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GRAY LIES: Fiji Labour Party slams Khaiyum for misleading students on why FFP PM and his Ministers are getting high pays; Fijileaks: If Aiyaz Khaiyum was Singaporean, by now he would be in prison for corruption

18/4/2017

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Fijileaks: The students should have also asked Khaiyum to explain why he was discriminating against native FFP Cabinet Ministers when it came to salaries - as we can see in the Fijileaks banner and story below:

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GRAY LIAR?

"Khaiyum says if Ministers are paid well, there will be less corruption. Really? Corruption levels in Fiji have risen significantly since the takeover by Bainimarama in 2006 because of an absolute lack of accountability and transparency in his government’s handling of public funds and awarding of government contracts. They also paid themselves the highest salaries and allowances paid to any government minister in the past."

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Khaiyum misleads school kids

AG Aiyaz Khaiyum makes a pathetic attempt to justify the ridiculously high salaries and allowances paid to the PM and his Ministers when questioned by high school students in Sigatoka.


First, the Sigatoka students must be commended for raising the issue of high Ministerial salaries at the national budget consultations.

Khaiyum’s response was that ministerial salaries in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and PNG were much higher. This was classic Khaiyum tactic: mislead and bamboozle the students.

How can anyone compare salaries in Fiji with Australia, New Zealand, Singapore? The comparison is completely irrelevant considering that the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of these countries is many, many times higher than that of Fiji.

Singapore’s per capita income is also much higher and they run a clean government. Singapore is not considered a developing country any more – its economic performance is far superior to Fiji’s.

Secondly, Khaiyum says if Ministers are paid well, there will be less corruption.

Really? Corruption levels in Fiji have risen significantly since the takeover by Bainimarama in 2006 because of an absolute lack of accountability and transparency in his government’s handling of public funds and awarding of government contracts.

They also paid themselves the highest salaries and allowances paid to any government minister in the past.

Transparency International stopped listing Fiji on its corruption surveys because of a lack of data. The Auditor General’s reports since 2008 have highlighted many instances of corrupt practices, funds unaccounted for and lack of acquittals and proper documentation for moneys used.

To this day neither the Prime Minister nor Khaiyum has given details of super salaries paid secretly to them through his aunt’s Suva accounting firm between 2010 and 2013. Queries on this were raised in the Auditor General’s report for 2014.

Under this government, Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentarians have awarded themselves huge increases in pays and allowances without the increases going through an independent remunerations committee, as in the past.

Their super salaries are notoriously disproportionate to the miserable $2.30 an hour they have set as the minimum national wage rate.

Is it little wonder that even school children are beginning to question their super salaries?

Students question Attorney-General on salaries of ministers
The Fiji Times
Tuesday, April 18, 2017


THE salaries of Government ministers were questioned by high school students during the National Budget Consultation in Sigatoka recently.

The issue was put forward to Minister for Economy and Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum who addressed the secondary students during a budgetary consultation last week.

He explained that corruption was more likely to occur if public officials were being paid less than what they deserved.

"If you go to PNG, NZ and Australia, their (ministers') salaries are way higher," he said.

"India has been rated as the most corrupted Asian country in the world. And in Singapore, they pay their ministers in US dollars. They pay them $US1.5million ($F3.1m). So talking about ministers' salaries, if you look at the corruption levels of the previous governments, isn't it better to pay somebody well than to have a corrupt country. If you are going to pay your ministers a small amount of money, do you think that the opportunity for corruption would increase?"

He said each aspect of a minister's salary was taken into account by Government.

"We have to find out how each person is using that money. These are the kinds of things that we look at. We have to look at the management of these funds.

"When you become a minister, you will be given a set amount of salary, but we also take into account who's paying for his water, who's paying for his electricity and who's paying for all of his other expenses.

"In some countries, as soon as you become a minister, they are automatically given huge bundles. They are given servants or people that work for them at their different homes."

He said it was similar for other public servants.

Fijileaks: The students should have also asked Khaiyum to explain why he was discriminating against native FFP Cabinet Ministers when it came to salaries - as we can see in the Fijileaks banner!

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http://www.fijileaks.com/home/pay-apartheid-the-native-fijian-interim-cabinet-ministers-were-treated-as-second-class-coup-servants-while-aiyaz-khaiyum-frank-bainimarama-and-dr-neil-sharma-were-being-paid-higher-salaries-after-power-grab

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6 Comments
Chiku
18/4/2017 09:38:42 am

Khaiyum and his crony ministers in the FFP gangster government are self- serving political scoundrels. No amount of spin will alter that fact,

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Gulong
18/4/2017 07:18:29 pm

Not only in Singapore but in most countries in the world, He will be brought to account in Fiji before long for one thing at least for the simplistic explanation he gave Parliament in pushing through the Bill to privatise the FEA. No mention whatsoever about the fact that wherever this policy was introduced - Australia, New Zealand, the US - electricity prices have shot through the roof. Consumers in Fiji will be punished by being forced to pay high electricity prices. Khaiyum as the man responsible will face criminal charges for misleading Parliament and the people of Fiji.

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Dekho
18/4/2017 08:49:51 pm

Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum should have been in prison for his part in the overthrow of a democratically elected government of Fiji ( a bad government but a lawfully elected government ). That's before he used his coup elevated position as what Fijileaks aptly describes as the
" Minister for Everything " for corruption of the kind Fiji has never seen.
Yes if the rule of law existed in Fiji the way it was given us by the British colonial system Khaiyum would have been in prison and out of further mischief!

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Fiji First Party
18/4/2017 11:11:37 pm

Khaiyum is this world's most pitiable IP Thief (Chor), as well. Shameless Sala !!

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Aliabaa
19/4/2017 01:07:08 am

Funny the comparison made to Singapore in regards to the pay of Ministers. Has ASK been to Singapore oops i forgot he gets free trips at the expense of the Fiji slaves who work for $2.32 an hour so h must have been their. Singapore is a fully developed nation with world class roads health care and God knows what else. The Average monthly income is USD$2616 for nominal work such as labor etc. Fiji is about USD$300.What the fuck is this idiot talking about. I thought people got into politics to serve there nation and not for money. Its simple ASK and his band of merry motherfuckers are thieves and we must get rid of them in the next election. There is too much at stake.

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Samjoe
19/4/2017 11:59:25 pm

Editor Fijileaks I must protest. How dare you publish that " Gray Liar " photo of our own, handsome, I love me Shah Rukh Khan ( Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum ) looking like a fart smelling Walter Mathau!

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