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SODELPA'S COALITION DEAL signed with PAP and NFP didn't go via the party's Working Committee or its Management Board. It was handled by ANARE JALE and his Negotiating Committee, and signed by the Parties

26/1/2023

We want to see the current coalition government in place for the next 4 years and SODELPA is bound by the agreement to ensure that it participates positively in the agreement.

Those are the words of SODELPA Vice President and head of the party’s coalition negotiation team, Anare Jale after SODELPA General Secretary, Lenaitasi Duru reportedly issued a threat through a Fiji Sun article for the government to honour the coalition agreement or SODELPA is not bound by the signed agreement.

Jale says Duru’s claims are unfounded as SODELPA has been offered 3 ambassadorial positions and 22 board member positions.

He says they gave SODELPA members the opportunity to apply for these offered positions however he stresses that the agreement is clear that they must put people in with proper qualifications and experience.

Jale says people have to meet the minimum qualification requirements, and those who join the board have to resign from the party.

The SODELPA Vice President says he does not know where Duru is coming from.

Jale says they are following the system, the party is satisfied with the process and a signed letter with the proposed names for the positions has been handed to Deputy Prime Minister, Manoa Kamikamica.

The letter is signed by the SODELPA Leader and President.

Duru had resigned from the General Secretary post on December 20th last year, the same day the first coalition agreement was reached between the People’s Alliance, National Federation Party and SODELPA.

He then said that he will continue as General Secretary as his notice was for 30 days after his resignation.
Jale says they will deal with Duru when they have a meeting with him.

It is understood he was overseas.. Source: Fijivillage News

HONOUR IS NOT IN RABUKA'S DNA. DURING the Coalition talks we had warned SODELPA that the party was dealing with a slippery SNAKE who in the past dishonoured promises and agreements. Now they Waking Up.

25/1/2023

From the Archives, The Daily Post, 2001
By VICTOR LAL,

King Makers - Mahendra Chaudhry makes ‘Deal with the Devil’, Sitiveni Rabuka, 1992

The new 1990 Constitution was overtly racist and biased in favour of i-Taukei Fijians. In the new 70 seat Parliament, Fijians were allocated 37 seats, Indo-Fijians 27, General Voters 5 and Rotumans 1. The Senate had 24 seats for Fijians, 9 for other races and 1 for Rotumans. In addition, all the key government posts - the presidency, prime ministership and heads of the judiciary, military, public service-had to be held by Fijians. A quota of at least 50 per cent Fijians was set for new recruitment into the public service.

Another important feature of the distribution of Parliamentary seats was the gerrymandering of the 37 Fijian constituencies because many urban Fijians had voted for Bavadra’s government in the 1987 elections. Thus rural Fijian voters were given 32 constituencies with the remaining 5 going to urban Fijian voters.

The 1992 Elections

With the new Constitution promulgated and Fijian political supremacy guaranteed, the first general election was held in 1992. The principal parties that entered the election contest were: SVT, FLP, NFP, General Voters Party (GVP) and the Fijian Nationalist United Front (FNUF). Meanwhile, the NFP-FLP Coalition had split up following the death of Dr Timoci Bavadra. The FNUF, led by the late Sakiasi Butadroka, was a coalition of extremists from Fijian nationalist party (FNP) and SVT, which was formed in March 1991 with Rabuka as its political leader. The SVT had the backing of the Great Council of Chiefs.

The SVT was not necessarily a unified political group and the real issue for the party was who was to become Prime Minister after the election: the ‘Father of the Coups’ Sitiveni Rabuka or the reliable, safe, moderate but right-wing Josevata Kamikamica? The political divisions within the Indo-Fijians, who are ‘All Chiefs and No Indians’, was not surprising. As the old coolie saying goes: ‘You put two Indians on a desert island and on your return next day to pick them up, you will find they have become three Indians.’

The FLP, led by Chaudhry, initially threatened to boycott the elections, stating that taking part would be tantamount to endorsing the 1990 ‘racist constitution’. However, at the last minute, the FLP leaders changed their stance and contested the election. The result of the 37 Fijian seats were as follows: SVT 30, FNUF 5 and the last 2 went to Independents. The 27 Indo-Fijian seats were equally shared: the NFP won 14 and the FLP the other 13. The GVP won the 5 seats. The election results created the inevitability of a Coalition government. Although the SVT was theoretically in a position to form a coalition government, Rabuka was not assured of the coveted Prime Ministership.

Some newly-elected SVT parliamentarians had thrown in their lot with Rabuka’s arch political rival, Josevata Kamikamica, a former Finance Minister in the pre-election Interim Government. Rabuka appeared to have 18 votes with Kamikamica only two, Filipe Bole four, and Ratu William Tonganivalu three. However Bole, Rabuka’s former teacher, freed his votes to allow them to support the majority-holder, in this case Rabuka who needed 36 confirmed votes from those who now held seats in the new House to grab the post of Prime Minister.

He went to the Government House asking President Ratu Penaia Ganilau to appoint him as Prime Minister, declaring that he had 42 votes. Ganilau asked Rabuka to demonstrate his support with accompanying signatures to confirm the numbers. Ganilau also was acutely aware that that another high-ranking chief, Ratu Mara, and a number of SVT personalities had been backing Kamikamica. In a cruel twist of irony, both the rival factions of the SVT began to court support from the NFP and FLP, the very parties deposed to ensure Fijian political supremacy in perpetuity.

The SVT, formed to unify the Fijian people, could not agree on who should be its parliamentary leader. Rabuka was shocked to learn that Kamikamica had cut a deal with the veteran Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician Jai Ram Reddy and the NFP, and as a result Kamikamica had 30 votes to Rabuka’s 26. In desperation, the desperately power-hungry Rabuka, who had imprisoned Chaudhry twice, and had terrorised him and his family since 1987, shamelessly turned to the FLP leader for his political survival.

