Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Communications and SMEs, Manoa Kamikamica has today confirmed that as soon as they got into office, he reduced his overseas travel allowance to 100 percent and some other ministers did the same however, this should have been done a long time ago.
Kamikamica highlighted this while supporting the motion moved by Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka to reduce the rates payable for overseas travelling allowances for the Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers, Assistant Ministers, Leader of the Opposition and Members of Parliament.
Kamikamica says the former government was making money from the overseas travelling allowance as the allowance was excessive and needs to be reduced.
He says they also discussed about how to reduce these allowances and had a cabinet decision in April to formally decide on it and were told that it has to go through the Parliamentary Emoluments Committee.
He says they allowed the Emoluments Committee to operate however, it was taking too long.
The Deputy Prime Minister says they made a promise to the people of Fiji about this allowance and are now delivering their promises to become a true democracy unlike enjoying the allowance like the opposition and hiding things from the people.
