There can be little doubt the invitation to Brij Lal, Richard Naidu and Graham Leung, three prominent anti-Government people, to be keynote speakers at the Fiji Institute of Accountants' Conference, meeting at Nadi today, was intended to deliberately provoke Government. There was no way Graham Leung's "call to arms/stand up and be counted" address, copied below thanks to Coupfourpointfive, would be allowed during the Emergency, although with no media present (another Government stipulation) no more harm would have been done than by Coupfourpointfive and this blog publishing his address. The Conference was allowed to proceed, sans media and keynote speakers. Graham Leung is a former president of the Fiji Law Society. To read his address in full, click here.I do not share all his views but his general account of Fiji's coup culture is fair, and the ideas he advances towards the end of the address on how to resolve the political situation are a good starting point for discussion. Photo: Fiji Times.
3 comments:
Wonder if the Accountants conference was funded by Ausaid or NZ aid.
It is rather tiresome to hear the same old talking heads who are basically have their own agendas, in numerous conferences etc.
Are there any other people besides these attention seeking con artists?
Furthermore these talking heads have not disclosed their relationships with the SDL Govt.
The business of accountants is to maintain their profession and their professional house 'in order'. Encouraging all manner of controversial, 'destined to be political' presentations is to be abhorred.
Let the Accountants focus on their core business and let them also look to their code of conduct, their schedule of fees and to their standard of in-house governance.
Then, and ONLY then, they might perhaps turn their minds to other things: but not on "our time". Who pays them? Their clients do. To whom are they then accountable?
Get real, anonymous 1 and 2! Your proposition that AusAID or NZAID would have funded the accountants' conference is just the sort of sillyness that has entered into this debate.
Neither agency has attempted to interfere in domestic politics. Both agencies have attempted to remain engaged in order to help ordinary Fijians live through the increasingly difficult situation in which they find themselves.
It's about time that a bit of common sense and reality entered this, so-called objective debate!
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