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SUPERVISE YOUR OWN HOUSE IN ORDER: Fiji Election Supervisor Saneem slams NFP call for him to resign over his series of TWEETS!

9/11/2016

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“Those calling for resignations should look at their own houses and see if any of their party people resigned when they made racist statement and stuff. But as far as the FEO is concerned as a SOE, I respect anybody’s opinion about their freedom of expression to request or demand for certain things.” - Mohammed Saneem, Supervisor of Elections

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8th November 2016
 
MEDIA RELEASE
 
REMOVE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS  FOR BULLYING THE MEDIA – DRAUNIDALO
 
The NFP President, Hon Roko Tupou Draunidalo today called on the Constitutional Offices Commission and the Chair of the Electoral Commission to remove the Elections Supervisor, Mr Mohammed Saneem, for sending inappropriate tweets vilifying and bullying certain media personnel and questioning how they conduct their business, and compromising his position.
 
“I am greatly appalled at the public tweets from the twitter account of Fiji’s Supervisor of Elections, where he unfortunately saw fit to harangue journalists for not covering his events and covering other events in particular the complaint by concerned citizens against the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation.
 
“This is totally unbecoming of a Constitutional Office holder, where he is supposed to be neutral, non-partisan and dignified and has instead weighed in on media coverage surrounding the complaints against the FBC CEO."
 
“Furthermore, he is acting like a cheer-leader on the sidelines with more tweets on the citizen complaint and direct tweets to Fiji One journalists.”
 
"A free media is the cornerstone of any true democracy. The Fiji media is already over regulated and this bullying behaviour adds to the tyranny."
 
“By virtue of this incident, I will be raising my concerns with the Leader of Opposition to make submissions on this issue to the Constitutional Offices Commission.”
 
“The Constitutional Offices Commission must also look into his appointment as his initial appointment was questionable, non-transparent and did not appear before this Commission.”
 
“But right now this falls on the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Mr Chen Bun Young and his commissioners to deal with as this type of behaviour shows that he is unfit to conduct elections freely and fairly in 2018 if he is attacking journalists who have their own job which is to inform the public.”
 
“He may not like how they do their job but he has processes to follow if as a constitutional office holder HE feels aggrieved."
The 2013 Constitution section 76(3) states: “(3) The Supervisor of Elections must comply with any directions that the Electoral Commission gives him or her concerning the performance of his or her functions.”
 
Furthermore section 7(1) pertaining to “Exercise of powers of Supervisor” in the Electoral Decree 2014 is very clear where it says: “The Supervisor must conduct his or her duties and exercise his or her powers in an IMPARTIAL manner and in accordance with the law.”
 
Authorised by:
 
Roko Tupou Draunidalo
NFP President
 
 
 

1 Comment
steven
9/11/2016 07:05:56 pm

The SOE should do the right thing and immediately resign. This is clearly evident that the 2014 elections was rigged. Drivers overtime were not paid after one of his directors namely kamlesh sharma blatantly lied to the drivers that they will be paid which did not happen to date. SOE fully supported his director and later his director, transport officer were terminated from office. Drivers raised their grievances but to deaf ears. His director and transport officer lied to the poor drivers trying to earn money and make ends meet at home are now sitting at home unemployed.

Now its SOE's turn to follow. No matter how you try to evade the law by using your legal knowledge the lord will make his final decision on you and it will be a sad one.

Being smart and being wise are totally different words with almost the same meaning. You are smart SOE but not wise enough to know where to draw your line.

Times up.....call for the genaral public to support the termination of this SOE. Fiji first might want to keep him for the 2018 elections.

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