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BAINIMARAMA IS NOT DEAD: Aiyaz Khaiyum dismisses social media postings that Bainimarama is dead. As revealed by us, BAINIMARAMA is in Melbourne hospital for heart surgery. Khaiyum says he is Acting PM

15/1/2022

ELECTION: Aiyaz Khaiyum says the 2013 Constitution of Fiji
allows election to be held in JANUARY 2023. Did Khaiyum outflank LYNDA TABUYA who prematurely jumped ship, to steer Sitiveni Rabuka's PAP ship, believing the election will be held this year? Also, since NIKO NAWAIKULA will not be seeking re-election on SODELPA ticket, and will most likely join Rabuka, SODELPA must decry any of his bullshit screaming on indigenous rights in Parliament. They must cut his oxygen of publicity, when he portrays himself as indigenous rights champion. Returning to Bainimarama, WE must still SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER. Who will be paying his Bills? Will we be told the cost of his treatment. We may recall that other RACIST, and Co-Conspirator with Coupist Rabuka, RATU INOKE KUBUABOLA, jump ship, to become FFP's Minister for Foreign Affairs. In the 2012 Auditor-General's Report we had discovered that his new coupist handler Frank Bainimarama had ordered the Ministry of Finance to pay Kubuabola's medical bill of $165,000 to New York Presbyterian Hospital after he (Kubuabola) was admitted to the hospital while attending a UN General Assembly meeting in September 2011. Kubuabola had suffered a HEART ATTACK. In 2000, in his capacity as Interim Information Minister, this thug took out a full page advertisement in Fiji's Daily Post to portray himself as indigenous rights champion and condemned our Editor for Standing Up to George Speight. We have made it very clear to those URGING and BEGGING us to endorse Sitiveni Rabuka and his PAP that only "Political Opportunists" will embrace HIM. One cannot condemn Bainimarama-Khaiyum and embrace Rabuka and his lot. As we keep pointing out to the old and young that Rabuka's COUP, RAPE, ROBBERY, VIOLENCE, TORTURE was committed when we DIDN'T have Internet, I-Phone, Social Media, Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber, Instagram and Tik-Tok (where Tabuya was chewing on a Fiji Airways model plane). But we had for the last four decades collected a long and disturbing DOSSIER on Fiji's ADOLF HITLER. From day one of his coup to all coups, we have remained steadfast to our beliefs - in justice, freedom, equality, human rights, media freedom and democracy. And, consequently, have paid a very heavy price - collecting enemies along the way. Its time for NFP leader BIMAN PRASAD to publish a detailed economic account of the COST of COUPS and DICTATORSHIP in Fiji. Of course, Rabuka's potential political chambermaid will not take up our challenge. Now, he has a new sleek NFP Facebook: Onward Together. Hello, with whom, RABUKA? Just like Jai Ram Reddy let us all down and ran and formed a coalition with Rabuka, claiming that FIJI WAS NOT READY FOR AN INDO-FIJIAN PRIME MINISTER (Chaudhry).
Where is Jai Ram Reddy TODAY? Instead of Rabuka, he was JAILING RWANDANS for Crimes Against Humanity, Genocide, Murder and Rape. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda has been at the forefront of the global fight against Impunity (Immunity), prosecuting those Rwandans considered most responsible for the crimes committed in 1994.
BELOW: Fiji's ACTING INDO-FIJIAN PRIME MINISTER AIYAZ SAYED KHAIYUM

RELIGIOUS BIGOT RABUKA:
Now, Sitiveni Rabuka is calling on us to PRAY for Frank Bainimarama (snakey political crococidle tears) when he was openly celebrating the DEATH of Prime Minister Bavadra after deposing him. Again, it beggars belief how many "normal" people have fallen for this man's snake charm offensive and his new party. He claimed that the FFP government should have informed the general public that Bainimarama was going away to Australia for medical treatment. The BIGOT didn't inform us, his military commander nor the Bavadra government that he was going to overthrow the government on 14 May 1987, disenfranchise Indo-Fijians, Others and urban progressive i-Taukei Fijians in his new racist 1990 Constitution and was going to rule Fiji until 1999. Thankfully, the VOTERS threw the
SVT-NFP Coalition out. Operation Kidacala!

WHERE IS THE PM?: FLP says well-established convention requires that an OFFICIAL media statement is issued informing people of the official engagement and duration of overseas VISIT. PM's salary: $1,000 a DAY

14/1/2022

"The Minister is expected to subsequently inform Parliament of the outcome of the visit by way of a ministerial statement. Now, that is being accountable! I have observed that the Fiji First ministers have consistently flouted this rule. PM Bainimarama is paid a salary of around $1000 per day. He must account for it to the taxpayers by keeping them informed. This also raises the question of Cabinet meetings. I am reliably informed by government sources that the regular fortnightly Cabinet meetings are no longer held. Under Fiji First, government business, it seems, is no longer a matter of collective cabinet decision-making."
FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry

There is considerable speculation, fuelled by all kinds of rumours, on the whereabouts of Prime Minister Bainimarama and his deputy Sayed-Khaiyum.

