Fiji Labour Party Leader, Mahendra Chaudhry is least qualified to talk about transparency and accountability when he himself has been convicted of financial impropriety and was fined $1 million for keeping AUD$1.5 million in overseas bank accounts.
National Federation Party President Parmod Chand highlighted this while responding to remarks made by Chaudhry during their Annual Delegates Conference in Nadi.
Chand says Chaudhry should stop throwing stones at others when he himself lives in a glass house with his tainted and tarnished reputation, devoid of any political morality, clear as broad daylight.
The President says Chaudhry described the coalition government leadership as self-serving and lacking integrity, transparency and accountability and claimed that the government ignored bread and butter issues of people and was riddled with crisis and scams.
He says it seems Chaudhry is not only delusional but is fast losing political sanity by repeatedly spewing venom through misleading statements, concoctions and lies.
The NFP President says Chaudhry deliberately ignores his own treachery and wants the nation to forget that his actions were corrupt.
The NFP President says the self-professed champion of the poor, Chaudhry used taxpayers’ money to renovate his own house when he was the Prime Minister for a year.
He says this was highlighted in a Report of the then Auditor-General. He further says as the un-elected Finance Minister in the regime of former Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama after the 2006 coup, he famously stated that people must learn to live with high prices of basic food items essentials.
Chand adds that the coalition government has been for the past 23 months re-establishing the foundation for genuine democracy, accountability, transparency and good governance dismantled firstly by the regime that Chaudhry was an integral part of for 18 months.
Chaudhry during the meeting said that the coalition government has failed to honour their election promises; and to ignore the bread and butter issues is affecting people, coupled with its dismal record of governance in the past 2 years, have created a crisis of confidence and trust in the leadership.
He says the government made many promises to counter the suffering of the poor and to right the wrongs inflicted on the people under the FijiFirst rule.
