It beggars belief that before the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the appointment of Barbara Malimali as FICAC Commissioner delivers its long-awaited report, Malimali should choose to “clear” the Deputy Prime Minister and NFP leader, Biman Prasad, of wrongdoing when his case was examined by the COI.
It is a travesty of justice that again raises serious questions about the integrity of both Barbara Malimali and Biman Prasad. But more importantly about the institutional integrity of FICAC itself. Because whatever the merits of the case against Prasad, the timing of this announcement is all wrong.
Why? Simply because we know that Justice David Ashton Lewis has examined FICAC’s handling of the complaint against the Deputy Prime Minister. He will have brought all of his forensic ability as a senior judge to examining precisely what happened. So what on earth has motivated Barbara Malimali to pre-empt any finding the COI might make on her handling of the case by publicly clearing Biman Prasad of wrongdoing?
It doesn’t take a legal genius to smell the biggest of rats. On any reasoned appraisal, the FICAC Commissioner should have awaited the findings of the Commission of Inquiry. Instead she has taken it upon herself to declare Biman Prasad innocent irrespective of what Justice David Ashton-Lewis might find. That doesn’t smell of due process but a stitch-up. And it simply increases the stench around both Malimali and Prasad, who continues to face a police investigation into allegations made against him.
As Grubsheet understands it, the position is this: FICAC has chosen to reject a complaint against the Deputy Prime Minister by the Sydney-based amateur sleuth and watchdog, Alexandra Forwood. But it ignores a much more detailed set of allegations by the Oxford-based Victor Lal at Fijileaks.
Evidently at official urging, Victor Lal has taken his evidence direct to the Fiji Police. Barbara Malimali must know that Biman Prasad is now under police investigation. Yet she has still chosen to publicly clear him while that investigation proceeds. And, again, before there can be an official judicial pronouncement from David Ashton-Lewis about whether Malimali has properly handled the allegations made to FICAC about Biman Prasad’s conduct.
So never mind the allegations themselves. The process itself stinks to high heaven and merely raises further public suspicion about the integrity of the FICAC Commissioner. Something is very rotten in the state of Fiji when a judicial inquiry can be pre-empted in this manner and on the say-so of the very person under investigation – Barbara Malimali, in her case by the Judge – clearing someone else who is also under active investigation – Biman Prasad, in his case by the police.
The NFP leader undoubtedly believes he is off the hook. Yet whatever the next twist in this saga, Barbara Malimali has merely succeeded in raising further questions about Biman Prasad’s conduct and putting him under more pressure. Instead of spraying the sweet scent of innocence around him, there is now a bigger stench around both of them. Because all this has happened before Justice David Ashton-Lewis has spoken.
Victor Lal is right. Keep running, Biman, because you are not in the clear. Far from it. And whatever happens with the allegations against you, you will be running all the way to election day and then you are going to be crash-tackled. Because in the court of public opinion, you are already toast. (see below)
The furious response from Victor Lal at Fijileaks…
But while Barbara Malimali might have loosened the noose around Biman Prasad’s neck – for the moment – he is already swinging in the court of public opinion.
An article in both dailies today by the academic, Sushil Sharma, supporting changes to the Constitution also contains a devastating indictment of the performance of the Coalition.
Here’s the relevant extract, which tells us a rendezvous with the public hangman is already Biman Prasad’s eventual fate come election day.
Ouch.
It’s very simple GD. The corrupt cabal has got whiff of the COI report. They realize that the report will either be eventually released or most probably be leaked. They most importantly got wind that the report is scathing of Barbara Malasikas illegal appointment and all the corruption surrounding the complaints and allegations against Biman and all his fellow corrupt coalition govt ministers. So they quickly sprung into action and in record time made an “official” finding that Biman is innocent of everything he is accused of and it’s also hinted that others will also be found innocent.
This is just a very dubious and messy way to pre-empt public opinion once the scathing COI report comes out. Rabuka, Malimali and others will say, “oh, yes we realise the report is scathing and critical of ficac and everyone involved and that biman should have been charged “then” at the time of Barbara’s appointment, but you see since then we have thoroughly investigated allegations against him and have found him innocent..so u see there’s nothing to be done against him now despite the scathing report.”
Something similar to this statement will be released next week once the report starts making the rounds. The compliant whores that make up the media will not ask any hard questions and will run with the statement without asking any follow up questions. Then the public will be expected to accept this explanation and all will be well for biman and any other minsiter that had allegations at FICAC.
Yaaaaaay! Everyone is happy. Rabaku will say “I can’t do much cos FICAC is independent” and Biman will laugh and laugh and laugh….and poke out his slimy tongue. And Barbara will continue with her job. Happy people all around. Kaila!!!
The only good thing you could say about all of that, is that in ‘a normal country’ when Malimali is found guilty by the commission of inquiry, then what she has done for Prasad, in letting him off scot free, would be overturned and he would be back in the spotlight for the raft of crimes committed.
To just mention the superannuation in her winding up of the charges against him and leave out all of the other parts requiring investigation is to, again, remodel the case to appear a simple affair of misunderstanding.
We all know that is not true.
