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ADIEU FIJI: As Bainimarama-Khaiyum regime spins out of control Graham Davis reportedly plans to take LEAVE from Fiji and relocate to Australia! To many, he was  bête noire par excellence; FIJILEAKS welcomed HIM!

10/11/2015

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HAPPY DIWALI TO ALL OUR READERS AND SUPPORTERS!


DROWNED HOPE: Frank Bainimarama’s most influential spin doctor, Graham Davis, has told friends he has resigned his consultancy with Qorvis and will soon be relocating back to Australia

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FAREWELL FIJI: As Fiji government drowns in new scandal every day, Davis to leave Fijian shore for Australia
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Frank Bainimarama’s most influential spin doctor, the former Channel 9 news reporter Graham Davis, has told friends he has resigned his consultancy with Qorvis and will soon be relocating back to Australia.
 
On the surface, he blames ailing health. But he is also known to have grown deeply frustrated with the power-at-all-costs style of rule shown by Bainimarama and Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum as the reality and frictions of government sinks in, with a yawning deficit to cover and an increasingly assertive military.
 
For the past three years, 62-year-old Davis has declared himself as a consultant to the GeoPolitical Solutions division of the global communications company, Qorvis-MSLGROUP – better known as Qorvis in Fiji – which has had a long term contract to burnish the Fiji government’s poor reputation. He has also had three years as a Fiji Sun columnist.
 
Three sets of friends contacted by Fiji Leaks confirmed that Davis considers seeing the country through to elections last year as being the conclusion of his commitment to help the Bainimarama regime. His final published commentary on his Grubsheet blog is dated September 22 last year, titled ‘The New Democracy Begins.’ He hasn’t written any further updates. Fijileaks had reproduced his September 22 column.
 
But in that very same September 2014 posting lies clues to the inevitable break with Bainimarama that could only have been hastened by this week’s shocking turn of events relating to Police Commissioner Ben Groenewald and his attempts to bring to court three of his officers accused of bashing up and indecently assaulting escaped prisoners.
 
In September last year Davis was happy to blast critics of the country’s judiciary:
 
‘The truth is that no credible evidence has ever been advanced that the executive branch of the Fijian Government influences the judiciary, nor that the judiciary does the Government’s bidding. Indeed the Chief Justice, Anthony Gates, and his fellow judges pride themselves on being fiercely independent, as does Christopher Pryde, the NZ-born Director of Public Prosecutions.’ Graham Davis, September 22 2014
 
The turn of events this past week surrounding the three police officers accused of assault, indecent assault and rape in two prisoner-escape cases could only have confirmed Davis’ intention to walk away.  Attempts by the Director of Public Prosecutions to bring the three accused police officers to court were thwarted when they were recruited directly into the Army and provided with an Army lawyer.
 
In March 2013, when the 9-minute video first emerged of bank-robber Iowane Benedito and Epeli Qaraniqio being beaten Davis had written:
 
‘Nothing can justify the abuse these recaptured prisoners suffered – something that the police themselves have acknowledged by expressing their own disquiet and announcing an investigation. It may not have been as bad as some human rights abuses in other parts of the world but that’s not the point. This is Fiji and we generally don’t see ourselves in this way. That’s why there has been such shock and revulsion across the community – people saying that it made them cry and they couldn’t sleep – which is an encouraging sign of the moral state of the nation in itself.’

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Qaraniqio’s beatings were so bad part of his right leg had to be amputated and the reaction to the video was global and shocking. Even prompting revulsion from Fijians like former All Black Joe Rokocoko who had no history of political engagement. Rokocoko tweeted to this 60,000 followers: “Really sad/upset to see some of our people in the Pacific (Fiji) being tortured/humiliated in a manner no one deserve. Pray 4 change."
 
But now Bainimarama has set a course back to rule by military – with Colonel Sitiveni Qiliho named acting Police Commissioner, and the three accused still sheltered by the military – all that Davis has worked for appears to be coming undone. Fiji is no more a democracy now, measured by the strength of its various independent judiciary functions – than it was when Davis first started cheer leading for Bainimarama in the aftermath of the December 2006 coup.

Fijileaks: We are yet to hear from Davis for comment.

http://www.grubsheet.com.au/the-new-democracy-begins/

http://www.fijileaks.com/home/a-new-democracy-graham-davis-reflects-on-2104-election-for-fiji-it-is-a-wonderful-moment-in-the-life-of-the-nation-and-a-historical-watershed-the-birth-of-our-first-real-democracy

https://twitter.com/J_Rokocoko

18 Comments
Chiku
10/11/2015 10:42:45 pm

Shits been happening big time in Fiji since the Bainimarama takeover in 2006. But " independent " journalist like Graham Davis has been making out that it was not only all good but heaps better in the " new Fiji " fashioned by Bainimarama and Khaiyum and their lackeys. Graham Davis was lying. He was a regime hired propagandist.
Now the shit must have got TOO MUCH for even a regime propagandist like Graham to decide it was time to leave and head back to Australia. Perhaps like Groenwald things had also become too garam for Graham in Fiji?

