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E-TICKETING or E-MISERY for the TRAVELLING PUBLIC: Its insane to insist that everyone must have a Vodafone travel card to hop on, hop off buses in Fiji, and NO CASH will be accepted - not everyone regular rider

1/10/2017

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Fijileaks: Will FFP government order every bus in Fiji to fit ramps for disabled passengers since it boasts its champion of non-discrimination? Bus companies received 18c per litre rebate on fuel in return for concessionary fares for school children. This agreement was particularly beneficial to bus companies without school routes

The only beneficiary of the e-ticketing are Vodafone with thousands of dollars pouring into their bank account and the Government which claims it will help FIRCA to monitor income of bus operators - as if its the drivers who are thieves. What about someone who hitches a lift into town and wants to hop on a bus back home? He or she must not be forced to carry a card around the clock. What about a chief who has been drinking home brew under a mango tree in another village and has left his travel card at home? What about villagers and rural dwellers who might be only coming for a day to visit someone in hospital, relatives or attending a funeral? Why should they be ordered to have a compulsory Vodafone travel card? There are hundreds of other instances and examples which has not been thought through by this Government. How many Government Ministers, including Bainimarama and Khaiyum, will be using public transport? Zilch! What about poor households who can't afford to put food on the table but who will have to fork out money to ensure every family member has a pre-loaded electronic value Vodafone CARD to travel on public buses? We call upon all political parties, especially FFP, to reveal if among the party donors were bus operators, who seem to have blamed 'thieving bus drivers' for financial black holes!

VODAFONE STORES OPENING HOURS: 8AM TO 5PM

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1 October 2017: Bainimarama launches the e-ticketing card and everyone must have one before they can board a bus in Fiji
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"E-ticketing has been introduced as one of the means to prevent revenue leakage in the bus industry and to ensure there is transparency in revenue reporting by bus operators. The system will allow the Government, LTA and other regulatory agencies to make accurate assessment of operators’ revenue /financial status..."
The Consumer Council of Fiji, 7 April 2013

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TRAVELLING in style on taxpayers expense without A TICKET on display
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UNHEALTHY EXAMPLE: Health Minister Rosy Akbar flouting traffic laws and parked without any TICKET!!!!!!!
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eTransport is a government regulated fare payment system that now requires the travelling public to pay their bus fare through an electronic means. From 1st of October, 2017, passengers on public buses will no longer be allowed to pay their bus fare using cash. Cash fare will be completely replaced with an electronic ticketing system.   
Therefore, all passengers traveling on public buses will need to register for an eTransport Card available at no cost and have these cards pre-loaded with electronic value to travel on public buses.

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The travelling public in London are required to use Oyster card, Visitor Oyster card or contactless payment card to ensure that millions of people are transported faster from point A to Z. This writer, however, has experienced the trickery some retail outlets employ when approached to top up an Oyster card for a pound or two; since the commission they get is minimal, the retail outlets would claim either the machine is not working or they are too busy. The moment you mention how about over five pounds, they will immediately drop everything and run and top up your Oyster card.
But in most parts of England the public have a CHOICE; take for example the historic city of Oxford where, if you are a regular traveller, you are advised to buy the so-called electronic SMART card (with many benefits), otherwise you can buy a ticket from the driver:

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As a committed environmental campaigner I always cycle but in certain cases (like extreme bad weather etc) I take the bus and pay the driver:

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ARE there any Government or Opposition MPs including Bainimarama and Khaiyum in this long queue waiting for their mandatory bus cards?

Fijileaks: This E-Ticketing FIASCO could also turn out to be A TICKET for the voters to KICK FFP Government off from the driving seat of power but as we have argued, SODELPA under the Coupist DRIVER Sitiveni Rabuka, must not be handed the wheels of Fiji's destiny in 2018. SODELPA have no right to assure Indo-Fijians that their safety and security will be protected because the party is supported by the chiefs and the vanua; if anything, they MUST accept to be ruled by INDO-Fijians who are FIJIANS by birth. Why should Indo-Fijians kow tow to SODELPA, and express gratitude for the assurance? Those advocating that Rabuka be voted Prime Minister in 2018 have no moral right to condemn Bainimarama from aspiring to be re-elected. A coupist is a coupist. Under Rabuka, the racial and religious demagogue, we could be slapped with another SUNDAY travel ban like the one he imposed in 1987. He made it illegal on Sundays to operate buses, taxis or other means of public transport; anyone caught flouting this dictator's decree was to be JAILED or fined, for GOD had whispered to him in his sleep to carry out COUP! Ironically, the hardest hit from this 'Lucifer's' decree were native Fijian churchgoers who were forced to walk miles to reach their lotus!