Biman’s fate is sealed. He can’t point to a single policy action that has made a life-altering positive impact on the lives of ordinary Fijians since getting into government. His legacy will be that he betrayed people who voted to him. I am starting to believe that Japanese lady who reported against him pre-election. He is an untrustworthy, cunning and self-serving hypocrite drunk on power. If experience is the ultimate teacher, then Biman will learn soon that you do not abuse the power the people lent you.
Is someone using the name George Speight as a pseudonym?
But if it is GS, writing that Biman, is an “untrustworthy, cunning and self serving hypocrite drunk on power”, there’s that old saying “takes one to know one”.
The long suffering people of Fiji want to know who the coup plotters you fronted the 2000 coup for and took the fall for are.
That’s the truth you should be writing about!
You must see all-around you George, now that you’re out of jail, the results of the 2000 coup.
Fiji, a shadow of the promise it once held and you as one of the cabal of power hungry people, have brought us to our knees.
Fiji – where happiness finds you !
LOL
Meanwhile, PM touring Asian countries with a begging bowl.
Baimaan is like a noose around the neck of the coalition and NFP because of the suspicion and stench of corruption surrounding him, and also because of his pathetic performance in government. Everyone is questioning his qualifications as a professor, not to mention his fitness as Finance minister, and deputy Prime Minister. He is a slur on that reputation of the PAP coalition government and the National Federation Party. He is such a liability that they need to cut him lose. The sooner the better for them.
He has nothing to offer the PA or NFP.
He only brings reputational damage and while PA can easily survive without him, he means oblivion for the NFP – unless they get rid of him, sooner than later.
He has been exposed fully for the self-serving hypocrite that he is. GD should consider doing a special on all his dubious board and other appointments. Kirti Patel on a board and committee she is not qualified for at all, Adish Naidu on FNPF, Seini Nabou on Fiji Airways to name a few. They do not have the fitness and qualifications to be on these boards. Baimaan has done exactly what FijiFirst used to do despite promising a clean government. But at least FijiFirst brought in largely qualified people unlike this so-called lying professor.
The appointment of Udit Narayan and Neelesh Goundar was clear nepotism and one can’t help but wonder what the connection or motive behind the appointments may be. Is there a business deal cooking somewhere behind-the-scenes? It’s a fair question to ask .
The appointment of lawyer Richard Naidu to the Fiscal Review Committee was also highly suspicious, but it now makes sense because it paved the way for the vat hike to 15% and the undue concession to Fiji water. Vat was raised to compensate for things like the Fiji water tax concession, the salary increase of the MPs and other largesses of this government under its hopeless Finance Minister.
Further concessions to the likes of Tappoos reek of favoritism , if not corruption and these actions of the finance minister cemented the NFP’s reputation as a party for the elites.
Promising ordinary people a price reduction in lamb chops, and increasing minimum wage of our desperately poor people by a pittance, while granting hundreds of millions in concessions to a few elite businesses. If that’s not corruption and bad governance then what is?
No wonder he is referred to as the worst finance minister in the history of Fiji. His nickname ‘Baimaan’ is well earned.
As time goes by it is getting ever clearer that all the CHOR of the coalition government are in one boat and all in coalition are CHOR, including those appointed to public offices without any independent due process.
Biman must clearly know now that his political career is going to end come elections. Rabuka and others like Lynda may yet survive due to the fact that half the itaukei are uneducated about facts and vote with thier knees.
What remains to be seen is how much can these guys make before the end of this current term in government and how much further can Fijians sink in poverty before they realize maybe Rabuka and Biman are self serving pieces of shit.
How is this possible when COI had earlier requested for Barbie M² to be suspended or they opted to accept her to be on leave until the report got finalised? Biman was in Sydney for Easter Holidays and was saying that people don’t understand Fijian politics as he had nothing to do with Pio’s 42 day overseas vacation. It was Rabuka’s call!!!
Remember Rabuka, the end result of corruption affects the everyday citizens of Fiji like me who voted you in. If we can vote you in, we can vote you out!
What a disgrace you have been SLR! The other mob was (not same) but way better than you! Your days are numbered #tiktok #rolexrambo
Big talk at The party in Pakuranga Auckland last night – Mr 18% house – whiskey flowing and celebration – few drunk phones calls to Biman congratulating his success, Grubsheet was centre of discussion as Mr 18% Sharma labeled GD an irrelevant wannabe relevant media outlet – keep guessing who wrote this one Pramesh.
GD – please don’t Share my email
I’m a wannabe? Did anyone have a mirror handy to shove in Pramesh’s face?
I’m a wannabe for a clean, thriving, tolerant Fiji, not for myself. He’s the one charging commissions. I do this for nothing.
BTW, your secret is safe with me. And thanks for the intelligence, which will have been in short order with the rest of that lot.
Mr 15%, Pramesh Sharma, a sex offending wannabe important person. More like impotent!