At a time when the people are faced with an alarming rise in Covid-19 cases and the suffering inflicted by the recent massive flooding, it is natural that people should turn to their rulers for guidance and assistance- only to find nobody knows where they are. They have just disappeared without a word.

“This is simply not acceptable,” says Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry.

* “There are well-established conventional rules that the Prime Minister or, indeed, any of his ministers must observe whenever travelling out of the country.

* The rules require that an official media statement is issued informing the people of the official engagement and the duration of the overseas visit.

* The Minister is expected to subsequently inform Parliament of the outcome of the visit by way of a ministerial statement. Now, that is being accountable!

“I have observed that the Fiji First ministers have consistently flouted this rule,” Mr Chaudhry said.

* PM Bainimarama is paid a salary of around $1000 per day. He must account for it to the taxpayers by keeping them informed.

* This also raises the question of Cabinet meetings. I am reliably informed by government sources that the regular fortnightly Cabinet meetings are no longer held.

Under Fiji First, government business, it seems, is no longer a matter of collective cabinet decision-making.

Instead, most important decisions are now conveyed by way of directives from the TOP. And that is why there is so much inconsistency, confusion and chaos in the manner the government is run today.

Case in point is when a letter from my office addressed to the Prime Minister was being delivered to his office last month, the person was told to take it to the Attorney General’s office.

He insisted that the letter was addressed to the PM and he would deliver it to the PM’s office. His insistence prevailed.

“No wonder, many ask just who is running the show?” Mr Chaudhry said.

Government sources have confirmed that the Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, is in Australia for medical treatment. While no details have been made public, it is understood that the PM was treated in Canberra for his existing heart condition. The treatment is said to have been successful and Bainimarama will soon be returning to Fiji.

The Prime Minister's medical status - along with that of the Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum - has long been regarded as a state secret in Fiji. But both of them have cardiac conditions - the PM requiring stents that were first installed in Melbourne several years ago and have presumably just been replaced and the AG having undergone a heart bypass operation in Singapore last year.

The PM has gone to extraordinary lengths to cover up his medical trip to Australia. Ten days ago, he tweeted the following photograph of himself and his wife, Mary, on a shopping expedition in Marks Street, Suva, while denying rumours that he was in New Zealand. The posting carried the admonition that the Fijian people should not believe "fake news". Yet in the event, the only fake element was that the PM was leaving for Australia and not New Zealand.

Confirmation of the PM's treatment comes after fevered speculation about his whereabouts, including a Fiji TImes front page asking "Where Art Thou"? It was highly unusual for Bainimarama not to be visible during the twin national disasters of a cyclone and the third Covid wave. In previous cyclones, he has been in the front line of the response, wearing his customary "Navy" cap and in shorts and runners inspecting the damage and interacting with victims.

We now also know why the government's PR team - reportedly Vatis - was prompted to create its own fake news by publishing a photo on Facebook of the PM taken nearly a year ago and depicting it as a contemporary event. (see previous posting). It was an astonishingly inept attempt to mislead the public but demonstrates just how sensitive the leadership is about public attention being focussed on their uncertain health in the lead-up to the 2022 election.

As Grubsheet has already reported, the Attorney-General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has just returned to Fiji from Singapore, where it's a fair bet that he saw his doctors who performed the heart bypass operation on him last March. Such operations routinely require follow-up consultations. But the AG is also desperate to keep his cardiac condition from being public knowledge.

Whatever their attempts at secrecy, the base line is that both leaders of FijiFirst have health challenges going into what will be an extremely bruising election campaign, with all sorts of ramifications for public confidence in the ruling party and the country's future.

MISSING IN ACTION, AGAIN. Unity Party leader SAVENACA NARUBE: "When the going gets tough, the Prime Minister takes cover, only this time with eggs on face. Where is Aiyaz Khaiyum? Nowhere to be seen."

13/1/2022

"When the going gets tough, the Prime Minister takes cover, only this time with eggs on his face. We are facing another crisis which will kill more of our people. There is widespread flooding from the recent cyclone. But the Prime Minister and his right hand man, the Attorney General, are nowhere to be seen. This is totally irresponsible and unacceptable."
Unity Party leader SAVENACA NARUBE

11TH January 2022
“LEADERS HAVE ABANDONED US AGAIN”

A Statement by Savenaca Narube, Leader of Unity Fiji and former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji

When the going gets tough, the Prime Minister takes cover, only this time with eggs on his face, said the Leader of Unity Fiji and former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji, Mr. Savenaca Narube. Mr. Narube explained, “We are facing another crisis which will kill more of our people. There is widespread flooding from the recent cyclone. But the Prime Minister and his right hand man, the Attorney General, are nowhere to be seen. This is totally irresponsible and unacceptable.”

