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Sleight of Financial Hand: Aiyaz Khaiyum directs Secretary-General to Parliament to pay parties $15,000 per MP - in four years the FFP would pocket net surplus of $1.2million of taxpayers funds

14/1/2015

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Fijileaks understands that Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum has torn up the rules governing the employment of staff for the political party offices in Parliament. He has now directed the Secretary-General to Parliament to pay $15,000 per member to the political parties.

The upshot of such arbitrary decision means that $480,000 will go to FFP, $225,000 to Sodelpa and $45,000 to NFP.

All rules governing staffing and conduct under civil service rules has been hurled out of the window and parties can hire any one they want and the plan is to let parties keep the surplus.

In four years FFP will have received $1.9 of taxpayers funds. The party has less cost of operating their office [only 2 staff  for 12 backbenchers) and the rest are Minsters and Assistant Ministers].

The FFP will net a surplus of $1.2 million.

Fijileaks Editor: STOP PRESS - See Letter below to Mick Beddoes that supports our contention; NFP has also received similar revocation letters for its parliamentary staff. While accusing Khaiyum of trying to render Opposition ineffective, NFP leader Biman Prasad says the S-G's action is ILLEGAL!
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13 Comments
Pandey
13/1/2015 10:25:23 pm

Good Fiji public deserve chor government. All of contributed what baini is today.

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Typical
14/1/2015 04:10:50 am

Chor Party Jeb Bharo Sarkar. Lining up your Pockets!

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Sar-Ka-r Fiji First
15/1/2015 04:57:52 pm

Fraud grant of $480k is nominated to pay expenses / salary of staff for Fiji First Party's office cost.

At $40, 000 per staff this makes out to having 12 staff employed by Fiji First Party to serve 11 back benchers!!!

Even Secretary General has shown disrespect to FijiFirst Party.

In her letter dated 8 Jan 2015, she addressed FijiFirst Party as "Fiji First".

She did address other parties with the last word "Party" so what is Fiji First? Is it not a "Party" like others he addressed.

Then Fiji First with a space between the two words is not even Govt's political party name.

Is the Secretary General to Parliament missing original Fiji First Party?

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Power corrupts
14/1/2015 04:49:05 am

ASK is drunk with power. He needs to be careful or he might take a nasty fall, as drunkards often do.

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Good Riddance
14/1/2015 05:03:57 am

Yes ASK might be drunk with power

But just look at those who got revocation letter - Mick Beddoes, Kamlesh Iyer etc etc etc

They talk about good governance and transparency but I never saw their JOBS ADVERTISED.

I say good riddance but it has been done in the wrong way

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CASH COW
14/1/2015 12:54:05 pm

There are always the case of political appointment and their positions in these circumstance are exactly that.

Did you want Bainimarama to have applied for the role in NFP or SODELPA's staff appointment?

Or were you thinking of Pramesh Chand to appoint Bole's family member to these political roles?

Current parliament under FijiFirst is RFMF's corrupt circus anyway that finds money for themselves... but going kerekere with budget shortage to not allocate on medical and other expenditure.

Only under FijiFirst that there is such high % increase in MP's salary but % increase in minimum wage to private sector remains so low hence a self serving FijiFirst Party.

Now they find $15,000 per MP to pay as some sort of bonus to their own political party...........i.e about $450,000 pa to do WHAT when they have boosted their own salary so high?

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Corrupt Aiaz / RFMF Clean Up of Parliament
14/1/2015 12:39:37 pm

Most corrupt democracy ever Fiji has seen. However seeds of corrupt governance were planted years back but this lot has taken it to unprecedented level.

Same Aiaz with abuse of office went and decreed to have all political parties to re-register under his corrupt decree and bring in more than 5000 members.

Then he did not finance the existing political parties to achieve this so to go ahead and deregister some political parties, namely Fiji First Party so to pursue his corruptly gained political party with same name with same pronounciation.

As for getting membership for hios own proposed party, he was having his hands in donations out of govt favours to gain his own party's support to corruptly register for political party with the political party name he stole.

Now he has chosen to raise finance for his own political party by yet another of his corrupt scam by allocating $15,000 p.a per MP to the party where there is only a single constituency.

There should be only a single $15,000 allocation to a political party in Parliament as constituency allowance, no matter how many MP's they have in Parliament.

Just as de-registered political parties had their committees to use their own personal funds to finance re-registration of their parties, this new funding requirement for his own party is yet another robust example that Fiji's democracy is absolutely CORRUPT.

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Too True
14/1/2015 03:13:59 pm

When Aiaz's own FijiFirst Party was not even announced as a proposed political party, his decree did not give out a single cent to existing legitimate political parties to go on to honour the rogue requirements of his rogue political party decree to re-register the pre-existing party.

Had Aiaz on the other hand given only 5% of what he is legislating to give his own party $480k per annum, maybe with a mere $24,000 the legitimate Fiji First Party of the Refugees would have been able to re-register and therefore he would never have been able to propose the same name of the party that he illegally pre-determined and registered for self gain.

These are clear abuse of office with pecuniary conflict of interest, period.

Now the Secretary of Parliament, Ms Namosimalua is addressing the "FijiFirst" (one word) as Fiji First (two words) party in their parliamentary letter to corruptly registered "FijiFirst" Party.

With Aiaz not requesting a correction to this is robust confirmation of colloboration to encroaching into interlectual property theft of illegally de-registered Fiji First Party.

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Equal Suffrage
14/1/2015 03:51:23 pm

Minimum basic requirement for opposition is 3 admin / research staff apart from cleaner / massenger adding up to about $80,000 as approved amounts.

Then why should Government get $480,000 for serving 12 back benchers. Are 3 full time staff not enough to serve 12 back benchers?

What about adding 1 more for $30,000 so $110,000 for Govt side is adequate as a funding by Parliament. Any more should come out of political party funding. There are no shortages of corrupt businesses for that.

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Yep
14/1/2015 07:10:52 pm

Fiji does not have a democracy. It has a big pretence of it.

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Anit Singh
15/1/2015 05:01:31 am

Let me come straight to the point –‘that Aiyaz tho Asli (pure and 100%) CHOR Hey’. No one should doubt this statement of FACT- including Aiyaz.

Aiyaz is a Shameless CHOR of the 'pitiable' kind- sly and slithery -like a snake. That's how SLY he was STEALING our 'Fiji First Party' name. And now this ‘pitiable’ Chor, is again, showing his true colours, Lying in the Parliament of Fiji.

And if he can do a planned and premeditated CHORI of ‘Fiji First’ Party name - than he can do a conscious CHORI of just about anything – because remember, Aiyaz’s motivations are never noble but are compelled by GREED.

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Rajend Naidu
15/1/2015 03:37:48 pm

In her article ' Not without fear or favour : how the world's media lost their nerve after Paris ' ( The Age 14/01) freelance journalist and author Julie Szego tells us the editor of The New York Times, Dean Baquet, reacted to the intense criticism of The Times for its timid journalism by calling a journalism academic an "asshole".
One thing that can be said of Fijileaks is that it has not been cowered into timid journalism the kind that has become pretty much the norm in the mainstream Fiji media since the military coup of 2006.
And, it is because of its courage that certain very important issues which the power holders and their backers would have preferred to keep hidden from the public, have seen the light of day.
The watchdog role that the mainstream media in Fiji abdicated has been taken up most ably by Fijileaks.

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And
15/1/2015 10:24:17 pm

And I don't know if that journalism academic deserved to be called an "asshole" but I know one academic in Fiji who has become a media authority has earned that title big time!

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