PROFIT BEFORE PRIDE: ShirleyParkGate exposes the putrid corruption and collusion between businessmen and the Bala-Khaiyum nexus, with Fiji Times diluting pro-Shirley Park campaigners Letters to the Editor!

1/1/2016

What must be asked is how was it that Romit Meghji already had confirmation for building that he shared with the Shirley Park campaigners on 19 January 2015, and he also had a date that week for intended groundbreaking ceremony? Yet the Director Town and Country Planning was telling the campaigners a decision was to be made that week on Shirley Park and Public Hearings had still not been set?

Minister for Local Government, Housing Parveen Kumar with Dinesh Meghji, A-G Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, LCC CEO Jone Nakauvadra and Jaynti Meghji during the groundbreaking ceremony at Shirley Park, Lautoka, 18 December 2015

Fijileaks: We reproduce the Letter to the Fiji Times (29/12/15) that countered Aiyaz Khaiyum and Parveen Bala statements. Both of them tried to make the objectors look like idiots, while P Meghji Group went ahead, fencing off part of the Shirley Park and pushing ahead with groundbreaking ceremony; worst, not following several of the Conditions of Approval.

Point 6: No Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) had been done as confirmed by the Department of Environment and the Lautoka City Council, nor had the building application been approved.

Now, we have the "Killer Fugitive" Bala publicly stating that the rest of the park will be developed by Meghji as an 8 hole golf course and children's park.

Point 9 of the Conditions of Approval is also being bulldozed through it seems. The Shirley Park campaigners letter had to be softened a bit by the Fiji Times before it could be approved for printing below.

And yet, the corrupt and bullying Government side, can say anything and that gets printed; however its quite the opposite for everyone else it seems

The original design of the hotel that was shown to a group of Lautoka residents against the rezoning of Shirley Park at a meeting with Bala, at the Lautoka City Council Chambers earlier last year, was a hotel design structure that was no higher than two storey. That original design for viewing no longer exists with the Lautoka City Council. Instead a new design for the proposed hotel is as shown and taken off Romit Meghji's own Facebook page, and now stands almost several storeys tall

Map of the original re-zoning of Shirley Park

FENCING OFF Shirley Park for the Meghjis!

It seems that Aiyaz Khaiyum and the businessmen who funded FijiFirst(Theft) Party to the tune of thousands of dollars will continue to trample upon ordinary citizens rights and feelings as long as protests are "peaceful"; Fijileaks wonders what would have been the Meghjis, Bala and Khaiyum's response if the Shirley Park campaigners had taken a leaf from the protesters against the urban development of Turkey's Taksim Gezi Park in Istanbul, leading to a wave of demonstrations and civil unrest in Turkey that began on 28 May 2013; the Meghji's would have fled into the interior of Fiji instead of giving "UP YOURS FINGERS" to
Shirley Park campaigners.

Gezi Park protesters 2013

Shirley Park campaigners

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/blunt-talk-from-shirley-park-protestors-why-cant-meghjis-build-their-hotel-opposite-their-liquor-and-eatery-and-bar-the-lounge

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/its-no-easy-walk-through-shirley-park-protestors-refuse-to-lie-down-and-be-bulldozed-over-for-meghjis-to-build-hotel-in-re-zoned-area

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/shirley-park-drunk-for-development-p-meghji-company-say-building-of-hotel-must-go-ahead-but-protestors-say-no-way-in-report

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/stop-doling-out-public-parks-to-fiji-first-party-financiers-businessman-charan-jeet-singh-objects-to-re-zoning-of-shirley-park

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/shirley-park-as-local-government-minister-bala-continues-to-hide-in-the-bushes-from-the-law-lautoka-residents-to-converge-on-park-on-saturday-10th-january-for-family-day

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/shirley-park-legal-battle-update-lautoka-city-council-lawyers-fail-to-turn-up-in-court-and-park-supporters-now-have-to-wait-until-15-july

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/shirley-park-uproar-y-p-reddy-of-reddy-enterprises-latest-to-object-the-re-zoning-ffp-financier-meghji-hoping-to-benefit-from-re-zoning

Fijileaks commentary coming soon: How the likes of these intellectuals, professing to be human rights activists and imparting knowledge as Professors, sold their souls to become Electoral Commissioners, knowing that the D'Hondt Electoral System had been designed by Aiyaz Khaiyum and his FijiFirst Party to rig the 2014 elections and to entrench
political power and dictatorship in Fiji! Shockingly, after the election, Vijay Naidu kept his resignation from the Electoral Commission SECRET and when found out claimed, "I have no obligation to tell you that I have RESIGNED"! 'B*******'; Fiji's suffering citizens should hold these DUPES responsible!

