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HOME AND DRY: HELP for Home cyclone scam confirmed BUT we reach different conclusions; Fijileaks found Indo-Fijian advisory councillors very strict in approvals unlike Turaga ni Koros who went soft on applicants

22/5/2016

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Ministry uncovers fraudsters

ABOUT 22 per cent of those who have benefited from Government's "Help for Home" initiative were found to have given false information in order to receive assistance to rebuild homes damaged by Severe Tropical Cyclone Winston.

This was revealed by Ministry of Finance's Luke Koroisave, who said they had referred some cases to the police following the investigation carried out by their audit teams.

He said some were found to have received two to three prepaid electronic cards — meaning they received more than one payment.

Mr Koroisave said some had also deliberately changed their address from living in settlements to living in the village in order to qualify for the $7000 payout.

Those living in settlements, whether squatters, vakavanua settlement or in areas outside the village boundaries were to receive $1500 as per the guideline set out by Government.

He said they had also received a report from Vodafone Fiji, which was responsible for the electronic cards, indicating that some were in possession of two cards. According to Mr Koroisave, they were able to find out after advisory councillors in the village, who were representatives of Government, revealed that some of the listed recipients' houses were not damaged by the cyclone.

Some names were also not on the list and those, he said, would be revisited by the military engineers to have their houses assessed again.

Mr Koroisave said some people had left their villages to live on farm houses and requested for assistance to both houses.

He said people should be reminded that they could not escape the law and the law would definitely reach out to them whether this year, next year or right in 2020 because Government would send out a team to assess how the money was spent. Owners of houses with partly damaged roofs received $1500 and if the roof was completely blown away, $3000 would be paid.

The $7000 payout was for houses of which the walls and roofs were damaged and those completely destroyed.

Mr Koroisave made the comments during a talkback show on one of the radio stations on Wednesday. Source: Fiji Times

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6 Comments
Builder
22/5/2016 08:07:42 pm

Why am i not surprised? People are just following the leadership of Bai and Kai. People will do same as they see leaders do. People know about ministerial salary scam, Rewa Dairy scam, Naim Construction scam, C J Patel / Fiji Sun scam (advertising), the missing $100m, the missing $39m from PM's office. If its all ok for the PM and AG, then getting $7,000 is ok for the villager. So they reason. This is why leaders must have absolute integrity.

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Chiku
22/5/2016 09:12:43 pm

What Builder says is too right. Having leaders with absolute integrity is a must for good governance and for setting socially acceptable standards of behaviour for other citizens. Remember that saying about the fish rotting from the head. The rot starts at the top and trickles down. Now leaders with absolute integrity is hard to get even in first world democracies with solid accountability, transparency and public scrutiny. Now how can anyone expect such leaders in a third world banana republic which has purportedly recently returned to democracy after 8 years of dictatorship characterised by non accountability, transparency and scrutiny and afflicted by corruption, nepotism and bad governance?
No wonder Builder is not surprised by this relatively low grade corruption.
I am not surprised either.

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Lets Pray
22/5/2016 11:42:35 pm

First world democracy had more than trillion dollars missing in Government audit unaccounted for as to why the 9/11 appears to have taken place.

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Dekho
23/5/2016 08:38:51 am

In the Big time corruption enterprise in Fiji which ethnic communities have a disproportionately high involvement compared to their population size?

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Builder
23/5/2016 10:52:39 am

If one wants to follow crime, follow the drug cases. Those who have seen the freeing of the locals charged in multi-million dollar drug cases will say that Fiji already has a 'Gangster Government'.

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On-Song
25/5/2016 03:21:54 am

The Govt. has not even tried to explain the missing and unaccounted for millions, but spending a lot of resources chasing after the misused thousands given to citizens. As in the highly disjointed FNPF cyclone and flooding giveaways, Govt. got into the same act and received exactly the same result. When you give away money there will always be the willing takers.........idiots!!

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