coupfourandahalf.comFiji Coupfourpointfive

#header-inner img {margin: 0 auto !important; #header-inner {text-align: Center ;} This blog is a result of the heavy censoring of the media by the military dictatorship regime. Thursday, February 4, 2021 USP VC deported, move University out of Fiji! Professor Pal on the flight to Brisbane It is time for the University of the South Pacific to be moved out of Fiji after today’s deportation of the VC Professor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife. Last night plain clothed immigration officials detained the two, saying the reason for the deportation was that they were a public risk. The dictator government deemed Professor Ahluwalia to be "a person who is or has been conducting himself in a manner prejudicial to the peace, defence, public safety, public order, public morality, public health, security or good government of the Fiji Islands". The good Professor has been driving efforts to clean up the governance of USP since he began in his role two years ago. Since then the cronies of Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum, have been trying to get him removed. They were successful in getting him suspended in June last year and now have succumbed to getting him deported. When will these idiots realise that Fiji does not own the university? Nor can it sack the VC because that is not Fiji's call. USP belongs to the region and is owned by 12 Pacific Island nations! Fiji continues to sink lower and lower on all levels. It is no longer the New York of the Pacific! Shame, shame, shame. Published by Coup 4.5 at 2:57 PM 2 comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Reactions: Friday, September 18, 2020 Fiji news headlines for September 18 As a service to our followers and subscriber list, we will be providing headlines from Fiji newspapers daily. This is an opportunity for you to be informed of what's happening in Fiji and comment in the comments section below. We hope you enjoy this new service. If you are not subscribed to our email list, please subscribe on the link on the right of this blog. Published by Coup 4.5 at 10:42 AM 144 comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Reactions: Sunday, July 12, 2020 Leaked email shows Fiji's debt being hidden Proof of the budget being ballooned to hide the huge amount of debt Fiji is in, has emerged in an email from the CEO of the Fiji Revenue and Customs Department. The email is proof of how Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum has been instructing the revenue department to play around with figures to show fake money, low debt and hide the crash in the economy. In the email sent to Fazrul Rahman and other internal staff, Visvanath Das instructs them to delete any traces of real budget reports on their system so the truth of debt owed is not exposed. Das further instructs meeting to discuss how to adjust more budget adjustments to hide the lies. The email was sent in August last year, 5 days after the closure of the 2018-2019 financial year and shows that the revenue figures had to be inflated to match the false figures in the budget and therefore show a deficit of only 2.7 percent. This shows how Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum and his cronies have manipulated the FRCS and even the Reserve Bank to hide the deep shit they've put Fiji in. The next budget is being presented this Friday, no doubt all the figures will be changed to hide the fact that Fiji is drowning in debt. We all know this is true, look around and you will see poverty is rife, people are struggling to put food on the table, there are no jobs and COVID-19 has put a stop to tourist income coming in. Published by Coup 4.5 at 11:27 AM 53 comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Reactions: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 BDO report into USP show multiple policy breaches Coupfourpointfive has been handed the controversial BDO Investigation into allegations of mismanagement of monies at USP. The 110 page report details allegations and findings which we have posted as images with this post. Here are some of BDO's key obeservations and recommendations: * We are of the view that the oversight, governance, and control of remuneration is a key weakness across USP. This was a key theme throughout our investigation as many of the matters raised in the Paper, or the likely motivations behind those matters, relate to remuneration. * We have noted a consistent theme of policy breaches in respect of bonus payments. Specifically, we have noted instances where staff members have been awarded ‘multiple’ bonuses which is not allowed under current policies. Payroll records indicate that bonuses totalling $1,890,129.08 was paid to staff across the three years ended 31 December 2018. Bonuses are discussed in detail below (refer to paragraph 72). * We are of the opinion that the cumulative effect of this lack of oversight and control has resulted in breaches of policy (where policies exist) and numerous instances where staff members, particularly those in senior roles, are remunerated well outside Council- approved salary bandings. Examples of this are outlined below using the SMT and some members of staff that are named in the Paper. The full report can be read below: Bdo Report PDF by coupfourpointfive on Scribd Published by Coup 4.5 at 3:49 PM 19 comments: Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Pinterest Reactions: Saturday, April 18, 2020 Has Bainimarama lost control to Khaiyum? Who is in charge? Two events on Thursday and Friday strongly point towards the fact that coup leader and Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama is more than likely to have become a stooge of his Attorney General, Minister for Economy, multiple important portfolios holder and control freak Aiyaz Sayed Khiayum. In other words, the master has likely become the puppet because of his inability to do anything and be totally dependent on who he has many times called his right hand man in Khaiyum. Bainimarama, who has more than often portrayed himself as a strongman, has become a poodle or a lapdog who only barks when Khaiyum wants him to do so. Sources within Fiji First Cabinet have been telling us this. They say the real PM is Khaiyum because Bainimarama doesn't want to bite the hand that feeds him. Late Friday afternoon, Bainimarama announced a Cabinet reshuffle. And Khaiyum had his way because in came his buddy Faiyaz Koya, the near bankrupt man who desperately needs money to save his properties from being seized by the HFC bank that loaned him a couple of million dollars when he was in Cabinet before the 2018 elections. He took over tourism, trade and commerce that were part of Premila Kumar's portfolios. She has been left with local government, housing and community development, which most likely means development of squatters. So Queen Premila, who portrayed herself as one of the most prominent and visible ministers has been dethroned and left with minion portfolios while Faiyaz Koya, a man close to Khaiyum and who replaced Ashneel Sudhakar as a MP, is elevated to a ministerial position over many who received a whole lot more votes than him, but are either assistants ministers or backbenchers. This is the Open Merit Recruiting System touted by Khaiyum as rewarding the most meritorious of any post. For Bainimarama, announcing the appointment of Faiyaz Koya as a Minister is no big deal because Khaiyum wanted it - and Fiji First cabinet sources tell us Bainimiarama will always agree what Khaiyum does or tells him because all the PM cares about is bundles of notes for him and his family. Still on reshuffle, Dr Mahendra Reddy's wings have been clipped with rural and maritime development being taken away from him, leaving him with agriculture, waterways and environment. This, according to Fiji First insiders, means Reddy has lost control of advisory councillors and has his travel to outer islands for picture opportunities slashed, he is now confined to distributing seeds and making sure the drains are clea...