{"id":1324,"date":"2021-09-15T06:02:41","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2021-09-15T06:02:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T06:02:41","slug":"fiji-bureau-of-statistics-ceo-kemueli-naiqamas-contract-terminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1324","title":{"rendered":"Fiji Bureau of Statistics CEO Kemueli Naiqama\u2019s contract terminated"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>Fijian news media outlet\u00a0 FBC NEWS\u00a0 reports\u00a0 that Ministry of Economy has confirmed that Fiji Bureau of Statistics Chief Executive Kemueli Naiqama\u2019s contract has been terminated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A statement from the Fijian Government confirms the Ministry through the Acting Permanent Secretary, Shiri Goundar made the decision based on the Bureau\u2019s failure to comply with Section 5 of the Statistics Act 1961.<\/p>\n<p>The Government says the FBOS is charged with the collection of statistics relating to any of the matters set out in Schedule 1 of the Statistics Act subject to the approval and direction of the Minister for Economy.<\/p>\n<p>It also reported that by exceeding the scope of data collection and ignoring fact-based methodology, Naiqama breached the terms of his contract with the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Under his employment contract, he will be paid all salary and accrued entitlements for the period up to 15 September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The government states in an unfortunate blow to the Bureau\u2019s credibility, Naiqama endorsed the publication of unverifiable information from the Housing Income and Expenditure Survey 2019-2020.<\/p>\n<p>This related to ethnic and religious data that was revealed to be derived from erroneous sources, and which exceeded the established scope of the survey\u2019s data collection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<strong>FBC NEWS<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fijian news media outlet\u00a0 FBC NEWS\u00a0 reports\u00a0 that Ministry of Economy has confirmed that Fiji Bureau of Statistics Chief Executive Kemueli Naiqama\u2019s contract has been terminated. A statement from the Fijian Government confirms the Ministry through the Acting Permanent Secretary, Shiri Goundar made the decision based on the Bureau\u2019s failure to comply with Section 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,222,177],"tags":[59,220],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiji-news","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-featured","tag-fiji-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}