VERBAL FRACAS: This week SODELPA's Anare Jale and Jale Baba indulged in unsavoury spectacle, exchanging bitter war of wards during a meeting of opposition political parties on ATS strike, with Baba storming out of the meeting in anger. Its the latest humiliating bitter feud gripping SODELPA in recent months

"I'd like to leave you with our Party Leader's favourite words:

"Just Do the Right Things, with Malice Towards None"

"Kitaka ga na Ka Dodonu, kakua ni lomacataka e dua na tamata"

Hindhi (Bimal is working on this>"

Adi Litia Qionibaravi's e-mail, Friday 29 December 2017

UPDATE ON ASHWIN RAJ: He is now trying to get the Chair of the Human Rights Commission, Justice Ajmeer, removed because the Commissioners have accused Raj of gross abuse of office. The charges include alleged vehicle, office funds, and complaints data abuses

From Fijileaks Archive:

A day later after her Lasulasu
OPERATION KIDACALA:
RABUKA'S 30th Candidate IS....Lynda Tabuya

[Sitiveni] Rabuka says the newly chosen SODELPA Vice President Vijay Singh and Lynda Tabuya have personally accepted the challenge in resigning from PDP and joining SODELPA.  Former PDP Leader Lynda Tabuya says they are glad to unite with SODELPA to fight the 2018 general elections. Tabuya says they needed to rethink their strategies moving forward. She says pre‑elections coalitions is just not legally possible in the current election system. Tabuya says they have chosen to join SODELPA because their policies are similar:
Fijivillage, 9 December 2017   
Fijileaks: Questions to Lynda Tabuya and Vijay Singh:
1) Have you two resigned from the PDP?
2) If so, when did you resign?
3) Who accepted your resignations?
4) Who is temporarily in charge of PDP?
5) When did you join SODELPA?
6) Tabuya, when did you apply to be CANDIDATE? When were you (if at all) interviewed by the SODELPA SELECTION COMMITTEE? Right up to 8 December, and a day before the announcement of candidates, you were insisting that you were not a member of SODELPA. You claimed you were still leader of PDP in talks with SODELPA. But on 9 December Rabuka claimed you had resigned from PDP and have joined SODELPA, with Singh appointed as a VP for SODELPA?
7) Why should there be a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) if you two have resigned from PDP and joined SODELPA. A MOU is a document that expresses mutual accord on an issue between two or more parties. MOUs are generally recognized as binding, even if no legal claim could be based on the rights
7) On what grounds did the PDP Management Board, to use your own statements, grant you authority to sign a MOU with Sitiveni Rabuka? Come off, its like a Board of Trustees granting former Directors the powers to sign off multi-million dollar deals? Who are you two fooling? Or are you two surrounded by FOOLS in PDP and SODELPA?
9) If you two have resigned and joined SODELPA, why the hell should you two be exempt from the rules and regulations of SODELPA Party Constitution?
8) Vijay Singh, you have become a VICE-PRESIDENT of SODELPA, so what is this garbage MOU that you have signed with Rabuka, allegedly at the behest of the PDP Management Board? Have you merged PDP into SODELPA?
10) Have you two informed of your departure to the Supervisor of Elections?
We call on the Election Supervisor to look into the whole shenanigan?
PDP slogan was: REAL CHANGE. Now, you have changed political sides, you have no bloody right, power, or privilege to be signing an MOU with Rabuka.
You have to be treated as any SODELPA member, without any grace or favour
10) Lynda Tabuya, go and ask FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry about MOUs with Sitiveni Rabuka. This man is the biggest liu muri in Fiji. Only an ignorant fool, devoid of history, will make a 'DEAL WITH THE DEVIL"

"If Shammi is an intending candidate of Fiji First party she should do the honourable thing and resign instead of using the publicly funded airwaves to raise her profile. The people are not “gullible” and see right through this shameless self-promotional marketing, using a similar approach of a former radio announcer of that same station who now sits in Parliament. Ashwin Raj, on the other hand continues to over-extend himself both as the Director of Human Rights and Chair of the Media Industry Development Authority (MIDA). Obviously he confuses himself on which hat he wears on any given day because if he was thinking rationally, instead of using publicly funded air-time to “campaign” on hate speech on social media, he should have exemplified balance and advocated for a wider spread of opinions with more studio guests as per Schedule 1 Media Code of Ethics and Practice, of his OWN enabling MIDA Decree. Even as the Human Rights Director he of all people should be the first to promote balanced dialogue, instead of hogging the airwaves to promote a skewed worldview on "deliberative democracy"."

