Bainimarama keeping secrets whilst using public funds for own ends

 

  Tuesday June 18 2013    EMAIL:ufdfwest@gmail.com  

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STATEMENT

In a follow up to their earlier call for the PM and AG to declare their salaries, the UFDF has today called on Commodore Bainimarama to stop his political campaigning at taxpayers’ expense.

The UFDF has called on Commodore Bainimarama to stop his political campaigning at taxpayers’ expense. He has to change his mindset and come to terms with changing circumstances. 

The UFDF said it was unacceptable for him to continue as commander of the army having already announced he is running for parliamentary office. 

• If he wants to remain a politician, he should resign as commander, leaving the field clear for the appointment of another leader of the Fiji military.
• If he wants to remain Military Commander, then he should resign as the Prime Minister. He cannot continue to have it both ways. 

If he is serious about holding free and fair election in 2014, than in the interests of fairness and normal standards of good governance, he should agree to stand aside and make way for an independent civilian caretaker administration to guide the country to elections.

The UFDF has called on Commodore Bainimarama to announce the formation of his own political party. 

• He needs to announce its name and interim office bearers and front up with at least 5000 signatures for it to be registered.
• The signatures must be collected by volunteers because he cannot use the civil service or the army to do that for him.
• Those who join with him as political office bearers must follow the law introduced by Commodore Bainimarama and declare their assets and liabilities and those of their children.

The UFDF said Commodore Bainimarama should separately and immediately declare :

• his assets and liabilities, 
• his total annual salary and,
• the amount he has earned in his six and a half years in power. 

It is not acceptable for him to follow the lead of his Attorney General, Mr Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum,and declare that he will announce these financial details in the near future. 

The future is now. Commodore Bainimarama should open his financial affairs and details to public scrutiny now as a demonstration of the accountability and openness he so often calls on others to practice.

The UFDF said there is no excuse for further delay.

As prime minister, he has an obligation to tell the taxpayers who pays his salary whether he is earning approximately $1,300,000 a year, as reported recently.
 Similarly, Mr Sayed-Khaiyum must disclose his own salary and that of the other ministers.

It is also time for Commodore Bainimarama to reveal to the nation what political plans he has for the very unpopular Mr Sayed-Khaiyum who is also the most powerful of his ministers.

In fact, Mr Sayed-Khaiyum maybe the most powerful politician in Fiji’s history, even though he is unelected and has no mandate. The UFDF said Mr Sayed-Khaiyum will presumably be Commodore Bainimarama’s running mate in the elections. They have worked closely together for more than seven years and form the narrow foundation of the current regime.

So Prime Minister, get on with it! Do the right thing; face your moment of truth, embrace your own political reforms and let’s get on with the battle of ideas you have called for.

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Extravagant Regime Salaries probe continues

"Fiji's main opposition political parties have called on the interim prime minister and interim attorney general to reveal the size of their salaries.

This follows claims on websites opposed to the interim government that they are making more than a million dollars, which is in excess of their other ministerial colleagues."

The general public also are still waiting for the regime leaders to speak up about what salaries they are receiving from the public purse. Not that they are likely to speak the truth even then. For their truth is often their own creation, and they believe every word of it, and bugger us if we do not.

They must also answer Fijian taxpayers as to why their salaries are not being paid from the Treasury but by a private accounting firm in Fiji headed by the interim Attorney General (Kaiyum's) aunty.

The interim regime is fond of tossing the words TRANSPARENCY and ACCOUNTABILITY around, but they are a big FAIL when it actually comes down to it.

This morning Kaiyum put out a typically patronizing press release via brown nosed regime reporter Vijay Narayan on Fiji Village News (which some people cannot read if you are not subscribed), saying that public office holders will SOON be required to reveal their assets.

"SOON" is another creative term much beloved by this regime.

Why not 3-4 years ago when they were asked about it ? And why not now ?

What on earth are they hiding ?

Meanwhile roll on the dough ..... YeeHaa.

Sign the petition for change put forward by all the combined political parties in Fiji here.

Outrageous Fiji salaries questioned

 

Try as the regime may to ignore the issue, this story will not go away .

Salary payments via Hawaladar enables offshore tax havens

Aunty Nur

More  information on how Bainimarama and Kaiyum are moving their slush funds around have continued to emerge. The consistent rumours and stories continue to get louder as it seems that the regime's influential, trusted and well connected Nur Bano Ali is more than Bainimarama's pay mistress.

We are hearing that the Hawaladar system enables Nur, Bainimarama and Kaiyum to move their funds quietly to their overseas tax haven accounts. 

We hear also that certain of the Gang of 6 have purchased a penthouse in Sydney and another is investing in a restaurant in the same city. Bainimarama has a military trained son that is operating the Fijian end of an international and national security force which is not cheap to set up (and which in time will also become 'Daddy's' private army). Hardware such as guns and associated training equipment and operational venues are expensive to initialise, but capital expenditure to realise these objectives are easily traded so that excess funds are kept under the radar.

Associated with money moving to Dubai and Hong Kong are the recent regime 'initiatives' to recruit Fiji citizens to private security jobs and to housekeeping and nanny roles in the same countries. Our investigations continue, and anyone else with additional information is invited to contact us.

