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*Marriage Bliss: There are rumours that Speight has tied marriage knot?
 The late Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara  |  |
 *DEPOSED PRIME MINISTER MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY, after being released, said he had been told of Rabuka's complicity by the leader of the CRW unit in parliament, Ilisoni Ligairi. In talks with Chaudhry, Ligairi had claimed he was very angry with Rabuka because he had ditched them at the last minute. |   |
Fijileaks: Astonishingly, in June 2000, shortly after George Speight and others seized Parliament, Rabuka told the world that the old South Africa might be a model for Fiji. He no longer seemed to believe in a multi-racial chamber. Rabuka said Fiji might need racially segregated houses of parliament, ‘like pre-Mandela South Africa’, as part of a constitutional settlement to its problems. The solution to Fiji's problems ‘must come with a constitutional arrangement that [i-Taukei] Fijians can work with ... and at the moment, they cannot work with the 1997 Constitution’. *Basically, he was disowning the very 1997 Rabuka-Reddy Constitution. The two had lost the 1999 election under their Constitution, including NFP candidates Biman Prasad and Wadan Narsey, who was touted as Rabuka's new Finance Minister |  |
Rabuka: "I supported every move to destabilise the Chaudhry government, but I was not part of the coup. I was not involved in any of the [pre-coup] marches. But I was going to be involved in the next one because it was [to be held at] the time of the signing of the successor to the Lome Convention this month.’
*Rabuka said he had known Speight and had played golf with him and knew of his commitment to indigenous rights. However, he did not agree that Speight represented the ‘soul’ or the ‘voice’ of the indigenous people, or the i-Taukei. ‘Why should he consider himself the voice of the iTaukei? His grandfather was a European. The military has only [negotiated with] Speight because of the security of the hostages. He has no legal claim. I don't have any moral stance on whether his actions are right or wrong. I cannot say anything about that because I was in the coup in 1987. I am giving my opinions as a private citizen.’ But Speight ‘has lost the plot and right now he is trying to hang onto every little straw that floats by. He is living in a bubble, and very soon that bubble will burst’
RABUKA ON THE MUANIKAU ACCORD: |  |
*The then interim Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase had obtained our founding Editor-in-Chief's four-part legal opinion that was published in Fiji's Daily Post newspaper and had passed it to the DPP's office to convict George Speight. Our Editor had also called for the recusal of then Chief Magistrate Salesi Temo who was preparing to release George Speight from Nukulau Island.
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From Fijileaks Archive, 6 August 2024
*The secret Board of Inquiry (BOI) Report into the beatings of George Speight and his group was so sensitive that my sources inside the RFMF were too frightened to send it to me via post or e-mail. |  |
Fijileaks: Our half-baked Fiji journalists will never dare to ask Naupoto questions relating to the events of 19 May and his role regarding Speight
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LEGAL QUIZ: How could someone who was sentenced to death by hanging but was pardoned and his sentence commuted to life in prison, be PARDONED again - only in Fiji. George Speight had pleaded guilty. He was 'not' pardoned but was showered with MERCY, so claimed the Coalition government.
"Beloved, don't be obsessed with taking revenge, but leave that to God's righteous justice. For the Scriptures say: 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.' says the Lord.
*The next time you run into him at Kundan Singh store,
'Buy him an Ice-Cream' for the damage he inflicted on Indo-Fijians and Fiji
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