Regime tells political parties to pay "Pied Piper" Fiji Sun over $40,000 for publishing asset declarations or be De-Registered by 15 July. But non-payment of bills is not a de-registration offence in Aiyaz Khaiyum's political party decree

10/7/2013

By VICTOR LAL

The illegal regime's favoured "Pied Piper" newspaper, The Fiji Sun, was given the exclusive right to publish the political parties assets and liabilities and those of office bearers under Aiyaz Khaiyum's Political Parties Registration, Conduct, Funding and Disclosure Decree 2013.

Now, the Registrar of Political Parties Mohammed Saneem is demanding from the political parties that they pay Fiji Sun for publishing the advertisements or else they will be de-registered. The non payment of advertising bills is not a de-registration offence under the PPRD.

Fiji SUN wants $26,000 from SODELPA, $7,000 from Fiji Labour Party and $6,000 from National Federation Party. SODELPA'S bill is the highest for it presented detailed declaration running into 26 pages.

SODELPA was sent a bill of $26,000.80, having used up some 22.5 of the pages.That means that each page was costing about $1013.

But why should these parties pay up, for they were not given the choice to publish in the Fiji Times? Nor were the parties told that they had to pay for the adverts. The parties were merely complying with the decree. But, then, we are living in a dictatorship, cheered on by the Fiji Sun which is owned by C J Patel and family. The Sri Lankan, Ajith Kodagoda - holder of various other Government appointed chairmanships - is the financial controller of C J Patel.

The Fiji Sun has a monopoly on government advertising since 2009, with the Commerce Commission looking the other way.

CHEERS for swelling our bank account! Ajith Kodagoda - financial controller of C J Patel & Co, owners of Fiji Sun.

8 Comments

Fiji Newspaper Reader

10/7/2013 05:20:46 am

Vinaka, VICTOR. I hope when democracy returns, the Fiji Sun will be sent packing into the cassava patch. Blood suckers, the C J Patel family, who are also milking financially after having bought Rewa Dairy Ltd.

Fiji Sun Reader

10/7/2013 08:01:20 am

Who owns and edits Fijileaks? Where did Victor Lal get the information from? No wonder Victor and his chum Russell Hunter are banned from entering our contnry, and rightly so, by the glorious Bainimarama-Khaiyum regime.

Bula Fiji

10/7/2013 09:19:16 am

Victor & Russell! We will welcome you back with open arms into Fiji - for mark my words - this evil and tyrannical regime will be toppled very soon. And Frank will flee to Solomon Islands and Aiyaz to Dubai, that is if they will be able to escape the boys in green

abc

10/7/2013 08:09:35 pm

why are u so afraid of the truth, ajith.

Bird Hunter

10/7/2013 03:53:43 pm

Strange, Fiji Sun's Dickie Bird aka LEONE CABENATABUA doesnt state the above in his gossip column - anyway, how low has Fiji Sun fallen that it has resorted to snippets of "Dicke Bird heard, is told, etc etc" instead of serious investigation journalism. Our time is coming to clip the wings of Leone, Lomas, Jyoti etc at the Fiji Sun. Wawa mada!

ululala

10/7/2013 05:22:03 pm

Those who follow Frank Bainimarama have already swallowed his lies and seeds of evil and corruption. They have already been easily fooled by the sweet sounds of his false and nasty accusations and his evil gossip and hatred, and the glow of 30 pieces of silver!

Fijians, stand-up together against Frank Bainimarama and his junta and be recognized as a race and as a people!

Chiefs, stand-up and be counted and do your job - stop hiding and lead your people to victory and protect our future as a country and as a nation!

Frank Bainimarama:

* Has insulted your Lord God Jesus Christ across Fiji on national TV
* Has insulted and degraded your proud race of people to iTaukei, which is an owner of something, and no longer the proud native Fijian people of Fiji
* Is trying to divide you as a people so that he can easily manipulate you and destroy your customs and traditions and access your lands – you must stay united!
* Is holding Fiji hostage via RFMF brutality and guns
* Is robbing Fiji for its resources and wealth for himself and his corrupt group of family and friends
* Is a criminal who is running from the law because he committed treason and murder to save himself from being arrested and from going to prison

* Removed your institutions that unite you as a people

* Has reduced your beloved Fiji to a banana republic
* Has made more of you unemployed and living in poverty – the highest in Fiji’s history while he, Bainimarama, receives more than 5 salaries totalling in excess of $700,000 a year. And it does not include his free and highly expensive trips overseas with his free riding family and friends that cost over $70,000 a trip. The majority of you receive less than $15,000 a year!
* Is using indigenous Fijians to beat and harm other indigenous Fijians while Khaiyum and his Indian relatives and friends rob Fiji of its wealth through corrupt practices
* Is increasing Fiji's national debt by taking easy Chinese cheap loans to fund his many illegal salaries and perks and your children and their children’s children will be repaying these loans for years to come
* Is giving Indians more scholarships while treating your children as second class citizens
* His puppet master Khaiyum is insulting your customs and traditions to your very faces
* Wants immunity because he knows he is guilty of the crimes he has committed – treason, sedition, murder, theft, corruption, rape, sodomy and a long list of other crimes!
* Falsely blames SDL for all of Fiji's problems, while Bainimarama has become the most corrupt individual in Fiji's history and appointing uneducated and incompetent relatives to senior Government roles
* Is trying to convince you through his lies and cheap Chinese loans, which Fiji cant afford, that his actions and intentions are noble – But don't be easily misled, talk to your family and friends to find out the truth for yourself, you must not let Bainimarama succeed!

waiting

10/7/2013 08:16:22 pm

the kaivitis will have to stand up and lead the way; u cant expect others to lead ur fight. support is there but u have to lead the fight against franky and his army who are all kaivitis and kaiviti loyalists.
so until u do the rest of us will continue to suffer.
so stop blaming the kai indias and others. that was your excuse for the coups until this thug took over. u let him in u have to take him out. no other way.
so rabuka, its time for u to make amends and atone for your curse on Fiji.

Firefighter

11/7/2013 01:51:58 am

I hope Fiji Sun is not being used by the illegal regime as a Trojan Horse to de-register the political parties. Since they have sunk so low in their support for the regime, for a few dollars of advertisements, I won't be surprised if they have inflated the costs to help Government de-register the parties. I had been reading Victor Lal's opinion columns and investigative reports for over 20 years in the Fiji Sun, and if someone like hi, whose name evokes both respect and fear in the journalism world, then something is truly rotten in the House of Denmark - i .e. Fiji Sun. I believe Fiji Sun stopped his columns under new editorship! Vinaka, Fijileaks, for telling us what Fiji Sun has not told us via Dickie Bird. If Fiji Sun is seen as the one which helped this illegal regime to de-register the political parties over the debts owed to it then we will not lie down and see this paper continue in Fiji. It should be reminded of the fate of Fiji TV shortly after the George Speight coup. There is limit to our patience and Fiji Sun's treachery in helping this evil regime.

Regime tells political parties to pay "Pied Piper" Fiji Sun over $40,000 for publishing asset declarations or be De-Registered by 15 July. But non-payment of bills is not a de-registration offence in Aiyaz Khaiyum's political party decree

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