Sudhakar blames Nawaikula for loss

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Government MPs in Parliament on Wednesday, February 19, 2020. Picture: SUPPLIED/FIJIAN PARLIAMENT MEDIA UNIT

LANDS Minister Ashneel Sudhakar said Opposition parliamentarian Niko Nawaikula was personally responsible for Kokomo landowners missing out on a lucrative opportunity because he advised them against depositing into the Land Bank.

“The landowners of Fiji need to know that the State is not taking away or stealing their land as the Opposition says it is land grab, it is not,” Mr Sudhakar said while delivering his ministerial statement in Parliament yesterday.

“Furthermore, the landowners do not incur any administration fee like they do with iTaukei Land Trust Board, the TLTB takes its cut after it collects lease money from tenants and gives the remainder to landowners.

“This cut pays for the TLTB administration, therefore landowners who lease their land to the Land Bank will receive more money than those who would prefer to stay with TLTB.

“In fact honourable Nawaikula should know this very well because recently he was instrumental in stopping a Land Bank deposit.

“There was a piece of land in Kokomo that was agreed by the landowners to be leased to the Land Bank, all the groundwork was done and then honourable Nawaikula went and instigated the landowners to withdraw.

“What has happened now is that the landowners are in limbo, so Native (iTaukei) Land Trust Board does not want to take their land; land use unit has withdrawn, the landowners who would have made good profit and money out of this deal have lost out because of people like honourable Nawaikula and the likes of him.”

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