FNUGATE: Acting VC Ian Rouse following in Ganesh Chand's footsteps, cuddling up to Bainimarama, and is accused of displaying Chand-type dictatorial traits; FNU Internal Audit reveal Rouse misused Credit Card!

12/6/2015

"Audit was surprised to note that Dean Rouse being the College Head failed to acquit the expenditures that he incurred. He only filled the monthly expenditure forms and did not attach the relevant receipts and thus is totally unacceptable."

AUDIT was requested by the Vice Chancellor {Ganesh Chand] to investigate the usage of Credit Card facilities maintained at CMNHS Project Office held by the Dean Professor Rouse and Dr. Berlin Kafoa.

2.0 Audit Findings

2.1 Credit Card Transactions and Acquittals
"Credit Cards should only be used for official purposes and within the operational authority of the office holder carrying the card. All card holders will receive monthly statements from the Bank at the end of every month. Once received, the respective card holder is required to complete the Monthly Expense Claim form and attach all relevant receipts"

A list of transaction was provided by the Director Finance for which the acquittals had to be verified against its usage. These transactions are the payments made to clear off the Credit Card Expenses. Audit requested for the acquittals from the Project Finance Officer, Ms. Jocelyn Prasad and was provided with only few acquittals while the rest were not available.

2.1.1 Credit Card Holder – Dean CMNHS, Prof Rouse
A list of transaction for the Dean’s Credit Card was provided to Ms. Jocelyn to submit the acquittals. Refer to attachment 1 (a) for individual details each

"The purpose for the transactions could not be obtained since acquittals are not provided. Expenses committed at Tappoo Duty Free Shop, Leiola Duty Free Shop and the Bad Dog Cafe gives a lot of suspicion that such transactions were committed for personal use...The payment from the credit cards was made without any considerations of the University regulations and therefore these spending were subject to abuse since there was no form of accountability."

"Deans Credit Card, number 4999-6400-0009-0694: Audit verified the Credit Card statements of Dean [Ian] Rouse and noted that few transactions may not be work related"

"It was also noted that Ms. Jocelyn Prasad the Project Finance Officer lied and misled audit when she stated in her cover page that full acquittals were provided for four credit card transactions when in actual fact audit discovered that these four were incomplete as some receipts were still yet to be acquitted till to date"

15 Comments

Chiku

12/6/2015 04:28:15 pm

Become a VC - especially a white expatriate VC - in a university in a third world banana republic and have a good time.
That is the natural order of things. It is part of the Pacific island countries colonial hangover.
VC Rouse is just cashing in on that.

Tinku

12/6/2015 09:48:34 pm

there seems nothing outwardly in the expenses. clutching at straws, are we victor? your sources are poorly informed, the big problem at FNU is loose checks and controls after Ganesh Chand's departure. rampant abuse of allowances, overtime and vehicles by staff. people taking advantage of Ian Rouse's softness. ganeshwa had stamped out all such abuses, except the same rules did not apply to him. hje was quite generous with himself and his cronies,

VC benefits link

13/6/2015 12:35:48 am

One doesn't have to be white. See how the local VCS at all universities exploited their power.

Johnny

12/6/2015 06:10:48 pm

He had made zero difference to FNU since taking up the VC posts. Staffs are still being discrimnated and made to work like slaves. Students are not provided with the right environment and learning tools. The good lecturers are leaving or are being sacked and replaced with ones who have very poor English. Most times, students hardly understand these expat lecturers. Like in USP, he has appointed an incompetent person as finance director who is messing up the finance department. We were told by reddy that Rouse will clear the mess created by Ganesh. Instead, he has escalated the mess into a garbage dump. He is bidding his time like other foreigners in Fiji and trying to lick FNU dry till when he has the opportunity. We are so blinded with white supremacy that even their wrongs are looking like right to us. There is a great need in Fiji and especially at FNU to treat the locals fairly. We tend to be paying expats with no competency like kings but our locals who are competent and doing most of the work o keep this country flourishing are paid like beggars. Wake up reddy. Don't turn FNU into another gold digging pond for expats.

Aklesh Nalil link

12/6/2015 07:30:53 pm

it has been only few months now and IR started misusing FNU's fund,what a shame.

Fiji is full of Crooks

12/6/2015 10:07:34 pm

Sab sale chor hai !!!

Maro Pito

13/6/2015 02:32:56 am

Fiji is full of Crooks are you included in this too

Fiji is full of Crooks

13/6/2015 07:33:19 am

Maro Pito Thoko

I am no longer in Fiji.

