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Fijileaks to WILLIAM WYLIE CLARKE: Have you established what is NIKO NAWAIKULA'S real name - NIKOLAU TUIQAMEA or NIKO NAWAIKULA? *When was the name change approved, for he filed an application to renounce his birth certificate name by Deed Poll on 21 July 2021? His lawyers presented to the Chief Justice KAMAL KUMAR Nawaikula's legal practicing certificates (see below) that reveal different names.
*However, in the Ministry of Justice and Fiji Law Society's 'List of Legal Practitioners with valid Practising Certificate', NIKOLAU TUIQAMEA is the only one who is regularly listed as NIKO NAWAIKULA.
*In fact, it was under his pet name that he was convicted and fined for professional misconducts previously.
*In PacLII Fiji legal database one cannot find anyone convicted under the name NIKOLAU TUIQAMEA.
*Is there an unwritten rule that a lawyer can insist with the Fiji Law Society that although his name on his birth certificate is 'Charlie Butusona', he wants to be officially listed as 'Charlie Banana'?
*In January 2021, 'Tuiqamea' fronted the Suva Magistrates Court, charged by FICAC for allegedly fiddling with his travel expenses. He is facing one count (with five other MPs) of giving false information to a public servant and one count of obtaining a financial advantage. It is alleged that he gave false information to the Parliament Secretary General, Viniana Namosimalua, while claiming for allowances.
*Again, he was presented before the court as NIKO NAWAIKULA.
*However, for the first time in his legal career, 'Niko Nawaikula' suddenly appeared in the Chief Justice's judgment with aliases as follows:
However, in the Ministry of Justice and Fiji Law Society's 'List of Legal Practitioners with valid Practising Certificate', NIKOLAU TUIQAMEA is the only one who is regularly listed as NIKO NAWAIKULA. Was there an exception to the rule for NIKOLAU TUIQAMEA to list his 'PET' name, even though he had NOT legally renounced his name on his birth certificate until 21 July 2021, as Supervisor of Elections closed IN on HIM?
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The two Government lawyers who represented the Elections Supervisor, and identified by their full names in the Legal Practitioners List:
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From Fijileaks Archive, February 2017
