The former PAP president of the Nadi branch, ABEL CAMILLO, slams Keni Dakuidreketi's role in the selection process and demands apology from Sitiveni Rabuka for the shoddy treatment he has received at the hands of Dakuidreketi and the Johnny-Come-Lately SODELPA defector and PAP Vice-President Manoa Kamikamica |
Abel Camillo (David) to Rabuka (Saul):
Fijileaks: The betrayal of Abel Camillo, his PAP Nadi branch president, is a salutary warning to BIMAN PRASAD that if Rabuka wins handsomely (we doubt he will win the election), he will renege on whatever promise he has made to the 'Ponga Professor' in the coalition pactABEL CAMILLO tendered his RESIGNATION to PAP leader Sitiveni Rabuka on 2 May. It was accepted by Rabuka and party general secretary Sakiasi Ditoka. Camillo resigned, both as branch president and as a party member. Several of his family, friends and followers, have also resigned in disgust at the PAAP committed against him. |
We wonder if Sajal Narayan disclosed his convictions, but Dakuidreketi, who served five out of the six-year sentence for abuse of office, thought it was not essential to consider and issued a PAP ticket? |
In April 2018, the Supreme Court refused Dakuidreketi's application for leave to appeal the sentence and conviction. The Supreme Court upheld his sentence with a non-parole period of five years, passed by the High Court in 2014. His supporters had claimed that the charges, stemming between 2004 and 2005, were politically motivated against Dakuidreketi.
STRIP DUAL CITIZENSHIP: Fijileaks - It is time those overseas who are convicted of even minor offences are STRIPPED of Dual CITIZENSHIP. Too many former rogue citizens had flooded Fiji since 2009 when the FijiFirst government allowed dual citizenship.
*PAP Selection TEAM fast drive-through Narayan's application without properly checking his past records in the United States. Even if one excuses his drinking driving charge, his failure to comply with odometer disclosure is severe.
* He ran a car dealership and was accused of not maintaining odometer statements. The function of the odometer is to provide information about the distance travelled by car. By knowing the distance travelled, you can see the intensity of the work of a vehicle. Checking the odometer is very important because it can be a reference when trying to buy a used car.
* One may ask, so what? It matters when one is aspiring to run for public office and might even become Rabuka-Prasad Couple's 'Minister for Transport and Road Works'.
* In 2012, there was an odometer disclosure penalty and failure against Sajal Narayan to release vehicle title to the buyer. Both Class 1 Misdemeanors
* In 2016, a bench warrant was issued on a contempt charge.
* In 2017, he was arrested for trespassing
* In 2019, he was pulled over for suspected drink-driving. The prosecution dropped refusal to take the breathalyser test and reckless driving charges. However, the Amherst & Campbell District Court in Virginia found him guilty of driving while drunk and failing to report an accident. The court also placed him on a restricted driver's licence
MYSTERY: What is Sajal Narayan doing in Fiji, a man who only three years ago was boasting in the Fiji Sun (25 February 2019) about how the family went from rag to riches in the United States? "The family went to USA with $10, 000. Now they have motels, gas stations and a trucking company. Mr Narayan built his own automobile dealership." And, is now aspiring to enter Fiji's Parliament under PAP? But, then, we shouldn't be surprised, for his own leader and COUPIST Sitiveni Rabuka is hiding behind the IMMUNITY he gave himself in 1988 for the two coups and the rape, murder, torture, beatings and disenfranchisement of Indo-Fijians and Other non-i-Taukei Fijians. And two prominent lawyers, Filimoni Vosarogo and Lynda Tabuya have no PROBLEM with Rabuka's past while berating and reminding us of the rule of law, human rights, and clean government.
Nothing comes easy, says Sajal Narayan.
The 32-year-old of Nasorowaqa in Bua, who now lives in the United States of America said starting a living there was “very tough”.
He is now the President for District 6 Western Virginia Best Bet Motor Sales Corp and State Vice President for Virginia Independent Automobile Dealer’s Association (VIADA).
His parents won the Green Card lottery 19 years ago when he was just a 12-year-old kid.
“We went to America with my parents saving of only $10, 000,” he said.
“My Dad worked really hard doing handyman work, odds time jobs and he saved up.”
Mr Narayan said by 2002 his dad saved up to $40,000 to start his business.
He added that his dad bought a motel to start with and their business grew over time.
“We kept saving up and bought another motel and two gas stations with convenience stores,” he said.
The two motels have a total of 58 rooms.
After graduating in 2008, Mr Narayan said he wanted to start his own business and because of his love for cars, he started his car dealership business with an investment of $200,000 given to him by his father.
Today, the family also owns a trucking company with 12 trucks and Rental properties in real estate providing employment to more than 30 people in Leechburg on Virginia in the US.
Mr Narayan emphasised that success does not come easy but if the heart is willing then there won’t be any barrier.
“A lot of sacrifices were made to get there,” he said.
He encouraged youths to stay focused on their goals and once they have achieved their goals, things would just fall in place.
The 32-year-old of Nasorowaqa in Bua, who now lives in the United States of America said starting a living there was “very tough”.
He is now the President for District 6 Western Virginia Best Bet Motor Sales Corp and State Vice President for Virginia Independent Automobile Dealer’s Association (VIADA).
His parents won the Green Card lottery 19 years ago when he was just a 12-year-old kid.
