S.i.F.M does not condone the actions perpetuted by the antagonists, including Isimeli Bose's assault on the Ba provincial council building named: Rogorogoivuda. Fiji village reports that Isimeli Bose was subsequently charged in court.
This is the excerpt of the article.
Sacked CEO to Appear in Special Court Sitting
By fijivillage
Aug 5, 2006, 13:33
Police have arrested and charged the former chief executive of the Ba Provincial Holdings Limited and he will appear in a special court seating in Lautoka this hour.
Divisional Crime Officer Western SP Vijay Singh confirmed that Isimeli Bose was charged in the last hour and police are still questioning some of his accomplices.
Bose allegedly led a group of armed men storming the Rogo Rogo i Vuda House yesterday and assaulting the security guards.
Meanwhile, a plea today from one of the high chiefs of Ba to his people not to take the law into their own hands.
Ba Provincial Council Chairman Ratu Ovini Bokini said the people of Ba should bear in mind that the province and the shareholders have already made a decision.
Ratu Ovini maintains that the interim board has been appointed and is to be led by Ratu Tevita Momoedonu
Audio Comment
Chairman Ratu Tevita Momoedomu and members of the interim board are being interviewed by police at the Lautoka police station as investigations continue.
Ba Provincial Chairman's comments were neither helpful nor constructuve to the discussion, as his patronizing comments was perceived to be out of touch with the concerns of the grass roots people.
Furthermore the chairman, Ovini Bokini has a tendency to skew his comments more to the established position that protect a brand of archaic wealth distribution in Fiji. In addition, the condescending attitude illustrated by Ba provincial council's chairman, also underlines the panacea in the old arrangement; whose benefits hardly trickle down the the common person.
Here are selected letters to the Fiji Times Editor, which highlight the conundrum.
Land laws
LANDOWNERS are getting the signal of what to expect from the proposed land legislations from your article (FT 2/8) titled Not your land, but NLTB's'.
The proposed Native Land Trust Act takes away the right of bargaining and agreement between the landlord and tenants as enshrined in the Agricultural Landlord and Tenants Act.
The former only recognises the trustee which, in this case, is the Native Land Trust Board.
How can the judge say that it is not our land but NLTB's? I think I have grasped the cache.
Utiko Nabunobuno
Lautoka
Telecom service
SO the mystery unfolds. While we urbanites relentlessly pour out our frustration regarding telecommunication disservice, media reports highlight that politicking and manoeuvring at the highest level are rife in the market share of the mobile telecommunication sector.
And the billion-dollar question is who will represent our best interests as people of Fiji?
The NLTB seems to be in the thick of things, dabbling in business ventures that its original mission did not have scope for.
How is it that with money to spare for investment, the entity which is the guardian of the landowners' best interests continues to push one agenda while landowners continue to highlight in the news their land issues?
Do landowners want mobile telecommunication and its costs?
Landline penetration to rural areas is not 100 per cent so who is supposed to benefit from the service?
It is odd that Pacific Connex, an IT-specialist entity is a key stakeholder in this venture. We can only assume that any mobile telecommunications expertise required will be outsourced, thus more costs to us taxpayers at the end of the day.
Then we have the drama at the Ba Provincial Council which seems to point to some influence from Vanua Development Corporation NLTB's investment arm in Pacific Connex.
Is the cold weather causing the season of executive coups in the West in the span of two weeks?
It seems the NLTB is overstepping its boundary by lobbying policies that affect the State's obligation to the people.
With great humility we ask provincial councils to remain steadfast in their vision for what is best for people in urban, rural and international centres as our parallel links remain firm.
Blood must remain thicker than water.
Allow us to raise our disgust at the unfolding of the Animal Farm shenanigans being enacted that only perpetuates the "all animals are equal but some more equal than others" syndrome.
We say open mobile telecommunication to Digicel and VDCL.
Let the consumer's buying power dictate and remain loyal to the entity willing to do the hard slog and go the extra mile for us. Consumers are taxpayers and the fact is that real money remains concentrated in urban and international communities.
We hope good sense and judgment prevail.
Seini Lutu
Suva
Maryann Tagi
Laucala
Ulamila Wragg
Cook Islands
Vasiti Ritova
Ra
Sisilia Lewaravu
Lautoka
Vani Twigg
Turkey
Lanna Lomaloma
Papua New Guinea
Tago Fine'Aloto
Suvavou
Mereoni Bola
United States
Tulia Takala
Lautoka
Club Em Designs
No comments:
Post a Comment