*On 20 April 2009, eight magistrates and Chief Magistrate (Ajmal Khan) were sworn in by the then President Ratu Josefa Iloilo following the abrogation of the 1997 Constitution of Fiji.
*Salesi Temo, John Rabuku and Anare Tuilevuka were among the magistrates sworn-in to prop up the illegal Bainimarama dictatorship.
*On 11 June 2009 Temo was sworn-in as acting puisne judge, alongside a former arbitrator William Calachini who became a puisne judge
*Now, he is acting Chief Justice and we have no doubt he is acting the judicial tough guy in the hope of being appointed Chief Justice.
*His then side-kick magistrate John Rabuku is playing the same game.
DIAL A 'KAIVITI' FOR A LEGAL JOB. It is obvious even to 'Blind Freddy' that most of the judicial appointments are being made on the basis of 'kila vata' connections. Basically, 'hei, where are you, come, take up a job in the judiciary'. We are witnessing the total i-taukeinization of the judiciary, just like shortly after the 1987 Rabuka coups.
*The next Chief Justice must be DANIEL GOUNDAR and not TEMO.
TWO of Sitiveni Rabuka's 1987 RACIST enforcers are back as JUDGES.
It was the NFP, and its leader and MPs, who clothed them in the sulu of immunity for the rape, murder, torture and beatings of Indo-Fijians.
*Hiding behind IMMUNITY that Rabuka extracted at the point of the gun, we saw Indo-Fijian academics at USP abducted and beaten up; one even whacked for hours in a military cell for writing a negative review of the Coupist's book, No Other Way, in which he had justified his two racially motivated coups. |