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/the-vote-loser-aiyaz-khaiyums-dhondt-electoral-system-cheated-opposition-party-candidates-and-is-sending-over-20-ffp-candidates-into-parliament-with-less-then-800-votes

BLATANT ABUSE OF KHAYIUM'S Electoral Decree rules - this voter displaying Vote 279 while standing in the voting queue - his vote should have been deducted by the Electoral Commission

14 Comments

Chiku

1/1/2016 08:25:38 pm

The Shirley Park " rezoning" approval given to a local capitalist by State authorities has all the hallmarks and the stink of a corrupt deal as the Fijileaks has pointed out. I am not surprised to learn ( again from Fijileaks ) that the Fiji Times tried to dilute the protest letters by objectors and to cast them as idiots - as The dictatorship's chief architect Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum wanted to do. The Fiji Times has started to do the bidding of the mob in power under the pretext of presenting " positive" reporting. What it is doing is sucking up to Bainimarama, Khaiyum and their cronies in the Fiji First Theft Government and their capitalist bankrollers. The Fiji Times like the Fiji Sun has abdicated its public watchdog role. Shame on them.
And Shame also on all the intellectuals and professionals who allowed themselves to be taken on a ride by Bainimarama and Khaiyum on the fictitious " road map to true democracy " and a " better Fiji ".
They helped prop up the dictatorship under a democratic guise.

Truely Deeply Madly

7/1/2016 12:44:53 am

Shirley Park is also sacred soil, Chiku, where many like me first made Love. Those idiots with their shovels are digging deep memories - and Who the F authorized Aiyaz Shit-Kahiyum to 'gift' Shirley Park to Meghji, the Toad.

Kuch Bolo Ji..

7/1/2016 01:18:05 am

Maybe John Sami,.. Robin Nair... or Professor Vijay Naidu or even intellectual Chaudhary may offer some "asks-pla-nations"!!(explanations) Please...to Chiku's simple questions regarding "Shame on Intellectuals"...?

Rajend Naidu

1/1/2016 10:16:04 pm

Editor,
Time to inquire into business corruption reads the caption of a letter to smh Jan.1
Is it time for the same inquiry in Fiji? There clearly is a prima facie case for it if the Fijileaks exposures are anything to go by. And, I would contend it is a lot to go by.
But nobody should wait with abated breath for any such inquiry by the mob in power.
Jonne Herbert tells us why in his letter to the Age 2/2 :
There are " louts, thugs, bullies, thieves, perjurers" in Canberra and the top end of town, but they're cushioned by the old boys' network.
That network remains intact in the " New Fiji " of Bainimarama and Khaiyum's creation, notwithstanding their hollow claims about getting rid of " old politics".
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

And

2/1/2016 09:00:34 pm

And the Shirley Park saga is a stark reminder that putrid corruption and collusion between unscrupulous business and unscrupulous politicians can only be exposed when good men and good women in the community have the courage of their conviction to speak out, to protest and challenge the authorities as Maude Elbourne and her fellow citizens have done. Truth is on their side. They can hold their heads high. The corrupt business wallahs and the political parasites who thrive on them can only hold their heads in shame because no matter how much they cover up and strut about because of their power or wealth the people know the truth and the true character of these scoundrels.

Guta

2/1/2016 09:48:56 pm

Shirley Park is under a park reserve, it would be very, very interesting to find out what is the deal with the land here? Is it a lease or Meghji has exchanged it with a piece of land else where or sale?

Are, sa levu na butako re!

Rajend Naidu

2/1/2016 10:08:57 pm

Editor,
Just caught a live interview with Graham Hughes the man who now holds the record for travelling to every country in the world without taking the plane and using only public transport on 7 News 3/1.
When asked what did his travel reveal to him Graham said " it is that you can't judge a people by their government".
Now how profoundly true is that!
The government in a country can be bastards but the people in the same country can be great folks.
Go to any rural community in Fiji and meet and break fast with the ordinary people, kaiviti, kailoma or kaidia, and you will know what Graham means.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Simeli

3/1/2016 01:36:53 am

No politician is honest, you put a SODELPA govt in power they will do exactly the same thing, just take a look around the global political landscape and see how politicians manipulate and twist everything to suit themselves.