“We went to America with my parents saving of only $10, 000,” he said.
“My Dad worked really hard doing handyman work, odds time jobs and he saved up.”
Mr Narayan said by 2002 his dad saved up to $40,000 to start his business.
He added that his dad bought a motel to start with and their business grew over time.
“We kept saving up and bought another motel and two gas stations with convenience stores,” he said.
The two motels have a total of 58 rooms.
After graduating in 2008, Mr Narayan said he wanted to start his own business and because of his love for cars, he started his car dealership business with an investment of $200,000 given to him by his father.
Today, the family also owns a trucking company with 12 trucks and Rental properties in real estate providing employment to more than 30 people in Leechburg on Virginia in the US.
Mr Narayan emphasised that success does not come easy but if the heart is willing then there won’t be any barrier.
“A lot of sacrifices were made to get there,” he said.
He encouraged youths to stay focused on their goals and once they have achieved their goals, things would just fall in place.
Father and son Satya and Sajal Narayan pictured here with Fiji's former ambassador to the US Solo Mara. The former Ambassador is facing two charges in Fiji- giving false or misleading information and disobeying a lawful order.
Former Native Land Trust Board Director, Keni Dakuidreketi has been found guilty of five counts of abuse of office for the purpose of gain by the Suva High court. High court Judge Justice, Janaka Bandara overturned the decision of the five assessors who had found him not guilty of abuse of office for the purpose of gain and convicted him of the five charges. The assessors had found Dakuidreketi guilty of abuse of office. |
The court heard that Dakuidreketi between 31st March 2004 and 21st September 2004, while being employed as a member of NLTB and Chairman of Vanua Development Corporation, in abuse of the authority of his office, did an arbitrary act for the purpose of gain, by facilitating a loan of $2 million to be made by Vanua Development Corporation to Pacific Connex, which was prejudicial to the NLTB and indigenous Fijians.
The second count relates to Dakuidreketi facilitating a loan of $900,000 to be made by Vanua Development Corporation to Pacific Connex between the 16th and the 29th of November 2004.
The third count said that Dakuidreketi between about 28th February 2005 to 28th April 2005 facilitated a government grant of $1 million disbursed to Vanua Development Corporation through the NLTB to be used as security for a loan to Pacific Connex Limited by Dominion Finance.
For the fourth count Dakuidreketi again between 27th April 2005 to 3rd July 2007 while being employed as a member of NLTB and Chairman of Vanua Development Corporation facilitated a government grant of $1 million disbursed to Vanua Development Corporation through the NLTB to be used as security for overdraft and loan facilities provided to Pacific Connex, by ANZ Bank.
The court also heard that Dakuidreketi between 23rd September 2005 and 29th September 2005 facilitated a loan of $1 million to be made by the Vanua Development Corporation to Pacific Connex, which was prejudicial to the NLTB and the indigenous Fijians.
Vanua Development Corporation was set up as an investment arm of NLTB which included the involvement of Dakuidreketi while Pacific Connex was an IT company set up by Ballu Khan.
Dakuidreketi was a board member of Pacific Connex Limited. Source: Fijivillage News, 7 August 2014
The second count relates to Dakuidreketi facilitating a loan of $900,000 to be made by Vanua Development Corporation to Pacific Connex between the 16th and the 29th of November 2004.
The third count said that Dakuidreketi between about 28th February 2005 to 28th April 2005 facilitated a government grant of $1 million disbursed to Vanua Development Corporation through the NLTB to be used as security for a loan to Pacific Connex Limited by Dominion Finance.
For the fourth count Dakuidreketi again between 27th April 2005 to 3rd July 2007 while being employed as a member of NLTB and Chairman of Vanua Development Corporation facilitated a government grant of $1 million disbursed to Vanua Development Corporation through the NLTB to be used as security for overdraft and loan facilities provided to Pacific Connex, by ANZ Bank.
The court also heard that Dakuidreketi between 23rd September 2005 and 29th September 2005 facilitated a loan of $1 million to be made by the Vanua Development Corporation to Pacific Connex, which was prejudicial to the NLTB and the indigenous Fijians.
Vanua Development Corporation was set up as an investment arm of NLTB which included the involvement of Dakuidreketi while Pacific Connex was an IT company set up by Ballu Khan.
Dakuidreketi was a board member of Pacific Connex Limited. Source: Fijivillage News, 7 August 2014
The Leader of Unity Fiji, Savenaca Narube, said that Fiji was suffering from deep structural issues that were already here before the COVID-19 struck Fiji. The former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji was addressing the Suva Rotary Club at the Grand Pacific Hotel last Thursday.
Narube explained that these structural problems included rising government expenditures, the low quality of that spending, the high dependency on the fragile tourism industry, and the low level of productivity, amongst others. These fundamental problems were clearly the result of wrong financial choices and poor economic leadership.
Narube stressed that over the last decade, the national budgets seriously lacked a medium to long term economic vision. Instead, the budgets provided temporary relief that would not unshackle our economic potential. For instance, the recent mini budget did not have any plan to diversify the economy. Therefore, rather than build economic buffers through reforms, the Minister continued to increase our economic vulnerability. He had not learnt a thing from the economic crisis of the pandemic.
The Leader of Unity Fiji told the Rotarians that the policy of this Government since it came into power was to borrow and spend. Fiji, with its small size and limited natural endowments, could not afford this irresponsible policy. The deficit of the mini budget was over 10% of GDP at a time that debt was already unsustainable. Government should have started the long and difficult process of clawing back the rate of increase in debt.
