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THE IN-FIGHTING AMONG 'PASSENGERS ON WAIQELE BUS' RUMBLE ON: 'Blame former PAC chairman Biman Prasad for being absent from PAC meetings', claim sources close to SODELPA MP Aseri Radrodro 

17/5/2016

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'Radrodro pointed out to Prasad to stop 'politicizing issues' as he himself travels a lot for his visiting lecturer appointments to various universities abroad, and had been one of the real reasons PAC was not sitting at all.'

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Fijileaks sources inside SODELPA claim that their MP Aseri Radrodro was not happy that the deposed PAC chairman Biman Prasad was claiming in the newspapers that PAC members were not availing themselves so PAC meetings had been consistently cancelled from August last year.

Radrodro, they claim, was travelling to New Zealand to attend his son's graduation ceremony from Kelston College and had nominated SODELPA MP Mosese Bulitavu in his absence and had informed the Secretary-General to Parliament, Dr Biman Prasad, and Ro Teimumu Kepa as well as the SODELPA party president of his travel plans and his nomination and the agreement by Bulitavu to step in for him on PAC.

But Prasad made comments in the media that stated none of the PAC members were available."That was wrong. It was only the Government side that were not coming."

So the Government members brought the matter up in their next meeting and they discussed it and Radrodro pointed out to Prasad to stop 'politicizing issues' as he himself travels a lot for his visiting lecturer appointments to various universities abroad, and had been one of the real reasons PAC was not sitting at all.

"That's the story.....how its being twisted is very sad but we swear Aseri [Radrodro] HAS NEVER spoken to AG [Khaiyum] on any of this or anything else for that matter."

We could not obtain a comment from Prasad.


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The story that infuriated Radrodro...prompting him to confront Prasad

PAC fails to meet this week
Fiji Times
Thursday, October 22, 2015


THE Public Accounts Committee does not have a quorum to meet as was scheduled this week. PAC was to have met to discuss the response from the Finance Ministry with regards to funds allocated to Head 50 and other standard expenditure groups in the Finance Ministry.

"The five-member Public Accounts Committee lost two members with the resignation of Government member Hon Sanjit Patel and the appointment of Hon Semi Koroilavesau as the Minister for Employment, Productivity and Industrial Relations, following the election of Jioje Konrote as President designate," PAC chairman Professor Biman Prasad said.

He said the remaining two members — Balmindar Singh and Aseri Radrodro — had also given notice of their non-availability because of urgent commitments.

"I believe Government has not nominated replacement members in place of Hon Koroilavesau and Hon Patel. The nominations have to be forwarded to the Speaker of Parliament who then makes the appointments to the committee."

He said provisions in the parliamentary standing order 115 gave Speaker Dr Jiko Luveni the authority to fill a vacancy in a committee as soon as possible.

"In making the appointments, the Speaker shall consult the Whip of each party."

However, he said in this case the Government Whip was Mr Koroilavesau and they were not aware whether he would remain the Whip after his ministerial appointment.

In an earlier statement to this newspaper, Mr Prasad said they wanted to sit for a number of days before the end of this year to complete their work and work towards consolidating a report on the 2010 and 2013 audit reports for Parliament.

He had added that PAC had worked very well and all members, including the Government members, could take credit for the work so far.

Mr Korilavesau said no decision had been made yet by the party leader and Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama on who would replace him as Government Whip. He said they would await his decision on that. He said at the moment, he remained the Government Whip.

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Dan
17/5/2016 12:22:38 pm

The duel shows one thing: neither Biman nor Aseari are mature enough to take on FF. Nor are they capable of leading Fiji. Both immature, with petty interests dominating; both love media coverage but have minimal public support. People sympathise with Biman because of Khaiyum, who they love to hate. But this is sympathy only, not support. NFP and SODELPA will do well to get some experienced people together in the fight against dictatorship. Rabuka, M P Chaudhry, Krishna Datt, Poseci Bune, Dr. Tupeni Baba, Dr. Ganesh Chand, Dr. G. Goundar, Mick Beddoes, Isimeli Bose, Adi Koila Nailatikau, etc. - they will all help build a more credible front. The kids can learn a lot from these men.

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Kana-Baigan
17/5/2016 12:48:19 pm

Who is the driver or who the passenger or who eats ‘kari bargi’ or whatever? These don’t matter!!

What matters and what whole of Fiji wants to know is how much of our money Nur Bano eat and with whom. So just get on with it.

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TruesUp
17/5/2016 01:11:02 pm

100% Spot-on! All of this PAC saga is only to do with saving auntie Bano. The PAC should be called "BanoPAC".

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Yen
17/5/2016 01:03:53 pm

.."kari bagi e via draiva tiko beka la basi ni Waiqele o tamana...."

the english translation of the Waiqele bus comment by the FL commentator is off the mark.

"kari bagi" has nothing to do with "curry baigan".
the english equivalent would be "obviously or apparently".
"tamana" is kinda formal way of referring to a guy in the i'taukei street lingo context, also taken to mean bro.

so the comment by hon.radrodro wud be something to the effect of..."apparently, brother here only wants to drive the waiqele bus. He shud also have a taste of what its like to be a passenger at times"

jaa ne.

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Vasu
18/5/2016 06:51:36 am

Is Mr Radrodro from Kadavu by any chance or is he a vasu i Kadavu? Has he lived there?
"Kari bagi" in one of the Kadavu dialects is the equivalent of "Qori beka" in the vosa vakabau.
It means "Perhaps" or "Maybe".

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Builder
18/5/2016 02:48:31 am

Curry Baigan or Boiled Baigan, Radrodro is racist. His place is not in parliament, let alone PAC. Please SODELPA, do something about this. Otherwise you will lose more credibility.

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Sam
18/5/2016 12:33:47 pm

Will the outcome change if you deep fried the Baigani? Or will it change if you grilled it and then mashed it Indian style to make choka? And why does Radrodro want to be the driver? (Could it be that bus drivers in Fiji control the money boxes, and Radrodro wants control of the money box too!). His claim on Biman not doing his job well gells well - Biman was driver so had control of money box, he didnt get to the bottom of the ministerial salary and Rewa dairy. Did the money box talk? Will we ever know?

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Bahuki
19/5/2016 12:59:08 pm

SODELPA still yet to change from its narrow mindset its no wonder they're infamous for racist policies and in some parts tribalism when in parliament in spite of the abrogation of the GCC, and Radrodro is no different.

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