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CAUGHT IN LIMBO. Principal of Bua Central College Master Raman Lal suddenly told after seven years at BCC that he is being transferred but Education Ministry yet to find him a school, so he is stranded in Labasa

31/1/2024

 

*Raman Lal was ​stationed at Bua College with his family for the past seven years. 
*He was told last Wednesday that he is being transferred, only to be replaced with a teacher (Isimeli Tabua) from the Seqani. 
*Raman Lal has two children who are now running around to find school in Labasa.
*Labasa College did not take his child as they are full.
*Isn't there a policy whereby space is kept for teachers' children?

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Master Raman Lal (left in photo)

*His son, who is a bright student, didn't get the subject combination he wanted and is now studying at another school because of that. 
*Raman Lal, who was staying at the school quarters, has to get another set of uniforms for his children as a result of the late transfer notice. 
 *When he enquired with the Education Ministry, he was told to wait for a year or until a school is found for him.
*What a payback for a teacher who had contributed nearly half of his life teaching.
*There are also claims of racism because of his ethnicity.
*The Education Ministry in Labasa is clueless, claiming the transfer directive order came from Suva.
*Meanwhile, the Education Ministry has advised Raman Lal to come and sign in, and sign out, from the Labasa branch.
'Here we have a teacher who should be teaching, instead his talent is wasted as he is idle all day, sitting at the Labasa branch', a source told Fijileaks. Bua College is alma mater of the current President of Fiji.

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Bainimarama visiting the school in February 2021

HO, HO, HO and KILO of METH. RESIGN, John Rabuku. His predecessor Christopher PRYDE was sent packing as DPP after he was accused of stopping and chatting with the former A-G Khaiyum at a social function

31/1/2024

 

ACTING DPP John Rabuku having a chat with drug kingpin suspect Justin Ho outside the Nadi Magistrates Court. Why didn't Rabuku vigorously object to Ho and his co-suspects being granted BAIL?
​From the Fiji Sun:

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COMING LATER. How Lynda Tabuya was wailing like a drug fuelled addict, confessing and seeking forgiveness, for bonking in Room 233

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SILENCE AS A LAMB. Biman Prasad and his side-kick Pio Tikoduadua quiet on Torturer BEN NALIVA's appointment as Australian Army's 7th Brigade. The NFP was in forefront to bring Brij Lal's abusers to JUSTICE

30/1/2024

 
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"I had not seen this news item [Qiliho going up to the Royal Defence Academy in London]. It is shocking. When he was slated to come to Australia, I wrote to Julie Bishop and he was refused a visa to study here. Qiliho was a Bainimarama protege who was groomed to succeed him. He was his chief enforcer, assisted by Ben Naliva and Aseri Rokoura, both vicious thugs. Qiliho interrogated me at QEB. He covered my face with his spitting and slapped me around to the point of breaking my glasses, He told me that if I did not leave by the first flight the next day, my family would have to fetch my body from the morgue." - Brij Lal

*As we had recommended to the late BRIJ LAL and other victims during our pursuit of Ben Naliva's co-torturer Sitiveni Qiliho, Naliva's victims should try and get him arrested in Australia for gross human rights abuses. The IMMUNITY that Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka granted to himself and his soldiers in the 1990 and 1997 Constitutions, and now entrenched in the 2013 Constitution by Frank Bainimarama, doesn't apply to these TORTURERS in overseas jurisdictions

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Fijileaks: To our good fortune, one of the leading lawyers specialising in torture cases on the team to arrest Sitiveni Qiliho in London happened to have also looked into arresting Sitiveni Rabuka several years previously. 