In such a hostile climate that Fiji faced now, Narube conceded that borrowing was essential as government revenue stalled. But he clarified that the danger was that these borrowings were spent on unproductive areas. He calculated that this Government had squandered over $12 billion since 2007. Therefore, the Minister should urgently focus, not so much on taxes, but on expenditure reforms.
Narube emphasised that the biggest threat to national unity and peace was the escalating poverty. Poverty was the ultimate test of the success or failure of any government. Poverty before the pandemic was already at 32%. It would now be over 40%. Three quarters of people suffering from poverty were indigenous Fijians. Narube was disappointed that previous national budgets including the mini budget had not acknowledged this fact let alone announced a plan to reduce poverty. To many people, this was a clear sign that this Government had failed and lacked the economic vision to take this country forward.
Narube explained that these structural problems included rising government expenditures, the low quality of that spending, the high dependency on the fragile tourism industry, and the low level of productivity, amongst others. These fundamental problems were clearly the result of wrong financial choices and poor economic leadership.
Narube stressed that over the last decade, the national budgets seriously lacked a medium to long term economic vision. Instead, the budgets provided temporary relief that would not unshackle our economic potential. For instance, the recent mini budget did not have any plan to diversify the economy. Therefore, rather than build economic buffers through reforms, the Minister continued to increase our economic vulnerability. He had not learnt a thing from the economic crisis of the pandemic.
The Leader of Unity Fiji told the Rotarians that the policy of this Government since it came into power was to borrow and spend. Fiji, with its small size and limited natural endowments, could not afford this irresponsible policy. The deficit of the mini budget was over 10% of GDP at a time that debt was already unsustainable. Government should have started the long and difficult process of clawing back the rate of increase in debt.
In such a hostile climate that Fiji faced now, Narube conceded that borrowing was essential as government revenue stalled. But he clarified that the danger was that these borrowings were spent on unproductive areas. He calculated that this Government had squandered over $12 billion since 2007. Therefore, the Minister should urgently focus, not so much on taxes, but on expenditure reforms.
Narube emphasised that the biggest threat to national unity and peace was the escalating poverty. Poverty was the ultimate test of the success or failure of any government. Poverty before the pandemic was already at 32%. It would now be over 40%. Three quarters of people suffering from poverty were indigenous Fijians. Narube was disappointed that previous national budgets including the mini budget had not acknowledged this fact let alone announced a plan to reduce poverty. To many people, this was a clear sign that this Government had failed and lacked the economic vision to take this country forward.
OFF AIR: Prasad is still refusing to answer how he sneaked into NZ, and whether he broke Fiji Election Campaign Rules
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fiji, Professor Shaista Shameem said that employment opportunities available to a qualified Agricultural Engineer were many
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The University of Fiji’s new Bachelor of Agricultural Engineering programme has received industrial support from the Sugar Cane Growers Fund.
The fund is available to sugar cane growers or students from active cane farming families to support their student loans to study and obtain a degree qualification in agricultural engineering at the University.
The Manager Lending and Operations for the Sugar Cane Growers Fund Sagar Dayal says that for loan application enquiry and eligibility, applicants can visit their offices located in Lautoka, Ba, Nadi, Tavua, Rakiraki, Labasa, and Seaqaqa and applications can also be made through the digital platform – mobile app MYSCGF.
The Bachelor of Agricultural Engineering degree is recorded on the Fiji Higher Education Commission’s Fiji Qualification Framework and recognized as a qualification offered by the University of Fiji.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fiji, Professor Shaista Shameem said that employment opportunities available to a qualified Agricultural Engineer were many. Source: FijiVillage News
The fund is available to sugar cane growers or students from active cane farming families to support their student loans to study and obtain a degree qualification in agricultural engineering at the University.
The Manager Lending and Operations for the Sugar Cane Growers Fund Sagar Dayal says that for loan application enquiry and eligibility, applicants can visit their offices located in Lautoka, Ba, Nadi, Tavua, Rakiraki, Labasa, and Seaqaqa and applications can also be made through the digital platform – mobile app MYSCGF.
The Bachelor of Agricultural Engineering degree is recorded on the Fiji Higher Education Commission’s Fiji Qualification Framework and recognized as a qualification offered by the University of Fiji.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Fiji, Professor Shaista Shameem said that employment opportunities available to a qualified Agricultural Engineer were many. Source: FijiVillage News
*How did Prasad get into New Zealand?
Due to very strict Covid travel restrictions, one can only travel to New Zealand if the person is:
* a New Zealand Citizen
* Has a New Zealand Resident Visa or *Holds a Critical Purpose Visa.
* Although his son and his daughter-in-law live in Auckland, family members of temporary visa holders will be able to enter New Zealand only from 11.59pm on 1 May 2022.
* If one is an Australian citizen or permanent resident, that person can enter New Zealand from 11.59pm on Tuesday 12 April 2022.
Does Prasad hold dual Fijian and Australian citizenship? Or does he
hold Permanent Residency in Australia? He arrived in Auckland on
12 April 2022
* He was in New Zealand campaigning on behalf of NFP-PAAP
*We notice that NFP chucked out and blocked a Fijileaks supporter from its Facebook page for raising the above questions
* Fijileaks: Fiji Hospitals Not FIT for Political Leaders?
