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

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"