Dekho

4/1/2016 03:38:00 am

We learned in primary school Georaphy class that Vuda is in Lautoka and in Social Science that the first Fijians landed there and all that.
Now if two primary schools in Vuda, Lautoka are to be merged why is the Fiji Times publishing the comment of Nadi Chamber of Commerce president Dr Ram Raju that Education Minister Mahendra Reddy's decision to merge the two schools is a step in the right direction?
Isn't there any one in Vuda to comment?
Dr Raju goes on to pontificate that ethnic based schools are a potential disaster for the country. So will all the Muslim schools in the country be abolished?
What school did Coupist Bainimarama attend? Was it an " ethnic based school "?
Is Dr Raju acting as a mouthpiece of the Bainimarama regime in which Dr Reddy is Education Minister?
Why?

On-Song

5/1/2016 01:18:37 am

Best Dr Raju concentrates on Medical Sciences and leave alone Political Sciences; unless of course he has been part of the Corruption this country has sufferred throughout these past recent years??

Brown Nosing

5/1/2016 07:46:33 am

Do not forget USPGate Victor. Latest word is that Ashwin Raj's contract at USP has not been been renewed. Ashwin conned his way into an academic position by claiming he was on the verge of finishing his PhD, which we now know was a lie. He was still appointed by his USP friends to assistant lecturer ahead of a better candidate who had a PhD.

After that he became manager of USP STAR project. For six years, he sat on a fat associate professor salary collecting over $100,000 annually for doing virtually nothing, but act as Prof Susan kelly's boy and make her coffee. Most of Ashwin's time was spent at Damodar City Gloria Jeans, sitting cross-legged like a queen, sipping latte while people watching, at taxpayer expense; bad-mouthing Fijileaks, and you personally, and also Prof Brij Lal, while singing his boss Aiyaz's praises.

Rajesh Chandra should have sacked Ashwin ages ago but lacked the courage to go against Aiyaz since he was afraid the finance minister would reduce USP's funding. Ashwin used to boast to us at cocktails that he had had a direct line to the PM and the AG/finance minister and if VC Rajesh Chandra sacked him, he would have to answer to the two people who run the country. Ashwin said VC would lose his job if he sacked him.

Now we hear Ashwin has scored a plum job as Fiji Human Rights Commissioner appointed by Aiyaz. What an outrage! The same Ashwin, the AG's puppet, will be our Human Rights Commissioner? Ashwin Raj, the failed PhD who was suppressing freedom of speech in as MIDA chair? Wonders will never cease in Fiji. Ashwin Raj is a manifestation and living example of the cronyism and corruption in high places - a man will no qualifications who masi polo his way to the top. Ashwin is charged with implementing a media decree that he does not even know, as shown when made a unilateral decision against the Fiji Sun, which was nullified. He should have been sacked then and there for incompetence. But no. He spends six years at USP sitting on a far salary and now lined up for another plum job! Butt sucking and masi polo can take you a long way, eh Ashwin. YOu have made brown nosing into an form Ashwin. You should be proud.

PS: Victor, I hope you can publish this on the web page with that nice cartoon of Ashwin, Khaiyum and the other sordid characters involved in this affair. you are the only one who can bring these low lives to account.

Vili

6/1/2016 11:12:13 am

This is another shocking revelation of the bullshit that the current Government is peddling. Even President Konrote is perpetrating a lie about his SAS service.

LEES

7/1/2016 01:40:20 am

President KonRat be better addressed as His Excellency the Biscuit, another Con artist and Indian hater like NBF Makrava, the buried.

On-Song

6/1/2016 01:16:41 am

FNUGate & USPGate looks like some huge FUNGate...a total joke!!!
What a mess for such learning institutes to be in and what shady characters the guys in the Lead roles. Quite interesting that the same bang lot do feature in all scenes depicting corruption, nepotism, theft, lies, non-performance and dishonesty. More interesting that the role of Producer and Director is by the same Monkey in Parliament.

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