* We wonder if Prasad broke Fiji election campaign rules by taking part in fund-raising dinner, radio interviews, and speeches to Fijian residents (potential voters) in Auckland?
*Campaigning, legally, only kicks off on 26 April in Fiji and abroad
* Did he also infringe NZ visa regulations by participating in fund-raising dinner and granting radio interviews when he was only allowed to enter New Zealand reportedly for pre-booked medical examination?
*Or did he use his son, who lives in New Zealand, as an excuse to sneak into Auckland to campaign and indulge in Gosh Fulia? After all, New Zealand has the best succulent LAMB CHOPS in the world.
* Since Covid, New Zealand only allows entry to citizens, those with permanent residency and Fijians needing medical assistance
* RUNAWAY Leaders: Rabuka ran away from SODELPA and Parliament. Now, his 'Deputy Prime Minister' runs away from a radio interview.
He refused to disclose when NFP will bring out its Manifesto, and like
a spoiled student, the Ponga Professor stormed out of the radio studio
*Bloody good riddance
*He was once again speaking in his bullsh*t posh Indian Hindi, throwing in a few English words but refusing to SPEAK in our coolie mother tongue - FIJI HINDI. No wonder he has become hostage to the coupist and racist Rabuka, from whom he was hiding during the 1987 Coups. He kept reminding his listeners about the Rabuka-Reddy 1997 Constitution
*Fiji Hospitals Not FIT for Political Leaders. We wonder if Prasad broke Fiji election campaign rules by taking part in fund-raising dinner and speeches to Fijian residents (potential voters) in Auckland?
*Did he also infringe NZ visa regulations by participating in fund-raising when he was only allowed to enter New Zealand for pre-booked
medical examination? He is refusing to disclose his health report.
*Anyway, his interviews were in Sudh Hindi, ashamed to speak Fiji Hindi.
Like in Fiji, Prasad was talking as if he was talking to India Indians
“You are talking like FBC now. You are not listening to me so how can I say. I am telling you the situation and later on I will tell my plan”.
Prasad refused to move beyond his version of Fiji’s problems.
"Whatever sector you talk about the situation is bad. This has happened under the Bainimarama and FijiFirst government. We will go into the Government with three key points. We will tell the people how we will improve the economic situation”.
When the Radio Tarana interviewer Pawan Rekha Prasad insisted on what NFP’s solutions were – Professor Biman had had enough.
“I am stopping the interview with you because you are talking nonsense. You can keep the interview to yourself.”
National Federation Party Leader, Professor Biman Prasad walked out of an interview on Radio Tarana in Auckland after he said that he was harassed and unfairly treated in the interview.
When the presenter had asked Professor Prasad to explain changes that he plans to bring in through policies, the NFP Leader said economy, health and education and any other sector in Fiji are not doing well.
Prasad said that this is under the Bainimarama and FijiFirst led government over the last 15 years.
The NFP Leader then said that they will tell the people before the elections what they will do when they form government.
Prasad said they will focus on good governance and true democracy and Fiji’s regional and international reputation but the details will be revealed later.
When asked on the solutions to fix the economy, Professor Biman Prasad told the Radio Tarana presenter to tell the people about the current situation in Fiji.
When asked on what is the solution, Prasad again said the presenter has to explain what is the situation.
Prasad said before COVID-19, there was negative economic growth for Fiji and COVID took the economy further down. He said countries like New Zealand and Australia came forward to provide budget support.
When asked what is his plan, Prasad told the presenter she was not listening to him.
He then said he will talk about the situation and then give the plan.
When the presenter asked again what is his plan for those people who want to vote for him, Prasad said the campaign has not started as yet.
Professor Prasad then said the Radio Tarana presenter should ask him questions respectfully or he will end the interview.
When the presenter asked what is in the NFP manifesto and when will it come out, Prasad said the presenter had first said that the election is yet to be held and the manifestos are yet to done.
He asked whether any other party has come out with the manifesto and then walked out of the interview, saying he is ending the interview and the presenter is talking nonsense.
When questioned by fijivillage on why he walked out of the interview, Professor Prasad claims it was a plan to discredit him.
When the presenter had asked Professor Prasad to explain changes that he plans to bring in through policies, the NFP Leader said economy, health and education and any other sector in Fiji are not doing well.
Prasad said that this is under the Bainimarama and FijiFirst led government over the last 15 years.
The NFP Leader then said that they will tell the people before the elections what they will do when they form government.
Prasad said they will focus on good governance and true democracy and Fiji’s regional and international reputation but the details will be revealed later.
When asked on the solutions to fix the economy, Professor Biman Prasad told the Radio Tarana presenter to tell the people about the current situation in Fiji.
When asked on what is the solution, Prasad again said the presenter has to explain what is the situation.
Prasad said before COVID-19, there was negative economic growth for Fiji and COVID took the economy further down. He said countries like New Zealand and Australia came forward to provide budget support.
When asked what is his plan, Prasad told the presenter she was not listening to him.
He then said he will talk about the situation and then give the plan.
When the presenter asked again what is his plan for those people who want to vote for him, Prasad said the campaign has not started as yet.
Professor Prasad then said the Radio Tarana presenter should ask him questions respectfully or he will end the interview.
When the presenter asked what is in the NFP manifesto and when will it come out, Prasad said the presenter had first said that the election is yet to be held and the manifestos are yet to done.