But first Rabuka had to be humbled and humiliated, and reminded that power flows from the fountain of a ball point pen and not from the barrel of a Fiji Military Forces gun with a sticker reading, ‘God Loves You’. So Chaudhry and the FLP laid down the conditions for their support for Rabuka: a review of the Constitution; repeal of several controversial labour decrees, scrapping of the Value Added Tax (VAT) and land tenure reforms. The so-called Methodist preacher, a decorated solider, and a cynically pragmatic Fijian nationalist Rabuka, who desperately needed Chaudhry’s 13 historical votes, agreed to sign a letter committing himself to a deal with the FLP.

The letter read: ‘I acknowledge the proposed outlined in your letter (2 June) delivered this morning. I have considered your proposals favourably and agree to take action on these issues, namely the constitution, VAT, labour decree reforms and land tenure on the basis suggested in your letter. I agree to hold discussions on the above issue in order to finalise the machinery to progress the matter further.’ In return, he got Chaudhry’s 13 votes to take him well in excess of his required 36 for the post of Prime Minister. The FLP however informed Rabuka that it would not be part of the governing coalition. Desperate to remain Prime Minister, Rabuka had accepted all the conditions in writing, only to dishonour them on resuming power. He had managed to secure the support of the GVP, the Rotuman representative Paul Manueli, his former army commander, and 2 independents. Now he had the numbers and the prime ministership in his sulu, Rabuka backed away from the agreement with the FLP.

A spokesman of his insisted that all Rabuka had agreed to do was to discuss the issues that had been raised. There was, he stated, no agreement to do any more than this. As his official biographer John Sharpham recently put it, ‘Rabuka had already learned the art of political double speak (what we in Fiji call aage pichie or liu muri) and was prepared to walk a precarious path to stay in power’.

"YOU CANNOT WASTE YOUR VOTE ON A SMALLER PARTY, LIKE SODELPA."
PAP Deputy Leader and SODELPA defector Lynda Tabuya

PEOPLE ARE VERY HAPPY since Rabuka's Coalition took POWER, for even 12-year-olds are RAPING 8-month-old babies. RAPE became the norm against Indo-Fijian women after Rabuka seized POWER in 1987

25/1/2023

Feminist and Human Rights Activist Shamima Ali filed an official report at the Totogo Police Station against FijiFirst Leader Voreqe Bainimarama.. In her complaint, Ali has alleged that Bainimarama’s statements were intended to cause public alarm, anxiety, disaffection, discontent and with malicious intent.

Happy People: According to SHAMIMA ALI, last December her FWCC hardly received reports of domestic violence because people were so HAPPY celebrating Rabuka and PAP's win, and the Racist Coupist becoming Prime Minister.

1987 RABUKA COUPS: According to SHAMIMA ALI and SASHI KIRAN they had found out that a 75-year-old Indo-Fijian woman was pinned down and raped in front of her family in their own home shortly after Rabuka seized POWER.
We hold NO brief for Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho or Aiyaz Khaiyum but we have no doubt that if Qiliho had NOT called for military assistance (whether the reports were true or fabricated), there is every likelihood that Rabuka's emboldened supporters would have repeated the orgy of violence, beatings, lootings, and rapes of the Indo-Fijians, a celebratory repeat of what we witnessed after the 1987 RABUKA COUPS.
Since his 1987 Coups, Rabuka keeps changing his reasons but immediately after he seized power on 14 May 1987, he told the world in his first of many press conferences that his coup was a 'pre-emptive measure' to prevent widescale violence against the Indo-Fijians from the i-Taukei population.
The Police Commissioner, despite what Abdul Khan and his cheerleaders claim, must be given the benefit of the doubt. His decision was 'a pre-emptive measure', given the divisive figure of Sitiveni Rabuka. It is worth reminding those who have CHOSEN to ignore 1987 that despite the absence of social media, reports then coming out of Fiji was so shocking, and bordering on the genocide of the entire Indo-Fijian population, that it was secretly decided that it was time to deploy Bombs and Bazookas to either KILL or CAPTURE Fiji's Adolf Hitler.
Our Founding Editor-in-Chief was tasked as second-in-command for the mission, while Fiji's Jinnahs' were hiding under the bed from Rabuka.
Meanwhile, a message to 'Rabuka's Intelligence Spook' who re-emerged lately to threaten and warn our Editor about our Editor's role in confronting Coupist Rabuka. Fijileaks: 'We know your identity, have always known it, for you were in the forefront of trying to extradite Movement for Democracy in London supporters, to be HANGED, while your boss was hiding, and is still hiding, under the dubious 1988 Immunity that he granted himself.

In December 2022, HISTORY COULD HAVE REPEATED ITSELF:
GO ASK THE JEWS! Just imagine if Hitler had survived and the Germans, after decades, had re-elected him as German Chancellor, with the help of 5 extra seats from a pro-Hitler and predominantly Jewish party.
RABUKA IS ALL ABOUT RABUKA and Indo-Fijian Jinnahs' are happy with him, just as they were trying to get him back in the 1999 election.
Ironically, it was in DECEMBER 1987 when the deposed Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra's spokesman Richard Naidu was nearly roasted alive in a ready-made LOVO outside the Parliament grounds, and had his Fiji citizenship revoked, and given 28 days to leave the country.
*In 1995, according to Naidu, when Coupist Rabuka, with the help of NFP leader Jai Ram Reddy's 14 votes, had become Prime Minister after the 1994 election, he allowed NAIDU back, to ply his lawyerly trade.
Cheers, DEAR FIJIANS, only in FIJI

The Fiji Women’s Crisis Center says the alleged rape of an infant and a toddler is extremely shocking.
This is following a recent case where a 12-year-old boy allegedly raped an eight-month-old and a three-year-old in Nadi.
Police had earlier confirmed that the boy allegedly raped his three-year-old cousin on Thursday last week after committing the same offence on an eight-month-old baby the day before. It is alleged that the three-year-old victim’s mother discovered the 12-year-old in her bedroom last Thursday.FWCC Coordinator Shamima Ali says this is a wake-up call for everyone.

