LANDOWNERS want Meridian Services director Timoci Lolohea's house dismantled because he failed to provide jobs in Kuwait for Suvavou villagers.
Metui Maiyale, 60, the headman of Suvavou Village in 2005 when Mr Lolohea conducted a massive recruitment drive, said a meeting of village elders had decided to seek legal advice on how to go about doing this.
"We took $10,800 from the Suvavou House money to pay for the 80 or so youths and unemployed men of the village who only wanted to better their lives and gave it to Lolohea. Of all that, only the passports still lie inside my house," Mr Maiyale said. The passports cost $2000.
Mr Lolohea's house sits on Suvavou land and people of Nadonumai have been told they would be evicted if they brought disrepute to Suvavou.
Mr Maiyale said that Mr Lolohea's action warranted such a course.
Mr Lolohea, who left the country after taking money from people for employment in Kuwait and the Middle East, has returned to his family home at Nadonumai.
When the Fiji Times visited him at his home, a sign outside read "Recruitment for Dubai closes on 15/10/09."
Mr Lolohea refused to talk, saying he was media shy.
Mr Maiyale said the village's unemployed youths had invested their money in the Kuwait scheme and elders were blamed for allowing Mr Lolohea into the village when it failed. "Four years on and the promises of a brighter and prosperous future still ring loud in the minds of Suvavou's youths," he said.
The Labour Ministry and the police had contacted Interpol then to extradite Mr Lolohea but nothing eventuated.
Police spokesman Sergeant Atunaisa Sokomuri said the police would investigate if complaints were made against Mr Lolohea. Mr Maiyale said a complaint was lodged with the Central Police Station in 2005 but nothing could be done because Mr Lolohea was out of the country then.
Complaints were also filed by concerned elders of Nabukaluka Village in Naitasiri who gave Meridian Services about $24,000. Keiyasi Village in Nadroga/Navosa also gave about $15,000 and Yaqaqa Island in Bua gave about $11,000.
In 2005, Mr Lolohea also acted as an agent for Public Warehousing Company, an American security company operating in the Middle East, and he promised locals would be paid as much $6000 per month while in Kuwait.
He had promised to take as many as 5000 people abroad.
After waiting for months, people who had paid money for the jobs raised the matter with the authorities who could not locate Mr Lolohea. Nothing was heard from him until last year when he was reported to be in a Kuwait jail.