He asked whether any other party has come out with the manifesto and then walked out of the interview, saying he is ending the interview and the presenter is talking nonsense.
When questioned by fijivillage on why he walked out of the interview, Professor Prasad claims it was a plan to discredit him.
From Fijileaks Archive, 7 August 2014
LOST IN EXPRESSION: Aiyaz Khaiyum trumps Biman Prasad in FBC's Aaina debate - reinforces why "Fiji Hindi" must be the language of political discourse. Prasad's decision to speak in "Indian Hindi" leaves many scrambling for Hindi Dictionary
FROM THE ARCHIVES: VICTOR LAL writing in the Fiji Sun during the 2006 general election campaign:
Fiji Hindi baat bolo, Indo-Fijian politicians!
You are not contesting election to Indian Parliament
By VICTOR LAL
ONE of the most ridiculous and nauseating features of the election campaign is the language usage of Indo-Fijian candidates on the election trail: a pseudo pompous and counterfeit Hindi, as if they are contesting for power in India and not in Fiji.
Several potential voters wrote to me complaining that instead of speaking in the everyday Fiji Hindi to them, the candidates have been making speeches in Shudh (Standard/Correct) Hindi, a language a vast majority of the Indo-Fijian voters hardly understand.
A similar spectacle has been displayed during Question Time and Talk Back programmes on Fiji TV. I decided to watch the appearance of Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi of the Fiji Labour Party, Bimal Prasad of the National Federation Party, Shiu Ram of COIN Party and Dildar Shah of the National Alliance Party on these two programmes.
Again, a pathetic reoccurring pattern, as if Vayeshnoi, who is contesting the Nadroga Indian Communal seat, was reading a script out of the Hindu holy book, the Bhagavad Gita. When, all he was trying to do, was to explain his party’s manifesto (for which there is no Fiji Hindi word).
The other three were equally guilty, and at times I felt sorry for Shiu Ram, who even resorted to English to make his point, instead of opting to speak the language of the Indo-Fijian masses, and over 30 per cent of taukei Fijians – Fiji Hindi.
What is wrong with speaking Fiji Hindi? Are they ashamed of the language of their coolie forefathers? Why are these Indo-Fijian candidates contesting the Indian communal seats when they are by commission or omission, speaking to the voters in the language of ‘Mother India’.
For God’s sake, even Indian candidates, despite belonging to different political parties, speak in the 700 different dialects and languages to their prospective voters in India. A regional aspiring candidate in Madras will be speaking in Madrassi, and even the Communist candidate in Bengal will be pouting his Maoist and Stalinist propaganda in Bengali. The Italian-born Mrs Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party, also speaks in a Hindi language which is understood by the vast majority of the voters.
More importantly, the candidates in Bihar would be speaking in Bhojpuri or Awadhi, from which the corrupt version of Fiji Hindi has originated in our country. So why can not our own aspiring Indo-Fijian politicians speak the language of their people?.
As Nemani Bainivalu, a University of the South Pacific Hindi graduate, and later a cultural assistant with the National Reconciliation Unit, had once pointed out, only 20 percent of Indo-Fijians can read and write their formal language.
Many Indo-Fijians cannot even read their holy books written in the Khadee Bolee dialect, and pass on religious teachings by word. I am not suggesting that Sudh Hindi be replaced in our education system, or that everyone should be writing novels like Dauka Puran by Professor Subramani of the Department of Literature and Language at the USP.
What I am protesting against is the gibberish Shudh Hindi that is being shoved down the throats of Indo-Fijian voters who are struggling to ‘swallow’ the words. The election message and manifestoes of the political parties would be better understood if the Indo-Fijian candidates resorted to the conversational Fiji Hindi at the hustings. It will also help bring the taukei Fijians into the campaign, especially the 30 per cent who speak the language, and many others who have a smattering command of it.
It must be made very clear to Indo-Fijian candidates that despite the teaching of Shudh Hindi and Urdu in schools, Fiji Hindi is an integral part of the identity and culture of the Indo-Fijian population. It is unique to Indo-Fijians in the world. The day Indo-Fijian politicians kill Fiji Hindi, they will be killing a part of their history and heritage in Fiji.
For no matter where one goes in the world, the moment one hears an Indo-Fijian open his mouth, one immediately asks him: ‘What part of Fiji are you from?’ In a similar vein, India Indians are able to separate us from them solely on the basis of our Fiji Hindi.
If the Indo-Fijian politicians and aspiring candidates are too ashamed to speak to us in the language of our coolie forefathers, they should pack their bags and their manifestoes and take the next Air India flight to India, and wait there for the next general election in that country to practice their Shudh Hindi. We don’t need Indian political impostors in Fiji.
Such candidates and Indo-Fijian leaders do not deserve our sympathy or votes.
Long live FIJI HINDI.
Fiji Hindi baat bolo, Indo-Fijian politicians!
You are not contesting election to Indian Parliament
By VICTOR LAL
ONE of the most ridiculous and nauseating features of the election campaign is the language usage of Indo-Fijian candidates on the election trail: a pseudo pompous and counterfeit Hindi, as if they are contesting for power in India and not in Fiji.
Several potential voters wrote to me complaining that instead of speaking in the everyday Fiji Hindi to them, the candidates have been making speeches in Shudh (Standard/Correct) Hindi, a language a vast majority of the Indo-Fijian voters hardly understand.