“This child needs counselling, professional counselling, to be able to get him out of it, but I also think this has implications for parenting our children. What do they have access to on the internet and things like that. So I think it’s a good lesson for all of us.” Source: FBC News, 25 January 2023

From Fijileaks Archive, 3 April 2022:

SITIVENI RABUKA: Fiji RacistPutin's Catalogue of Crimes
Recently, both SHAMIMA ALI and SASHI KIRAN (touted as prospective NFP candidates and coalition partners with PAAPI party) have revealed that in 1987 several Indo-Fijian women informed them of rapes at the hands of Rabuka's racist hoodlums. One of the Indo-Fijian victims was 75 years old and was raped in her own home, in front of her family. Today, Biman Prasad is shaking hands with Rabuka, shamelessly informing us that he will be Deputy Prime Minister in Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka's new government after the election.
The NFP Vice-President LENORA QEREQERETABUA wanted Aiyaz Khaiyum to inform Parliament of the policy that permits a serving prison inmate RAPIST to participate in a national 7s tournament.
We wonder why she did not ask her leader Biman Prasad to explain why the leader of the rapist mob from 1987 was invited to address the NFP Convention, and why her party has gone into a loose coalition with PAAP to fight the election? RAPE is one of the most paap* to be committed against women and girls * In November 1987, Rabuka initiated a mass breakout from Naboro Prison. Escapees, including violent and dangerous rapists among them, were allowed by Rabuka's military to march to Government House with various demands, including pardons.
* Many went on to rape Indo-Fijian women, under Biman Prasad's political darling Rabuka's WARDENSHIP.
* Rabuka's RAPISTS chose Indo-Fijian women at random and against their wills, either breaking and raping them inside their sacred homes, or dragging them away, and raping them in bushes all over Fiji.
* For Rabuka told his i-Taukei, Fiji belonged to them, and Indo-Fijian women were chattels, pagans, filthy strangers in Viti.
* Some of the escaped prisoners even ended up sodomizing Indo-Fijian men as an extra bonus.
While his failed political coalition partner JAI RAM REDDY went on to prosecute Rwandans for rape and murder, Rabuka and his Rapists were (and still are) roaming around Fiji. Now, PAP-NFP Pact in 2022
For too long NFP has shielded Sitiveni Rabuka for his Racial CRIMES.
In their estimation, he is not the dreaded RAVANA but RAMA for their political fortunes at the election against FFP rests on Rabuka's PAAP

SALUTING FOR SHOW: The photo of Commander Ro Jone KALOUNIWAI saluting Rabuka in the PMs office has gone viral but in November 2000 he was dragged out from under the table, saluted, and told to bugger off

24/1/2023

Sitiveni Rabuka was hiding himself under the snooker table when the 3rd FIR Battallion stormed the Officers’ Mess during the November mutiny in 2000. The Battalion Commander, Colonel Seruvakula, while the current Commander Ro Jone Kalouniwai was held hostage and blood was flowing through the barracks, marched right onto the spot where Rabuka was hiding under the table, saluted and shouted “Sir, come out from there now, go into your vehicle and drive straight out of the camp". As he surfaced, Col Seruvakula again saluted and motioned him to his vehicle parked outside with his old Commander’s uniform still hanging from the rear seat window.

PIO, PENSION AND PRISONER 302: While his SALARY rose from $99,164 to $221,894, he told us that deposed Prime Minister Laisenia QARASE 'is NOT receiving PENSION as he was NOT ENTITLED to it in the first place'

23/1/2023

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BENEFICIARY OF MRS QARASE'S PLEA TO REJECT FFP
Mrs LEBA Qarase hoped the SODELPA MANAGEMENT BOARD would give its THREE VOTES to PAP and NFP so the three political parties would come to an agreement and form a coalition after the meeting. We wonder if she was reminded of her husband's memoir of the role PIO TIKODUADUA had played, if any, in the denial of pension to her husband, and as a result, putting the whole Qarase family's finances in jeopardy for eight long years. Ironically, SODELPA’s three votes saw NFP president Tikoduadua become Minister of Home Affairs and Immigration in the Coalition Rabuka government.
Fijileaks to Tikoduadua: Qarase was entitled to PENSION

PENSION, MALICE and PUNISHMENT: The then Interim Prime Minister Bainimarama, whose PS in the PM's Office was Colonel PIO TIKODUADUA, withheld the late Prime Minister Qarase's pension that was legally due to him, for EIGHT long years until 2014. Today, Tikoduadua is serving in the Coalition of another Coupist, RABUKA.
The late Laisenia Qarase discloses Tikoduadua's role in his Prisoner 302:

Coupist Frank Bainimarama:
'No Army Officer will benefit from the Coup or Clean Up Campaign'

From Fijileaks Archives, 10 September 2013

"A sum of $2.7 million has been fritted away by the regime to accommodate the greed of those at the top and in order to win their loyalty for the regimes unaccounted spending."
FTUC general secretary, FELIX ANTHONY

A Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) Salary Assessment Report for 24 Permanent Secretaries and 3 Disciplined Service Heads viz Commander RFMF, Commissioner of Police and Commissioner of Prisons will now receive salary increases ranging from $160,000 to $221,894 with effect from 1st September, 2013. Increase in percentage for the disciplined services and five (5) Permanent Secretaries are a whopping 192.5%. The highest paid disciplined service Heads and five (5) Permanent Secretaries are as follows:

Fijileaks: PARMESH CHAND, IFEREIMI VASU, PITA WISE, and PIO TIKODUADUA are now back in Rabuka's Coalition government

READ FTUC Statement, 2013

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SHUT UP. Suva lawyer RICHARD NAIDU SMACKS Down the FFP general secretary Aiyaz Khaiyum over claims in his press conference. Fijileaks: We know Khaiyum is a sinister tyrant but he was PITCHING at MILITARY

22/1/2023

Aiyaz Khaiyum was sketching out FFP case for possible military intervention. It reminds us of events leading up to the 5 December 2006 COUP, when Coupist Frank Bainimarama allegedly asked FLP leader Chaudhry to provide him evidence against the Qarase government so he could remove Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase from power.
Our Founding Editor-in-Chief, in June 2012, had claimed in the now defunct C4/5 pro-democracy blogsite that Chaudhry had allegedly provided Bainimarama a 40 page document that catalogued Qarase's alleged violations of the 1997 Constitution, and other anti-Indo-Fijian 'racist policies'.

