy before he opened his mouth at the Ra High School which had landed Reddy before the Suva Magistrates Court. VOTERS will be the final judge, come the general election in 2018

COP23GATE: Coming soon - How Vanuatu delegation tried to skim over $30,000 in airfares to CAPP event in Fiji when airfares was only $4,000

Fijileaks: Dear Commentators, We had declined to approve all comments describing Mary as "GRACE BAINIMARAMA"

ROTTING AT FIJI TAXPAYERS EXPENSE: $1.2 million dollars worth of furniture rotting in containers at FNU Nabua Campus, while students and staff suffering because of  maladministration. VC Healey had assured that these furniture will be installed in April this year but its December. FNU sources claim it all began when Healey allegedly removed all senior locals from their existing positions and replaced them with new staff

The guard allowed him through the gates! Fijileaks: What if the driver had other intentions: to assassinate Frank Bainimarama? Why didn't the guard call the Police immediately, instead of letting him into the
Prime Minister's compound?

SAD! Another victim of booze culture in Fiji

Fijileaks: Most Indo-Fijian VOTERS are waiting for this Dancer who wriggled his bottom out of JUSTICE for killing the poor Indo-Fijian farmer. Bala was driving a Lautoka City Council car and had refused to be breathalyzed at the scene of accident; instead, he admitted himself to  Lautoka Hospital, to await his political masters to get on the case, Fiji style! Aiyaz Khaiyum and Praveen Bala seem to believe that Indo-Fijians are a bunch of fools and morons, who will forgive Bala at the poll

"Also, why no action had been taken against FSC’s former executive chairman, Abdul Khan, who was forced to resign last year after the National Farmers Union revealed his exorbitantly high director’s fees and other malpractices running into millions of dollars. This matter has been pending for well over a year now. We were assured at last year’s annual meeting that Khan was being investigated. The Corporation has been defrauded of millions of dollars by this man. How can FSC sit back and allow him to get away with it? Such malpractices must be nipped in the bud. By not taking action against Abdul Khan both government and FSC were giving the signal that they condone such fraudulent behavior. It seems some people in our society can defraud with impunity. Another case is that of the FF parliamentarian and deputy chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, Mohammed Dean who faced an internal investigation on allegations for fraud by the Education Department in 2015. The inquiry was shelved on orders from high” - Chaudhry

Fijileaks: We have established Abdul Khan was on $800,000 salary

*In his statement Chaudhry also repeats the NFP's proposal for a minimum guarantee price of $100 per tonne:

"Cane growers have been demanding a guaranteed minimum price of $100 per tonne but neither government nor FSC has responded to this."

YOU SEE ME HERE, YOU SEE ME THERE, YOU SEE ME EVERYWHERE

From Fijileaks Archive, 14 October 2015:

Dean's contract was extended for another year til 23 August 2015; the next day, 24 August, Education Minister Reddy ORDERED Education Ministry to transfer Dean to Dr Saukhat Ali Sahib Campus in Nadi

Teacher to Politician?: On 15 August 2015 Dean resigned without giving any reasons for his resignation to MOE; in fact, he was planning to contest election on FFP ticket!

ANOTHY RAM (pseudonym) please contact Fijileaks with your proper e-mail for urgent communication on a particular issue: [email protected]