Mr Pramesh Sharma is the biggest wannabe, show off evil person with bad thoughts about girls – he shouts for respect at our hotel, threatens staff by saying he is on the hotel board, knows the owner and knows every politician – he shows us his phone directory with numbers of PM, DPM, Ministers and says they his best friend – when drunk at the lobby bar, he demands Indian chaser food to be cooked of his choice when kitchen is closed and wants free alcohol when bar closed, he smiles funny at girls, wants us to open his door when he walks to room, gets out of car, everybody scared when he orders room services or wants anybody to come to his room, no girl want to serve him – we are always very scared to say anything because jobs hard to get and he will get us sacked – this man is bad person, show off and nobody likes him at the hotel. My cousin also work at another hotel he come to – same problem. This website is the only way we can tell about him. He is not afraid of anything, acts like he owns the hotel and the country. Thats why his friends also speaking about his bad and evil ways. Mr Sharma – you must fear God as he will punish evil you do on others.
Has anybody seen Lynda’s new post – another criminal in the making she wants sympathy for – her nephew is suspended from pre school for bullying and she sympathises with the bully – what’s happening in Fiji?
She also give $500 to one of the winners at the Coca-Cola Games. I’d imagine that’s called vote-buying. But no point in complaining while her mate, Barbara, is the FICAC Commissioner.
What’s happening in Fiji? It’s gone to the dogs. And the two bitches are able to get away with their excesses with impunity. For the moment.
Mr Davis,
These two bitches and the many more government vehicle abusers amongst other things abused call this the itaukei right to self determination.
They just want 4X4s ,lots of LPOs and Denarau holidays every weekend with a few overseas trips for 7s rugby, parties at family gatherings and lots of overseas conferences where they do not attend but drink Jack Daniels ,smoke pot and screw their drivers, their colleagues and even the big fella ,who was known to screw around and make children with journalists.
Thats called the itaukei right to self determination.
Just saw that Linda post – read the stupid comments – her poopoo supporters are sympathetic towards this bully, what about the victim – probably entitled kid who learns from his mother and family – product of poopoo environment. Giving $500 of tax payer money to students doesn’t take your poopoo stain away Linda ( look at William Parkinson) – you should be ashamed of your poopoo antics, your band of poopoo supporters need to climb back in their poo poo hole.
The public needs to understand the connection between Biman, NFP, the Fiscal Review Committee, and tax holidays. If private interests benefitted those we need to understand by how much, and all of that should be paid back to the people who it belongs to, namely us. Those funds should then be used to pay for the public services that we so desperately need, ironically running water.
Pls don’t publish my email – we pretend it’s ok to speak out now but in reality we know it’s just the same as before
We are only scratching the surface when pointing out Baiman’s nominations and how these reek of cronyism, nepotism and blatant conflicts of interest. Of course he uses his position as DPM to buy off people and try to extricate himself.
How about Jagnath Sami as High Commissioner for India; Koya in UAE; Paresh Narayan from Melbourne University and his expat team to review the Education Act; the son of his closest friend and NFP lackey, Nadesa Gaundar, living in Auckland, appointed as PS Environment; and appointments to Boards of EFL, FNPF, Reserve Bank, and the list goes on. Don’t forget he is propping up the shameless Pal Ahulawahlia, at USP, who is reportedly keeping the seat warm until Baiman is kicked out of politics and hopes to be appointed VC.
These are only big names. At the technical level, he has picked sons/daughters of his relatives, friends and others who he owes favours into positions. Well if ASK could do it and get away with it, his Professorial logic is, so can he!
The point is this is the norm for the Coalition and they all protect each other’s arses. Rabuka has set the gold (Rolex) standard by appointing his own cronies and hangers-on from the yester years as Advisors, Directors, Diplomatic positions etc.
After all kettles cannot call the pots black!
But ‘karma’ is a bitch….it sure will come back to haunt him. And 2 years is not a long time in politics.
Bee-man Prasad has no shame.
Yes, but what and whom will replace them, just another gang under the same system.
Unless we change the “what”, we will continue to devolve to the bitter end before any hope of acceptance of the fact that the Westminster multi-party system is not working for us.
60 seconds in a voting booth every 4 years is supposed to be rational?
WE are supposed to think and BELIEVE that 60 seconds once every 4 years is how we should administer our nation?
Try that for your soccer/rugby /netball/ social club.
Try that for your Village / Tokatoka/ Mataqali/ Tikina,/Vanua
Try that for your NGO, CSO.
Try that for your Private or Public Company
Insane to even suggest that any organization can operate under a system that does not get and have continuous and on going input from its members.
The West that has had this system in place for a lot longer than Fiji and they have clearly proven that the “use by date” of that system is dysfunctional and now counterproductive. Those who have 2 major parties, have become two cheeks of the same bum, those that have a number of parties are in gridlock and going nowhere.
What keeps the West functioning is its democratic systems that are in place at the local level. Borough, District, Town, City, State.
On the National Level, the oligarchs, elites, have bought and groomed their politicians to serve their interests. Anybody who says otherwise is a liar in my book, the proof is in the decisions that are made in the West that are so counterproductive to the people interests to the point of becoming civilization-ally profound.
Culture, Health, Education, Work, Housing, Security ( personnel, national ) all in decline as stated and articulated by persons qualified and backed by data. I agree based on my observations and experience and since I have lived quite a few years more than the majority of the population I have a good baseline to draw on.
Take 1987 as a baseline. Those born in 1987 are now 38 years old, they have never been exposed to what Fiji was prior to 1987. Take 15 year olds, not yet adults, hardly aware of national politics and economics at the time, are now 53 year olds, 2 years away from retirement, representing 85% ? of the population.
