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SWEETENING UP TO "SUGAR DADDY": NFP and FLP can BARK as much as they like but given their past failure to redress the plight of sugarcane farmers, most farmers are foolishly looking to Bainimarama and FFP

26/7/2016

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Fijileaks to Ministry of Information: 'GOD' shaking left - hand with VEGETABLE FARMER and not a CANE FARMER. MoI caption leads us to believe that Bainimarama is shaking hand with a cane farmer. This eager Indo-Fijian is a vegetable farmer from Nadeva Valley Rd. Where were the cane farmers? They were harvesting cane!
Is Daddy's girl, BERNADETTE Bainimarama, now acting director or
DIRECTOR of Information Ministry?

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Khaiyum addressing the Nadroga cane farmers, with Bala sitting next to him. The political parties have not uttered a word on Bala case
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Chaudhry ‪challenges‬ Bainimarama to public ‪debate‬ on sugar

Prime Minister Bainimarama has a habit of hurling unsubstantiated accusations at his opponents, says Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry.

At a meeting with Rakiraki cane growers on Saturday (Sunday Times 24 July), he accused Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry and other politicians of spreading “a lot of misinformation” on the two Sugar Bills, that he said were “not true” but failed to give any examples.

In ‪reply‬ Mr Chaudhry said, “I would not be surprised if he hasn’t even bothered to read the Bills. He can only make generalised accusations in front of people who would dare not question him back.

“I invite him to a ‪public‬ debate to clear the air on the two Sugar Bills, including any other topic related to the Sugar Industry. Let the public decide who is right and who is wrong.

“ In fact Bainimarama should vacate the Sugar portfolio because he is a failure as a Minister. Industry statistics speak for itself – cane and sugar production down by almost 50% since he took charge in 2008. The industry is in its worst shape ever with FSC surviving on government backed loans and growers’ beset by problems so profound that over 3000 of them have quit growing cane, with more likely to join them.

“All this happened under Bainimarama’s stewardship of the industry,” Mr Chaudhry said.

Mr. Bainimarama is just a bundle of contradictions himself. He informs the growers that sections of the “reform” Bill will take the industry back to the colonial era, and will therefore be removed.

Then he turns around and accuses his critics of saying that the Bills would take us back to the days of the Girmit

The truth is that the two Sugar Bills are ‪‎regressive‬, they remove the democratic rights of the growers and have been totally rejected by them.

This was made categorically clear in the two rounds of public discussions held by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Economic Affairs. Not a single person who appeared before the Committee spoke in favour of the Bills.

The FLP also refutes claims made in the newspaper that growers who were former members of the Party had now moved to the FFP. “They could well be plants of the Fiji First Party claiming to be former FLP members,” said Mr Chaudhry.

Fijileaks: AND THE NFP SHOULD JUST SHUT UP ABOUT USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN 2018 ELECTIONS. They and other parties should not have contested the 2014 general election, for the Electoral System was designed for FFP win. If they are serious, they should be calling for a judicial inquiry into the BALA case, one of their very own, who defected to FFP to save his 'skin'. We know Bala was locked up in a police cell. Why? Police records have been destroyed? But, all we hear NFP barking about, is sugar, sugar, sugar! For too long, very long, Indo-Fijian leaders have trapped their people in bottomless pit, with NFP leader Jai Ram Reddy running away, and FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry becoming a multi-millionaire from the embers of racism in Fiji - 'The Haryana Millions'
Like 'sucking ants' they are latching to 'sugar politics' to win votes! As for SODELPA, they have "RAMBHUKA" - 'God is Hungry' - Rabuka appointed to con and tap into raw native Fijian nationalism in the 2018 election!

From Fiji's Daily Post, reproduced on FLP website, 27 August 2001:

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The late Mrs Irene Jai Narayan speaks to supporters as NFP tears itself apart over leadership and 'sugar politics'
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Excerpt, Victor Lal: 'The NFP has trapped Indo-Fijians into a Bottomless Past'
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http://www.fijihosting.com/pcgov/docs_o/victorlal_aug01.htm

4 Comments
Kisan
26/7/2016 11:11:51 am

The Nfp nor the FLP did anything to solve the issues pertaining to the cane farmers. They used them like football.

Chaudary and his boy felix Anthony killed the farmers with strikes and boycotts.

Had chaudary listened to his advisors and worked with nltb, the land issue or lease renewal would have be resolved. Instead, he encouraged farmers to leave by giving them $28,000 which was a lot if money in 2000.

Today, nfp has attar Singh as their sugar leader. Attar is a good unionist but his tactics and style will not suit the cane farmers.

The decline in the sugar industry is due to what chaudary did in 2000 and is also due to the loss of premium price by EU.

Farmers have no choice but to back someone who will not use them as football

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Ed
26/7/2016 08:38:53 pm

Bainimarama is a killer and fraud. Rabuka is a coup maker and cant be trusted. Chaudhary is a chor. NFP and FLP only bark. So who do you want to lead Fiji?

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Disillusioned
27/7/2016 11:40:24 am

We can with justification criticise Mahen Chaudhry for his actions but there is one thing he is correct on, the sugar industry is finished. No matter how much Government tries the industry will continue to suck up increasing levels of tax payers funds to no avail. Government should be looking at finding sustainable alternatives to cane growers as the pulling of the plug on guaranteed prices by the EU means that much of Fiji's sugar is produced above the real and effective cost of production

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Bahuki
16/9/2016 12:50:05 am

No wonder the Sugar Industry is heavily politicized that the current politicians today have gone way beyond their expiry date.

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