"I have just read in Fijileaks, some of the comments by Dr. Ganesh Chand at the Fiji Labour Party Convention. His analysis of the current situation is quite correct, except that he lumps all the victims of the Bainimarama Government together:  “They have done that to me, to Mr Chaudhry, to Mr Qarase, they tried doing it to Mr Rabuka, they broke the doors and windows in [Aman] Ravindra Singh’s house, even Father Barr was not spared.” It is sad that Dr Ganesh Chand does not hold some of these “victims” to account for their clearly shared responsibility, with Bainimarama and Khaiyum, for all the evils that he points out: such as total control of the media, the silencing of the NGOs and unions, weakening of academic institutions; the breakdown of the separation of the three arms of government. Ganesh fails to mention that the Fiji Labour Party itself strengthened the military government after the 2006 military coup removed the multi-party Government of Qarase (i.e. including members of the FLP and Dr Chand’s colleagues) when the FLP Leader Mahendra Chaudhry joined the treasonous Bainimarama Government and served as its Finance Minister, until he was kicked out by forces and for reasons unknown. I believe that Dr Ganesh Chand and Dr Mahendra Reddy also were advisers to the Bainimarama Government at one stage and they were personally approved to be the senior managers of the Fiji National University established with Bainimarama’s approval (and of course his Education Minister Filipe Bole). I have not heard Dr Chand previously criticize the senior managers of USP who destroyed its credibility as an academic institution...Why is it that radical intellectuals in Fiji (and Jone Dakuvula and Father Barr may be classified thus) only wish to hold other leaders to account, but not their own. Jone Dakuvula was similarly blase about the faults of Rabuka and his post-1987 coup Government, as Victor Lal has amply pointed out on his blogsite FijiLeaks which reprinted Victor Lal’s Fiji Sun articles. Father Kevin Barr has never criticized his colleague Father David Arms (or the Catholic Church in Fiji) despite this Australian citizen’s support of the 2006 military coup and treason so that he could indulge his personal interest (hobby?) in electoral systems." - Professor Wadan Narsey

"One of the mystifying aspects of Commander Bainimarama is his strong advocacy of the rule of law when it comes to prosecuting those who instigated the 2000 coups, but his apparent willingness to contemplate RFMF illegal action to remove the current government if it fails to meet his expectations.  Leadership of the opposition FLP seems to have a similarly relativist approach.  The FLP President, Mrs. Koroi, openly admitted to Fiji TV during the civil-military crisis in January that she would find it acceptable for the RFMF to remove the Qarase government and replace it with the pre-2000 Chaudhry government, to restore the previous status quo.  Chaudhry publicly backed away from Mrs. Koroi's statement at the time; but privately he seemed to imply to the Ambassador and Krawitz that it might be justifiable for the RFMF to remove the Qarase government and install an interim replacement, pending fair elections...
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.
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.' "
US ambassador Larry Dinger's secret cables to Washington, Wikileaks

"I believe that Dr Ganesh Chand and Dr Mahendra Reddy also were advisers to the Bainimarama Government at one stage and they were personally approved to be the senior managers of the Fiji National University established with Bainimarama’s approval (and of course his Education Minister Filipe Bole)" - Professor Wadan Narsey

“They have done that to me, to Mr Chaudhry, to Mr Qarase, they tried doing it to Mr Rabuka, they broke the doors and windows in [Aman] Ravindra Singh’s house, even Father Barr was not spared...Who is in control in Fiji? It’s a small group of very, very rich people. They decide on policies. They decide what happens...We have been receiving pain and suffering for 10 years now. It is time for us to stand up and fight. Fiji has enormous potentials. We can build it up again but for that we have to stand up and take action...There must be separation of powers between the three arms of government – the legislature, the executive and the judiciary and the processes that led to the judiciary. There was not much hope for a society where this separation of powers had been destroyed, as was the case in Fiji” - Ganesh Chand to FLP Convention

Dr Ganesh said he lodged a complaint with FICAC because “the 2013 Constitution had been severely breached by certain people in society”. He never heard from FICAC. He lodged two other complaints with FICAC involving millions of dollars in corruption. He even asked FICAC for the reference number for his complaint – did not hear from it. He then wrote to the President and was glad to report that last week the President wrote back to say that he had instructed FICAC to provide a progress report on the matters. “This is the state of this country. I am an aggrieved party. If as a citizen, my right to redress for grievance is taken away, where do I go? Who do I turn to?"
Fijileaks: Like Ganesh Chand, we had asked FICAC what action it was taking against Chand who had been accused of various offences during his time as FNU Vice-Chancellor but we had no response. He later appeared in court charged with one count of abuse of office

Andrew Moti Singh, FNU's former Manager Finance Project, to FICAC:

Fijileaks: Did John Connor abuse the Procurement Regulations 2010 to obtain $5million from AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM, the Minister of Finance and Minister Responsible for Climate Change. We have sent questions to both of them.