A similar spectacle has been displayed during Question Time and Talk Back programmes on Fiji TV. I decided to watch the appearance of Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi of the Fiji Labour Party, Bimal Prasad of the National Federation Party, Shiu Ram of COIN Party and Dildar Shah of the National Alliance Party on these two programmes.
Again, a pathetic reoccurring pattern, as if Vayeshnoi, who is contesting the Nadroga Indian Communal seat, was reading a script out of the Hindu holy book, the Bhagavad Gita. When, all he was trying to do, was to explain his party’s manifesto (for which there is no Fiji Hindi word).
The other three were equally guilty, and at times I felt sorry for Shiu Ram, who even resorted to English to make his point, instead of opting to speak the language of the Indo-Fijian masses, and over 30 per cent of taukei Fijians – Fiji Hindi.
What is wrong with speaking Fiji Hindi? Are they ashamed of the language of their coolie forefathers? Why are these Indo-Fijian candidates contesting the Indian communal seats when they are by commission or omission, speaking to the voters in the language of ‘Mother India’.
For God’s sake, even Indian candidates, despite belonging to different political parties, speak in the 700 different dialects and languages to their prospective voters in India. A regional aspiring candidate in Madras will be speaking in Madrassi, and even the Communist candidate in Bengal will be pouting his Maoist and Stalinist propaganda in Bengali. The Italian-born Mrs Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the Congress Party, also speaks in a Hindi language which is understood by the vast majority of the voters.
More importantly, the candidates in Bihar would be speaking in Bhojpuri or Awadhi, from which the corrupt version of Fiji Hindi has originated in our country. So why can not our own aspiring Indo-Fijian politicians speak the language of their people?.
As Nemani Bainivalu, a University of the South Pacific Hindi graduate, and later a cultural assistant with the National Reconciliation Unit, had once pointed out, only 20 percent of Indo-Fijians can read and write their formal language.
Many Indo-Fijians cannot even read their holy books written in the Khadee Bolee dialect, and pass on religious teachings by word. I am not suggesting that Sudh Hindi be replaced in our education system, or that everyone should be writing novels like Dauka Puran by Professor Subramani of the Department of Literature and Language at the USP.
What I am protesting against is the gibberish Shudh Hindi that is being shoved down the throats of Indo-Fijian voters who are struggling to ‘swallow’ the words. The election message and manifestoes of the political parties would be better understood if the Indo-Fijian candidates resorted to the conversational Fiji Hindi at the hustings. It will also help bring the taukei Fijians into the campaign, especially the 30 per cent who speak the language, and many others who have a smattering command of it.
It must be made very clear to Indo-Fijian candidates that despite the teaching of Shudh Hindi and Urdu in schools, Fiji Hindi is an integral part of the identity and culture of the Indo-Fijian population. It is unique to Indo-Fijians in the world. The day Indo-Fijian politicians kill Fiji Hindi, they will be killing a part of their history and heritage in Fiji.
For no matter where one goes in the world, the moment one hears an Indo-Fijian open his mouth, one immediately asks him: ‘What part of Fiji are you from?’ In a similar vein, India Indians are able to separate us from them solely on the basis of our Fiji Hindi.
If the Indo-Fijian politicians and aspiring candidates are too ashamed to speak to us in the language of our coolie forefathers, they should pack their bags and their manifestoes and take the next Air India flight to India, and wait there for the next general election in that country to practice their Shudh Hindi. We don’t need Indian political impostors in Fiji.
Such candidates and Indo-Fijian leaders do not deserve our sympathy or votes.
Long live FIJI HINDI.
“The strong support from across the nation indicated that Unity Fiji has shed its “small” brand that were used by some political parties to discourage voters from voting for Unity Fiji in 2018. For their own convenience, some people still point to the 2018 election results for Unity Fiji. I would like to tell these people that for Unity Fiji, this election will never be like 2018. We can physically sense the momentum of this growing support. More people are now aware of Unity Fiji. They now know who we are and what we stand for. They recognise our strengths and proven ability to take Fiji out of the current mess that we are facing. The great turnout at the AGM has clearly signaled that Unity Fiji has now taken its seat at the table of leadership in Fiji. Therefore, Unity Fiji will contest the 2022 elections on our own. We firmly believe that, with our growing support, we will take our seat at the leadership table in Fiji."
Unity Party leader Savenaca Narube
Fijileaks on PAP-NFP Honeymoon on the Rocks: After recent marriage between PAP-NAG (Snake) party leaders, a major rift is beginning to emerge regarding Indo-Fijian voters. Indo-Fijians who joined PAP to contest the election, are demanding to know who RABUKA will campaign for, and call on Indo-Fijians to vote for? Will he campaign for Biman Prasad or for his own Indo-Fijian candidates? For example, if the Labasa businessman Charan Jeath Singh who has crossed from NFP to PAP has any chance at the poll, Rabuka must woo away NFP Indo-Fijian voters to Singh. Similarly, tension is mounting regarding i-Taukei voters. What is the MOU on targetting of voters? Will Prasad (re i-Taukei candidates) and Rabuka (re Indo-Fijian candidates) sacrifice their ethnic candidates? An unforgivable PAAP because of the hasty marriage the two entered into without a proper vote game plan. Rabuka has a history of betrayal. If he decides (aware of the horrible rape, violence, torture, and disenfranchisement he inflicted on the Indo-Fijians) that it would be best for Prasad to woo Indo-Fijian voters, then the Labasa businessman Charan Jeath Singh might only be able to garner 150 votes, mostly from his staff and family members, and banished into the political wilderness
The Leader of Unity Fiji and former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji said that Unity Fiji will fight the 2022 elections on its own.
