Let’s have an independent inquiry into Govt expenditure from 2015 to 2020 – Prof.Prasad
No one in Fiji is suffering like the Opposition is making it out to be - Koya

Let’s have an independent inquiry into Govt expenditure from 2015 to 2020 – Prof.Prasad

No one in Fiji is suffering like the Opposition is making it out to be - Koya

By Naveel Krishant , Shanil Singh
07/02/2022
National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad and Minister for Commerce, Trade, Tourism and Transport, Faiyaz Koya

National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad says that his estimate of wastage under this government from 2015 to 2020 is $500 million per year through mismanagement, pilferage and lack of value for money given to Fiji’s infrastructure while Minister for Commerce, Trade, Tourism and Transport, Faiyaz Koya says Prasad has been in Parliament for 8 years now but not once has he come up with an alternative budget.

While speaking on the motion that Parliament debates the Review of Fiji Development Bank 2019 Annual Report, Professor Prasad says the unfinished FNU Campus and the Lautoka swimming pool projects are examples of such wastefulness.

He says let’s have an independent inquiry into the expenditure from 2015 to 2020.

Prasad says the constant loud mouthing of hogwash from the government side is not going to take away the truth of the matter.

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Prasad also alleged in parliament that instead of talking about economic issues, the government is threatening people.

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He says the ADB’s recent report on Fiji Country Classification should be a sober reading for the government side, because what it shows that well before COVID we had forgotten about the real direction of the economy.

Professor Prasad says if the government focused on the agriculture sector, today after the onslaught of COVID in the country we would not be in these kind of rummage.

He adds there are some good initiatives that the government comes up with, however he says whether the implementation is properly scrutinized and dealt with is another issue.

However Koya says we have had people falling on the economy door wanting to lend money to us and that would not have happened if our economic policies were bad.

He says even during the COVID-19 pandemic they have not run the economy down and have managed it really well.

Koya says they have continued to pay civil servants in full and no one in Fiji is suffering like the Opposition is making it out to be.

The Minister says all Prasad talks about is doom and gloom.

He says what Prasad fails to understand is that we have had 9 years of unprecedented growth and because of that we have become one of the most respected countries in the Pacific.

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The Minister says we have had budget support for the first time because of our sound economic policies.



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