We have redacted the details while waiting for reply from John Connor and Aiyaz Khaiyum. The above letter contains Connor's signature

Let us make it very clear. We are NOT belittling Fiji's role in the COP23 presidency in Bonn but we are piercing through the CLIMATE OF SECRECY that prevails and the road to BONN. In fact, when the United States approached Fiji in Morocco to take up the presidency, Khaiyum was very hesitant, for after all, it was NOT his BABY. He was a reluctant Johnny-Come-Lately but gradually took control of the financial purse. But like the Prime Minister's Cyclone Relief Fund, will the general public ever know the true facts, figures, and donors to the Climate Fund? What will the taxpayers of the donor countries ask if they found out how their money was spent, running into millions of dollars. Many may argue the money could have gone to Fiji to get its people out of Winston tents!
Fijileaks: We have decided not to run any statement from that nationalist windbag NIKO NAWAIKULA, the Shadow Environment Minister.
HISTORY informs us that if this man is encouraged, Indo-Fijians will
either sink or swim out of Fiji, a plan his SODELPA leader Rabuka had in 1987. VICTOR LAL: "I have spent over three decades fighting for democracy, human rights, and corruption free Fiji. I don't want to wake up and find the likes of Nawaikula and other hardcore SODELPA nationalists throwing our people into the sea. In any event, not a day passes when Nawaikula's statements are not devoid of indigenous rights issues, as if other races or issues don't exist, or matter. No self-respecting Indo-Fijians (except maybe Jai Ram Reddy and Mahendra Chaudhry) must ever allow themselves to become second-class citizens in Rabuka-Nawaikula's Fiji. Niko Nawaikula is to Sitiveni Rabuka in 2017, what Apisai Tora, Ratu Meli Vesikula and Ratu Inoke Kubuabola were to Rabuka in 1987, which saw Indo-Fijians being beaten up, raped, made landless, forced to flee Fiji or remain second-class citizens. I have always put FIJI FIRST."

MOE: MINISTRY OF ECONOMY under the control of Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum, the MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

WELCOME HOME: The President of COP23 and Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama at the traditional welcome ceremony organised by the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs at GCC complex

Men of Vaturova, Cakaudrove at the traditional welcome ceremony organised by the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs at GCC complex.

TRAVEL COST FOR MARY, by the 'GRACE' of DONORS, runs into $$$$$$

http://fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=424979

ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CHIEF: Remember this chief, Ratu Tevita Momoedonu? He was branded a traitor by Fiji Labour Party, for acting as Prime Minister for 24 hours, so that deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, could be sacked after the 2000 George Speight coup. Now, Momoedonu is cynically collecting pension as 'former Prime Minister'. Yesterday, he was at the Great Council of Chiefs complex waiting to welcome Bainimarama and his COP23 delegation from Bonn
"Turaga nai Taukei Sawaieke, Ratu Tevita Momoedonu, await the arrival of the President of COP23 and Prime Minister Hon. Voreqe Bainimarama"