"I received Intelligence Report that the FLP had submitted 40 unverified allegations against our government to military commander.'
The late deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase in Prisoner 302

FLP: In your blog piece (courtesy Coup 4.5) of 5 June 2012 you went BIG on claims that: “Military Council documents link Chaudhry to the 2006 coup: Chaudhry prepared 40-page report against SDL and PM Laisenia Qarase for Bainimarama to overthrow the SDL-FLP multi-party government”.

Mr Chaudhry and the FLP refuted the existence of any such report prepared by the Labour Leader...In this case, you have made it more than obvious that it was fabricated by you to drive a wedge between him and Mr. Qarase

The FLP categorically denied the claim but recently the late Qarase (RIP), ten years later, in December 2022, repeats our Editor's claim in his memoir Prisoner 302
"I received Intelligence Report that the FLP had submitted 40 unverified allegations against our government to military commander.'*

POST COUP MONEY MAN: Chaudhry became Interim Finance Minister in
Bainimarama regime after 2006 coup

From Fijileaks Archives:

From The Fiji Sun Archive, 2008

Prominent lawyer, Richard Naidu stresses that FijiFirst Party General Secretary, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum is wrong in saying that the coalition government is carrying out unlawful and unconstitutional actions.

While reacting to Sayed-Khaiyum's statement, Naidu says Aiyaz’s FijiFirst Party Government applied the Constitution as it suited them.
He says the previous government never set up the Accountability and Transparency Commission that the Constitution required under section 121, it never set up a Ministerial Code of Conduct as the Constitution required under section 149 and it never set up a Freedom of Information Act as the Constitution required under section 150.

Naidu says Aiyaz's Government treated Parliament, the elected representatives of Fiji’s people, with contempt. He says almost all of its laws were passed under urgency (Standing Order 51).
The Suva lawyer says typically, Parliamentarians got two days’ notice of what new laws the Government was proposing, sometimes less. Naidu says that meant no one had time to review the laws or consult the people on them. He says the FFP government treated the people’s laws as its own property.

The prominent lawyer further says Aiyaz complains about board members being removed and public service appointment rules not being followed. Naidu says Aiyaz says nothing about the numerous arbitrary terminations of many public servants under the Fiji First Party government, including the Solicitor General, Sharvada Sharma and the Government Statistician, Kemueli Naiqama. He says it was no less than the Fiji Law Society President who this week described rule of law under the FijiFirst Government as “sometimes hanging by a thread.”

He says against this background, not many lawyers are prepared to listen to Aiyaz lecture us on the law.
On separation of powers, Naidu says under the FijiFirst Party government, this phrase seemed to be thrown around to justify anything. He says for example, the Parliament Secretariat would frequently refuse to allow Opposition MPs to ask questions of Government Ministers because of “the separation of powers”. He says this justification made no sense.

Naidu says section 91 of the Constitution requires Ministers to be accountable to Parliament. He says in layman’s terms, “the separation of powers” means only that the legislature (Parliament), the executive (Cabinet and civil servants) and the judiciary (Judges and Magistrates) should each “stay in their lanes”. They should not interfere in each other’s functions. Naidu says Aiyaz has made no specific allegations that the new government has breached this concept, and questions him on what law has been broken.

Naidu also says Aiyaz is wrong in saying the former Constitutional Offices Commission members were unlawfully removed from office. The lawyer says the Commissioners were asked to resign and they did so. Naidu says no law prevents them from resigning. He says if they had refused to resign, they would have remained in place (as others have done).

The prominent lawyer says Aiyaz says that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka had “no authority” to ask them to resign. He says Aiyaz is wrong as nobody needs “authority” to ask anyone else to commit a voluntary act. He says the former Constitutional Offices Commissioners are not the property of the Fiji First Party. Naidu also says Aiyaz is wrong in saying that the Minister for Home Affairs should not have asked the Commissioner of Police to resign.

He says it is a free country and the Minister may make any request he wants – and the Commissioner may accept or refuse that request. The lawyer says the Commissioner refused the Minister’s request, saying he wanted the Constitutional Office Commission process be followed. Naidu says the Commissioner remains in place and no law has been broken. He also says Aiyaz should be specific when he talks about the replacement of boards of statutory authorities before expiry of their terms.

He asks which boards is Aiyaz referring to. Naidu says for a number of statutory bodies the Minister has, under the relevant law, the power to appoint board members. He says this power generally includes the power to dismiss them. The lawyer further says replacing boards or board members mid-term is certainly nothing new. Naidu says Aiyaz may recall a recent example while he was Minister for Housing.

Naidu says Aiyaz requested the entire Housing Authority board to resign before the expiry of their terms (and they complied). Richard Naidu says Aiyaz has still not explained to anyone how, in the space of three days in January, he got himself kicked out of Parliament by accepting a position on the Constitutional Offices Commission – and then had to resign from the Constitutional Offices Commission when asked how he could continue as general secretary of the Fiji First Party.

The prominent lawyer asks should we really be taking legal advice from Aiyaz based on his actions.
Naidu says the “separation of powers” doctrine is also clear that if you have a problem with the lawfulness of any government action, the courts are there to solve that problem.

He says it is the Courts who decide if anyone has breached the Constitution, not the secretary of the opposition political party. Naidu says if Aiyaz has a complaint that the law has been broken, he should do what the rest of us do – take it to Court.

He says that is what he frequently told the Opposition to do when it complained about what his Government did.
Naidu says Aiyaz has a little more time on his hands now - he is a qualified lawyer with a practising certificate.

He has told him "So – get on with it. Bring your complaints to court, because that is where they belong."