I think parliament is in fact at this time holding hearings and receiving submissions to make law for Section 121 of the Constitution which is for a Transparency and Accountability Commission.
This section was in response to mine ( 1 of 2) and 6800 other submissions of a total 7,000 submissions to the Ghai Commission on substandard government services. I suggested District Guardian Councils. The Ghai Commission gave us Sec 121 T&A Commission, which, if Parliament decides, can empower the T&A to in fact set up District Guardian Councils or more technically call District Transparency and Accountability Commission Committees. I prefer and like Guardian Councils.
I any event, my second submission was for a “One Party State”, in which the above suggested Guardian Councils would hold the Party to account.
The present $100 million dollars spent on elections once every year would fund the One Party State committees and structure at $25 million per year. Give it 16 year, 4 election cycles I suggested, time to implement and induce some civic pride and discipline and provide ownership in the administration and governance of our country to the people.
How bad could it get, compared to the Sh*t we are subject to every day of the week under this system we have that is in collapse before our every eyes.
Well the Ghai Commission must have thought there was merit in my submission. They sat there, gobsmacked, like stunned mullets. I know when somebody is in agreement with me.
They could not declare Fiji, a One Party State, so they set up a Constitutional Assembly, a body to consider, no doubt, haha, my submission for a One Party State.
Frank and Aiyaz got rid of the Constitutional Assembly, terrified they might remove the immunity provisions no doubt, but what a shame. If they had not done that we would not be seeing this lawfare against the countries justice system.
Given a Westminster multi-party system in which politicians must sell what they believe the people want to hear to get their votes, it is inevitable that politicians cater to the lowest common denominator, to the empty drum in the community.
Off course, its now 2025, and so instead of young warrior thugs, we now have he and she young Turks in gowns charging the barricades for old doddering dinosaurs. These urban youngsters are just as out of touch as the dinosaurs.
Mr Davis, thank you for posting my comments above about Mr Pramesh Sharma and what he does at the hotel – he needs to be exposed and I encourage my fellow workers to write here about what we suffering from likes of Mr Sharma – the other two people who act like this show off is Mr Dhiv Damodar and Mr Shailendra Raju when they come to our hotel – God bless you sir for allowing us to talk about our work problems which we have to fight to keep our job while fighting to buy food for family, send children to school, pay high electricity, pay many high bills and many problems we have in fiji, we are suffering, its like we are cursed and being punished by God while some just enjoy life. Please think of us in your prayers.
I take this must be Tanoa Hotel as Sharma is on the Board.
The Tanoa Hotel owners, especially Rohit Reddy, should be reading this.
But then again, do these rich corrupt folks really care.
Take his mother in law as an example. They are a Patel family from Fiji. She claims to be a philanthropist and takes fame for the Gandhi Nivas programme that was created by another woman and her team. The Patel’s beg the New Zealand government for money while being philanthropists. Their own family mostly occupy the Trust of Serenity Foundation that operates the Gandhi Nivas programme. They don’t deliver the programme but they take the money from the government as middle man. Rohit’s wife is on the board as a trustee. Round and round the questionable money tree we go in Fiji and New Zealand.
His brother in law, another Patel, was audited for misuse of Health NZ funds and was exposed.
I guess the Tanoa Shitty Group of Hotel has links to many shitty people too. Now staff are speaking out at Tanoa Hotel of abuse on female staff. Get worried fast.
The Patels are a dodgy lot.
Their son Rakesh was involved in dishonest practice and exposed.
Nothing surprises us here in New Zealand about their so called philanthropy scam for Gandhi Nivas which was under Nirvana Foundation when Rakesh was investigated. The Patels (Rakesh’s wife, sister who is Rohit Reddy’s wife, and famous philanthropist mother) then quickly formed Serenity Foundation and shifted the Gandhi Nivas work under this new foundation. Same people. Different boat. How far will they run? They now own the Swaminarayan temple and run it purely as a business.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-pharmacies-accused-of-under-paying-staff-and-not-keeping-proper-employment-records/36GAIZXFP7JW6HQZVV56AMN2DM/
Sorry to hear how these swines treat you all and especially our women who work hard in the tourism industry in Fiji.
Ask your staff to expose them here. It is about time we speak up about these vultures in our society who choose to abuse the poor workers.
Thank you for your courage. We will now stay away from these hotels because their leadership is not worthy of safe places and all tourists should take heed. All funders who do events here must take note what is happening.
Those who work with good intentions will always find work elsewhere. I would rather that than be serving these sex predators.
