Axed but at peace Siteri Sauvakacolo/ Fiji Times FORMER Fiji Television head of content Tanya Waqanika is at peace with her termination saying her dismissal is another door opening for her. She revealed this in an interview with Radio Australia presenter Bruce Hill regarding her and Tevita Gonelevus sacking last week. I am a woman of faith, I have gone through much bigger challenges in my life. This is just an opening door for me, Ms Waqanika said. Ms Waqanika says she believes the pair were sacrificed for the company. Basically any licence issued for any broadcast company comes from the Minister for Communications. But based on what was printed on the media, that to secure the licence, two of us were sacrificed. Im not sure who in Government they spoke to but the licence is normally issued by the Minister for Communications. Ms Waqanika told Hill her and Tevita Gonelevu learnt the reasons behind their sacking in the print media the day after they were dismissed despite being officially fired the day before. She refuted claims and assumptions by the Minister for Communications Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum in Parliament that some management of Fiji TV were involved in leaking information to World Rugby regarding the feeds for the sevens series. Ms Waqanika said everything was online, adding World Rugby was monitoring media reports online and knew what was transpiring in relation to the World Rugby feeds. She maintained she had done nothing wrong and had worked with integrity and righteousness and had always followed what the board had always told them in the interest of shareholders. Meanwhile, attempts to get responses from Mr Sayed-Khaiyum and FHL chair Ioane Naiveli yesterday proved futile. In earlier interviews, Mr Ioane Naiveli said the decision to terminate Waqanika and Gonelevu was made after a board meeting. He said FHL, which owned major shares in Fiji TV, had been looking at the restructure of the company. Mr Naiveli said the board discussed changes in management to ensure Government gave Fiji TV a licence to operate longer than six months at a time. Fiji TVs licence expires at the end of the year and now we can go to Government and say we have made changes to management and, hopefully, get longer term licences, Mr Naiveli said. We need Fiji TV to survive. Once the company survives, employment of its staff survives, so does their salaries. fijitimes/story.aspx?id=289778
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:08:04 +0000
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