For those who are concerned with the Government's Summit costs:
Dear Mr. [Officer from Government who invited me],
As advised earlier I have kindly accepted your invitation to participate in the National Economic Summit.
However, I kindly decline the offer of $80 for travel expenses from Lautoka to Suva, as well as the accommodation for 2 nites @ the Peninsula.
Please also note: I humbly decline to partake in any tea/coffee/snacks/lunch/dinner layouts, and have opted to bring my own. Please ensure that your catering order reflects one less person to be catered for, for this. I shall keep the Government auditor alerted of it come the audit time.
Likewise, I decline to consume any wine/beer/alcohol during the cocktail or consume any finger food; I shall bring my own wine or beers, as suits my mood then, and my own bean-peanut. Likewise, please ensure that your catering order reflects this.
Can you please also make arrangements with the local police etc., to allow me to carry my own snacks, eats and drinks.
Please be alerted: I shall be making a lot of interventions and fruitful contributions.
I, thus, need your advise: I intend not to use the PA system, which you would be paying from taxpayer funds; instead I will use my natural voice. I am trying to locate my 24-year old amplifier - Bhopa they call it in Hindi - which I had purchased for election campaigns in 1999 and 2001. In case I can find it and power it up, I may bring that in so that my own sound system carries my voice well. On this, I know that the sessions will be live online. So listening is not a problem. BUT can you advise me please also on how would you arrange to carry my voice to the other 499 participants, as I intend not to use the tax-payer funded GPH space; would you be able to arrange a government owned desk and chair outside, in Albert Park possibly, from where I can make my contributions. If it rains, I will have my umbrella handy.
This is all in the interest of tax-payers like your panelist Save Narube and invitees, MPC and the Fiji First supporters who, I am sure, will be amply present in the Summit.
Oh, one final matter: Since I wont be using any of the tax-payer paid facilities and provisions, how do you intend to remunerate me for my intellectual contributions to building a better Fiji. I can assure you that the quality of my contributions will be far superior to the combined brain power of the vocal custodians of taxpayer money like Save, MPC and their trolls. Do I invoice you at the rate at which Fiji companies with offices abroad have been charging management fee to their parent companies in Fiji? Or should this be at the rate at which Government pays foreign consultants without any blink of an eye by the vocal public custodians of public finance? I do recognise that after billions were literally siphoned out from Government through shady deals by the previous regime (on which those who are vocal critics now of the summit costs remained silent), Fiji has a financial crisis, and that the Hon. DPM/MF has to walk extra miles to bring Fiji back to normal. In light of this crisis, and as a person with Fiji dear to his heart, do I massively discount my invoice to the level which is comparable to the value of the contributions to Fiji's development by the Summit cost critics?
Your advice would be most appreciated.
Kind Regards.
Ganesh Chand
Dear Mr. [Officer from Government who invited me],
As advised earlier I have kindly accepted your invitation to participate in the National Economic Summit.
However, I kindly decline the offer of $80 for travel expenses from Lautoka to Suva, as well as the accommodation for 2 nites @ the Peninsula.
Please also note: I humbly decline to partake in any tea/coffee/snacks/lunch/dinner layouts, and have opted to bring my own. Please ensure that your catering order reflects one less person to be catered for, for this. I shall keep the Government auditor alerted of it come the audit time.
Likewise, I decline to consume any wine/beer/alcohol during the cocktail or consume any finger food; I shall bring my own wine or beers, as suits my mood then, and my own bean-peanut. Likewise, please ensure that your catering order reflects this.
Can you please also make arrangements with the local police etc., to allow me to carry my own snacks, eats and drinks.
Please be alerted: I shall be making a lot of interventions and fruitful contributions.
I, thus, need your advise: I intend not to use the PA system, which you would be paying from taxpayer funds; instead I will use my natural voice. I am trying to locate my 24-year old amplifier - Bhopa they call it in Hindi - which I had purchased for election campaigns in 1999 and 2001. In case I can find it and power it up, I may bring that in so that my own sound system carries my voice well. On this, I know that the sessions will be live online. So listening is not a problem. BUT can you advise me please also on how would you arrange to carry my voice to the other 499 participants, as I intend not to use the tax-payer funded GPH space; would you be able to arrange a government owned desk and chair outside, in Albert Park possibly, from where I can make my contributions. If it rains, I will have my umbrella handy.
This is all in the interest of tax-payers like your panelist Save Narube and invitees, MPC and the Fiji First supporters who, I am sure, will be amply present in the Summit.
Oh, one final matter: Since I wont be using any of the tax-payer paid facilities and provisions, how do you intend to remunerate me for my intellectual contributions to building a better Fiji. I can assure you that the quality of my contributions will be far superior to the combined brain power of the vocal custodians of taxpayer money like Save, MPC and their trolls. Do I invoice you at the rate at which Fiji companies with offices abroad have been charging management fee to their parent companies in Fiji? Or should this be at the rate at which Government pays foreign consultants without any blink of an eye by the vocal public custodians of public finance? I do recognise that after billions were literally siphoned out from Government through shady deals by the previous regime (on which those who are vocal critics now of the summit costs remained silent), Fiji has a financial crisis, and that the Hon. DPM/MF has to walk extra miles to bring Fiji back to normal. In light of this crisis, and as a person with Fiji dear to his heart, do I massively discount my invoice to the level which is comparable to the value of the contributions to Fiji's development by the Summit cost critics?
Your advice would be most appreciated.
Kind Regards.
Ganesh Chand