“19 people have already died from the third wave. Our hospitals are starting to fill up with the COVID patients. The more dangerous Delta variant is still around. When all this is happening, where are our leaders?” Are they trivializing the deaths and the hardship that we face? It is becoming all too familiar,” said the former Governor.

“We admire Prime Ministers in other countries standing tall and pointing out the direction for their people to follow in this crisis. Instead, our PM is hiding as he did in the second wave. Like in the second wave, I am sure that the PM will re-emerge when the situation is over and claim victory.”

“After the second wave, the PM claimed that the opposition parties had eggs on their faces. Well, whose faces are full of eggs now? ” asked the Leader of Unity Fiji.”

“There is no government plan to manage the crisis. It is now left to the Minister for Trade to announce measures to control the third wave. It is highly unlikely that higher fines will work. While we do no have to impose a total lockdown, there are other ways to help control the virus.”

Mr. Narube suggested that the government consider the following?
1. Tighten the protocol and rules at our borders. The “holiday in hell” incident was real. We all want
tourists to visit us. But people’s lives must matter.
2. Limit all meetings, officials and unofficial. There is no point whatsoever in limiting just unofficial
meetings. In any case, what is official and what is unofficial?
3. Delay the opening of schools by three weeks. We will be forced to do this later as more and more
teachers and children get sick. Above all else, we must protect our children.
4. Encourage people to work from home where possible for the next three weeks. This will ease the
spread of the virus on public and workplaces.

Mr. Narube concluded, “When human lives are threatened, there should be no other choice. The
government leaders have abandoned us for too long. They are clearly unfit to lead us.”

Fijileaks: Don't forget to take your Goat & Chicken to Evacuation Centre, in case you need to feed your STARVING CHILDREN for 48 Hours.

And fresh Coconut as drinking water

And, take your YOGA Mat to enhance your life span in Covid ravaged Fiji

CENTRE FOR CREDIBLE ELECTION INFORMATION: Election Supervisor Saneem says FEO needs one to counter misinformation on social media ahead of 2022 general election. He should STOP the Lies on FFP's Behalf

12/1/2022

The Italian Job: His online MASTER IN ELECTORAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION from an Italian University. Did Saneem use insider information from Fiji Elections Office to write up his thesis? For he is refusing to give a copy to Fijileaks to verify the contents. He had also refused to make available to us the Political Party Donor Lists

Fijileaks: Saneem should upload the entire political party donor lists on the FEO's official website that was published in the Fiji Sun, if he wants to prevent misinformation on who donated how much to political parties. Anyway, as far as we are concerned, he should have resigned long ago

The Supervisor of Election says following the establishment of the Centre, the FEO will embark on a national campaign to raise awareness and educate Fijians on countering misinformation, false news, and disinformation, especially those propagated through social media ahead of the 2022 General Election - FBC News

Saneem attacks IDEA, the Sweden-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA). As we can see, IDEA is one of two institutions that supports the Italian univesity, Sant'Anna's online program. In fact, the modules are based on IDEA's 2014 designed modules for the course that Saneem took

QORI, ONLY EMPTY TALK, NO ACTION: TruthForFiji sums up pathetic Opposition. NFP President PIO Tikoduadua wags his finger at WAF to provide Water. His leader Biman Prasad screams flood victims Starving

11/1/2022

A politician's job in Fiji's opposition party seems easy, there's a lot of 'stating the obvious' without any need to actually go out and do anything about it. Well, anything of consequence that will actually make a difference to improve the lives of the oppressed people. But there has been the odd arrest of politicians, to quickly restore control and to remind the weak opposition politicians that the dictatorship is in charge. This is all it takes in Fiji to keep the opposition politicians in-line, placid and afraid!

Sadly, Fiji has no signs of a Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi type leader to lead the oppressed people to freedom. Despite the evidence, the opposition were not willing or savvy enough to defend our win to the end after the 2018 rigged elections. So how can we expect 2022 to be any different, with many of the same characters squabbling for a seat on the gravy train....

Meanwhile, brave citizens in other countries have been protesting, some turned violent:

Colombia - against increased taxes, corruption, and health care reform
Cuba - against the Cuban government and the ruling Communist Party that was triggered by a shortage of food and medicine and the government's response to the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic
Myanmar - Peaceful pro-democracy street demonstrations and work stoppages gave way to paramilitary operations in opposition to the country’s ruthless military, which seized power in a coup d’état in February
Thailand - against the government's unprecedented demands for reform of the Thai monarchy and the changes to the Thai constitution in 2017 that gave way to the country's political landscape.
Venezuela - growing political discontent further fuelled by skyrocketing hyperinflation, power cuts, and shortages of food and medicine.
Colombia - against increased taxes, corruption, and health care reform.

But here in Fiji, there have been no such protests - no peaceful street protests, no work stoppages, no go slow, no campaigns, nothing! It seems that the opposition politicians are more than happy to stop only at words, while continuing to be paid thousands in salary.