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Fijileaks: Fiji has fallen into such a rotten state because it is the likes of Waqavonovono and countless others who played cat and mouse with our human rights lawyers, waiting for Qiliho to simply escape to Fiji
"Bula Peter, Please let me know if you are willing to cooperate with us regarding the events of 24 December 2006. And provide a written statement...The lawyers met on Monday afternoon and have concluded that there is prima facie case for them to proceed with the arrest plan."
Waqavonovono kept making excuses, dodging our requests 

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One of Waqavonovono's co-victims, LAISA DIGITAKI, was all fired up to co-operate until she woke up one day and began reciting chapter and verse from the "Fijian Bible". Basically, the human rights lawyers wanted general statements and individual affidavits from the so-called 'Democracy Six" about their beatings and torture at the barracks on 24 December 2006, to build a solid case of what followed after the 5 December Coup. All the human rights lawyers from REDRESS, specialists in bringing torturers to justice in the UK, wanted was confirmation that the stories the "Democracy Six" had told to the media and later splashed on the internet, did take place, so they could build up their case for Sitiveni Qiliho's arrest in London.
​Sadly, Digitaki suddenly began reminding us that "GOD even loves Torturer Sitiveni Qiliho"
"I'm not very clear on what will be achieved out of all these apart from
trying to arrest Qiliho before he leaves the UK in June/July?

My statement has been on internet for almost 15 years now and all the
details of my experience is there for all to draw and learn from.

I had forgiven and released everyone who inflicted harm on me on that
night and have transmuted and transcended from it.

I no longer delve on the past but live in the moment with much gratitude
with the knowing that one of the greatest life lessons I've learnt from
that incident was to forgive unconditionally even when my own life was
in grave danger, for we are all one and the same, often misled by the
illusion of duality and separation i.e me vs them.

Qiliho and other members of the Fiji Military Force have families and
children and it is important that we as conscious adults choose a path
that will not kill their spirit with anger, hatred and revenge but to
protect and bless them with much love from our heart space.
This is the only way we can all overcome the malevolent and controlling take-over
spirit in Fiji and the world. 
Vinaka." 
 Laisa Digitaki, 27 April 2021 to Fijileaks

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VICTOR LAL in Fiji's Daily Post, May 1999 on eve of general election

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HOT WATER Torturer. Australian Army's 7th Brigade Deputy Commander Ben Naliva had perfected the art of torturing Bainimarama's coup critics with HOT Water, from Sam Speight to late Poseci Bune to Ben Padarath

30/1/2024

 
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Sam Speight's written statement to Fijileaks Founding Editor-in-Chief on Naliva, February 2012
'As I was lying on the floor, HOT WATER was poured beside my hips and legs to intimidate me and there was continued use of an M16 rifle butt on my back and head...'

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Ben Padarath's written statement to Fijileaks Founding Editor-in-Chief on Qiliho and Naliva, August 2020
I, Ben Padarath was tortured at the RFMF's Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Suva, Fiji in February 2011. The soldiers who assaulted me included Sitiveni Qilihio.  I was physically tortured and had hot water poured over me by Sitiveni Qilihio. My whole left arm was broken from my wrist to my shoulder, this arm I still can't lift above my head to this very day. During the assault as I lay on the ground in much pain and blood, Qiliho continued to kick me and used the butt of a gun to break my left wrist.  I was beaten up at the camp for 3 days straight, drifting in and out of consciousness and once when I awoke, there was a military doctor checking my wounds and I heard him tell Qiliho, Penioni (Ben) Naliva and Aseri Rokoura to get me out of the camp as soon as possible or I could die in custody and the military would then be held responsible.

Torture Victim Poseci Bune. The former distinguished diplomat and long-time civil servant was arrested alongside Padarath and tortured by Naliva. Surely, the RFMF line manager PIO TIKODUADUA must be aware of Bainimarama's master torturer and yet it seems he created no fuss on the appointment of Naliva as the 7th Brigade's Deputy Commander

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“We are embedding our officers into the Australian Army to gain experience and understand how the Australian Defence Forces operate. They will be there for two years with their families. Upon their return, they can bring back valuable knowledge to aid in the restructuring of RFMF.”
RFMF Commander Jone KALOUNIWAI, December 2023

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Sourced from Grubsheet, the Australian article this week

NADI DRUG BUST SUSPECTS AND LYNDA TABUYA. We repeat our call that Fiji Police and their Australian counterparts must launch joint probe into on how Tabuya allegedly managed to get 'weed' into her Room 233

29/1/2024

 
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Nadi Drug Bust Suspects

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Thirteen people charged in relation to the seizure of more than four tonnes of methamphetamine in Nadi, have been bailed by Magistrate Jioji Boseiwaqa.