FIJI LURCHING TOWARDS A COUP? Under 2013 Constitution, FIJI is a SECULAR state. Traditional i-taukei public ceremonies for Ministers and loud cheers to GOD causing division in RFMF, prompting COUP FEARS

22/1/2023

The Vanua of Kubuna-i- wai, Nairai, in the province of Lomaiviti, presented their traditional appreciation or the 'Vakasenuqanuqa' ceremony to the new Attorney-General SIROMI TURAGA at the FMF Gymnasium. The RFMF is monitoring such ceremonies and its impact on the rank and file soldiers from different provinces at the barracks.
*Who is footing the bills for all these ceremonies - TAXPAYERS of all races?

TRIBAL WELCOMES AND CHIEFS blessings i-Taukei Coalition Cabinet Ministers in FMF Gymnasium and other public venues - their 'SONS OF THE PROVINCES' - has sent jitters among the RFMF High Command, who are arguing that such ceremonies are causing provincial divisions within the rank and file i-Taukei soldiers.

They are also investigating how many serving soldiers have participated in such ceremonies.

*After all, they cannot forget the Bloody Mutiny on 2 November 2000, when they had to drag Rabuka out from under the snooker table and chase him out of the army camp.

The latest was the public ceremony accorded to the new Attorney-General SIROMI TURAGA from his PROVINCE which the RFMF High Command argues is unacceptable from both constitutional, and military, viewpoints.
According to military sources, once Turaga became the Attorney-General, he should have flung his cultural, religious, and provincial HAT away, and declined to be entertained and blessed by his PROVINCE.
After all, in 1987 the racist thug and coupist SITIVENI RABUKA had tapped the emotions and military skills of his Cakaudrove soldiers to overthrow the Bavadra government. Most of the ten hooded gunmen were from either his own village or the surrounding areas.
The RFMF, according to sources cannot, under Section 131, standby and watch the gross abuse by Coalition Cabinet ministers of provincial links and loud cheering to GOD, hence the talk of pre-emptive military intervention against the Coalition government to STOP the military, as an institution, from fracturing along Tribal and Christian denominational lines. Most ceremonies of welcome and 'Tagi to the Kalou' are mostly Rabuka's Methodism in appearance and biblical messages.
A breakdown of Turaga's votes reveal most of his VOTES came from his Eastern Province, where his people voted on tribal lines.
Our acquaintance and friend will be well-advised to discontinue entertaining such lavish ceremonies of welcome, and that includes other i-Taukei Cabinet Ministers, who want to be feted as 'Our Son of the Province' is now Rabuka's Cabinet Minister.
For the RFMF High Command will remind the new Attorney-General of Oliver Cromwell's ringing words, 'Necessity Has No Law'.*
*To put it bluntly, 'The Doctrine of Necessity' is one of many powers the RFMF High Command has at its disposal, to preserve the RFMF as a united institution, devoid of tribal, provincial, and religious strife, and as the guardian of the nation under the 2013 Constitution of Fiji (whether the Coalition likes the Constitution or wants to lump it).
Its a FLIGHT OF FANCY to believe that RFMF will just take it lying down. We are already hearing that Coalition wants to SLASH RFMF

A PRACTICE RUN OR FLIGHT OF FANCY

KIRIBATI DIARY: Rabuka's journey from under Snooker Table at RFMF on 2 November 2000 during the bloody mutiny to HIGH Table with KIRIBATI President, 20 January 2023. Qarase's PRISONER 302, Kiribati and Mutiny

21/1/2023

"As you know your Excellency [President of Kiribati], Fiji for the first time elected its Prime Minister on the floor of Parliament and I was elected by the power of the majority of one. It was on Christmas eve and it was by secret ballot, the following day the world stood still to remember the birth of one child in Bethlehem. I believe it was the power of that one child in our prayers for so many years that gave us that majority of one on the floor of parliament."

RELIGION, DIPLOMACY AND ABUSE OF CHRISTIANITY:
In 1987, God whispered into the ears of the racist in his sleep to carry out his coup, overthrow the Bavadra government, disenfranchise the Indo-Fijians, urban Fijians and other minorities in Fiji, and become the Prime Minister of Fiji under a racist and autocratic 1990 Constitution of Fiji. He also obtained IMMUNITY in that Constitution.
In his two appointments as Prime Minister, Rabuka was assisted by the votes of FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry in 1992, and the NFP leader Jai Ram Reddy in 1994, for him to become Prime Minister.
In December 2022, it was Reddy's successor BIMAN PRASAD, in exchange to become Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, went into Coalition with Rabuka to form the new government, with Coupist as Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Obscenely, the Methodist lay preacher (and his i-Taukei Cabinet Ministers) never tire of invoking GOD to celebrate their wins and the formation of the Coalition government, as if other races don't matter.
The fundamentalist Christian zealot once again dedicated his premiership to his Christian GOD, as he informed his host, the President of Kiribati during HIGH TABLE dinner on 20 Janaury 2023:

"As you know your Excellency, Fiji for the first time elected its Prime Minister on the floor of Parliament and I was elected by the power of the majority of one. It was on Christmas eve and it was by secret ballot, the following day the world stood still to remember the birth of one child in Bethlehem. I believe it was the power of that one child in our prayers for so many years that gave us that majority of one on the floor of parliament."
In 1987, most Pacific Island leaders had been brainwashed into accepting his coups against Indo-Fijians because, he told them, these Indo-Fijians were NOT Pacific Islanders. Moreover, he told them that 'Hindus and Muslims are PAGANS who must be converted to Christianity, otherwise we (i-Taukei and Pacific Islanders) will have to be converted and become PAGANS.'
*They should go back to India, he screamed from the balcony of the Suva Civic Centre. By 2023, he had achieved his original mission, and today Indo-Fijians are a minority in Fiji, and the region, and his Cabinet is predominantly i-Taukei dominated, with three Indo-Fijians as Cabinet Ministers.

RABUKA: ”No, no, no…. that was a fact. I was in camp. I went in and I was called by Home Affairs operations room and I said to them, well tell the Commander, I’m going in there. I didn’t know where he was.”