I have had some very bad experiences from real estate agents to reputable lawyers to public servants, all trying to screw you when I lived there !!

Quixote

13/6/2015 09:53:43 am

Real estate agents, reputable lawyers, public servants..

We're on Fiji leaks. Tell your story and submit it for posting.

Out at least name them so the rest of us know to avoid them!

Tomasi Koroi

13/6/2015 01:45:02 pm

Ganesh had stamped out abuses. But Reddy says there was a mess which Rouse was to clean. Can the mess be listed? I have done my research and collected lot of information on FNU. What I see is that in 5 years, Ganesh built FNU to a reputable University. He got rid of the deadwood. He brought in a lot of competent Fijians to positions which at other places are occupied by non-Fijians. So far I havent come across anyone who says Ganesh was corrupt and given any evidence to back this up. Even FICAC charge opn Minister Filipe Bole - where is the money which benefited Ganesh? If any benefit, it was for Bole, but we dont raise any finger on that. My sources say that even that benefit to Bole was legit. It is easy to gossip. But where are the facts. Why cant we see Ganesh and Rajesh - who dont look like us, who dont have our roots, but who worked hard from rural Indo poverty to rise to make excellent contributions to Fiji - as people deserving of our praise. WHy do we tag them as 'pro-Frank' or 'anti-Frank'? Why not consider them as 'pro-Fiji'? Why do we turn blind eyes to expats like Tarr or Rouse, and our own who have been abusing money but take fine tooth comb to pit pick on successful Indos? Until we being to see people for what they are, our attendance at Sunday Services will not give us salvation. I have made my choice. God Bless.

Dekho

13/6/2015 06:22:30 pm

Tomasi Koroi , one simple question for you : was Rajesh Chandra and Ganesh Chand the two local university VCs pro - Bainimarama regime - that is the Dictaorship in Fiji - or not ? Please give a straightforward, no beating about the bush, answer.

Johnny

14/6/2015 05:07:07 am

@dekho, that doesn't matter. What matters is whether they are competent or not in the positions. Similar to it doesn't matter that you are a SODELPA supporter as far as you are good in the job that you are assigned. Rajesh Chandra's intelligence and IQ is displayed in the analysis that he did. Believe me, I'm an accountant and you wouldn't get a better analysis than that. Boila should be doing that but as we know, he is least competent for the role. Anyway, it's RAjesh's and USP HR's fault that they hired an incompetent EDF. This is the sole reason USP finance is in doldrums.

Dekho

14/6/2015 10:14:43 am

On the contrary it matters most significantly whether the university VC was a lackey of the dictatorship in Fiji. Such a spineless self- interested person renders himself unfit to lead a university. Account ant Johnny do you know what a university stands for? And, finally no I am not a SODELPA supporter as you falsely attribute. I am dedicated supporter of democracy.

USP

14/6/2015 08:45:53 am

Boila is an astute person of integrity, as an indo fijian having worked for USP I know.

VC Chandra with mere Geography qualifications has inferior complexity,, he knows this and lacks administration skills big time.

Putting pen to paper against Boila shows his shallowness, why did he not ask for a draft report for discussion. Boila's office is only 20m from VC's,well add another 20m.

In real terms people should take heart to people in public service, PWD, Council, Nurses, Police etc.. they may bludge but also do hard yards.

Unlike USP crowd who wish to feel important, think they are important but merely live in a cocoon!

On-Song

14/6/2015 11:33:34 pm

Hey guys; culture of corruption is what we're all facing regardless of skin colour or political affiliation. Never before in our history has such a culture developed into pandemic proportions either through better reporting or just absolute disregard to norms of decency & honesty expected from the leaders in Govt. and Govt. sponsored Institutions. We're all going through a very rough patch that is just deteriorating into the vulgar and no new-flag waving will do it for us. Let us all return to basics and let God guide us accordingly for all these manmade disasters will not go away anytime soon!!!

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FNUGATE: Acting VC Ian Rouse following in Ganesh Chand's footsteps, cuddling up to Bainimarama, and is accused of displaying Chand-type dictatorial traits; FNU Internal Audit reveal Rouse misused Credit Card!

"Audit was surprised to note that Dean Rouse being the College Head failed to acquit the expenditures that he incurred. He only filled the monthly expenditure forms and did not attach the relevant receipts and thus is totally unacceptable."

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