They had appeared in the Nadi Magistrates Court earlier today however the case was stood down to this afternoon for the bail application hearing.

Justin Ho and David Heritage are charged with unlawful importation of illicit drugs between the 1st of November 2023 to the 23rd of December 2023, in Nadi, and without lawful authority. They allegedly facilitated the importation of 4,800 kilograms of methamphetamine.

David Heritage and Louie Frank Penijamini Logaivau are charged with unlawful possession Of illicit drugs on the 23rd of December 2023, at Fantasy Island, Nadi, without lawful authority. It is alleged that they were in possession of 4,800 kilograms of methamphetamine.

Louie Logaivau is also charged with unlawful possession of illicit drug on the 23rd of December, 2023, in Nadi, It is alleged he is engaged in dealing for the transfer and transport of 4,800 kilograms of methamphetamine.

Justin Ho and Louie Logaivau are also charged with unlawful possession of illicit drugs in Denarau, Nadi. It is alleged they were in possession of 4,800 kilograms of methamphetamine.

Louie Logaivau, Issac Lesiyanawai and Ratu Aporosa Davelevu are charged with unlawful possession of illicit drugs between the 28th of December, 2023 and the 29th of December, 2023 in Nadi. It is alleged they engaged in the dealing for the transfer and transport of 4,800 kilograms of methamphetamine.

Louie Logaivau and Ratu Aporosa Davelevu are charged with unlawful possession of illicit drugs on the 29th of December, 2023, at Motorex Yard, Nadi back road without lawful authority. It is alleged they were in possession of 4,800 kilograms of methamphetamine.

Sakiusa Tuva, Iosefo Roqica, Maika Yabakivou, Ratu Osea Levula, Cathy Tuirabe, Nancy Mateyawa and another are charged with unlawful possession of illicit drugs between the 29th of December, 2023 to the 14th of January, 2024, in Nadi without lawful authority. It is alleged they were engaged in dealing for the transfer and transport of 4,800 kilograms of methamphetamine, from the Motorex yard to Legalega.

Jale Aukerea is charged with unlawful possession of illicit drug between 13th January 2024 to 20th January, 2024, in Nadi without lawful authority. It is alleged he engaged in dealing for the transfer and transport of 1,100 kilograms of methamphetamine.

Sakiusa Tuva and Keanie Lilo Mcpherson are charged with unlawful possession of illicit drugs between 13th January 2024 to 20th January, 2024, in Nadi. It is alleged they engaged in dealing for the transfer and transport of 1,100 kilograms of methamphetamine.

​Justin Ho is also charged with possession Of property suspected of being proceeds of crime on 23rd January 2024 in Taveuni, possessed cash amounting to FJ$21,691.60, AUD$450.00 and USD$100.00 suspected of being proceeds of crime.

Louie Logaivau is also charged with possession of property suspected of being proceeds of crime on the 23rd of January 2024 in Taveuni. He allegedly possessed cash amounting to FJD$112.25 suspected of being proceeds of crime.

