Every province in Fiji is experiencing development - Bainimarama

Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has shared that every province in Fiji is experiencing the same pace of record development that is sweeping across the country and this is because he has finally broken the cycle of Prime Ministers in Fiji favouring their own provinces.

Bainimarama highlighted this while opening the Namosi Provincial Council Meeting.

He says that previous Prime Ministers took development to their individual parts of the country to the detriment of the national interest.

Bainimarama says that Namosi may not be the largest province, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t an example to the rest of the nation.

He says that this year alone they have already completed a new hospital in Namelimeli, they are extending the national electricity grid to Naqarawai and Wainikoroiluva, and bringing solar power to Naqara and Nukusere and Navunisoco.

The Prime Minister says that they are building a new Farmers Collection Centre Cooperative, and a new evacuation centre in Saliadrau.

Bainimarama says that soon, they will begin work on a brand‑new access road stretching from Nasoqo to Wainiyavu.

He says no matter how well Fiji is doing today, his political opponents will never admit it and that is just politics, plain and simple.

Bainimarama says that because the truth and the facts are so clearly in his government’s favour, they are again resorting to outright lies and spiteful deception, and they can expect to see more of those dirty tactics in the weeks ahead as we approach the general election.

He says luckily, their platform was soundly rejected at the polls in 2014, and predictably, none of his opponents’ doomsday predictions ever proved to be true, but they haven’t learned from their failures.

Bainimarama says instead they are campaigning in this election on that same set of lies claiming threats to indigenous rights, trying to pit Fijian against Fijian and again, they are trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the people, using tactics of fear, hatred and dishonesty.

He says he does not ever use fear but he uses facts.