FNUGATE, 'SACK SARITA'. The FNU Council acted on the legal opinion of FNU's lawyers HANIFF TUITOGA after Acting Vice Chancellor (UNAISI Nabobo-Baba) claimed she was under pressure to renew Devi's Contract

INSIDER DEALING AND ABUSE OF OFFICE? COMING tomorrow. How Finance Minister and chair of the National Girmit Celebrations BIMAN PRASAD handed thousands of dollars to the Global Girmit Institute, re-registered by his WIFE Rajni and former FNU VC GANESH CHAND in February 2023 to organise the Girmit Conference at USP. The GGI was de-registered in February 2022 after it had failed to submit audited financial statements for 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021.
Meanwhile, the FNU Council chair Dr Kesaia Seniloli and other Council members only decided to terminate Sarita Devi's contract on the legal advice of Feizal Haniff of Haniff Tuitoga. Bizarrely, Education Minister Aseri Radrodro re-instated Devi, and sacked those perceived to be behind Devi's removal as FNU Registrar.

SACK SARITA: How FNU Council decided to terminate Devi's Contract

FEIZAL HANIFF drafted the following letter for Dr Kesaia Seniloli to sign, ending Sarita Devi's contract.

SACKED: Education Minister Radrodro met Seniloli and after the meeting Seniloli, Robin Nair, Dr Puamau and Peter Zinck were sacked as FNU Council Members, and Dr May was removed as Pro-Vice Chancellor.
​We have re-dacted the name of one of the receipients of the letter. All the five letters followed a similar format.

FNU Council Appointments and Timeline to Sackings
*The Human Resources Committee (HRC) met in a Special Meeting called by the Chair of the Committee to discuss a new Contract issued to the Registrar of the Fiji National University, Ms Sarita Harish aka Sarita Devi, and signed by the Acting Vice Chancellor, effective 1st April 2023, following the expiry of her three-month contract which expired on 31st March 2023.

​The HRC unanimously found the following:

The Acting Vice Chancellor erroneously and improperly renewed the Contract for three years following external representations made to her on the Registrar’s behalf to renew her contract.
2. The external interventions were inappropriate interventions for the proper functioning of the Fiji National University.
3. In making her decision, a. the Acting Vice Chancellor failed to take into account relevant considerations from the most recent 2022 Audit Reports regarding findings of underperformance by the Registrar in relation to her duties;
b. the Acting Vice Chancellor failed to take into account relevant considerations regarding serious allegations of inappropriate, improper, unacceptable and egregious behaviour, described by the victims as serious “bullying” on the part of the Registrar, reported and provided to the Office of a former Director of Human Resources and to a former Acting Vice Chancellor in the period April to August 2022;
c. the Acting Vice Chancellor failed to take proper account of reports and responses made by the former Director of Human Resources and the former Acting Vice Chancellor, following investigations taken by them in August 2022; and
d. the Acting Vice Chancellor failed to take into account the continuing grievance and the alleged lack of morale of staff who were the alleged victims of alleged offences and omissions of the Registrar and who continue to work in the Office of the Registrar, and those who have resigned from their employment citing in writing that their reason for their resignation was the “bullying”.
4. The Acting Vice Chancellor failed to bring to the attention of the Fiji National University Council in a timely manner the inappropriate representations and pressure put on her to renew the Contract of the Registrar, and failed to seek the Council’s guidance and advice on the matter.​