Jale Aukerea is charged with possession of property suspected of being proceeds of crime on the 23rd of January 2024 in Taveuni. He allegedly possessed cash amounting to FJD$2,100.85 suspected of being proceeds of crime. Source: Fijivillage News


BOGUS I-TAUKEI MONSTER whose 1987 Coups resulted in the RAPE and Sexual Abuse of Indo-Fijian women and their daughters drudges up assault of his daughter by Radrodro to stand by his SACKING decision

28/1/2024

 
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*It is not the FIRST time Sitiveni Rabuka has mentioned his daughter. In August 2015, while resigning his SODELPA membership, he had informed the party's general secretary the late PIO TABAIWALU: 
'I also conveyed my regrets that the Youth and Women’s Wings that champion ‘non-violence’ found it acceptable not to object to my former son-in-law who brutally beat up my daughter before divorcing her and marrying a woman who became a senior member of the Party’s Women’s Wing and its PR/Media Cell.'
*He also went ahead and appointed PAP's LYNDA TABUYA as the Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, the very woman who stood in Parliament and was demanding proof of the rape of Indo-Fijian women shortly after Rabuka's 1987 racially motivated coups.
*While hiding behind the IMMUNITY he obtained for his TREASON and other Crimes against Humanity, in 2016 Rabuka himself presented traditional apology to SODELPA, and asked for support on taking up the party leadership.
*He never went to the Police to report Radrodro, for the man involved in the extra-martial affair with his daughter was related to the Kubuabolas. Ratu Inoke Kubuabola was one of the Co-Coup Conspirators in 1987
*We are not defending Radrodro but it is time Rabuka practised what he is now preaching regarding the role of 'matanigasau' in culture.
*He should have directed SODELPA to conduct a parallel inquiry against Radrodro to establish the 'brutal bonking and drug-taking scandal'.

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RAPE OF INDO-FIJIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS. TABUYA, Where are FACTS?

7th Australian Army Brigade Infamy and its Deputy Commander NALIVA. We revealed how Bainimarama's Master Torturer tried to shove his rifle up Sam Speight's rear at RFMF Torture Chamber Cell. Qarase confirms it

28/1/2024

 

In 2012, I had revealed in C4/5 Sam Speight's testimony that he had provided to me. Ten years later, in December 2022, the deposed Prime Minister and late Laisenia Qarase's autobiography
​PRISONER 302 confirms my story.

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A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY. The Australian ARMY's 7th Brigade appoints Frank Bainimarama's MASTER TORTURER Colonel PENIONI (BEN) Naliva as the Brigade's DEPUTY Commander for 2024 and 2025

27/1/2024

 
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*We strongly believe that the appointment has been sanctioned by Coupist Rabuka's three-legged wobbly Coalition government because there was widespread concern that NALIVA, Bainimarama's former Personal Staff Officer, was most likely to stage a COUP against the Coalition government. 'Lets sideline him to Australia, matey', theory.
*Naliva had led the arrest of Bau paramount chief Apenisa Cakobau.
*We are also surprised that the so-called anti-Bainimarama regime human rights campaigners are quite as church mouse against the appointment, especially Coalition Minister SAKIASI DITOKA who was former PS to the late deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase.​

"As we sat and discussed the happenings of the day, my mobile phone rang and I noticed that it was Captain Penioni (Ben) Naliva’s number. Naliva was and still is the Commander RFMF, Frank Bainimarama’s Personal Staff Officer (PSO). I was seated beside the then Attorney-General, Mr Qoriniase Bale. When I received the call, Naliva said hello to me and then gave the phone to Frank Bainimarama who then proceeded to swear at the Prime Minister and myself in Fijian. He used filthy Fijian swear words that were unbecoming of his office and especially the one that he was illegally seizing. It appeared that Bainimarama was enraged at the news items of the coup especially the interviews of the Prime Minister by the international press.
He used words to this effect, “Ditoka, na cava tale dou se cakava tiko qori? Tukuna vua na luve ni magaitinana qori me sogota na gusuna de’u na lako yani i keri me’u yarataka na domona me vakavodoki i na waqa me fuck-off laivi i nodratou koro. Cava dou vinakata mo dou lai laulaumoku yani e keri? Dou veicai, sa oti na nomudou gauna. Tukuna vua na tamata qori me sogota na gusuna de’u na qai gole sobu yani me’u lai sogota vua”
It can be translated as follows: “Ditoka, what else are you people doing there? Tell that son of his mother’s vagina (referring to the then Prime Minister, Mr Laisenia Qarase) to shut his mouth or I’ll come down there and drag him by the neck so that he can fuck-off to his village. Do you people want to be beaten up? You people fuck each other, your time is over. Tell that person (again referring to Mr Qarase) to shut his mouth or I’ll come down to shut it for him.”
SAKIASI DITOKA after Bainimarama's coup against Laisenia Qarase; the deposed Prime Minister has narrated the incident in his Prisoner 302, confirming our Editor-in-Chief's claim in C4/5 in 2012.
Sadly, the Coalition have not only let me down, but betrayed me once they came to power in the three-legged wobbly Coalition. We will fight on.
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7th Brigade is a high-readiness Brigade of the Australian Army, based at Gallipoli Barracks in Brisbane