Mr. Narube confirmed that this was the clear message from the party’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday in Suva. More than 400 delegates were at the AGM, with some coming as far away as Vanua Levu.
“The strong support from across the nation indicated that Unity Fiji has shed its “small” brand that were used by some political parties to discourage voters from voting for Unity Fiji in 2018,” said Savenaca Narube.
The Leader of Unity Fiji added, “For their own convenience, some people still point to the 2018 election results for Unity Fiji. I would like to tell these people that for Unity Fiji, this election will never be like 2018. We can physically sense the momentum of this growing support.”
“More people are now aware of Unity Fiji. They now know who we are and what we stand for. They recognise our strengths and proven ability to take Fiji out of the current mess that we are facing. The great turnout at the AGM has clearly signaled that Unity Fiji has now taken its seat at the table of leadership in Fiji,” said the Leader of Unity Fiji.
Mr. Narube explained to the AGM that he had tried his very best to unite all opposition parties. He had talked to all opposition leaders on many occasions after the 2018 elections. “I was the only Leader that was trying to unite us. In the interest of the country, I lament the fact that I was not successful. I respect the decisions of the Leaders of political parties not to join a coalition before the elections. But in my view, our combined position would have been much stronger had we joined forces.”
The Unity Fiji’s AGM reverberated loudly and clearly with three messages. The first was that the people wanted change but to something better than what we have now. The second was that Unity Fiji has the leadership and experience to take Fiji to where we should be. The third was that Unity Fiji had tried its best to unite opposition parties, and with the elections around the corner, it was now time to move on.
“Therefore, Unity Fiji will contest the 2022 elections on our own. We firmly believe that, with our growing support, we will take our seat at the leadership table in Fiji.”
UP YOURS: Will Rabuka give two fingers to his Indo-Fijian candidates in exchange for Prasad sacrificing his i-Taukei NFP candidates. For under the d'Hondht electoral system, both need all the votes to WIN?
JAI RAM TO INDO-FIJIANS FROM NFP:
*As Jai Ram Reddy told you in 1999: 'Fiji is NOT Ready for
an Indo-Fijian Prime Minister', except for Coupist Rabuka. Just like Biman Prasad, Reddy had made a 360-degree U-Turn from his proclamation in 1994 on Sitiveni Rabuka
*In the 1999 election, FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry, at the last mass rally in Suva, played a tape recording of Reddy's declaration during the 1994 elections that he (Reddy) would 'never endorse Rabuka for prime minister because of the suffering caused by his coups'.
*Another leading FLP candidate Dr Tupeni Baba, before an Indo-Fijian audience, derided Reddy for trying to lead them to Rabuka's SVT just as i-Taukei Fijians were deserting it in droves.
*When the final results were announced, Reddy, Biman Prasad, Wadan Narsey, Sitiveni Rabuka and other SVT-NFP candidates were comprehensively defeated under the very 1997 Rabuka-Reddy Constitution of Fiji
SICKENING OBSESSION WITH RABUKA: Fijileaks had strongly defended Prasad, his wife and the NFP over the years. Last year, our Founding Editor advised Prasad to select about 30 i-Taukei Fijian candidates (men and women) of good character, Other minorities, and Indo-Fijians not tainted with coups and the coupists Rabuka and Bainimarama but that NFP leadership should be handed to Lenora Qereqeretabua. It was time for a woman to lead the NFP
*We informed him that NFP was well placed to sell itself to the voters as an alternative government of all parties and a multi-ethnic set of candidates. He agreed but all along he was secretly in bed with Sitiveni Rabuka and now, with appalling arrogance, says he will be Deputy Prime Minister to a man who on 14 May 1987, one hundred and eight years to the day when their coolie ancestors were introduced into Fiji and marched from plantation to parliament, proclaimed to the world after the 1987 racist coup:
LIONIZING A COUPIST who is hiding behind the self-granted
IMMUNITY for Treason, Rape, Murder, Dispossession, Expulsion and Disenfranchisement of One Half of Fiji's population is NOT Good for
the Rule of Law. It is stomach-churning to be told by one speaker after another from the NFP that Sitiveni Rabuka is "our coalition man" because Rabuka-Reddy gave us the 1997 Constitution. But as the late Sir Vijay Singh reminded us, the Coupist and Racist Thug only returned to us what he had stolen at the point of a gun - the 1970 Constitution of Fiji. There seem to be two different laws - one for us and another for Rabuka
“Every time we shrug when we hear of another midnight raid, the cries of terrorized women and children, then somewhere in Fiji another potential [Klaus] Barbie [The Nazi Butcher of Lyon in France] is getting a start in life,” said the former Methodist communications secretary in 1987, the Reverend Akuila Yabaki |
The former chief prosecutor of United Nations war crimes tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda has called for an international arrest warrant to be issued for Russian President Vladimir Putin.“Putin is a war criminal,” Carla Del Ponte told the Swiss newspaper Le Temps
SITIVENI RABUKA: Fiji RacistPutin's Catalogue of Crimes
Recently, both SHAMIMA ALI and SASHI KIRAN (touted as prospective NFP candidates and coalition partners with PAAPI party) have revealed that in 1987 several Indo-Fijian women informed them of rapes at the hands of Rabuka's racist hoodlums. One of the Indo-Fijian victims was 75 years old and was raped in her own home, in front of her family. *Today, Biman Prasad is shaking hands with Rabuka, shamelessly informing us that he will be Deputy Prime Minister in Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka's new government after the election.