Dear Mr Davis, you continue to belittle the current government from your delusional perspective. You are not a proper journalist as you never bother getting the other sides perspective. Hon Charan Jeath Singh, Hon Biman Prasad, Hon Prime Minister and Hon Manoa Kamikamica are doing Gods work for the Fijian people. People like us are helping the cause to repair the damage which you help create under Aiyaz and Frank. Look at the sugar industry – if it wasn’t for the current governance system with esteemed leadership and transparent decision making, the industry would be at its knees eg Mr Ahmed Bhamji from NZ is leading for charge for the cane growers and they admire his great work. Why don’t you write something positive about the work we are doing and sacrifices we making for our country and families. You continuously write negative stories about Pramesh Sharma – he is an educated person with vast experience to lead Fiji into a new era, he doesn’t deserve your false opinions and made up stories – he is a credible person admired by many people internationally. Richard Naidu is another person who is doing Gods work behind the scenes – he is giving his heart and soul to assist Fiji out of 16 years of mess you have created. Mai TV and CFL are led by esteemed leaders like Mr Simpson and Mr Parkinson – they produce real stories about Fiji and its current leaders. Maybe you need to become like Fiji transparency Facebook page and become neutral. We know you are not on Facebook for reasons being but the truth is the pudding – your poor journalism choices got you banned from Facebook – I don’t want to liaise with you any further but you need to know the truth – it’s your choice to print this message but let’s see your partiality. Have a great week.
Nitya Reddy, God’s work? It is you who is delusional as well as blasphemous.
I am proud of assisting Frank Bainimarama to produce the first genuine democracy of equal votes of equal value and genuine equal opportunity in Fiji. And what are you bastards doing? Refusing to even tell the Fijian people whether the changes you propose to the 2013 Constitution include abolishing the common and equal citizenry and the common identity provisions. A naked assault on democracy.
I can scarcely believe your arrogance. Can you please tell me what you have achieved in your highly paid taxpayer-funded position in the sugar industry? Lots of international travel but precious little in the way of a vision to take those dependent on the industry forward. “Esteemed leadership”? By you and the millionaire mateni from Labasa? You have no answers. Just smug boasts.
As for the rest, “God’s work”? What a travesty!
Sitiveni Rabuka and Biman Prasad preside over the most chaotic and dysfunctional government in Fijian history – profligate, incompetent and corrupt.
Manoa Kamikamica defended the indefensible pay rises MPs awarded themselves when most of the nation lives in poverty and is unfit to represent anyone. “We will work harder if we are paid more”? Grotesque.
Pramesh Sharma defended the Prime Minister’s right to brandish a $150,000 gold Rolex and not declare its source and attacked the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry in scandalous terms until the gutless low-life thought better of it and deleted his posting. Another self-serving opportunist.
Richard Naidu has yet to explain his glaring conflict of interest in being Chair of the Fiscal Review Committee and recommending an unconscionable seven-year tax break for his billionaire clients – the Resnick of Fiji Water – when the poor have been slugged 15 per cent VAT.
William Parkinson and Stanley Simpson have received public money when they are private businessmen and when Parkinson declared a record profit. Another first for Fiji – media proprietors bought off by your corrupt cabal.
I am on your case, mate – you and your miserable gaggle of wannabes. You call your version of events the truth? What a joke.
“God’s work”? You are a disgrace to take the Almighty’s name in vain and attach it to your sordid, opportunistic collective endeavours. You have no judgment and no shame.
Your government is an abject failure across a broad front. That is the God’s honest truth. And I will go head to head with you and your miserable gaggle of self righteous moral pygmies all the way to election day.
Decent ordinary Fijians deserve to know what is happening in their country. And the notion that they will get it from the “real stories of Mr Simpson and Mr Parkinson” when they are now on the Coalition payroll is the sickest joke of all.
Why am I getting such a huge readership? Because most Fijians aren’t stupid. They know there is more truth here than in their mainstream media. And seeing a big name like you attacking me in these columns just confirms how much you and your grisly gang fear that Grubsheet and Fijileaks are cutting through in the election countdown.
Tick, tick, tick.
Hear, hear, GD!
We are fully behind you to keep the bastards honest. One of those bastards is Nitya Reddy who was full of righteousness criticizing FijiFirst only to become one of the fattest pigs at the trough after being appointed as Fiji Sugar Corporation board chair.
Along with Baimaan, he is the most reviled public figure in Fiji because people have seen that he is just as greedy and hypocritical as Baimaan.
Baimaan is sucking the blood of Fijian people with his 15% VAT while Nitya is sucking the blood of sugar cane farmers through his vulgar extravagance and excessive jet setting in first class.
Both these bastards and the others pigs in the trough – Pramesh, Stanley and Richard – must go as well.
Well done Graham, let’s see his reply to those facts, I’m sure there won’t be one. Which only shows that you can’t defend the indefensible and their only reply is to go on the attack when cornered like a rabid dog!
It’s just a pity Gods work isn’t available to the righteous to rid the country of these scheming, lying and self-serving lowlifes who are profiting off the backs of the poor people that elected them to rule over them and take them to a better place.
That will never happen. We can all see that!
Nit – ya you kutu Levu
The truth is here. That is why you are here. Still drunk this morning or a bit sober by now? You and the other lot from New Zealand are a bunch of hypocrites and liars. Dont you people think that Fijians don’t know about you all here. Same useless lot as before. That includes the Fiji High Commission team in Wellington and the Consulate officer that is Mr Sona Sansar. You all must be ashamed and not given any respect in public.
Nitya you jhooran Murga. Everyone knows your relationship with this coalition govt and especially with your drinking buddy and the not so honorable and very much corrupt Charan jhooth Singh. Everyone knows he’s the original mafia from labasa who still has his illegal tentacles all over the Labasa town council continuing to benefit himself for the last few decades. Just wait and see when the corrupt details of the by-pass road is revealed.