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From Fiijileaks Archive, 26 April 2023.
Sam Speight's Torturer is now Deputy Commander of the Australian Army's 7th Brigade and will be based in Brisbane, where Sam Speight had sought asylum from the rogue

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From Fijileaks Archive, 2 April 2014

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Frank Bainimarama sent two of his soldiers (Ben Naliva and Aseri Rokoua) to the Fiji National University on Monday morning (the 31st of March) to chase Pita Waqawai, President of the FTA/FNU, out of his office for revealing to public the marginalization of Indigenous Fijians in the issuing of the Government's Toppers scholarship as revealed in the social medias on the weekend of the Hong Kong Sevens tournament.

In an interview outside FNU Samabula Campus,  Waqawai said that his report was based on facts and there was nothing sinister about it. He commented that FNU deals with the education of every Fiji citizens and the Fijian Teachers Association is concerned with the education of Indigenous Fijian students hence the report is completely valid and is within their jurisdiction.

The two soldier bully boys escorted Waqawai out of the University compound where his termination letter was delivered to him by the Manager Human Resources FNU, Poasa Koroitamana.

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Below is Mr Waqawai's release that prompted the action of Bainimarama and his staff from the PM's Office.

Update No. 1/2014: Toppers Scholarship

Ni bula saka.

Please, kindly allow me to share this information with you pertaining to the government’s Toppers Scholarship. This revelation was part of presentations at the Fiji Indigenous Business Council forum held last week, quoted in brief as follows: “Toppers scholarship for the top 600 students in Fiji only 14 went to the "real" Fijians and 586 went to the "fake" Fijians. In % terms: 2.33% to Indigenous Fijians and 97.67% to Indigenous Indians Prior to this it was 300 for Fijians and 300 for Indians.” Food for thought – with elections around the corner! Me da kakua ni rere, guce se madua e na kena tutaki saka tiko na dina, liga qaqa tiko e na qaravi tavi, ka kalougata saka tiko.

Vinaka saka vakalevu.
Pita Waqawai
Senior Lecturer President, FTA/FNU Branch Samabula


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FORBIDDEN LOVE. Tabuya claims she is NOT romantically involved with Radrodro. Really, if so why did she leave open door to Room 233 for him to sneak in for 'brutal bonking'. LYNDA TABUYA , 'I LOVE YOU MY KING'

25/1/2024

 
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Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, Lynda Tabuya has vehemently denied rumors of a romantic involvement with Social Democratic Liberal Party MP Aseri Radrodro. She dismissed the rumours and labelled the claims as “fake news.”  ​Tabuya insists that the texts and inappropriate images circulating on social media are fabricated and she has filed a complaint regarding this matter with the Fiji Police Force.She stands firm in asserting that there has been no romantic involvement with Radrodro and refers to those spreading this information online as keyboard warriors.
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Lynda Tabuya’s decision to break her silence to describe the evidence of a “romantic involvement” with Aseri Radrodro as “fake news” reflects the fact that she is fighting for her political life.
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She is going to have to persuade the current PAP inquiry into the allegations against her that they have been fabricated or face the prospect of censure that could see her propelled to the backbenches and inflict severe, even terminal, damage on her political career.
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It is an impossible task. Because the evidence clearly indicates that Lynda Tabuya is lying when she says there was “no romantic involvement” between her and Aseri Radrodro. Just as the pair lied to the Prime Minister last September and he, in turn, misled the nation.

