*And when did you find out that your wife and chamcha Ganesh were trustees of the Global Girmit Institute?
*Why didn't you call for TENDER?
*Ficac must investigate whether Solicitor-General Ropate Green and your PS Finance were complicit in authorising the $200,000 to YOUR WIFE.
*Who the hell are you FOOLING, NFP leader BIMAN PRASAD?
*We notice that your defamation threat to Fiji Labour Party is from Sherani & Co lawyers.
*From NFP donor list on us, we see Hemendra Nagin donated to the NFP during the 2022 general election, and he was representing you in the Taniguchi case - re those sensual texts that you had sent to your former provisional candidate Hiroshi's wife (You Look Beautiful ones).
*As required by the Political Parties Act, you failed to declare your wife's GGI trusteeship in your 2023 assets and incomes to the FEO.
*In fact, you never revealed it in the 2017-2021 and 2023 declarations.
*We call on FICAC to take you into custody and charge you. Full Stop!
Biman threatens legal action over Girmit Funds
Finance Minister Biman Prasad has moved to legally gag FLP from demanding accountability for his $200,000 grant for Girmit celebrations to a discredited organization of which his wife and a close political ally were trustees at the time.
A letter from his lawyers, Sherani & Co. is threatening legal action unless an apology and “reasonable compensation” is made by Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry.
It is also demanding that we remove all “posts from our website that make reference to the Girmit funding” and to Biman’s involvement thereof as they are “false and defamatory”.
Our lawyers are dealing with the matter.
But Mr Chaudhry says: “Such threats will not deter us from demanding accountability from the minister for the $200,000 given to an organization that had been deregistered in 2022 for failure to submit audited accounts and annual reports since its inception in 2017.”
There were other payments allegedly made to close associates of the Minister that must be explained.
The Minister, as well as Prime Minister Rabuka, had assured the nation that detailed accounts would be made public shortly. This was at the height of the controversy surrounding the matter early last year.
Some 18 months later, we are still awaiting the disclosure of the promised audited accounts. Labour will continue to demand disclosure in the interest of accountability and transparency.
Further, the circumstances surrounding the $200,000 granted to the Global Girmit Institute (GGI) were highly questionable.
1: Expressions of interest were not invited.
2: It was highly unethical and improper of the Minister to give the grant to an organization of which his wife and a close political ally were trustees and which had been de-registered for failing to submit audited accounts since its inception.
3. Labour also questions the unlawful manner in which the deregistered GGI was hastily re-registered in February 2023 within 24 hours of an application being lodged.
4. This when a lawfully de-registered organization cannot be lawfully re-registered.
These are the facts of the case. The public is entitled to an explanation for these in the interests of accountability and transparency.
In view of the highly irregular manner in which the 2023 Girmit celebration funds were allegedly disbursed, Labour has demanded detailed accounts scheduling the monies paid out to individuals and organisations.
Finance Minister Biman Prasad has moved to legally gag FLP from demanding accountability for his $200,000 grant for Girmit celebrations to a discredited organization of which his wife and a close political ally were trustees at the time.
A letter from his lawyers, Sherani & Co. is threatening legal action unless an apology and “reasonable compensation” is made by Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry.
It is also demanding that we remove all “posts from our website that make reference to the Girmit funding” and to Biman’s involvement thereof as they are “false and defamatory”.
Our lawyers are dealing with the matter.
But Mr Chaudhry says: “Such threats will not deter us from demanding accountability from the minister for the $200,000 given to an organization that had been deregistered in 2022 for failure to submit audited accounts and annual reports since its inception in 2017.”
There were other payments allegedly made to close associates of the Minister that must be explained.
The Minister, as well as Prime Minister Rabuka, had assured the nation that detailed accounts would be made public shortly. This was at the height of the controversy surrounding the matter early last year.
Some 18 months later, we are still awaiting the disclosure of the promised audited accounts. Labour will continue to demand disclosure in the interest of accountability and transparency.
Further, the circumstances surrounding the $200,000 granted to the Global Girmit Institute (GGI) were highly questionable.
1: Expressions of interest were not invited.
2: It was highly unethical and improper of the Minister to give the grant to an organization of which his wife and a close political ally were trustees and which had been de-registered for failing to submit audited accounts since its inception.
3. Labour also questions the unlawful manner in which the deregistered GGI was hastily re-registered in February 2023 within 24 hours of an application being lodged.
4. This when a lawfully de-registered organization cannot be lawfully re-registered.
These are the facts of the case. The public is entitled to an explanation for these in the interests of accountability and transparency.
In view of the highly irregular manner in which the 2023 Girmit celebration funds were allegedly disbursed, Labour has demanded detailed accounts scheduling the monies paid out to individuals and organisations.
COMING UP: While letting the POOR survive on $4.50 per hour in Fiji, the PRASAD COUPLE have have been swimming in the bowl of obscene PROSPERITY - $$$$$ in bank accounts in Fiji and NZ, Houses, Cars, Plots of Lands (Native and Freeholds) and still not satisfied, he gave his wife Rajni Kaushal Chand and her chamcha Ganesh Chand $200,000.
*LANDLESS INDO-FIJIANS and their so-called NFP leader sitting on native lands (9 lots) worth over $1million. In fact, in 2014, he had over $2m worth of land which he parcelled out and sold them over the years