We suspect that a report card on the Opposition would show them to be the weakest ever, concerned more about their self-preservation and status, rather than defending the rights and freedoms of their voters, and a return to democracy. Source: Truthfor Fiji, www.truthforfiji.com/

FOOD FOR THOUGHT:
Fijileaks to Seruiratu, Why should evacuees bring their own food to sustain them for atleast 48 hours before assistance arrives? What if all their food are either destroyed or washed away in flood? Where is FRANK BAINIMARAMA? Still constipated from FREE XMAS Food?
Rumours are swirling on social media he suffered MINOR STROKE?
But, then, we were once told poor Tikoduadua had terminal CANCER, so was resigning as FijiFIRST Minister, and from Parliament. LASULASU!

RIP, NAINENDRA NAND: Another COUP VICTIM passes away without getting JUSTICE while the TWO COUPIST BRUTES from 1987 and 2006 fighting to become Prime Minister in 2022, backed by Fijian LAWYERS

10/1/2022

The late Nand to Our Editor,
13 September 2011:
"Stuart and I were taken up together. I would like to talk about that painful experience but only if there is regime change."

Fijileaks: In later years Nand, an old friend from Fiji days, disclosed to us the nature of his brutal beating at the hands of Bainimarama but we will spare the grieving family the details

BEATING AT THE CAMP
Graham Leung’s admirable obituary piece in the Fiji Times omits to mention how Nand was taken up to the military camp and beaten up by Bainimarama

RIP: The late Huggett

United States Ambassador to Fiji, LARRY DINGER
When Public Services Commission Chairman Stuart Huggett was taken to the RFMF HQ on Dec. 7, 2006, Commodore Bainimarama kicked Huggett's legs out from under him and beat him around the head, telling him, "Don't f*** with the military." Earlier reports had said Bainimarama had pulled on Huggett's ear. The Solicitor-General Nainendra Nand was also beaten up.

The late Solicitor-General on former Chief Justice DANIEL FATIAKI's $275,000 golden handshake and the withdrawal of his (Fatiaki's) dismissal case as Chief Justice against the 2006 Coupists
"You will have to ask him (Fatiaki) that question. All I know is that he is the only one of us sacked who got the best deal. I did not get compensation even for 41 days leave which I had not taken. Such is life in Fiji."
Nand to our Editor, 28 July 2011

The former CJ Fatiaki on late Nand
“He was thoughtful and deliberative, not one to rush to conclusions and recognised his own limitations. He was always careful with his advice and his work was almost always correct in his assessments of the law and the strength of his cases.”

Suva lawyer GRAHAM LEUNG's admirable obituary piece in the Fiji Times, reproduced by NFP on its Facebook, on the late Solicitor-General Nainendra Nand omits to mention how he (Nand) was taken up to the military camp and beaten up by 2006 Coupist Frank Bainimarama. Bainimarama, just like his hugging partner and Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka, has never been brought to justice, for he is hiding behind Sitiveni Rabuka's 1988 Immunity in the 2013 Fiji Constitution. Sadly, or revoltingly, we have two prominent lawyers Lynda Tabuya and Filimoni Vosarogo singing praise for Rabuka's Peoples Alliance Party.
We won't be surprised if these two will present themselves as future Attorney-General and Solicitor-General in the 2022 election. We are also repeatedly informed that NFP's POSTER BOY RICHARD NAIDU is secretly negotiating a NFP-PAP Coalition pact with Rabuka. Has our good friend from the 1987 struggle, deposed Prime Minister Bavadra's press spokesman, forgotten that he was chased, beaten up and threatened to be put into a LOVO, and was later deported out of Fiji.
We are told that the late Nand, a lawyer, STOOD UP FOR RULE OF LAW
Cry The Beloved Country, as one Coup Victim after Another Passes Away

By GRAHAM LEUNG

THE death has occurred in Suva of Nainendra Nand, one of Fiji’s most senior lawyers. The former Solicitor-General died suddenly last Friday, aged 63.

News of his passing was greeted with shock and sadness by his many colleagues and friends in the legal profession.

Mr Nand was educated in the United Kingdom.

After receiving his law degree from the University of North London, he went on to complete an LLM from the University of London. He was later called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn, founded in 1422, one of the four Inns of Court in London, to which barristers of England and Wales belong. He started work as a legal officer in the Crown Law Office in Suva following a brief stint with the firm G.P. Lala and Associates. He and I were colleagues in that office, he joining in 1982, and I, a year later.

The son of school teachers who had migrated to the United Kingdom, he had an air of authority and discipline which mirrored his strict upbringing. His no nonsense attitude was a product of his background. Mr Nand quickly developed a reputation for being a good and meticulous researcher. Early in his legal career he showed great promise as a barrister and was soon taking on major cases in the High Court representing the state. He was to become a confident and competent barrister who won the respect of the bench and the Bar.

