He explained the process of how the commercial banks use Fiji dollars to buy foreign reserves from the Reserve Bank and how the foreign currency eventually ended up with the importer’s bank account abroad. I was deeply impressed by how he could simplify a complicated and complex process for the ordinary person to understand.
At the end of his talk a young man asked, “Is keeping enough foreign reserves a difficult thing to do?” Siwa replied, “Well, you see my hair, they were all black last year, now they are rapidly turning grey.” If you can see me now Siwa, my hair is not only grey they have turned all white in the last six months.