Fijileaks: Did John Connor abuse the Procurement Regulations 2010 to obtain $5million from AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM, the Minister of Finance and Minister Responsible for Climate Change. We have sent questions to both of them.
We have redacted the details while waiting for reply from John Connor and Aiyaz Khaiyum. The above letter contains Connor's signature
Let us make it very clear. We are NOT belittling Fiji's role in the COP23 presidency in Bonn but we are piercing through the CLIMATE OF SECRECY that prevails and the road to BONN. In fact, when the United States approached Fiji in Morocco to take up the presidency, Khaiyum was very hesitant, for after all, it was NOT his BABY. He was a reluctant Johnny-Come-Lately but gradually took control of the financial purse. But like the Prime Minister's Cyclone Relief Fund, will the general public ever know the true facts, figures, and donors to the Climate Fund? What will the taxpayers of the donor countries ask if they found out how their money was spent, running into millions of dollars. Many may argue the money could have gone to Fiji to get its people out of Winston tents!
Fijileaks: We have decided not to run any statement from that nationalist windbag NIKO NAWAIKULA, the Shadow Environment Minister.
HISTORY informs us that if this man is encouraged, Indo-Fijians will
either sink or swim out of Fiji, a plan his SODELPA leader Rabuka had in 1987. VICTOR LAL: "I have spent over three decades fighting for democracy, human rights, and corruption free Fiji. I don't want to wake up and find the likes of Nawaikula and other hardcore SODELPA nationalists throwing our people into the sea. In any event, not a day passes when Nawaikula's statements are not devoid of indigenous rights issues, as if other races or issues don't exist, or matter. No self-respecting Indo-Fijians (except maybe Jai Ram Reddy and Mahendra Chaudhry) must ever allow themselves to become second-class citizens in Rabuka-Nawaikula's Fiji. Niko Nawaikula is to Sitiveni Rabuka in 2017, what Apisai Tora, Ratu Meli Vesikula and Ratu Inoke Kubuabola were to Rabuka in 1987, which saw Indo-Fijians being beaten up, raped, made landless, forced to flee Fiji or remain second-class citizens. I have always put FIJI FIRST."
MOE: MINISTRY OF ECONOMY under the control of Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum, the MINISTER RESPONSIBLE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
WELCOME HOME: The President of COP23 and Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama at the traditional welcome ceremony organised by the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs at GCC complex
 |  Men of Vaturova, Cakaudrove at the traditional welcome ceremony organised by the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs at GCC complex. |
Every Fijian should be proud of what our country (Fiji) has achieved from the COP23 meeting that was held in Bonn, Germany earlier this month.
This was highlighted by the President of COP23 and Prime Minister Hon. Voreqe Bainimarama at the traditional welcome ceremony organised by the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs at GCC complex.
In his speech, Prime Minister Bainimarama thanked all Fijians for their support during the three week meeting in Bonn, Germany.
“The meeting in Bonn, Germany was successful and this was possible through the long months of preparations and I must thank everyone for their support,” PM Bainimarama said.
“We have a huge task ahead of us next year and we need to work together to raise awareness on climate change and how it’s affecting everyone.”
PM Bainimarama further added that Fiji has accomplished a lot in terms of its presidency at COP23 meeting in Bonn and every Fijian should be proud of this achievement. Source: Fijian Government Facebook
This was highlighted by the President of COP23 and Prime Minister Hon. Voreqe Bainimarama at the traditional welcome ceremony organised by the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs at GCC complex.
In his speech, Prime Minister Bainimarama thanked all Fijians for their support during the three week meeting in Bonn, Germany.
“The meeting in Bonn, Germany was successful and this was possible through the long months of preparations and I must thank everyone for their support,” PM Bainimarama said.
“We have a huge task ahead of us next year and we need to work together to raise awareness on climate change and how it’s affecting everyone.”
PM Bainimarama further added that Fiji has accomplished a lot in terms of its presidency at COP23 meeting in Bonn and every Fijian should be proud of this achievement. Source: Fijian Government Facebook
TRAVEL COST FOR MARY, by the 'GRACE' of DONORS, runs into $$$$$$
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ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF A CHIEF: Remember this chief, Ratu Tevita Momoedonu? He was branded a traitor by Fiji Labour Party, for acting as Prime Minister for 24 hours, so that deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, could be sacked after the 2000 George Speight coup. Now, Momoedonu is cynically collecting pension as 'former Prime Minister'. Yesterday, he was at the Great Council of Chiefs complex waiting to welcome Bainimarama and his COP23 delegation from Bonn
"Turaga nai Taukei Sawaieke, Ratu Tevita Momoedonu, await the arrival of the President of COP23 and Prime Minister Hon. Voreqe Bainimarama"
BACK FROM THE COLD: Momoedonu waiting to greet Bainimarama
VICTOR LAL: During the 2000 crisis, I had recommended (in May 2000) that the then President Ratu Mara should dismiss Chaudhry who was held hostage and appoint Momoedonu, albeit briefly, as Prime Minister so that Momoedonu could advise Ratu Mara to suspend Parliament and assume emergency powers. In 2000, Momoedonu was the only FLP Cabinet Minister not present in Parliament when George Speight stormed the complex on 19 May 2000, taking Chaudhry and other government members hostage. I had cited Section 106 of the 1997 Constitution of Fiji which provided: 'The President may appoint a minister to act in the office of other minister, including the Prime Minister, during any period, or during all period when the minister is absent from duty or from Fiji islands, or if for any other reason.' I had argued that there can be little doubt that given the then existing hostage crisis that Chaudhry was not only absent but also was unable to perform the functions of that office. However, that Ratu Mara was obliged under the section to appoint an existing minister to act. Momoedonu fitted the bill as that Minister, I had argued, in one of my political columns.
And, in 2001, I had recommended that the new President Ratu Josefa Iloilo should consider re-appointing Momoedonu as Prime Minister to advice him to dissolve Parliament, and for Fiji to go to the polls, instead of re-appointing Chaudhry as Prime Minister because of bitter divisions over FLP leadership and defections from the deposed Peoples Coalition Government. There was no longer, I had argued, a cohesive PCG in waiting. But I had recommended that there should be a provision disallowing Momoedonu to exploit his appointments and start claiming pension in the future. The appointments, although brief, controversially entitled Momoedonu to a lifetime pension amounting to 20 percent of the then Prime Minister's salary of $70,000 per year. The FFP government has also restored his pension; his first term of office was on 27 May 2000 and lasted only a few minutes. His second term - from 14 to 16 March 2001 - was for two days. Yesterday he was in his chiefly regalia, welcoming Bainimarama, who during the 2000 hostage crisis was army commander
VICTOR LAL in Fiji's Daily Post, Option Two: Military Rule but which Lal discouraged and suggested a constitutional solution - appointment of Momoedonu and sacking of Chaudhry to resolve the hostage impasse
 VICTOR LAL in Fiji's Daily Post, March 2001. Option Three - Dissolve Parliament and for Fiji to go to the polls instead of calling on a fractured deposed Peoples Coalition Government to return to power |  |