BAINIMARAMA: ”Rubbish, he was there for a reason. He had his uniform with him. All my soldiers on duty saw him on his uniform at the back and in fact he spoke with some senior colonels to say I want all the colonels to bind together and give the authority to take over the command of the military.”

East German 'STASI' and GESTAPO style suspensions begin to creep in since Coalition formed Fiji government. Was COC member JON APTED told to stay out of deliberations because of his cases against SANEEM?

19/1/2023

Munro Leys lawyer and Rabuka's nominee on the COC, John Apted, is representing the former Solicitor-General Sharvada Sharma who was dismissed after a complaint from Election Supervisor Saneem following the Nawaikula case.
Its not the actual bias but the perception of bias that is at the heart of any judicial decision, and please cut out the CRAP, 'Oh, FFP did the same to Sharma. Beware, Rabuka's STASIs are making a comeback.'

Fijileaks: The composition of the Constitutional Offices Commission members is a JOKE (both under FFP and Coalition governments) where the Prime Minister, the Attorney-General, the Leader of the Opposition and their nominated members sit, deliberate, and pass judgment in the appointment to and suspension of individuals from powerful institutions. Since the establishment of the COC in the Rabuka-Reddy 1997 Constitution, the COC is lop-sided in membership and in favour of the incumbent government of the day.
The Fiji Sun has reported that Coupist Rabuka, as chair of the COC, overruled one of his own Government nominees and has sent Election Supervisor 'packing' even before Saneem presented his constitutionally required Report on the 2022 election.
Saneem has been suspended with full pay after someone complained to the Attorney-General about alleged misbehaviour on Saneem's part.
The only one who has publicly welcomed the suspension is the FLP leader Chaudhry who was barred from contesting the 2018 general election because of the currency conviction. Earlier in the month, he wanted Saneem suspended from office to permit an independent inquiry into his conduct

“In our view he should be disciplined on his return from overseas and suspended from office to permit an independent inquiry into the 2022 electoral process.”

Where is Supervisor of Elections Mohammed Saneem?
Labour Leader Mahendra Chaudhry has questioned the absence of the Supervisor of Elections, Mohammed Saneem, from the country soon after the election results were finalised.
“Saneem left the country after the Writ of Election was returned to the President on 19 December 2022.
“ As Supervisor he is required under s109 (1) of the Electoral Act to submit a report of the results of the elections in the approved form to the Electoral Commission within one month.”
“ In our view he should be disciplined on his return and suspended from office to permit an independent inquiry into the 2022 electoral process.”
FLP leader Mahendra Chaudhry, 6 January 2022

Dismissed Solicitor General Sharvada Sharma’s lawyer, Jon Apted gave details about the suspension and sacking of Sharma in court today while making his submission for their application to seek leave for judicial review.

Sharma filed legal action in relation to the termination of his employment on the 12th of November last year by former President Jioji Konrote.

The legal action is against the President of Fiji, the Judicial Services Commission and the Attorney General of Fiji.

While making submissions today, Apted says this is a case where a former public servant who had spent 24 years exclusively in government legal services – the last 10 of which in an acting or substantive capacity as Solicitor General was suspended without pay and then dismissed by the President.

Apted told the court that Sharma says this was in breach of the relevant provisions of the constitution governing the process and he was not accorded his common law rights to natural justice.

The Munro Leys partner says Sharma’s constitutional rights to due process have also been infringed.

Apted adds the decisions being challenged have left Sharma and his family without income and they adversely affected Sharma’s psychological state.

He says it has also adversely affected Sharma’s standing in the community because he held one of the highest offices in this land and there were media and social media reports about what happened.

Apted says Sharma has law degrees from the University of Waikato and the University of London and since being admitted to the bar in 1997, Sharma has given his whole professional life to this country and has not worked for any other employer other than the Government of Fiji.

He further says Sharma was first appointed Acting Solicitor General in 2011 and appointed substantively in 2014.

Apted says the background to this case is the Niko Nawaikula case.

He adds in July to August 2021, Sharma and a Principal Legal Officer in the Attorney General’s Office represented the Supervisor of Elections and the Attorney General in a petition brought in to the Court of Disputed Returns by Nawaikula.

Apted says Nawaikula had lost his seat in parliament.

He adds the court ruled in favour of Nawaikula, and the Supervisor of Elections after this decision, expressed dissatisfaction with representation by Sharvada Sharma and his associate and brought a complaint against Sharma to the Independent Legal Services Commission.

Apted went on to say that Sharma was given that complaint by the Chief Registrar and responded to it and it was a complaint under the Legal Practitioners Act. He says Sharma continued at work.

Apted told the court that on 16th September 2021, the Prime Minister summoned Sharvada Sharma to his office where Sharma was informed that the Prime Minister had been hearing things and he wanted Sharma to resign.

He says Sharma denied any wrong doing and sought time to explain.

Apted further says Sharma was given a short time to explain in writing which he did and Sharma explained that he had not done anything wrong and that he sees no reason to resign.

He adds that Sharma also told the Prime Minister in writing that the Judicial Services Commission was the proper authority to consider any complaint and deliberate on it and hear the complaint in a procedurally correct manner required under the constitution.

Apted says Sharma expressly reserved all of his rights.

He also revealed that on the following Monday, the Prime Minister requested Sharma to go to his office immediately and the Prime Minister gave Sharma a pre-prepared resignation letter to sign.

Apted says Sharma refused to sign it.

He adds that as Sharma left the Prime Minister’s Office his phone was taken off him by a security guard and when he went back to the Attorney General’s Office, his laptop was taken off him by a security guard as well.

Apted told the court that Sharvada Sharma had not been subject to any disciplinary proceedings and had not been suspended but the executive acted to remove his tools of office.

The Munro Leys Partner says Sharma then called the Chairperson of the Judicial Services Commission and informed him about what had just happened.

Apted told the court that the Chairperson of the Judicial Services Commission informed Sharma that he had received a telephone call from the Prime Minister requesting that Sharma be immediately suspended.