BACK FROM THE COLD: Momoedonu waiting to greet Bainimarama

VICTOR LAL: During the 2000 crisis, I had recommended (in May 2000) that the then President Ratu Mara should dismiss Chaudhry who was held hostage and appoint Momoedonu, albeit briefly, as Prime Minister so that Momoedonu could advise Ratu Mara to suspend Parliament and assume emergency powers.  In 2000, Momoedonu was the only FLP Cabinet Minister not present in Parliament when George Speight stormed the complex on 19 May 2000, taking Chaudhry and other government members hostage. I had cited Section 106 of the 1997 Constitution of Fiji which provided: 'The President may appoint a minister to act in the office of other minister, including the Prime Minister, during any period, or during all period when the minister is absent from duty or from Fiji islands, or if for any other reason.' I had argued that there can be little doubt that given the then existing hostage crisis that Chaudhry was not only absent but also was unable to perform the functions of that office. However, that Ratu Mara was obliged under the section to appoint an existing minister to act. Momoedonu fitted the bill as that Minister, I had argued, in one of my political columns.
And, in 2001, I had recommended that the new President Ratu Josefa Iloilo should consider re-appointing Momoedonu as Prime Minister to advice him to dissolve Parliament, and for Fiji to go to the polls, instead of re-appointing Chaudhry as Prime Minister because of bitter divisions over FLP leadership and defections from the deposed Peoples Coalition Government.  There was no longer, I had argued, a cohesive PCG in waiting. But I had recommended that there should be a provision disallowing Momoedonu to exploit his appointments and start claiming pension in the future. The appointments, although brief, controversially entitled Momoedonu to a lifetime pension amounting to 20 percent of the then Prime Minister's salary of $70,000 per year. The FFP government has also restored his pension; his first term of office was on 27 May 2000 and lasted only a few minutes. His second term - from 14 to 16 March 2001 - was for two days. Yesterday he was in his chiefly regalia, welcoming Bainimarama, who during the 2000 hostage crisis was army commander

VICTOR LAL in Fiji's Daily Post, Option Two: Military Rule but which Lal discouraged and suggested a constitutional solution - appointment of Momoedonu and sacking of Chaudhry to resolve the hostage impasse

VICTOR LAL in Fiji's Daily Post, March 2001. Option Three - Dissolve Parliament and for Fiji to go to the polls instead of calling on a fractured deposed Peoples Coalition Government to return to power

Two and half million at disposal of Bainimarama and Khaiyum for COP23

We have redacted the account number of the Climate Fund

This Act may be cited as the COP 23 Presidency Trust Fund Act 2017 MINISTERIAL RESPONSIBILITY The Act comes under the responsibility of the Minister responsible for finance. A. SAYED-KHAIYUM Attorney-General

WAIT! Bainimarama had assured Parliament that no funds would be diverted from other Ministries to fund COP 23. So why $245,508.01 was diverted from MOE?

MOE: MINISTRY OF ECONOMY under the control of Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum, the
MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

Amena Yauvoli is the Director General for the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG). As the COP23 Presidency’s Pacific Special Representative, Ambassador Yauvoli is responsible for outreach to and engagement with other Pacific island countries and territories. Prior to his appointment as Director General, Ambassador Yauvoli served as Fiji’s Ambassador for Climate Change.

COP23GATE: More to follow from bank statements, emails etc, etc, etc!!! Half a million was set aside for Agriculture Minister Inia Seruiratu to globe trot as designated CLIMATE CHAMPION when Fijians are living in tents after Winston

From Fijileaks Archive, 20 October 2017

Large scale welcome ceremony to greet COP 23 delegation was not government’s intention - AG

From Fijileaks Archive, 2 March 2016

"It is noteworthy that there was no communications or consultations nationally, regionally or internationally as Fiji lobbied to get the presidency for COP23 in Marrakesh. Even our fellow members of the Pacific and SIDS (Small Islands Developing States) were caught unaware." - NFP leader Professor Biman Prasad, January 2017

We will reveal soon how AMERICA arm-twisted FIJI to accept COP23 Presidency when it became clear IRAN was emerging favourite to take over the presidency from MOROCCO.
We will also reveal the millions the consultants charged Fiji in fees, based on e-mails, project details, and the bank statements leaked to us

Iran's Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar delivers a speech during the opening day of the UN Paris Climate Change Conference at Le Bourget on the outskirts of the French capital, Paris, on November 30, 2015

Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum opens the United States Agency for International Development’s Climate Ready Project Office in Suva. Khaiyum said adaptation is a huge focus for Fiji and the Climate Ready Office set up is timely. “Eighty-percent of all climate funds that are available goes towards mitigation and only 20 percent is allocated for adaptation which is a huge challenge for many countries like Fiji and other Pacific Island Countries (PICs) where the money is required primarily for adaptation as opposed to mitigation,”