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Dekho
10/11/2015 11:26:05 pm

Graham Davis stands accussed of propping up the Bainimarama Dictatorship in Fiji. He deliberately glossed over the wrongdoings and atrocities, the repression of the dictatorship. Graham Davis will be remembered for that by all the people of Fiji who have suffered and continue to suffer under Bainimarama's rule executed by his lieutenants Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum and cronies.it is a shame when an award winning journalist of Davis standing should get sucked in by intellectually deficient rulers like Bai and Kai and act as their spokesman. Graham Davis will have to live with that shame.

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Anna Lan
11/11/2015 12:14:00 am

Looks like new year won't be nice to Fiji First party. The end of year is getting bad very day.

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Thinker
11/11/2015 12:17:17 am

So the diwali has brought us sweet news.

Rubbish bin journalist Jyoti Pratibha n her editor in chief must be packing to take off on moon traveller.

Happy diwali guyz

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Saamjhoo
11/11/2015 12:35:57 am

Anybody keeping a count on the number of people who jumped on the Bainimarama bandwagon and only to realise belatedly that this rogue from the Fijian military was no political messiah come to save the country, to create a " true democracy " and all that . That the megalomaniac only wanted power for himself and the privileges that went with unfettered power. Well, Graham Davis is just one more in that statistics.

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Welcome Home
11/11/2015 03:11:01 am

Graham Davis will have much to reflect upon once he reinstalls himself in OZ. As many Fijians suffered abuse and humiliation now glaringly publicised globally, he plied his trade with excruciating disdain and even misplaced unctuous humour. How does it feel, when "All the wheels come off", he might ask himself? And what role did I foolishly and misguidedly play in such outright skulduggery?"

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Chiku
11/11/2015 07:10:02 am

You couldn't have put it more succinctly. You are spot on!

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Saamjha
11/11/2015 03:18:41 am

So how much has Qorvis consultant Graham Davis pocketed as " Bainimarama 's most influential spin doctor"? In other words what has been his ill- begotten gains out of the Bainimarama dictatorship in Fiji?
He now has the luxury of returning to Australia whilst the people of Fiji continue to suffer under the brutal ruler he helped entrench in power.

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Paula
11/11/2015 08:24:33 am

Davis and all like him were conned by this man and his spin doctor Khaiyum and had a helping hand in bringing into Fiji a thug and usurper of democracy. No use trying to have a conscience now huge damage done in this country.

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Davis is Good.
11/11/2015 10:01:16 am

Disillusionment is slowly but surely sinking-in amongst the CHOR Party cabal.

Qorvis is into spin-doctoring and PR but knows no cure for the sickness of “shamelessness” which has chronically pervaded the Leadership of the CHOR Party.

Others, the People think, feel and have emotional intelligence. We forgive Graham Davis for his blind (and unfounded) faith in the ‘new Fiji utopia’. Many were SOLD on it. But Davis must now, with all the God-gifted skills at his disposal, make amends.

He must HELP the People of Fiji to get rid of the IMPOSED and FRAUD 2013 Constitution of Fiji – because this FRAUD Constitution – is exactly where we have taken a wrong course.

Please, Davis Sahib, think, feel and HELP!

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Fiji First Party
11/11/2015 10:19:00 am

Happy Diwali Davis!

Enjoy the festival of the Light and Enlightenment and enjoy a prosperous and a 'glorious' retirement.

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Ratu Sai
11/11/2015 11:36:47 am

Davies was conned by no one but his greed had the better of him. Good riddance to bad rubbish as they say.

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Observer
11/11/2015 01:22:16 pm

Curious as to how a man could offer his service of providing positive soundbites for what was obviously a dubious unlawful regime from the outset.....and getting paid for it from tax payers who did not support what he was promoting and garnishing and damaging his public relations for. Will be interesting to read his personal story experience of the attachment with qorvis on the Fiji/Bainimarama project (if he does write one)!

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Welcome Home
11/11/2015 04:47:08 pm

By the way: "All the wheels come off" , Mr Davis, is no mere metaphor. It has a personal slant in reality and that of one of Fiji's most esteemed widows of a prominent party leader in the 1960s. There is little or no regard for widows in Fiji and tampering with nuts and bolts comes 'Dime a Dozen '. Dwell on that in your retirement.

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rajend naidu
11/11/2015 09:43:10 pm

Editor,
The African and European leaders are holding a meeting in Malta to discuss the current migrant crisis with thousand fleeing out of Africa and the Middle East ( ABC news 12/11 ).
In an interview the president of Niger Mahamadou Issoufou said the meeting needs to get to the roots of the problem and he said one of the root causes driving the outward migration was " the democratic deficit " in the home countries.
I am sure Graham Davis can help us understand what constitutes " the democratic deficit " from his experience in Fiji as an independent journalist.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu
Sydney

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Chiku
11/11/2015 10:05:49 pm

Democracy returns to Fiji and Graham Davis returns to Australia after helping to establish " real democracy " in Fiji. I hope he gets an award for his contribution . The government he helped entrench in power is very good at giving out awards to their loyal collaborators.

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Wats new
12/11/2015 02:39:25 am

The cash and accounting registers of government are refusing to budge! the 60% operational allocation cant seem to move along any further. Now Ministries are drawing from next month's allocations. The answer is simple! No money!! Qorvis was white washing the truth! Now he realises the bad of his deeds? Oh but do they really learn?

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thisisajoke
12/11/2015 04:26:40 am

Shame and very sad to hear that some white people come into Fiji and ruin Fiji and the i taukei

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