That confidence was occasionally perceived as pomposity by some colleagues. Combined with a sharp tongue and a ready wit, he was sometimes mistaken for being arrogant. But deep down he was down to earth and unassuming. As a senior government lawyer he was responsible for grooming fresh off the plane law graduates who had won government scholarships to study law overseas. He took to this role like a duck to water, his “school masterly” manner often the butt of good natured jokes. His contemporaries in government legal service at the time included Gracie Fong, Apisalome Rabo, Alipate Qetaki, Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Imrana Jalal, Jon Apted, Sakiusa Rabuka, Walter Rigamoto and Savenaca Banuve, who all went on to become successful lawyers in their own right.

A career public servant, Mr Nand had a distinguished record in government service, rising through the ranks in the chambers of the Attorney-General. In 1997, he was promoted to be Solicitor-General, a position he held until December 2006 when a military coup shattered his 23- year legal career in government. Two days after the military seized power on the December 5, 2006, Mr Nand was dismissed from office for refusing to cooperate with the military junta. If he was disappointed by his shabby treatment, he showed his mettle by accepting his fate and moved on. He was not one to indulge in self-pity.

But he was devastated by the forcible undermining of the rule of law by yet another coup and despaired about the path that the country has taken. Mr Nand was the natural successor to the likes of Qoriniasi Bale, John Flower, and Filimone Jitoko who preceded him as Solicitor-General. As Solicitor-General, he was the chief executive officer for the offices of the Attorney-General, the Fiji Law Reform Commission and the Legal Aid Commission. He served on numerous government boards and committees including the Hotel and Guest Houses Licensing Board, the IKA Corporation, the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, and the Maritime and Ports Authority of Fiji.

He was easily in the ranks of the country’s best public and administrative law specialists, his expertise in judicial review cases being widely acknowledged. His former boss and colleague Filimone Jitoko was generous in his praise of his successor. “Nainendra was quick to impress me with his discipline and decisive determination of any issues he was asked to provide legal opinions on and importantly, always provided on time in the six years we worked together. “He was to succeed me as the Solicitor-General a few years later, a much deserved reward for a model public servant imbued with industry and faithfulness. He was never afraid to offer unfavourable and contrary views to prevailing and popular interpretations of the law.”

Reminiscing about him, former Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki said: “He was thoughtful and deliberative, not one to rush to conclusions and recognised his own limitations. He was always careful with his advice and his work was almost always correct in his assessments of the law and the strength of his cases.” Former High Court judge and colleague Gwen Phillips, who worked under Mr Nand, remembered him fondly. “There was not a corrupt bone in his body! That was the thing about Mr Nand – we trusted him. No hidden agendas? It was rare at the time and in our country,” she said.

Echoing Ms Phillips, senior lawyer Hamendra Nagin, who is the principal of Suva law firm Sherani, remembers Mr Nand as “ethical, hardworking and honest” and intellectually versatile. While his appearance of haughtiness could sometimes irritate colleagues, they respected and admired Mr Nand’s integrity, diligence and intellect. He was a stickler for punctuality and orderliness. This was reflected in his dress and demeanour – suave, well cut suits and ties with matching pocket squares. Following his dismissal from government in 2006, Mr Nand took up an appointment at USP, initially lecturing in commercial law and eventually being promoted to head of the law school. Scores of young lawyers will remember his gentle chiding in the courses he taught.

Mr Nand played a critical role in the development of the Professional Legal Training programs (PLT) at the USP law school, and in June 2021 was appointed the director of the program. He was the acting head of the School of Law in 2020. Over the past six years he was responsible for strengthening practical legal training in the Solomon Islands, Samoa and Vanuatu. A USP colleague Nancy Tikoisuva said: “The most significant characteristic I found in him was his generosity, his knowledge, love of a good red wine and a healthy debate on topical issues. He was also very approachable despite his stern look, once he laughs or smiles or in good company, he is on a roll with his banter.”

A young lawyer Joeli Naivalu, who was one of his students said, “He was just full of knowledge and knew how to transcend that across all races and ages.” He was the co-author of a legal text, Judicial Review Applications in Fiji, and has published widely in various journals. A fanatical supporter of English football, Mr Nand loved nothing better in his spare time than his regular grog session with his close friends, many of whom were lawyers. In those sessions he would regale them with his many stories drawn from his long experience in the law and the people he had encountered. On the serious side, he was ready to offer a considered opinion on recently decided cases that had come before the courts.

Had he chosen to side with those who had removed the elected government, Mr Nand could have handpicked any legal job in government he wished, but being a man of principle, he was resolute in his opposition to the 2006 coup, indeed all of Fiji’s coups d’état. Mr Nand would wish to be remembered as a lawyer who stood up for the rule of law, and paid the ultimate price for doing so. He belonged to a diminishing generation of Fiji lawyers for whom the love of the law and justice transcends fame, power and material wealth. He is survived by his wife Vineeta (nee Maharaj), sister Yvonne, and mother Suriya who lives in London.

