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Issue No: 886; 26 June 2001
The Fiji Public Service Association has labeled the Secretary of the Public Service Commission as corrupt. The Secretary of the Union said that the PSC Secretary Anare Jale had sacked the members of the Public Service Commission after 19 May without any legal authority. The legal authority to sack, or appoint these members lay with the President. The union claimed: "PSC secretary Anare Jale is a figure that promotes nepotism, provincialism and is a violator of all public service regulations". According to the Daily Post, the Union said that the problem in the civil service is that of appointments and promotions and that has remained since Mr Jale took the helm at PSC after the coups of 1987. "Mr Jale pushed out Dr Satendra Prasad, Esiteri Kamikamica and Jane Ricketts as PSC commissioner's day after the May 19 coup. The commissioners can only be appointed by the President of the country in consultation with the Prime Minister. "When this [the sacking] happened, we neither had a President nor a Prime Minister," the Union stated. It further stated that Jale was "still carrying the 1987 Rabuka system of governance and used that same method when the coup took place this time." Dr. Prasad, Kamikamica, and Ricketts were appointed by the People's Coalition Government. Jale is a member of the invisible civil service club which
played a prominent role in ensuring that the elected government was deposed.
Three others who hold the posts of Permanent Secretaries, have also been exposed
as key instigators leading to the terrorists activities. All these persons were
appointed to their posts by the Rabuka regime. |
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