Section 15 outlines the resignation process of persons before they join other political parties or take up executive positions in other parties. SODELPA leader Sitiveni Rabuka, general secretary Adi Litia Qionibaravi and party president Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu breached Section 15 when they welcomed Tabuya and Singh into SODELPA at the Special General Meeting on 9 December. Rabuka, Naiqama and Qionibaravi could also be cited under Section 19 of the Decree, in assisting in the commissioning of a breach of the decree which can lead to de-registration of a political party. It beggars belief that neither the motormouth SODELPA MP Niko Nawaikula nor lawyer Qionibaravi read the Political Parties Decree to Rabuka before his reckless and illegal decision. We wonder if Rabuka had deliberately infiltrated SODELPA to help close it down for the political benefit of FFP? We checked with the Fiji Elections Office and Tabuya and Singh were still with PDP while at the same time they were politically sleeping in bed with Rabuka. So SODELPA has breached S15

We have no doubt Rabuka will revert to picking up bottles
at the Suva sea wall as the sun sets on SODELPA

Fijileaks: Doesn't he have enough work to wrap himself up at FBC? He should resign as chairman of ATS, and account for the mess up at FBC 

BROTHER'S KEEPER: Riyaz Sayed Khaiyum has no right to demand anything from ATS staff. Both his appointments at FBC and ATS smacks of gross nepotism. Aiyaz Khaiyum did this with ABDUL KHAN, appointing him as Chair of the Board and CEO of FSC. And one can see what Khan did to the FSC and the sugarcane farmers. Yet Khan is not accountable. He walked away with $800,00 a year salary and FICAC is yet to take him into custody for alleged fraud at the Fiji Sugar Corporation

From Coupfourpointfive Archive, July 1, 2012 by VICTOR LAL
"It was only a matter of time before others unmasked their coup faces. One of them was Riyaz Sayed Khaiyum, the brother of Aiyaz. Long before his name was announced as the new CEO of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission, a journalist colleague of his on TVNZ’s Down Under had tipped me off that Riyaz was planning to return to Fiji for “top FBC job – nepotism bro!”, with me quipping, “I liked his style on Fiji TV Close Up”. His NZ journo colleague retorted: “He will sacrifice all to become mouthpiece of the illegal lot, bro – his brother is getting him the FBC job”. He was stating the bleeding obvious that in the near future Riyaz would become his “brother’s news keeper”."

The FBC’s official website had jumped the gun and had announced Riyaz’s appointment before the Board made a formal announcement. An unhappy David Whippy told the media: “The problem is that the Prime Minister's office has changed the conditions and we were not told about the announcement. We need to tell the applicant about this significant development as he may not accept the conditions in its present form." Whippy said the package was slightly lower than the one which former chief executive Francis Herman received before he resigned in June of that year.
He said it was a bad idea that government companies competing in the commercial market were aligned to a permanent secretary as emoluments that attract the right candidate who could achieve the company's objectives needed to fill in the vacancy. Riyaz and and former radio executive and media sales manager Esava Cakau had been shortlisted for the CEO position.
Regime lackey Parmesh Chand covers appointment
Parmesh Chand said Riyaz was recommended by the Board and endorsed by Bainimarama. “The advertising, short-listing, interviews and recommendation of appointment of a suitable candidate are all made by the board (FBCL). They are, with the support of the Public Enterprise Minister, submitted to the Prime Minister for endorsement,” Chand said. He said matters such as a conflict of interest were non issues as far as the office of the interim Prime Minister was concerned. Basically, the law of the dictator ruled supreme in post-coup Fiji.
The big brother Aiyaz passed any questions to the FBC Board saying the appointment of any person in a government statutory body was done by the appropriate authority. “As such, queries regarding the procedures followed in the appointments should be directed to the appropriate authority. In this case, questions regarding the appointment of Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum should be addressed to the board of FBCL.”

“Good Morning, Fiji-Welcome to The Khaiyum Airwaves”:
What’s new: Fijiwood blockbuster featuring the Khaiyums, and directed by Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum.
Clip 52: Television (Amendment) Decree 52 of 2012
http://www.coupfourandahalf.com/2012/07/khaiyums-22million-bank-loan-to-set-up.html

http://fijivillage.com/news/Parvez-Akbar-appointed-as-new-CEO-of-the-ACCF-k259sr/

FRANK BAINIMARAMA has totally abandoned his role to lead the nation, with Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum now directing the fate and lives of Fijians

The Khaiyum Brothers are holding multiple positions. When Riyaz leaves FBC during office hours to go and chair ATS meeting, does that mean he must lose his job? Who do these two brothers think they are in FIJI? Increasingly, Fiji is being run along brotherly Sicilian Mafia Code!!!!!!

