'Akilisi Pohiva should remember roots: Pacific watchdog Featured
Palemia 'o Tonga 'Akilisi Pohiva
16 March, 2017. A regional media watchdog says the stance Tonga's Prime Minister has taken on the country's state broadcaster doesn't fit 'Akilisi Pohiva's history of democratic activism.
Mr Pohiva wants to review the role of the Tonga Broadcasting Commission because he said the broadcaster was not doing its job of facilitating government work.
He had gone as far as to describe it as 'an enemy of government' and said the services may be better carried out by a different provider.
But the Pacific Freedom Forum said the threats and statements send the wrong message.
PFF Chair Monica Miller said as a former pro-democracy reform movement, the current government should remember its roots.
"'Akilisi Pohiva was this crusading newspaper editor speaking out for freedom of information and speaking out for the people's right to know, freedom of expression. So for him to say these things, doesn't sound like the 'Akilisi we know,"she said.
Monica Miller said it was not the job of any news media to support the government of the day, but to represent the public and their interests.
-RNZI
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Ko ho uhinga Tulifua oku lolotonga rent e Setane ia e foi brain o Akilisi?
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That was both politically interesting and comically entertaining Tulifua! The PM, SAP, seems to have a memory loss complex of some complex nature. A memory loss complex that is both mentally-induced and mentally-manufactured. SAP was a long-standing hard-out pro-democrat before the formation of his government by pushing the technicality of good governance (or good leadership) along transparency, accountability, equality and justice.
But, as soon as SAP became PM he was automatically, completely yet surely, totally transformed overnight into a mindless, relentless con-democrat after his government formation, thereby transgressing the legality of the very heart of good governance (or leadership) and all the democratic principles hitherto said therein.
In short, SAP the PM has become a dictator! He is, by defying and destroying the very basis of democracy, no longer a democrat.
As both a person and PM, SAP has been deeply yet sadly sucked into the bottomless pit or abyss of his own ego perhaps either knowingly or unknowingly that when he takes a good look at democracy on a mirror all he sees is a monster-like picture of himself through and through.
By the way, history tells us that, in such unfortunate situations, there is no going place nowhere other than the bottomless pit or abyss, hell may be, where such dictators as Hitler, Mussolini and Lenin are all stacked up ready for burning, all awaiting the Judgement Day before God! -
Akilisi will never learn because he has a long history of getting away with abusing the public. When he obviously contradicts something he stated previously the people seem to be scared to tear him down with harsh language. We can't get into his brain because probably (1) he does not have much of it; (2) he does not know he has any.