*The NFP Vice-President LENORA QEREQERETABUA wanted Aiyaz Khaiyum to inform Parliament of the policy that permits a serving prison inmate RAPIST to participate in a national 7s tournament.
*We wonder why she did not ask her leader Biman Prasad to explain why the leader of the rapist mob from 1987 was invited to address the NFP Convention, and why her party has gone into a loose coalition with PAAP to fight the election? RAPE is one of the most paap to be committed against women and girls
* In November 1987, Rabuka initiated a mass breakout from Naboro Prison. Escapees, including violent and dangerous rapists among them, were allowed by Rabuka's military to march to Government House with various demands, including pardons.
* Many went on to rape Indo-Fijian women, under Biman Prasad's political darling Rabuka's WARDENSHIP.
* Rabuka's RAPISTS chose Indo-Fijian women at random and against their wills, either breaking and raping them inside their sacred homes, or dragging them away, and raping them in bushes all over Fiji.
* For Rabuka told his i-Taukei, Fiji belonged to them, and Indo-Fijian women were chattels, pagans, filthy strangers in Viti.
* Some of the escaped prisoners even ended up sodomizing Indo-Fijian men as an extra bonus.
*While his failed political coalition partner JAI RAM REDDY went on to prosecute Rwandans for rape and murder, Rabuka and his Rapists were (and still are) roaming around Fiji. Now, PAP-NFP Pact in 2022
*For too long NFP has shielded Sitiveni Rabuka for his Racial CRIMES.
In their estimation, he is not the dreaded RAVANA but RAMA for their political fortunes at the election against FFP rests on Rabuka's PAAP
PROTECTING THE HONOUR OF INDO-FIJIAN WOMEN AND DEFENDING INDO-FIJIAN RIGHTS IN FIJI:
Unlike the 'Political Opportunist' shaking hands with the man whose coup resulted in the rapes of Indo-Fijian women, our Editor-in-Chief has always been a staunch defender of Indo-Fijian rights in Fiji:
* Under the electoral laws, a party cannot form a coalition before the election, only after it. The parties would have to merge and become one party to take on the FFP
* Another scandalous electoral decree that has been enacted is for all political parties to provide how they will fund their electoral promises.
* AUSTRALIA should NOT have provided the so-called BUDGET SUPPORT of $190million to FFP in the election year for Aiyaz Khaiyum to dish out election freebies. Voters would have risen up against him.
* Its amoral and scandalous for any incumbent government of the day to demand that Opposition parties must provide a breakdown of how they will fund their election promises but the Government can saddle the nation with a $10billion debt and borrow more from international agencies. It's like the Opposition going to a bank manager only in their underwear as security. How can they justify election promise costs?
*We had a similar spectacle in the 1997 Constitution where Sitiveni Rabuka and Jai Ram Reddy had made power-sharing MANDATORY if parties crossed the 5 per cent threshold. It led to the downfall of Chaudhry's People's Coalition government with disparate coalition parties speaking in different tongues. He won landslide mandate but formed the government on bent knees under the 1997 Constitution which required mandatory power-sharing after a general election
* Isa, talking of MARRIAGE, did you notice NFP's Dulainiya (Bride) cloyingly looking into his newfound BRIDEGROOM, Sitiveni Rabuka. We will analyze these two's distorted history about the 1999 elections.
* Soon, we will demand an explanation from BIMAN PRASAD whether he was aware, as FRCA Board Member, of serious fraud and tax charges against PAAPI's national treasurer JOSEVA LEANO, who was sacked in September 2007 from FRCA after he was found guilty of all the charges
There is something really ROTTEN in Fiji
Fijileaks: Indo-Fijians should be very wary of Prasad consorting with Father of the Coups, who is hiding behind IMMUNITY. We owe it to the memory of those INDO-FIJIANS who were RAPED, MURDERED, DISENFRANCHISED and DEPORTED that Prasad is not in a position to make Rabuka the Prime Minister of Fiji, again, with Prasad as his Deputy Prime Minister. Once again, this bloody rascal is agreeing that Indo-Fijians must remain, second class citizens, for, to quote former NFP leader Jai Ram Reddy:
'Fiji is NOT ready for an Indo-Fijian Prime Minister'. Its quite clear they don't want an Indo-Fijian Muslim Prime Minister.
GOVERNANCE: We didn't hear about Sitiveni Rabuka's governance record from 1987 to 1999 when both, Rabuka and Reddy, were booted out in the 1999 general election
A COALITION OF TWO HEARTS?: You must have been living together before marriage and under a common name. That is what the scandalous coalition decree means in practice. Under the electoral laws, a party cannot form a coalition before the election, only after it. The parties would have to merge and become one party to take on the FFP. But Aiyaz Khaiyum has got his political cake and is eating it. The election will be held under authoritarian decrees, and Australia and New Zealand are complicit with their Budget Supports and funding to Elections Office
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