The lies about land

Does anyone remember the Committee for the Better Utilisation of Land?
CBUL was Frank’s big initiatives in relation to land. He was going to get a better deal for both farmers and landowners. Landowners who renewed leases would get some extra money from the government for a few years and then sometime after the government would look at legislation to decide a fair rent level.
So what happened? Last August we were told that most leases would be renewed. Check it out the promise made last year on the regime’s website:
http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_12720.shtml
So has this happened? Nothing! All we hear is that the area devoted to sugar is continuing to shrink.But the lies keep coming. When he was out of the hearing of his fellow countrymen the illegal Foreign Minister, Inoke Kubuabola, told his Sri Lankan counterpart that the interim government was “seeking to bring about reforms on land use and the Constitution in order to bring about a system of equality to both the indigenous people and Fijian Indians”.
But this is all hot air. The regime has done nothing about land because they know they don’t have the democratic mandate to do it. With the constitution abrogated there are no legal obstacles. They could produce a new decree tomorrow if they wanted to.
Landowners might be happy to extend leases by ten years if they know they won’t need to use it for their own purposes over that time span. The problem has been ALTA means that a lease cannot be less than thirty years.
Democracy has not found it easy to deal with the land issue but dictatorship has done nothing but spin lies.
CORRUPTION FIGHTER
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