• GRAHAM LEUNG is a Suva lawyer and worked with Nainendra Nand in the Crown Law Office which later became known as the Attorney-General’s Chambers. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of The Fiji Times. Fijileaks: *Alipate Qetaki, mentioned by Leung, had been granted special powers by Sitiveni Rabuka to discharge the "functions and duties of Attorney-General" after the 1987 racially-motivated coups. Qetaki was also part of the legal team that had helped draft the 1990 racist Rabuka Constitution, disenfranchising Indo-Fijians and other non-iTaukei Fijians. It was under this Constitution that Rabuka and his lot looted the National Bank of Fiji. And USP lecturer Dr Anirudh Singh was abudcted and tortured for burning the 1990 Constitution.

Fijileaks: Let us, in memory of Coup Victims, the late Nainendra Nand, Stuart Huggett, Dr Timoci Bavadra, Father Kevin Barr, Russell Hunter,
Brij Vilash Lal, Sir Vijay Singh and countless others, KICK these political scoundrels (below) into the dustin in 2022. We are sure more
Flotsam and Jetsam will pop up closer to election.
Perhaps the late President RATU SIR KAMISESE MARA's exhortations to the extended Military Council that visited him on the Navy boat anchored off Beqa during the 2000 coup, where both the 1987 and 2006 coup leaders were present, to ask him to step aside for 40 days so that the RFMF could execute Martial Law, Ratu Mara observed amongst other things while declining the invitation … "That if the Military continues to interfere in the governance of the nation, Fiji will never have a stable Government in the future."
So when will Fiji face up to the TRUTH of its past?

GOOD RIDDANCE. SODELPA happy for Lynda Tabuya to GO, and urges other "sleepers" like Tanya Waqanika to jump ship. Tabuya to Rabuka: "It is five years, Sir, when we were doing this, ah". HOW can Fiji FORGET?

8/1/2022

"I am glad she has gone. She & Rabuka of like minds. They have the coup d'état mentality. They are like Foxes guarding the Chickens. You feel like looking behind your back all the time. We have a few more that have to go, to remove all the underbelly corruption."
A Sodelpa insider to Fijileaks

From Fijileaks Archive, December 2017

From Fijileaks Archive, 24 November 2020

PLAYING POLITICS AND STOKING PARENTS FEARS OVER COVID: NFP leader, as a former educationist turned Election LOSER, should assure parents that it is SAFE for children to be in school - with SAFEGUARDS

7/1/2022

"In the last few days parents from throughout the country have called him [Prasad] expressing their fear about sending their children to school when the third wave of Covid-19 is raging in the community...Whatever happens, this government will bear the wrath of people at the ballot booths in the elections. They will not forget how they and their children were treated to satisfy the egos of the current government’s leadership”
BIMAN PRASAD
Fijileaks: We suggest YOU allay their fears rather than Play Politics.
In 1987 and 2000, Indo-Fijian parents had to hide their children under the beds from ethno-Fijian i-taukei nationalists Rabuka and Speight. They were hiding their school children from Coupists and NOT Covid. Many countries, including the United Kingdom, have opened their schools but will not hesitate to shut them if Covid gets out of control. More than a third of schools in England have at least one in 10 teachers absent due to Covid reasons. It is time both PARENTS and POLITICIANS in Fiji displayed responsibility. Also, unvaccinated pupils and those self-isolating after being diagnosed or identified as contacts, must continue to receive the proper education, either remotely or on a hybrid basis. Cheap politics is COVID.

Government’s decision to risk the lives of students is Negligence

The decision by Government to ignore sound advice and risk unvaccinated students even as young as four to five years old to Covid-19 from Monday is sheer negligence, said National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad.

Professor Prasad in the last few days parents from throughout the country have called him expressing their fear about sending their children to school when the third wave of Covid-19 is raging in the community.

“A month ago, we called on government to reveal its plan of action should a third wave of the pandemic sweep across the nation”.

“This government, as usual, kept quiet. Instead, it intensely and solely focused on tourism, once again putting all its eggs in one basket”.

FOCUS ON COALITION AND NOT ON COVID, BIMAN PRASAD

The NFP Leader also asked why the Prime Minister and the Attorney-General are silent when a crisis is developing right before their eyes.

“The silence of the PM and AG is deafening. Is this deliberate? Are they waiting for the crisis to worsen before they step in and portray themselves as saviors?

“Will someone be sacrificed in a bid to save the image of a heartless government and its two-man rule?”

“Because no Government with compassion and care for the people would put the lives of its citizens at risk, despite knowing fully well that the public health and medical facilities and care is incapable of handling a massive health crisis.

“In this case we are talking about children in primary school and in early childhood education centres. Surely, Government is not intellectually impaired so as not to see and hear what’s going around”.

“But it seems insanity, arising out of sickening arrogance, has gripped all facets of governance. One only has to read how the Education Minister and her Permanent Secretary are trying to justify negligence”.

“The Education Minister has embraced a UNESCO report to justify why face-to-face learning doesn’t drive community transmission. She is brandishing a WHO report to claim children contracting Covid-19 have milder systems”.

“Not to be outdone, her permanent secretary says schools should install more fans and open doors and windows of classrooms to prevent the spread of Covid-19 if social distancing is not possible”.