It’s also well known that you were playing pocket billards for many years doing absolutely zero until your drinking buddy made you chair of FSC. Since then you have taken 5 known overseas trips at an average cost of more than 20 thousand dollars a trip while traveling economy class!…how the f**k is that possible.? What the hell did you spend all that cane farmer’s money on if you were buying cheap economy tickets? Your dumb drinking buddy admitted to economy tickets not knowing that this revelation will only implicate you further. That’s how stupid you two are.
Everyone knows that you engage in a whole lot of verbose just to failing sound intelligent. You were also on the dole or social welfare before Charan rescued you. Can u also deny or confirm that you went on many trips to England just to visit your son? So let’s see some answers from you. If you ignore these questions/inquiries then it’ll be quite obvious that you are an idiot of the highest order like your dumb f**k corrupt friend Charan.
It’s also quite telling that all the people you have defended in your usual diatribe are all corrupt stupid dickheads like you. Manoa is a wannabe Rabuka but ends up sounding like the cartoon character goofy. At least Rabuka has been conning and vesumonaring simple fijians in his baritone voice for the last 40 years. In comparison Manoa sounds like a stupid poofter, goofy and ends up smiling and laughing at things that aren’t funny at all.
Pramesh is a chor who takes cuts for every corrupt deal he makes, Biman is the biggest boci lasulasu sonalevu the Indo fijian community has ever produced and Babu bhamji has kissed ass all his life just to stay relevant. And you say these bastards are doing God’s work? How f**king dare you…you bloody jhooran sukhi.
All you haramis have done is polarized the fijian people, made false accusations and have provided zero evidence to back up your unsubstantiated claims. You dare say that GD practices bad journalism when you yourself have been engaged in constant allegations against people?
You are the scum of the earth. Weren’t you fired from FSC many years ago. You had no job in NZ, were irrelevant, have a habit of making false and tall allegations and no-one likes you apart from the small dickhead group that you have mentioned above.
You only defended those names cos you very well know no one else will defend you apart from them. It just shows that your circle of friends is made up of a very very small corrupt and stupid group. Everyone in Auckland talks behind your back. They laugh at your verbose language and self importance and most wouldn’t even piss on you if you were on fire.
In fact I don’t think anyone in the lot you just defended would piss on you…maybe just Charan. But be careful.. Charan’s piss is full of alcohol and you may just end up going up in flames faster. You stupid boci.
Crikey. And I thought I was being hard on him. 🙂
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We come here to both laugh and cry
Bro just roasted the shit out of Nitya.
Good job.
GD, we read your page everyday.
Keep these bastards in check.
OMG – for real Mr Reddy, your begging bowl in NZ was paid by NZ taxpayers, you were on a social welfare benefit for 16 years. Can’t you remember or has the whiskey with Mr Chor Jeet Singh from Labasa corrupted your brain – are you part of the investigation done by Mr Agni Deo’s labour department ( Fiji times front page today) – are you helping that Chor from Labasa exploit workers? You dog of a man – how dare you say you and your self serving monkey mates are doing God’s work for Fiji- you must be St Giles educated .
Who is this Reddy fellow? Sounds like a big masi polo type. Well responded GD – Pramesh, Manoa, Biman, Charan Jeet and Nitya will be in jail soon while others would have permanently retired.
Mr Nitya Reddy – you are globe trotting on taxpayer money, you Dick. You claim to be an accountant on your page but no employer except FSC (job you got fired from 30 years ago) can claim to have employed you.
Once the Govt changes, Lorry awee for you and your illiterate LA friend. Enjoy your last 14 months as a free man and drink as much whiskey you can and abuse tax payer $ to the max. Once inside, things will taste different and I hope your pain threshold is good. Also don’t read this page if it hurts your feelings.
Isa Nitya – are you drunk with Charan again? Is your mouth motoring off again while your pea brain is not connecting. Can you read the poopoo you have said? Sounds like you are all some god sent aliens.
Wake up and smell your own black poopoo. Pramesh is self serving, Manoa is simply dumb, Biman is delusional, Stanley is a media prostitute, William is PooPoo leader, Charan is a corrupt drunk and you are mentally deranged.
Well said, Mr Davis, journalist exemplary, and devout friend of Fiji.
Dearest Uncle Nitya
Hope you and Aunty are well in NZ, son okay in London and other one in Melbourne.
I am disgusted with your attack on Mr Davis and furthermore, shocked at your defence of those people who are destroying Fiji.
You have always had a verbal poupou issue with your mouth as you think you are smart in your own little world. You are living the dream on our Fijian Tax payer funds and think this will last forever. Sorry Uncle, you are living in LALA land. This dream of yours will shatter next year – nothing lasts forever as ASK and Frank found out. The difference is that you will go to jail very quickly as your dost, Uncle Charan will be with you. Jail will be an unpleasant experience for you as they like Black Sona like you there. Your friends including Pramesh Sharma and Biman will accompany you but they will be concerned about the their sona. My suggestion is that you apologise to Mr Davis as you are exposed, resign from your esteemed position, zip your poupou mouth and return to NZ. The hatred in NZ against you is beyond your imagionation. Take care and guard your black sona.