The “brutal” sex she describes between the two in their leaked text messages may not be romantic in the traditional sense of roses and sweet nothings but some of the exchanges between the two are inarguably tender. And let’s just remind ourselves of the facts as we know them.

Not only were the explosive images and text messages that Lynda Tabuya sent to Aseri Radroro extracted from his mobile phone. She subsequently confessed to Aseri Radrodro’s wife, Sainiana -both verbally and in writing – that they had had an affair and begged for forgiveness.

If she says this is not true, she is lying. And In her comments to FBC News late yesterday (see previous posting), Lynda Tabuya told further porkies that Grubsheet is in a position to expose with hard evidence.

This is what she said:

QUOTE: The Australian Federal Police have assisted the Fiji police to instruct certain figures who have been on Facebook and have websites to take down. You know, content that they have displayed. And so I will be pursuing that continually in terms of the police investigation.”

FACT: The Australian Federal Police have not been involved in instructing “certain figures” – Grubsheet – to take down anything. It is a fabrication designed to create the impression that what we reported was factually wrong and is pitched directly at the PAP inquiry.

What happened was that Lynda Tabuya complained to the Australian Government’s E-Safety Commissioner – a statutory body set up to deal with complaints about image-based abuse on the Internet. Much of its effort is directed at “revenge porn” – people who publish intimate images of their ex-partners.

The E-Safety Commissioner wrote to me “in response to a report about intimate images shared without consent” on Grubsheet.

QUOTE: “We confirm the person in the intimate images located at the URLs detailed in the table on the following page does not consent to their intimate images being posted on the website administered by you, being http://www.grubsheet.com.au. “

“The person in the intimate images does not consent”. Who is that person? Lynda Tabuya. The images are of her.

The E Safety Commissioner instructed Grubsheet to remove a number of these “intimate images”, including one that depicted tattoos of turtles on Lynda Tabuya’s back.

At no point in the correspondence is there any suggestion that these images are fake. On the contrary, there is tacit acknowledgement that they are genuine.

“We confirm the person in the intimate images does not consent to their intimate images being posted on the website administered by you”

Clearly, publishing “fake” material and publishing material that is authentic but to which consent has not been given are two different things altogether. And this is something that needs to be clearly understood by the PAP Disciplinary Subcommittee.

I repeat: Grubsheet stands by the authenticity of the material we published in the same way that Victor Lal stands by the authenticity of the same material he published on Fijileaks..

Under Australian law, I had no choice but to comply with the E-safety Commissioner’s directive. Yet the record shows that I had already taken down most of the images BEFORE I was contacted by the E-Safety Commissioner because it had made some of my women readers uncomfortable.

For the record, below is edited correspondence from the E-Safety Commissioner (removing my address and the identity of the E-Safety case manager) and my response. There has been no further correspondence between us.
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Readers can decide for themselves whether we have purveyed “fake” material or authentic material to which Lynda Tabuya objected because she hadn’t given us permission to use it. Yet a number of questions remain, among them:
  • If this is “fake news”, why would Lynda Tabuya go to the Radrodro family home and tearfully confess to an affair with Aseri Radrodro and beg for forgiveness?”
  • *If this is “fake news”, why didn’t Lynda Tabuya and Aseri Radrodro call a news conference to deny “any romantic involvement” when this story first broke rather than Lynda waiting to make a public statement only after the PAP inquiry has begun?
  • If this is “fake news”, why does one of the leaked images show a portion of a carpet that is an identical match for the carpet in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel?
  • If this is “fake news” why hasn’t Lynda Tabuya answered the call to “show us the turtles” – the tattoos that are clearly visible in one of the leaked images?
And if this is “fake news”, why suggest that the Australian Federal Police had any part in getting Grubsheet to remove images when it was the E-Safety Commissioner to which Lynda Tabuya complained and on the basis not that they are fake but that she hadn’t given us her consent to use them?