He says the Chairperson of the Judicial Services Commission told Sharma that he is calling a meeting of the Commission the same afternoon to consider suspension.

Apted further adds that during the phone conversation, the Chairperson of the Judicial Services Commission told Sharma that his suspension would be with pay as usual.

He says at 7.30pm that evening, the suspension letter was delivered to Sharma and it stated that it comes from the President.

Apted says the letter informed Sharma that the President had received advice from the Judicial Services Commission on allegations of misbehaviour and the President was suspending Sharma pending the appointment of a tribunal.

It was heard in court that the letter stated that Sharma would also be suspended without pay.

Apted says on Diwali Day on 4th November 2021 which was a Thursday, a police officer appeared at Sharma’s home at around 2pm and delivered a letter which enclosed the complaint by the Supervisor of Elections to the Judicial Services Commission and 31 questions from the Judicial Services Commission.

He adds the letter set out 31 questions across three pages requiring Sharma’s response by 4pm Saturday, 6th November 2021.

Apted further says Sharvada Sharma only had one working day to respond and was unable to seek legal advice.
He adds Sharma was also concerned he was being asked specific questions as opposed to being asked to respond to the complaint which was the normal practice.

Apted stresses that the time given to answer the questions was unreasonable and unfair given that the Judicial Services Commission was sitting on the complaint for seven weeks.

He further says this is fine but that does not mean that when you decide to take action you give the subject of the complaint two days of which one is a working day.

Apted went on to say that Sharma was being asked to respond in the middle of his solemn religious holiday.

He told the court that it was like giving a Christian a letter to answer during Christmas time or Easter while they are busy singing in church and praising Jesus.

Apted revealed in court that on 10th November, Sharma was served with the termination letter from the Office of the President and it was signed by the President.

The Munro Leys Partner read the letter which says that the President agreed that the allegations in the complaint against Sharma are of a factual nature and do not warrant the appointment of a tribunal.

PITA INSIDE RABUKA'S PEARLY GATE: Another UNWISE and Irregular appointment of PITA WISE as Rabuka's Acting Permanent SECRETARY. Under PSC Act, Wise can only be 'Adviser/ Consultant' in the PM's Office

18/1/2023

KAI VATA APPOINTMENTS:
Rabuka himself is PITA WISE's brother-in-law/tavale through the Fiji Times* reporter MARGARET WISE who bore Rabuka a son during his term as Prime Minister from 1992 to 1999. In fact, Rabuka bought his son and his mother a home at Raiwasa.
**The late Russell Hunter to Fijileaks Editor-in-Chief, 27 May 2008:**
"Vayeshnoi aka the stick insect is quite wrong. It is not well known etc etc. that Margaret was sacked (by me) for indiscipline, but that won't stop the daaku. That said, I think the FT was ill-advised to re-employ her. She was kicked out of the US for overstaying."
Editor: "I dont know anything about her. Isn't she Rabuka's mistress or something of that sort? On the other hand, one could say the same about many others who have joined the regime."
Hunter: "True. She was Rabuka's mistress. She had his baby and a paternity suit followed involving DNA evidence which said the child had a 99.9 per cent chance of being Rabuka's. He still denied it. She was very bitter about it."
The Fiji Labour Party's official website, 27 May 2008:
[The Fiji Labour Party has crticised The Fiji Times for re-employing a reporter who had brought enormous disrepute to the paper and created national instability with her fabricated, distorted and sensationalized news reporting in 1999/2000.
"By re-employing this discredited reporter, The Fiji Times has clearly exposed its political agenda, and compromised its credibility' said Lekh Ram Vayeshnoi, FLP's assistant secretary general. "It is well known that Margaret Wise was forced to leave The Fiji Times in disgrace. I am therefore very much surprised that the paper should now re-employ a person whose integrity and credibility as a reporter is seriously in question," he said. Her blatant political bias and misreporting associated with her very close liaison with a number of prominent politicians in the Opposition and extremist nationalist quarters at the time, has been the subject of severe criticism not only from the FLP, but academics, journalists and other independent observers in the immediate post 2000 coup period.
It is also well known that feature articles that were written by a certain bureaucrat were being run by The Fiji Times under the name of Margaret Wise. Staff in the Fiji Times newsroom as well senior management were well aware of this duplicity...This is an issue that the Media industry in Fiji as well as the Media Council should take up seriously. The Fiji Times, as a member of the Media, should not be allowed to bring disrepute to the entire industry through such irresponsible and questionable behaviour," Mr Vayeshnoi said.

Pita Wise (the Wise family are from Wainividio, Navua) is also the brother-in-law of the SPEAKER Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, who is Rabuka's chief as Tui Cakau. Wise was with SODELPA and later followed Rabuka to PAP, along with Naiqama.
Like Parmesh Chand, Wise needed to be holding a substantive post in the Public Service before he could be appointed to act as Permanent/Acting Secretary.
Both, Wise and Chand are being recruited from outside the Public Service hence due process has not been fully complied with so the appointments contravene the Public Service Act and PSC Regulations under both the 2013 Constitution and also under Sitiveni Rabuka’s own 1997 Constitution of Fiji
As we mentioned earlier, the only legitimate way Rabuka and the Coalition government can circumvent the rules is to appoint Wise and Chand as Advisers or Consultants instead, not as PS where due process is necessary.
Why can't someone get a lawyer to file an injunction in the Fiji High Court regarding both the appointments?
Here, in Wise's appointment, Commander Kalouniwai could claim is another example of political interference in the Public Service or blatant breach of the Public Service Act.
* BROTHER-IN-LAW NEXUS:
The appointment of Wise, the brother-in-law of the Speaker, reminds us of Francis Kean, the current Prisons Commissioner, who was convicted of manslaughter and jailed but because he was the BROTHER-IN-LAW of the then Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, Kean never spent a night in jail for his crime nor was he instantly dismissed from his post as Navy Commander, as mandated under the PSC Act and Regulations.
Sadly, while Fiji has changed one Coupist Emperor for Another, in Rabuka, the stench from their stinking underwear continues to permeate and pollute the corridors of power: return of the Kai Vata politics.

