The 2021-2022 National Budget is an election budget and will bring Government’s rule to an end because people can now see they are “arrogant bullies, lacking empathy, don’t consult and think they are always right”.
National Federation Party MP Lenora Qereqeretabua said this in Parliament yesterday.
She claimed Government was not taking measures to prevent COVID-19 deaths and the despair Fiji now faced.
She said the nation’s economy had been doomed way before the first wave of the pandemic hit Fiji.
“Our own Prime Minister said on 23 March, 2020 that we had to act quickly and decisively,” she said.
“On March 29, 2020, he said: ‘I appreciate that our lockdown measures and travel restrictions haven’t been easy for everyone but it is clear these were the right measures taken at the right time to lock down this virus’.
“The super-spreader events, and of course the primary infection point for the second wave from the flight of April 10, which I must add no one has owned up to, nor apologised for, but this is typical, this is how this Government operates, protect their buddies, blame everyone else.”
She said international leaders had apologised to their people for their laxity in enforcing policies against the pandemic, but the same could not be said for Fiji’s leaders.
“We need leaders who can delegate, who are not control freaks, and who can allow decisions to be made.
“We have already seen what happens when decisions are not made: people die.
“And we need leaders who can communicate. You cannot lead if you cannot express yourself without the Qorvis or Vatis online and offline spin all the time, that is so far removed from reality, it is a joke.”