Your Truely,
Concerned Family Member.
Nitya, Nitya, Nitya – you have really stepped in the lions den pantiless and the Den door just closed. Good luck as Grubsheet has more support than a political party – he will eat you alive and shit your remains for filthy pigs to feed on. We will cheer on and wait for the next dickhead like you to step in – maybe BABU BHAMJI, the pussy king of BA.
Who is this dickbreath Neat ya – he needs Kuta Shampoo in his mouth – looks like a scrawny black poo – google says black scrawny poop is sign of gastrointestinal bleeding – maybe he is bleeding in his brain when he wrote this poo piece and attacked the grub.
Nitya – if you got balls, reply to GD – you lamu kala kuta – Grubsheet is the only source of factual news and analysis which you read to see the real world thus your mindless letter. Did Richard or Stan help you write that crap or are you sitting with your alcohol-fuelled mate and trying to impress him?
One word best describes nit-wit reddy: chamaar.
Just reading all this poopoo stuff by Nitya Reddy, he sounds like a mega Boci who needs to be exposed – well done Graham.
The Minister of Itaukei Affairs is somehow correct in his context as a itaukei Minister to encourage them to move out of poverty given their land & sea resources. But what he should be doing is to go down to the root of the problem of the itaukei people in terms of their wealth vs resources:
1. The majority of the itaukei people 70% doesn’t have the modern brains or the skill to till his/her LOUs own land and become an entrepreneur…they lack the business mind to bring together the concept of “solesolevaki” for their respective LOUs to modernize it to meet the existing business concepts;
2. This 70% itaukei people are left behind in the business environment (mostly in the remote rural areas of Viti-levu, Vanua Levu and the Maritime islands), due to non-existence of infrastructures, utilities, communication technology to support their land resources development. However, they enjoy this type of livelihood due to their beliefs and faiths in the Living God Yahweh in these last days event. They are content with what they have in accordance to the bible, but does not mean that they cannot reap more from their land resources due to the non-existence of services that should be provided by the central government (mentioned above);
3. The 70% of the indigenous Fijians have relied on their TK (Traditional Knowledge) to survive on their land & sea resources over the last 3,000 years and sustain them…it is the respective ministry like the itaukei ministry, itaukei trust fund and TLTB should come down to them and capacity build them, fund them and provide the necessary infrastructure development to enhance their capability in developing, managing their resources.
4. Good Governance and Transparency is the name of the game, whereby the minister of itaukei affairs should be advocating to the itaukei people in running their business especially when their businesses are connected to their land and iqoliqoli resources. Not much has been done in this crunch area of business, as a result most itaukei business (especially small individual entrepreneurship) have failed over the years.
5. Fairness of financial support to this 70% itaukei are missing and no wonder they are the poorest people in Fiji but with rich land & sea resources – the other 30% itaukei who are largely the elite itaukei have the advantages of financial support due to good credit rating, know how (well educated maybe), skills, social status as high chief or Ratu…this is what the itaukei minister should be addressing to ensure that the gap between the rich itaukei and the poor itaukei are eliminated and not purely blaming the 70% for being unproductive;
6. This 70% iatukei people should learn to work hard on their land & iqoliqoli resources using their TK and their faith in the Living God Yahweh, they should grasp the principles of hard working in their bible and live the talk – less day dreaming, end all uneconomical social gatherings but more resources channeled towards their God-Given land & iqoliqoli resources so they become economical productive and Spiritual healthy to the Living God Yahweh
7. GCC, TLTB and itaukei Ministry should not only protect their tangible & intangible land & iqoilqoli resources but empower them to develop and manage their own resources sustainably and if they cannot, then lease or joint-venture investment them to others to bring in the much needed wealth to their respective LOUs and to the nation;
8. All LOUs should learn to work closely with TLTB, & NLC in the development of their land & iqoliqoli resources rather then trying to be isolation with these two institutions. These two institutions are governed by the LAW, NLTA 1940 and the iTaukei Lands & Fisheries Commission (TLFC) is a statutory body constituted under the iTaukei Lands Act 1905 and the Fisheries Act 1941 to adjudicate on disputes regarding land ownership, fishing rights and customary chiefly position. These two institutions are basically the custodianships of all land & iqoliqoli resources in Fiji under the LAW and cannot be changed unless the indigenous Fijians (ALL LOUs) want them to be changed…this can be regarded by many disgruntled LOUs as the barrier to “development wealth” of the itaukei people …but one must remember the backgrounds of the TLTB 1940 and NLFC 1941 before reforming these two LAWS that have been holding the fort of protection on the interest of the itaukei people over the last 151 years…LET THEM (4,400 + registered LOUs ) decide what is best for them and how they should be governed…who are we to decide for them??…Remember the Kleptocracy regime of FB & AK tried that for the last 16 years under the disguise of AK’s sunset clause thesis but was never succeed …if the majority of the indigenous Fijians wanted to remain poor economically until the return of Jesus Christ let it be, its their choice …as a Christian I believe in good health, strong faith in Him, resourceful, follow His Commandments, and a good stewardship of land & iqoliqoli resources but does not mean I am restricted from becoming wealthier in the land resources that have been allocated to my ancestral during the 1928 Lands Commission in Fiji (Veitarogi Vanua 28.10.1928)…it depends on me and my family members (Vuvale/Tokatoka/Mataqali/Yavusa) to decide the best way forward to develop and manage our resources in the next 50 years or so and we look at TLTB, itaukei Affairs, Itaukei Investment Fund to design the best way forward to sustain these two important resources, and if not then REFORM these two institutions BUT has to come from the indigenous Fijian people and the GCC, NOT THE GOVERNMENT OR ANY POLITICIAN for that matter!!