TRADING GOVERNMENT QUARTERS: We are reliably informed by our military sources that Rabuka might move into the house which is being renovated at Berkeley Crescent, directly opposite the RFMF headquarters. We wonder why Bainimarama and the FFP Opposition (if there is an Opposition) are not creating a stink on Wise's appointment?

Pita Wise says if Bainimarama accepts Rabuka’s offer for a quarters for the Leader of the Opposition, they will then amend the necessary legislation.
Only in Fiji, KAILA

Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka has given time to former Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama to stay at the official PM’s residence until he is ready to vacate the house in Muanikau.

Permanent Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office, Pita Wise says the Prime Minister has given Bainimarama time to organise himself and there is no hurry.

Wise confirms that they will make the necessary amendments to the regulations and ensure that Bainimarama is given a government quarters if he wants to take up Rabuka’s offer and move to one as the Leader of the Opposition.

Rabuka continues to stay at his private residence at Namadi Heights after being sworn-in as Prime Minister on December 24th.

Wise also says they will make assessments after Bainimarama vacates the current official residence as it used to be the official residence of the Chief Justice.

The Public Service Commission and Public Works Department will also carry out an assessment of the official PM’s residence at Ratu Sukuna Road.

Wise says the cost to repair that official residence will be determined and they will then see what is best for the Prime Minister. Source: Fijivillage News

Fijileaks: Why FREE ACCOMMODATION to the Leader of the Opposition?
What if Opposition leader BAINIMARAMA, who has multiple heart surgeries and heart monitors, DROPS DEAD during the lifetime of Parliament, will the Bainimarama family be evicted from the Government Quarters that Rabuka is planning to provide to Bainimarama family?
Rabuka's plan is an abuse of TAXPAYERS money and a betrayal of the 80,000plus voters who voted for him, and the NFP and SODELPA voters, who welcomed the Coalition government, and want the new government to launch a criminal investigation into the Bainimarama family's REAL WEALTH, and if found guilty, for Bainimarama to be convicted and sent to prison.
As one Fijian taxpayer told Fijileaks: 'It is public funds. We should not be paying for accommodation of a criminal and dictator of 16 years.'*
The Opposition is only entitled to what is in Aiyaz Khaiyum's 2013 Constitution.
It is not for the BLOODY Coup Godfather Rabuka, hiding behind the wall of IMMUNITY, to decide that Bainimarama, as Leader of Oppostion, should be provided a Government Quarters unlike previous holders of that Office.
We understand that MARY Bainimarama does not want to move out from the Prime Minister's residence.
The FFP have 26 members in Parliament out of 55. They should only get their share as stipulated in the Constitution. The cost of accommodation must come out from Opposition's total entitlement
Will PAP nominated SPEAKER resign if his political leader Rabuka offers free accommodation to the Leader of the Opposition?
Rabuka's offer is an ABUSE OF OFFICE and he should be charged, for he had not mentioned the proposed proposal in PAP Manifesto.
Will Rabuka's WATERBOY, the NFP leader, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance PRASAD have the GUTS to stand up in Parliament and OPPOSE Government accommodation for Bainimarama.

From Fijileaks Archive, 11 October 2020

"The utter devastation to Mrs. Ana Whippy’s family and her grieving loss were simply described by her victim impact statement. Mr. Kean your assault took away the father of an eight-year old girl and six-year old boy. Your assault also took away a husband. It has left his widow heartbroken, restless and distressed by the worry of her future prospects.They are, however, not the only victims. Your assault undoubtedly also took away the happiest day in any young couple’s life. Their marriage will forever be remembered by these sad, tragic events."
Justice Gerard Winter, 2007

"On Saturday the 30th of December, 2006 Mr. Samuel Whippy married Ms. Ateca Bainimarama at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Suva. The wedding reception was held at the Royal Suva Yacht Club. John Whippy a relative of the groom attended the reception. Francis Bulewa Kean, Commander of the Fiji Naval Forces and uncle to the bride joined the celebration. During the course of the evening several fights broke out between guests. The deceased was involved in some of those fights. He was drunk. At about 2.00am John Whippy left the Yacht Club with Peter and Samuel Whippy. They talked. The groom bade them farewell. Peter went to get a taxi to take both him and John home. When the taxi pulled up Peter sat in the back seat and he told John Whippy to get into the car. As John Whippy was assisted to the taxi he was in an ugly drunken mood. I accept he used vulgar language that provoked Mr. Kean into firmly telling him to mind his language and go home. In his drunkenness the deceased ignored this direction and kept up his belligerent tirade. Francis Kean then left the Suva Yacht Club and ran towards Mr. John Whippy yelling in Fijian, "Stop that taxi." The accused then came up to John Whippy and punched him three times in the face. John Whippy first hit his head against the taxi light then fell heavily to the ground on his back. While he was lying on the ground Francis Kean kicked him on the chest. The accused was dragged away by an unidentified woman but returned to kick John Whippy’s head. Asaeli Duvusole intervened and grabbed the accused warning him to do no more harm. John Whippy lay unmoving by the side of the taxi. A Corporal of the Fiji Military Forces checked his pulse he could find none. John Whippy was lifted into the taxi and quickly taken to the Colonial War Memorial Hospital. Doctor Ashika Lata Sen saw John at 1.46am. He did not have either a pulse or cardiac rhythm and he was not breathing. Despite her best efforts to resuscitate him John Whippy did not revive. He was pronounced dead at 2.20am on 31st December 2006. Mr. Kean, John Whippy’s life was precious and its value should not be underestimated. There must be exceptional circumstances before the court can suspend a term of imprisonment. I have searched for those circumstances in your case but can find none. An immediate prison sentence must be imposed. You are sentenced to
eighteen (18) months in jail."
Gerard Winter
JUDGE
At Suva
Friday 26th October, 2007

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From Fijileaks Archive, 3 April 2022:

Coupist Frank Bainimarama:'No Army Officer will benefit from the Coup or Clean Up Campaign'