Reserve Bank enables big budget Invoicing

Apart from the methods of Hawaladar, the Reserve Bank allows one to get around 'restrictions' and cover their footprints by merely writing out an Invoice. Qorvis too must clearly be pleased.

Nur Bano Ali is also Bainimarama's black Hawaladar despite tweaked regulations and rhetoric from the respected and trusted head of the Fiji's FIU (Fiji Financial Intelligence Unit) Razim Buksh.

The public would love to know just how much space the elephant in his office is taking up and how much of the animal he has been told to ignore.

Financial Regulations and the Law

What is the value of any of our legal financial safeguards when the junta is in the habit of altering any law or regulation it doesn’t like any time it sees fit?

Fond of trotting out decrees for this and quoting decrees ad infinitum, Kaiyum is also quick to invoke "necessity" to get around things any time he thinks his Gang of 6 may be 'lawfully' restricted from doing what it wants to do. 

Fiji Dictator - Bainimarama

And without the checks and balances present like free media, a functional lower house answerable to Parliament, or Opposition parties to act as watchdog to those ad hoc policy changes, what guarantees are there really of any transparency or accountability to what they do ?

The answer is zero . Zero + zero = zero. 

So Fiji's taxpayers continue to be kept in the dark.

The magnitude of remittances that officially go through Fiji's licensed foreign exchange dealers are indicative of remittances that go through Fiji's Hawaladar. 

In most instances, Fiji's licensed dealers also perform unlicensed Hawaladar remittances, where money does not need to move across borders and remains 'under the radar'.  

This will only increase when the IMF call for exchange decontrol is implemented.

Not only is Fiji a recruitment ground for terrorism in direct contravention of UN Security Council Resolution, it has now become a financial mecca of the Hawaladar variety.

Although we cannot rely on the objectivity and impartiality of the Razim Buksh sanctioned Nur Bano Ali black Hawaladar, there will be no escape from international scrutiny.

I'm afraid the days of 'waraka namaka' are over. Bainimarama and his cronies will in a very short time be held to account.

Sign the petition for change put forward by all the combined political parties in Fiji here.

Fiji Regime Salaries Revealed

In 2006 when Josaia Frank Bainimarama took power in Fiji by force, and began to declare his many different reasons for taking over the country, no one could predict just how his lust for power would corrupt and then absolutely corrupt.

Today June 7th 2013 is when he and his legal advisor decreed that all registered political parties must declare their financial interests. However both Bainimarama and Kaiyum are both excempt from revealing their own ill gotten gains.

Back in 2008 , we saw the first of many exceptions to the rule in terms of payments to regime members . We can reveal that the payments listed below also include entertainment , housing, phone / mobile, traveling  and other allowances; as well as cost of living adjustments every year to the tune of 4.6 to  5% .

But of course there has been no accountability nor transparency from that time onwards as to the state of taxpayer funding for regime portfolio holders, Josaia and Aiyarse Sayed included.

In 2011, Coup 4.5 managed to obtain figures from a source which revealed payments at that stage for government positions.

Many people have wondered why this is the reason they insisted on getting their monies paid via a private accounting firm run by Kaiyum's aunty Nur Bano and not through the usual channels where their payments would be subject to public scrutiny.

Today we reveal what inside sources have told us these two individuals are paying themselves from the public purse. Check it out and prepare to be disgusted.

Had enough ?

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Fiji Dictator lashes out

Failed State Ranking for Fiji

The international organisation Fund For Peace assesses the world's Failed Sate Rankings each year.

Fiji is on the "WARNING" alert status meaning it is on the verge, and we are in the top 10 of the most worsened countries in the world, right alongside Zambia.

Congratulations to the Fiji military regime and the 6 individuals who run it, who must be very proud of what they have achieved !

Fiji Regime's constitutional solution to entrenching theft of indigenous land title

Fiji's military regime under the guidance of it's self-appointed Attorney General Aiyarse Kaiyum is busy postulating that native land in Fiji is protected and guaranteed in their draft constifusion.

On close inspection the great unwashed have realised this is total hogwash and hidden under many layers of the fancy rhetoric that Khaiyum is well known for.

It is well known that the regime is wooing big chunks of Chinese money - which equates to big chunks of land either for mineral prospecting or other kinds of factories.

The only way that the regime will get their hands on native title and rent it to the Chinese is to trick and bribe us natives into thinking we will be getting a lifetime of income by giving our lands away into the Regime's Land Bank for our lifetimes and our future generations lifetimes.

WE. DO. NOT. BELIEVE. IT.

Knowing full well that most Fijians cannot afford to go to court for anything let alone understand how the regime can warp the issues to suit themselves, the Kaiyum proposes "innocently" that we can go seek justice in his courts.

Courts stacked with vulagi Sri Lankan judges that all kow-tow to him and his directions. As for justice?

Yeah right ! 

And if we believe people like his bosso and that other vulagi Grame Davisi telling us what we should be grateful for and accept, we will fast become a bankrupt non-entity , discarded in our own country and reduced to begging for our indigenous rights from a fancy pants vulagi.

Colonization all over again ? Or is it societal engineering ?

Whatever you call it Nationalism rises once again in Fiji . Naturally.