“Both deliberately ignore the fact that over 99% of our schools are community run institutions or owned by religious and cultural organisations”.

“For the last two years, many schools have not received the full grants and the ministry is making it difficult for the management to vire funds from one allocation to another. The schools cannot fundraise except with the permission of the ministry to even maintain existing facilities”.

“How does the ministry expect the school managements to facilitate additional installations?”

“Both the Minister and her permanent secretary should ask the Fiji First government to improve hospitals by at least removing grass growing on the walls (of CWMH) and giving the buildings a fresh coat of paint before barking orders at school management”.

“Whatever happens, this government will bear the wrath of people at the ballot booths in the elections. They will not forget how they and their children were treated to satisfy the egos of the current government’s leadership”.
Professor Biman Prasad
Leader

Source: Fijivillage News

The cabinet on Wednesday decided to reopen all schools on Monday mandating testing twice a week and tightened other measures in a bid to reign in the spread of the coronavirus, which seems to be out of control with thousands of infections recorded daily.

“The cabinet’s message is crystal clear. We must trust science and support the collective work,” Health Minister Michalis Hadjipantelas said in a public address. “There is no other way.”

The cabinet decided to reopen schools as planned, with pupils, teachers, and administrative staff returning on Monday with mandatory 48-hour negative tests.

From then on, all pupils must undergo mandatory testing twice a week, including in primary schools where testing was weekly.

The government has also cut the number of allowed persons in homes from 20 to 10, starting Thursday, not including children up to 12-years-old.

From Monday onwards, hospitality and other venues can only host a maximum 200 people, in line with current health protocols concerning the number of persons per square metre.

No dancing is allowed and the maximum number of people per table has been set to eight.

From Thursday, places of worship can only allow in a maximum 200 people, provided existing protocols on area allow it.

The ministry recommended avoiding the use of cloth masks.

Also Thursday, SafePasses must be matched to the holders through id verification while close contacts must be tested on the third and fifth day of contact irrespective of vaccination record. The same applies to people who went through Covid previously.

The number of staff working from home where applicable has been raised to 50 per cent, starting Monday. Also Monday, stay at hotels and other tourist facilities will only be allowed to people who have either completed their Covid vaccination or started it but still had to wait for the necessary time period to elapse for the second or third dose.

An additional set of five self-tests will be given to fully vaccinated people 12 and above.

A night curfew has also been placed on the residents of elderly homes and other such facilities. This comes into effect on Thursday.

From Thursday onwards, people who arrive in the Republic and refuse to undergo PCR test will be placed in state quarantine for 14 days. They will be released on the seventh day provided they undergo PCR testing at own cost.

People travelling to Cyprus aged 12 and above must possess a negative PCR test conducted no more than 72 hours before departure.

The cabinet has also lifted mandatory state quarantine for passengers coming from South Africa, Namibia, Lesoto, Esouatini, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malaoui, and Botswana.

It also decided to extend until the end of the month, other measures currently in place.

Hadjipantelas said scientists could not beat the virus all by themselves.

“They have done their duty providing humanity with the necessary weapons but only the people, ordinary citizens can beat the pandemic by following the instructions of the scientific and medical community,” the minister said.

He said the pandemic could only be beaten using vaccines and faithful adherence to protective measures.

“Five fellow humans died from Covid-19 yesterday (Tuesday), two of whom at a young age,” Hadjipantelas added. “We will never tire of saying and emphasizing that health is the most valuable commodity, but life itself is the supreme good. Human life cannot be negotiable and that is why we will continue the effort on all levels.”

Daily infections have skyrocketed in recent days, apparently as the Omicron variant of the virus is taking over from Delta.

Thousands have been infected since Christmas while thousands more were considered close contacts and were forced to isolate. The contact tracing system has been overwhelmed, forcing the authorities to mandate online contact reporting in a bid to catch up.

Over 16,000 cases were recorded between December 25 and December 31 alone with up to sixfold increases among younger ages.

Wednesday saw a new record in cases with 5,457, together with five deaths.

The number of lives claimed by the virus since the start of the pandemic has reached 646 –410 were men and 236 women. The average age is 76.

The number of recorded infections at the same time was 183,178 in a population of about a million.

The Turkish Cypriot breakaway state in the north has so far reported 37,651 cases and 142 deaths. It also appears to be in the process of being overrun by Omicron.

The relatively low number of hospitalisations compared with the cases shows that Omicron is ‘milder’ than Delta but experts warned that the massive number of infections could still mean more people needing hospital care and possibly overwhelming the health system.

