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The military regime's dictatorial attorney general Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum has displayed his arrogance, hunger for power, and confirmed his incompetency as a lawyer who cannot understand or clarify simple issues that the treasonous regime regards as legal issues.
Aiyaz Khaiyum has showed himself up as one who is worse than a junior law clerk in an exchange of correspondence with his ally in the private sector, Air Pacific's Chief Executive Officer, David Pflieger.
The incompetency is exposed in his letter to Pflieger where he tries to clarify that Pacific Sun is a designated corporation and whether or not it is included in the Essential National Industries (Employment) Decree, despite not being listed as a designated corporation under the Regulations gazetted on September the 9th.
Coupfourpointfive readers will recall our story last Friday, where we reported that Fiji Airlines Limited, trading as Pacific Sun, which is a subsidiary of Air Pacific, informed its employees through a memorandum dated September the 26th and issued by its General Manager Shaenaz Voss, that they are now included as a designated corporation in an essential industry under the ENI Decree.
Voss stated that "government had clarified the issue on September the 23rd". We had said that no Decree was gazetted to amend the ENI Decree Regulations to include Fiji Airlines Ltd or Pacific Sun, therefore the clarification - whether verbal or in written form - would still be unlawful.
We remind readers that on September the 15th, C4.5 published a letter from Pflieger to Aiyaz Khaiyum requesting him to include Pacific Sun as a designated corporation. Pflieger to Khaiyum: "...whether it could be listed as a separate corporation to avoid any confusion with respect to its existence as a separate company and with respect to it being a separate covered entity under the Decree".
Arrogance
We can today confirm that on September the 12th, Pflieger signed two letters. We have today received copies of the two letters as well as Khaiyum's reply to Pflieger dated September the 23rd.
The contents of the letter were exactly the same. But closer inspection will show that Pflieger's first letter was rejected by Khaiyum because it didn't list his Civil Aviation ministerial portfolio! Khaiyum now holds nine portfolios, of course, among them Civil Aviation.
Sources say Khaiyum was incensed his American friend omitted one of his portfolios and ordered another letter be sent with the appropriate correction. Pflieger quickly got it corrected and emailed the letter. Both letters were also sent by official postal mail.
According to sources, Khaiyum's arrogance has been obvious since he assumed office in the treasonous regime. Sources note that his media officers used to write letters to the editor in the daily newspapers in the regime's early days reminding them that his name is Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and to spell it properly.
Any omission of any of the three names - or the hyphen - would result in a letter the following day, along with a correction. Sources add that after Khaiyum's failure at the Forum Ministerial Contact Group meeting in January 2009, Fiji Times published a cartoon showing Frank Bainimarama telling Khaiyum off and spanking his backside.
The cartoonist left the hyphen out. The following day Fiji Times re-published the full cartoon with Khaiyum on the receiving end. Interestingly, his humiliation at the hand of the dictator was secondary: according to sources, the bigger concern over the cartoon was the misspelling of his name.
In another anecdote, sources reveal that during a meeting with some businessmen this year, one of them was put in his place after calling Khaiyum 'Aiyaz.' Khaiyum told the businessman: "Don't call me Aiyaz, call me Attorney-General".
Hunger for power & incompetency
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely". Aiyaz Khaiyum is a perfect example. Apart from his monetary gains, Khaiyum's ambition to be the Prime Minister is now coming out in the open. Last week we reported and showed a picture of a plaque naming Khaiyum "Acting Prime Minister".
In his reply to Pflieger in the letter dated September the 23rd, Aiyaz Khaiyum signed off as "Acting Prime Minister & Attorney-General". This, after the display of arrogance and the order to Pflieger to write a second a letter because he left off the Civil Aviation portfolio from the address.
Khaiyum's letter clearly shows his hunger for power and recognition, and exposes him as an incompetent lawyer.
Pflieger requested Khaiyum to include Fiji Airlines Ltd Trading As Pacific Sun as "separate company, to avoid any confusion with respect to it being a separate covered entity under the Decree".
Khaiyum's clarification was this: "Given PSL (Readers note: He is referring to 'Pacific Sun Limited', a company that doesn't even exist) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Air Pacific Limited, PSL is also a designated corporation for the purposes of the Decree and the Regulations".
Shaenaz Voss based her memo on this clarification, signing the memo as Fiji Airlines Ltd General Manager, not as PSL GM. As readers know, the name of the corporation is Fiji Airlines Ltd, Trading As Pacific Sun. So even while trying to enforce regulations of a unlawful and draconian decree, Aiaz Khaiyum has made cardinal errors. In any fair court of law, his letter will be thrown out and he crucified, if the ENI Decree and its Regulations are allowed to be challenged.
Sources reveal that given his lack of understanding of the most basic laws, it was no wonder Khaiyum did not represent the Colonial National Bank in Arbitration Tribunals or Court to defend the Bank in employee/employer disputes and proceedings, despite being employed as General Manager Legal.
Given Aiyaz Khaiyum's incompetency, it is not surprising Pflieger sought external help from the New York law firm MILBANK and the British Consultant, Andy Cook, in drafting and fine-tuning the provisions of the ENI Decree.
No surprises today over the Fijian Holdings Ltd's decision to bid New Zealander Carl Ngamoki-Cameron haere ra: the parting of the ways was a matter of time after revelations shareholders had very serious gripes about Ngamoki-Cameron and his 'misuse of office'. 