One wonders if all talk about Government giving free education is just a smokescreen or was the grant stopped at the whim and fancy of Reddy as Education Minister? Khalsa wants MOE to pay up outstanding money. If not, the Management has threatened to close the schools! Its not 'Water Under the Bridge' despite Reddy becoming the newly created Minister for Waterways and Sewage Plants

In a series of e-mail exchanges between Iowane Ponipate Tiko, Permanent Secretary for Education, Heritage & Arts, and the Management of the Khalsa College and Khalsa Primary it is revealed that the MOE has an outstanding amount of $462,8976.17 for both of the schools - Khalsa College and Khalsa Primary in Labasa. The grant was stopped by the then Education Minister Mahendra Reddy.   In one of the e-mails cited by Fijileaks and dated 27 October 2017, the Management rejects Tiko's claim that Free Education Grant (FEG) is to be used as per 6 stipulated allocations. The Management of Khalsa schools insist that rental of properties should also have been allocated and inserted within one of the allocations. "It’s unfair that our Committee is being deprived of not being paid for usage of buildings as the buildings rightfully belong to the Labasa Sikh Temple Committee," the Management wrote to Tiko.   According to the School Management's records the  MOE has an outstanding, unpaid FEG, amounting for both their schools as follows below: SGN Khalsa College         2015                    $139,266.32 SGN Khalsa College         2016                    $159,143.17 SGN Khalsa College         2017                    $116,874.84 SGN Khalsa Primary        2017                     $47,611.84                                                                   ------------------                                                             TOTAL: $462,896.17 On 10 September 2017 Tiko had written to the Schools Management as follows: 'Good evening;  Unfortunately the usage of FEG cannot be utilized through your so called leases/Rentals of the schools. The stipulated usage of FEG is supposed to be in accordance with the six allocations mentioned within the School Financial Management Handbooks 2013 of the Ministry of Education.   The Hon Minister for Education and Prime Minister has issued a directive that all misused FEG money ought to be recovered through agreed instalments and these issues about school lease would need to be handled by the school management in some other ways but not from the Free Education Grant of government.  This is where we will take to court all offenders who abuse the Free Education Grant for schools.  For now we will centralize all FEG for both schools until all repayments of lease are repaid to the MOE.   I hope a clear understanding on the issue will be reflected from the school management and other stakeholders.  All other schools that have abused the usage of FEG, by doing what is not mentioned or mandated in the six allocations of the School Financial Management handbook of MOE have been requested to reimburse the amount taken in some monthly instalments as their FEGs will be centralize at the Education offices.   I am just reiterating Mr. Singh the stand of our current Minister for Education.   Thanks, Iowane Ponipate Tiko Permanent Secretary for Education Heritage & Arts Ministry of Education Headquarters Senikau House Suva,

Bainimarama opening Telecentre at Shri Guru Khalsa College on 10 September 2013 GOVERNMENT Telecentre: Prime Minister Bainimarama opened the third out of the five telecentres in Vanua Levu at Shri Guru Nanak Khalsa College on 10 September 2013. This Telecentre is for the use of students during school hours and the rest of the community in the evening and on weekends. Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum also took the opportunity to distribute copies of the 2013 Constitution and hold a Talanoa Session with the community members there. Bainimarama signing copies of the 2013 Constitution

Fijileaks: Raju has not disclosed what Raivoce wrote to get the telling off

Meanwhile, SODELPA's latest recruit and former PDP leader Lynda Tabuya exposed by her own

IMPRISONED INSIDE FACEBOOK: Now, Ashwin Raj, instead of following up the case of prisoners who are languishing in Fijian prisons because the members of the Prerogative of Mercy Commission have not been appointed, has joined others in the pursuit of SODELA candidates and their postings (and re-postings) on FACEBOOK

US ambassador to Fiji, Steven McGaan's secret cable to Washington from Suva, re Parmesh Chand's views on Khaiyum's influence on Bainimarama (Wikileaks)

"Fiji’s highest ranking civil servant, Parmesh Chand,  reached out to the Ambassador to express concern, both his own and on behalf of others within the IG [Interim Government] seeking elections in 2009, about the AG’s influence with Bainimarama.  Chand’s view, that the AG has captured the ear of Bainimarama in a negative way, is widely held in Fiji.”