Read on.
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SODELPA MANAGEMENT BOARD MEETING. Raised Eye-brows as Kepa visits the Naitasiri high chief Ratu Inoke Takiveikata before Sodelpa meet on Rabuka-Radrodro saga, with Tanya Waqanika accused of meddling

25/1/2024

 

THE LAST SUPPER: Election loser and former Sodelpa Management Board member Waqanika accused of offering dinner to some Board members at her office to allegedly influence Friday (today's) meeting).
She has also accused the Radrodros' of trying to influence the SMB to join the FFP during the Coalition talks. If true, so what - it was the democratic choice of winning candidates to choose who they would be comfortable working with in a new government. It is no secret that Waqanika harbours her anger for the way she was removed from Fiji TV. We ran several stories based on the documents she leaked to us

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​Just reading Fiji Times (25/01/24) headlines this morning, I am glad that Mr Anare Jale has finally spoken publicly about Aseri and Sainiana Radrodro's role in the post 2022 elections negotiations where Sodelpa had to choose between PAP/NFP or FFP.

The Radrodros were indeed the main key couple that lobbied and spearheaded the campaign with the Management Board members to support FFP.

I could not understand the rationale behind the Radrodros motives for Sodelpa to vote FFP as the nation wanted a change from the 16 years of FFP Govt and moreso, the change from the 2 men rule leadership of Bainimarama and Khaiyum.

SODELPA Party stands for the preservation and protection of indigenous rights (amongst other things) & given the laws that FFP had introduced during their term of power, they were seen as a party that was anti iTaukei.

By the Grace of God and for those of us who sat in the Southern Cross Hotel we narrowly won by secret ballot - mind you, the Sodelpa Party constitution does not allow secret ballots in Management Board meetings. The secret ballot was requested by pro FFP MB members as they had received threats after they voted for FFP on Tuesday, 20th Dec, 2022 (Yue Lai Hotel) - the 1st voting which was nullified.

During the 2022 campaign period, all candidates including the Party members knew that we had to distant ourselves from FFP and we assured our voters that we will never ever form a coalition with FFP should a situation arise where we had to choose - well, who would ever think that the situation would arise in December, 2022.

The fact that Sodelpa even considered discussing with FFP was beyond me given that we had assured our supporters that we will never form a Coalition with FFP.

The demotion of Radrodro as a backbencher and this FNU saga has now become a secondary issue after the statement made by the Sodelpa Working Committee (WC) on Saturday, 20th Jan, 2024.

The threat made by the WC to even consider joining FFP has now become the primary issue.

Sodelpa received backlash from the public & party supporters when the WC threatened to negotiate with FFP simply over the issue of 1 person - Aseri Radrodro.

The Working Committee showed their incompetence, political immaturity and lack of understanding of the Party Constitution as they had no mandate to make such a statement.

After reading yesterday's Fiji Sun headlines, I told myself that there would have been some hope for Radrodro had the WC kept quiet in the first place & seek to resolve this impasse behold closed doors with the Coalition Govt..

​Radrodro's picture alone sitting with other WC members (I believe he is also a member), naturally triggered thoughts to party members & supporters that oppose any coalition with FFP that the couple, yet again making moves (reasons only known and personal beneficial to them) for Sodelpa to join FFP. To succeed, they need the Sodelpa Board members to vote against the Coalition Govt. The Sodelpa MB meeting will be held tomorrow at Southern Cross.
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I pray that for tomorrow's board meeting, there will not be any secret ballot voting as this is not permitted under the Sodelpa Constitution. People need to know whether their board reps are supporting or opposing the Coalition. I also pray that the Management Board puts the interest of the nation first over the individual/s.
Mr Jale and I are no longer Sodelpa Management board members.

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