MEMORY LOSS or Self-Aggrandisement on Rabuka's part. After Ratu Epenisa Cakobau's installation as Vunivalu, Rabuka claims Epenisa's father had asked him in 1981: 'Look after Epenisa. I kept my promise'.

MEMORY LOSS: In Rabuka's posting below, he claims that the late Captain Ratu Savenaca Draunidalo was Aide-de-Camp to the late Governor-General Ratu Sir George Cakobau in 1981 when he went up to Government House where Ratu Sir George allegedly told Rabuka,
'Mo qai nanumi Epenisa tiko' (Look after Epenisa).
Fijileaks: Draunidalo was never aide-de-camp to Ratu Sir George but in 1987 was one of the ten hooded gunmen who stormed Parliament and overthrew the Bavadra government. His ex-wife Adi Kuini was at the time of the 1987 coup married to Dr Timoci Bavadra.
*The aide-de-camp to Ratu Sir George Cakobau in 1981 was Rabuka's cousin, the late retired Colonel Mataisai Lomaloma, not Colonel Draunidalo. 
*Why does Rabuka suddenly remember his conversation with Ratu Sir George during
​Ratu Epenisa Cakobau's installation last Saturday?
  *Is he claiming personal credit for it?
*Sorry, Fiji, and especially his cheerleaders, it does NOT ADD UP.
*Even if the late Draunidalo was an aide-de-camp to Ratu Sir Goerge, it beggars belief that of all i-Taukei Fijians, Ratu Sir GeorgeCakobau entrusted the welfare of Ratu Epenisa to Sitiveni Rabuka - 'The Chosen One' - in 1981

‘I kept my promise’---Forty Two Years Later

"Watching the pomp and pageantry of the installation of the Turaga Bale na Vunivalu, na Tui Kaba on Friday took me back some 42 years. I was Commanding Officer of the Fiji Battalion with the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon in 1981, and I had returned to Fiji for a short holiday. In Suva, I was told that HE the Governor General wanted to see me at Government House. Ratu Sir George Cakobau was of course my Commander in Chief, so I went up. He was also the Turaga Bale Vunivalu, na Tui Kaba. Brigadier Ian Thorpe was then Commander of the RFMF, and Captain Ratu Save Draunidalo was aide-de-camp of Ratu Sir George. “Mo qai nanumi Epenisa tiko,” (‘Look after Epenisa’) was Ratu Sir George’s parting words to me on that day. With Ratu Epenisa’s installation in Bau on Friday, those words have come to pass. I had kept my promise."

The late Ratu Sir George Cakobau

Fijileaks Founding Editor-in-Chief: We were intimately connected with the Cakobau family, for my father was not only President of the Alliance Party's Tailevu branch but he was also responsible for the campaigns of Ratu Sir George Cakobau and Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau, the successor to Ratu Sir George as Governor-General of Fiji. Both won the Tailevu North/Ovalau Open seat in the 1970s.
*In the 1980s, Ratu Epenisa Cakobau used to join a Fiji Sun colleague (the late Eparama Turaga) and I for a cuppa at the old Anchor Inn, Victoria Parade. He was occasionally joined by one of the Mara siblings and the then British High Commissioner to Fiji.
*​We wonder if Rabuka had sought clearance from his Commander, which is normal military protocol, in order  to pay courtesy call on the Governor-General who was the Commander in Chief in 1981?  
*Surely,  Ratu Sir George at that time would not even have a clue if Rabuka would become a Commander of the RFMF, let alone execute the coup 6 years later in 1987?
 *And if Ratu Sir George did, in fact, ask him to look after Ratu Epenisa Cakobau, why didn’t Rabuka do anything about it when he was  Prime Minister from 1992 to 1999?
*Why does he suddenly remember this conversation with Ratu Sir George during Ratu Epenisa Cakobau's installation last Saturday?
  *Is he claiming personal credit for it?
*Sorry, Fiji, and especially his cheerleaders, it does NOT ADD UP.
*Isa, Lets PRAY if he Suffered a Memory Loss about 1981