Fijileaks: Let us nor run away from one crucial fact: The deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase secretly fled Suva for his island on Mavana, leaving his supporters to Bainimarama's military after the 2006 coup. Unlike previous coups of 1987 and 2000, a vast majority of native Fijians simply melted away, only to re-emerge as Facebook warriors on Fiji. We are surprised that Parmesh Chand is willing to stand as a SODELPA candidate under the leadership of SITIVENI RABUKA who not only started the coup culture but raped, assaulted, tortured, and disenfranchised Indo-Fijians. He also beat up and disenfranchised moderate urban native Fijians and Others in his racist and unconstitutional 1990 Constitution. And yet many of Rabuka's supporters have 'rabbit hole mentality'. Strangely, they are not objecting to the inclusion of Peceli Rinakama's name on the SODELPA candidates list. He was not only a co-conspirator with George Speight in overthrowing the Chaudhry government but the MPs were held hostages for 56 days. The SVT MPs had been released within minutes of the takeover of Fiji's Parliament. We might never have heard of Bainimarama and Khaiyum if Rabuka had not started the coup culture in 1987. He is now back, leading SODELPA into the 2018 general election. Cry the Beloved Country!

The 2013 Constitution of Fiji, unlike the 1997 Constitution, has taken the prerogative of mercy power away from the President and it looks like gave it to the Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum. Khaiyum is the Chair of the Prerogative of Mercy Commission. In May 2015 he told Parliament that Members of the Commission will be appointed soon and all applications will be assessed by the Commission. Its nearly Christmas 2017 and many prisoners have the right to petition for mercy but the list of names for the Mercy Commission have not been forwarded to the President. In his Parliament response, Khaiyum had informed us that the Judicial Service Commission was in the process of appointing the four-member commission with him the chairman [Raja]. "Once they have done that, any applications made under the Prerogative of Mercy Commission will then be assessed by the commission." He also admitted that there was no Parole Board. He was responding to questions regarding whether 2000 COUP conspirators, Timoci Silatolu and Josefa Nata, had applied for parole. The two have already served minimum sentences of nine and seven years respectively of their life imprisonment sentence for TREASON but are still behind bars. "...I certainly can speak on Mr Timoci Silatolu and Josefa Nata, they have not applied for parole; in fact there's no parole board at the moment."  It was pointed out to him in Parliament that Silatolu and Nata's fixed terms of nine years and seven years had expired in 2012 and 2010 respectively but they were still being held in prison. To this Khaiyum said the sentences were mandatory, and it did not mean that after serving those terms they could automatically be released but rather it was a minimum period required for their life sentence. He said if need be, there was a particular process in place where, in the absence of a parole board, cases could be brought before the Prerogative of Mercy Commission. He said the Judicial Service Commission was in the process of appointing the four-member commission with him as the chairman. "Once they have done that, any applications made under the Prerogative of Mercy Commission will then be assessed by the commission." The 1987 and 2006 coupsters, led by Sitiveni Rabuka and Frank Bainimarama, are shielded by Rabuka's IMMUNITY contained in the 1990, 1997, and 2013 Constitution

ONE BIG SHOPPING TALK: One topic should have been Mercy Commission!

In 2015, another FFP Minister - Reddy - was busy humiliating the FTA

From Fijileaks Archive, 18 December 2015

Fijileaks: This "Masi Polo" native Fijian JUDAS Tiko (above) had threatened to cut off financial contribution to Fijian Teachers Association if Leawere and others did not publicly show support to bullying Education Minister Reddy; we had not disclosed this information after pleadings from  FTA; in fact, Reddy had personally phoned and threatened to stop the funding if Fijileaks continued to reveal the rotten state of affairs at Education Ministry; Tiko to Leawere, 15 January 2015: 'In stating the above Sir, The MOE is awaiting the FTA executives to practice a little show of respect and present at least a little 'matanigasau' to the MOE and its Hon. Minister after the serious of negative comments and unprofessional attacks voiced in the media and blog sites.' 

And TIKO had arranged with Fiji Sun to capture the HUMILIATION, dished out at the Waisomo House car park in Suva, on 3 March 2015 (see above photo)

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/greasing-his-application-director-curriculum-advisory-services-at-education-ministry-tiko-is-the-new-permanent-secretary-for-education-heritage-and-arts-now-we-know-why-he-was-reddys-masi-polo-poodle

FICAC have appealed his acquittal by the Chief Magistrate

His Excellency the President, Major General (Ret’d) Jioji Konusi Konrote, First Lady Sarote Konrote and Minister for Waterways Hon. Mahendra Reddy with his family after the swearing in ceremony at Borron House.