Tikoduadua says the Govt has inflated the annual budget of FRA

National Federation Party President, Pio Tikoduadua says the Fijian Government has inflated the annual budget of Fiji Roads Authority, however the Minister for Infrastructure Jone Usamate says the budget is a plan and when we go through the year, things will change.

While speaking on the Review of FRA for 2015 and 2016 Annual Report and FRA January–July 2016 Annual Report, Tikoduadua says since 2012, FRA has been allocated a total sum of $4.5 billion in all the budgets but has actually received $2.616 billion in total over the last 8 years.

He says this does not include the 2021 budget, and is another sign that the inflated sum were untrue and the bogus amounts were delivered to the people.

Tikoduadua says FRA needs a major reform.

Minister for Infrastructure Jone Usamate says when plans are made in the budget it does not include other factors that affect us like cyclones.

Usamate says when these unexpected things happen, like when TC Yasa hit Fiji last year, they had to pull out more than $20 million from existing project to fix the roadd and crossings that were affected by the cyclone.