| 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. |
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8 Comments
Fiji Newspaper Reader
9/7/2013 05:20:46 pm
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
9/7/2013 08:01:20 pm
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
9/7/2013 09:19:16 pm
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 am
why are u so afraid of the truth, ajith.
Bird Hunter
10/7/2013 03:53:43 am
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 am
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!
waiting
10/7/2013 08:16:22 am
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.
Firefighter
10/7/2013 01:51:58 pm
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. Leave a Reply. |
Author"...Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives." --Robert A. Heinlein, -If This Goes On Norway-Sweden Disunion: The 1905 Velvet Divorce: As Recorded In The Private Diary of British Diplomatist Sir James Rennell Rodd in Scandinavia [Kindle Edition] Victor Lal (Author);
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