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Fijileaks: We don't know what would have been Fiji's fate if this COUPIST had won the 1999 general election?

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8 Comments
Bahuki
1/10/2017 02:26:02 pm

And the dicktatorship of the day continues implementing policies without public consensus or even a trial run like they always fond of doing.

They never do anything right which is why I won't be surprised if the e-ticketing scheme dies out because I don't think it will last long.

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Chiku
1/10/2017 08:46:51 pm

All part of the pretense to show the world that Fiji is finally becoming a modern nation state courtesy of the Bai-Kai coup and " true democracy ". E- ticketing and all that in an aid receiving third world country with close to half the population living in poverty or border line poverty...and the ruling elite living in the lap of luxury and travelling in style on public expense.

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Chiku
1/10/2017 09:19:58 pm

There is far far greater leakage of revenue from the governmental set up ( including the First World perks our third world politicians have given themselves ) as any casual perusal of the Auditor General's reports show than the leakage of revenue from Fiji's bus transport industry. The leakage from the general revenue adversely affects all the Fiji public because it takes away vital resources from basic needs services. The leakage from bus revenue nominally diminishes the private profit maximisation by bus owners.

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Ratu
1/10/2017 10:04:33 pm

U can understand this latest move. by Khaiyum and Bainimarama by seeing it in the context of the mountain of debt that the FFP Govt has amassed after 11 years at the helm. It has to be paid back. Their neo liberal economic policies have not. created the economic miracle they so naively sought. The US$500m (F$1bn) they hoped to get from the Worldwide Green Climate Fund has turned into a pipe dream with the US withdrawal fm the Paris Agreement and a growing chorus among world scientists that Climate Change is a scare campaign not backed by science, faced with this scenario rather than sell off Fiji's assets and call in the IMF (quite rightly so) they have chosen a path of austerity measures (reducing cost of the public service) while rasing a tax on anything they can. So this is why civil servants are up in arms in protest at Govt efforts to cut the cost of the civil servants. Bus fares are now in the firing line. This is just the start. They will set up monopolies so that they can tax them and extract greater surpluses to pay off debt. And they will not come out straight to admit publicaly the reason for their action because to do so would be to admit their own failure and besides they fear they would get voted out at the 2018 general election. Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the Khaiyum and Bainimarama dictatorship where the SHHTF

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Dekho
1/10/2017 10:31:05 pm

Bainimarama on a bus . Probably the first and last time the Fiji public will see him " riding " on a bus!

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Ulaiasi samuel
2/10/2017 05:16:35 am

What happens to visitors that wants to catch public transport from airport?

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Johnny
3/10/2017 10:18:58 am

They buy a disposable card from an agent or the bus driver on board. Come on, lad, go read up a little will you!

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Charles H.
2/10/2017 05:50:13 am

This government is being feted by the IMF/World Bank, UN et al using climate change (COP23, Agenda 21, etc) - notice: no longer global warming (hoax) - as a precursor to more omnious policies that this government will be forced to implement to the naive public. I remember turning on the FBC TV program sometime last year by chance one morning (about 9.00 am) where a representative of the IMF (a European lady) was being interviewed by the FBC host. During her maiden speech she, by chance(?)/deliberately(?), mentioned in her speech, quote" ...and the The New World Order..." I have been studying the NWO for quite a number of years, and her speech had confirmed my suspicions. This government is not only pro UN but also pushing for a new world order agenda. The UN is the vehicle for this NWO. Besides NATO, the banking/oil cartels, industrial-military complex, intelligence agencies, etc. who are all tightly interwoven.
This latest edict I'm pretty sure will be but an ongoing series of attacks on our personnel liberties. Our local banks also seem to be headed this way too. Cashless society anyone? Soon cameras will be installed on every corner in our towns & cities on the pretext that this will curb crime. Hegelian dialectics anyone?
I observe that almost every instance the IMF pays us a visit, this government sooner or later introduces a new bill in parliament to be passed, often on spurious (my observations) motives. Now this very same globalist institution & their economic hit-men are being ensconced in our very capital. Kick them out!
Frank & company has but plunged us into more debt (which we nor any other country) has/ will ever be able to pay back(thanks to their interest rates alone). The banks find it more profitable to loan money to a nation than to individuals since we, the serfs, will be the ones indebted & guaranteed to pay back the current government's fiasco - really?!
The opposition is in disarray & powerless while FFP is having a swell season. Where are our Edward Snowdens?

Attributed to Thomas Jefferson(?): "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny."...












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