POLITICAL REWARD: The failed PAP candidate PARMESH CHAND has been appointed PS for Civil Service and Public Enterprise. Under the Bainimarama government, such appointment would have been branded nepotism, cronyism, and outright corruption.
But as the African dictators supporters will claim, 'It Is Our Time to Eat'.
 |   |
*It seems that giving KPMG the contract to recruit Permanent Secretaries was all a facade to give the public the appearance that the recruitment process was done independently and transparently.
*But if you have the wife of Parmesh Chand, an applicant for the job of PS for Public Service, serving as a senior KPMG staff, what guarantee is there that KPMG was not unduly influenced by the PSC in carrying out the interview and assessment process?
*Why did the Coalition not call for tenders as normal government procedure requires, instead of just following precedents set by Aiyaz Khaiyum and the FFG in awarding contracts to Aliz Pacific without advertisement (like Rewa Dairy consultancy and Processing of FFG Ministerial Salaries (from 2009 to 2014)?
*Surely, the Coalition Government would have been aware of the current scandal that KPMG (Correction, PWC) Australia is involved in with the Australian Government to alert them to advertise for tenders as required under the Finance Management Act?
*Thus the reappointment of not only Parmesh Chand and Peter Wise and also of former ex- military colleagues of Rabuka like Lesi Korovavala and Mason Smith (and the new PRUN, especially when we were told that there were hundreds of applications) could have been very well orchestrated from the Transition Team at PM’s Office
