![Acting Prime Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and SODELPA MP Niko Nawaikula [image: Parliament of Fiji]](https://www.fijivillage.com/news_images/18931834616200afef8bd1ef475f8d.jpg)
Acting Prime Minister, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says the government has spent $62 million from the 2016/2017 financial year to the 2020/2021 financial year to assist persons with disabilities, however we cannot get everything done in just a year or two.
While speaking in the debate on the Review of the Performance Audit on the Access for Persons with Disabilities to Public Offices and Public Transport tabled in August 2021, Sayed-Khaiyum says obviously the audit done by the Office of the Auditor-General does not carry much merit when there has been about 100 years of neglect.
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However SODELPA MP Niko Nawaikula says the government is missing the point raised by the Office of the Auditor-General in their report of the Performance Audit on the Access for Persons with Disabilities to Public Offices and Public Transport.
Nawaikula adds the Office of the Auditor-General is concerned that despite signing the different conventions, the government has failed to implement them on the ground.
He says this morning, he caught the bus from 10 miles and as he entered the bus he could not see the necessary facilities for people that have disabilities.
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Nawaikula says the government cannot be saying that all of the things are being implemented now because they are already on the last lap of their term and this should have been done before.
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