Our tin-pot dictator keeps talking about his roadmap but we haven’t really seen it.
All we know is that we arrive at a truly democratic Fiji in 2014. With this kind of roadmap he’d be taking us from Suva to Lautoka via Kadavu, Ono, (Kadavu and Lau) and Udu point.
Can the dictator show us some of the points on the way to our destination? We know constitution building starts in two years time, but where are we going in those two years?
From the few hints he’s given it sounds like this is a time for economic building, because he says a strong economy is needed to build a strong social and political framework.
What he apparently has in mind here is that he will hand Government funds for projects that will develop the economy and have hosts of people showering him with gratitude for the help.
What he clearly doesn’t understand is that the damage he’s done to the economy already means there will be no pork barrel for him to make handouts from. It’s gone.
FIRCA revenue collection has been hit hard by the coup and the downturn in the economy that followed. The only thing the dictator has done to increase tax revenues is create massive inflation as a result of devaluation. But the dollars he’s collecting are devalued ones. They buy much less thanthe dollars we had before.
The dictator’s roadmap is certainly a roadmap to nowhere.
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