LAST HURRAH TO LAUGHING STOCK OF THE NATION: Bizzare request from FFP lawyer to absolve former President JIOJI KONROTE for signing the dismissal letter of the then Solicitor-General SHARVADA SHARMA

6/1/2022

FFP lawyer DEVANESH SHARMA tells
Fiji High Court it is a bit embarrassing for
ex-President Jioji Konrote to be part of
these kinds of proceedings

JON APTED, Sharvada Sharma's lawyer, told
the Court reason ex-President is included is because the decisions are the decisions of then President Jioji Konrote. The correspondence from then President suggests that he made those decisions in his own judgment after receiving advice from Judicial Services Commission so they have no option but to include the then President Konrote

The former President JIOJI KONROTE is no stranger to fronting the
Fiji High Court. In 2006, he gave evidence in the abduction, torture, and beating of DR ANIRUDH SINGH in October 1990. Dr Singh's crime: he had led a group to publicly burn Rabuka's racist 1990 Constitution. In that case the Judge accepted the evidence of Konrote and didn't believe the evidence of Sitiveni Rabuka who, in his trademark fashion, had denied any knowledge of the existence of the Special Security Unit in the RFMF, a prerogative of the then commander Rabuka, that tortured Dr Singh, years before the beating and torture of the late Prof Brij Lal by Sitiveni Qiliho. Recently, NFP leader Biman Prasad was happily sharing the centre stage with PAP leader Rabuka at the condolence service, where Professor Vijay Naidu reminded the audience that Qiliho had assaulted Professor Brij Lal.
CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY, for trying to replace in 2022 a past COUPIST Sitiveni Rabuka with the present COUPIST Frank Bainimarama.
Among the list of names Dr Singh's abductors had found on him included that our of current Editor. The two had met up in Oxford in 1990 before Dr Singh returned to Fiji and burned the 1990 Constiution. We want to point out that Dr Singh was never part of the tight-knit inner circle that had shipped nearly 60 tons of weapons - to protect Indo-Fijians and Other Minorities from Fiji's Adolf Hitler- Sitiveni Rabuka, still hiding behind Immunity. Those weapons were shipped in 1988, two years before Dr Singh had touched base with our Founding Editor in 1990

Former Justice Roger Coventry recalled Konrote's evidence to Fiji High Court:
"The plaintiffs witness Jioje [Jioji] Konrote had been a career soldier for twenty five years. He enlisted in the Royal Fiji Military Forces in May 1966. He finally retired in December 1999. Although he was not in Fiji at the time of these events he testified to the fact that there was a unit known as the "Special Operations Security Unit", (SOSU). He said it was one of many such units set up after the events of 1987. The setting up of such a sub-unit was the prerogative of the Commander, Sitiveni Rabuka. The purpose of the unit was to collect and collate information that was required at that particular time, namely about anything likely to destablise the country, bearing in mind the turbulent period after 1987. He stated it would be for the unit commanders to select the soldiers they wanted in any particular unit. He continued that part of the training would be in intelligence and information collection and covert techniques. Once information was collected, it would be analysed by members of the intelligence unit to find out if it warranted any further follow-up action or the formulation of any plans. He stated at that time SOSU did not have any particularly sophisticated equipment, it was usually "the use of eyes and ears supplemented by people coming forward. It would be normal equipment such as radios". Mr. Konrote stated that the members of the SOSU were on call "24 hours a day, 7 days a week".
"I accept the evidence of Jioji Konrote and Sakiusa Raivoce"

FIJI, WHERE OMICRON FINDS PERFECT HAPPINESS: Holiday in Hell. It is abundantly clear that BIG HOTELS flouting Covid rules with Impunity

6/1/2022

MASKS, What Masks?
As Tourists Take to Boat Ride

“My family has been separated. We have not been given food for three days. We have been begging staff for help. No one has heard our cries. There are 20 other families suffering the same fate.”

The Leader of Unity Fiji and former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Fiji, Mr. Savenaca Narube, said these were the heart wrenching words carried on television across the world of a mother who tested positive for the CORONA virus while holidaying in one of our resorts.

Mr. Narube lamented, “This is a shocking story. We boasted that Fiji was open for happiness. The story has been internationally branded as “holiday in hell”. The impact of the story will reverberate around the world. Confidence in our ability to take care of our visitors when they suffer from the virus is absolutely critical in our success.”

“The story exposes the realities on the ground. It revealed that procedures for testing were not followed. The person doing the testing did not change gloves between tests. The woman was given the wrong information. Those doing the testing had no medical background. These are simply shocking,” said the Leader of Unity Fiji.

“We fully support and understand that Fiji needs to do all it can to get the economy up again and allow us to slowly reclaim our lives. But in our hurry to welcome visitors to our shores, we must be careful that we do not shoot ourselves in the foot and prolong our pain.”

The former Governor said that the incident showed us that:

*The hospitality industry does not know the health protocol when visitors test positive for the corona
virus in their hotels.
*Visitors are separated from their families and abandoned to fend for themselves with no help
provided even with necessities such as food.
*That testing procedures were inadequate and risky.

“The world is warning us that the omicron virus will be severe on those with pre-existing conditions, stress our small hospital capacity, choke our weak heath system, and lessen our ability to take care of patients with other life threatening illnesses.

Mr. Narube concluded, “This Government in its wisdom is not listening to the rest of the world. As always, they think they know better. Sadly, the people may again pay a huge price.”

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