9. The indigenous Fijians are some of the loving people of this plant earth and the good minister should factor that in encouraging them to have joint business venture with others here in Fiji like our indo-Fijians brothers on land resources. You combine them they will compliment each other in terms of their resources that could bring enormous wealth to their respective “Vuvale” and eliminate economic poverty…
10. The minister knows there’s no one else left to blame. Some “Vulagi” have left fiji in numbers due to the political upheavals of 1987 (twice), 2000, 2006. Most are still actually work the land. He can either blame himself and his government or he can blame the itaukei. In both cases he is right. The challenge is us the itaukei or the indigenous Fijians today (4,400 + LOUs members or 62% itaukei people), GCC, itaukei Affairs ministry, itaukei trust Fund and TLTB:
“ASK NOT WHAT YOUR LAND & IQOLIQOLI RESOURCES CAN DO FOR YOU, BUT ASK YOURSELF AS AN INDIVIDUAL MEMBER OF YOUR RESPECTIVE LOU, AND AS A CITIZEN-FIJIAN, WHAT YOU CAN DO FOR YOUR LAND & IQOLIQOLI RESOURCES TO BRING BOUT WEALTH, LOVE, AND STABILITY TO THIS NATION WE CALLED VITI”.
Is it me or suddenly the response from readers on this page has increased in the last 3 months – looks like people are finally waking up and joining the cause – well done Grubsheet.
Fijians in general are below the poverty line since the change happened – your own fault.
Mr Nitya should come back to NZ. I will personally lodge complaints against him with Inland Revenue and Ministry of Social Development tomorrow. You join your mate Pramesh Sharma as most hated fiji Indian in NZ. You shouldn’t have written that piece here.
Nitya, you have sold Fiji Indians out, you traitor. May you rot in hell. Let’s see if your god’s workers can save you there.
Does Nitya Reddy know where his ass is and where his brain is? Talking shit.
Are you for real Nitya? My dog BLACKY has more integrity and intellect than Nitya.
MR REDDY – GET A BRAIN, ASK GOD’S WORKERS TO HELP – FYI, WE SUPPORT DAVIS SO GO DRINK ALCOHOL WITH YOUR DUMB LABASA CHOR IF YOU CANT READ THE TRUTH.
Aside from the lack of actual sound policy design and policy delivery to the people.
The most distasteful piece of Minister Prasad’s legacy in his role as Minister is his consistent poor excuses and default blame to previous governments for anything and everything.
His lack of accountability is deafening as much as his inconsistent ability to accept his role as the minister of finance in the role of cost of increased living in Fiji .
The minister proves without a doubt that academics like himself should stay in their lane and let the business of real life and real economies be run by practitioners with lived experience than book smart figurative speakers like himself. The truth is in the pudding and unfortunately… the weak results speak for itself.
This man will be on the run for the rest of his life … because that’s the destiny of people with big mouths and lack of substance and integrity. Yes, Empty words and no follow through. (itaukei language call such behaviours “waca”)
Just like Rabuka and his coalition government – birds of the same feather flock together .
The faster this lot wake up to the reality that they have failed the people … the more of a chance they will have to reset and redeem themselves with the people who voted them in.
If not … all they will be remembered as is a lost cause
For clarity the Oxford languages defines lost cause as “ a person or thing that can no longer hope to succeed or be changed for the better”.
Befitting description for the Rabuka Coalition Government . … AKA (also known as ) the lost cause government .
Period.
Circumventing processes and procedures , appointing incompetent buddies to positions committees and boards , increasing salaries and increasing taxes to fund salaries , no real tangible investment in infrastructure development like water and public health , creating COIs as smoke screens to fool the people with no real intent of revealing the truth to the people who fund it , allowing bad behaviors and Shady characters into government , public offices like judiciary and ODPP, enabling a culture of Old Boys (OB) and Old Girls (OG) to infiltrate fact and evidence based decision making , using tax payers money to increase the size of cabinet to ensure political survival and allegiance , walking back key decisions consistently .
It’s been an exhausting few years watching the government try and get its act together .. and unfortunately it’s sad to say . … it has failed us all .
PAP – SODELPA and NFP
I am deeply sorry to say I am so disappointed and disillusioned with your leadership term as a government.
After 16 years of an uphill battle and the promise of change – you all failed us.
And the worst of this whole situation has been the lack of integrity in everything which should always be fundamental core value that must always be kept ahead of academic qualifications and professional accolades and networks when creating teams to lead .
Isa Isa … hopefully you don’t figure this all out from behind bars when your actions have caught up with you.