Opposition Whip Ratu Isoa Tikoca:
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Sese
25/4/2016 10:18:48 am
WHY ARE WE HARPING ABOUT CHIEFS (GCC) BEING BROUGHT BACK ETC WHEN WE HAVE MORE PRESSING ISSUES TO ADDRESS FOR OUR PEOPLE. OILEI SODELPA YOU KEEP BRINGING UP IRRELEVANT POLICIES. AND THE TIMING TOO....AFTER WINSTON YOU BRING THIS BILL MP GAVOKA??? WHAT A JOKE YOU GUYS ARE!
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SESE
25/4/2016 10:19:50 am
ARE CHIEFS SUPPOSED TO BE MORE POWERFUL THAN OTHERS? WHATS SO SPECIAL ABOUT YOU GUYS? WHERE IS EQUAL RIGHTS HERE?
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Pita
25/4/2016 11:40:35 am
In the military Tikoca built Irish crossings and barracks as a member of the engineer Corp. He has clearly not read up on his Fiji history. Ma'afu defied the Council of Chiefs meeting on Bau to discuss Cession to Britain. He rebuked British Consul General Sir JB Thurston before storming out of the meeting house with his church Minister, Reverand Joeli Bulu. Dugonoi or Navisa from Ra, leader of the milleniarust Tuka Movement and also Apolisi Ranawai, leader of the Viti Kabani mass movement publically ridiculed the Council of Chiefs as a puppet of the colonial state and a tool for white domination. The truth that Tikica fails to understand is that the Council of Chiefs was created by the state. And what the state creates so shall it erase if the institution serves no useful purpose. The Council of Chiefs was manipulated since the first Cakobau Government prior to cession right down through the ages through a succession of Fijian leaders right up until elements within the military set up the GS coup of 2001 and subsequent events that followed. The public has lost faith in this institution
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Dekho
25/4/2016 12:55:18 pm
Why then are other useless institution which have failed to deliver on their functions allowed to continue to exist?
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Dekho
25/4/2016 10:39:28 pm
Include in that list of useless institutions in Fiji , the Human Rights Commission which has no guts to stand up against State abuse of human rights. And, made a donation to the PM Disaster Relief Fund to show they too were good boys .
Its About PAISA
26/4/2016 12:25:33 am
YES PITA, you are right. GS coup of 2001, military nominated Interim PM at GCC meeting at the military camp threatened to form a new political party if the GCC will not support a united front.
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Rajend Naidu
25/4/2016 10:59:00 pm
Editor,
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Number Crunching Time?
25/4/2016 11:31:44 pm
How many Indigenous Fijians and Indians were in the Government side that voted against the GCC?
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On-Song
26/4/2016 02:54:28 am
Serves them right for raising the GCC issue in Parliament where they don't have the majority-not a good move SODELPA!!! In simple thoughts why not just get the Chiefs to form their own Council, fund themselves and administer their own affairs? As has been said, the State formed the GCC, funded it from public money and always had the right to scrap it. The Fijians of today comprise of many parts with the majority still under the leadership and influence of the Chiefs. I say to you, go ahead and create your own Council and let it rule over your lands, territories and fishing grounds without interference from Govts. present and future!! if survival is what you want....and then it becomes nobody's business how you rule yourselves; especially if you're self-funded. If laws & decrees are then put in place to make it illegal for Fiji's Chiefs to meet then you best know what to do to claim your rightful place and heritance in this country. Personally, I just don't see why your chiefly business has to be debated in a national forum at all nor in a House that should never have been involved, except demanding some accountability for its funding of the GCC. The SODELPA needs to go back to the Vanua and sort things out there and not in a forum such as Parliament that only ridicules the concept.
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CANADA BOY
26/4/2016 08:07:08 am
Why is SOLDEPA still running with the GCC
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GCC as NGO
26/4/2016 09:13:04 am
Will the Chiefs in parliament resign for holding position in their proposed GCC as was the case with 1997 Constitution? What really were SODELPA proposing? Certainly GCC cannot reconvene.
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Tomasi
27/4/2016 12:23:58 am
Thank you On Song. Excellent thoughts and well put. Sodelpa MPs need to think out of the box. In fact, they must learn to think out of the Parliament and its constraining rules, protocols and horizons.
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