UNLIKE Agni Deo who VETOED two Indo-Fijian candidates, Radrodro's preferred choice was NAVIN RAJ but the PSC kept Radrodro in the dark
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Minister for Education, Aseri Radrodro has rejected the Public Service Commission’s decision to appoint Selina Kuruleca as his Permanent Secretary.
The Commission had appointed Kuruleca as the PS in May.
Today Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka held a meeting with Kuruleca in relation to the matter.
Rabuka told FBC News that the meeting was fruitful.
“She will not go to Education. She will probably come to one of the Ministries that doesn’t have a Permanent Secretary at the moment. And I have the Environment under the Prime Minister portfolio that she can go to.”
Rabuka adds that the government will announce Kuruleca’s new post soon.
Kuruleca confirmed to FBC News that she has a valid contract and an appointment letter but will await the commission’s advice before she can comment further.
The Commission had appointed Kuruleca as the PS in May.
Today Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka held a meeting with Kuruleca in relation to the matter.
Rabuka told FBC News that the meeting was fruitful.
“She will not go to Education. She will probably come to one of the Ministries that doesn’t have a Permanent Secretary at the moment. And I have the Environment under the Prime Minister portfolio that she can go to.”
Rabuka adds that the government will announce Kuruleca’s new post soon.
Kuruleca confirmed to FBC News that she has a valid contract and an appointment letter but will await the commission’s advice before she can comment further.
The teacher unions rejected Selina Kuruleca’s appointment as the Permanent Secretary for Education.
Minister for Education Aseri Radrodro confirmed this to FBC News this afternoon.
Kuruleca was appointed by the Public Service Commission in late May.
Radrodro says the Union argued that there were other qualified candidates for the PS Position.
He says that he was also not consulted prior to her appointment.
The Minister adds that he would have aired his concerns to avoid what he calls an unfortunate scenario.
Meanwhile, the PSC is not required to consult ministers when it comes to the appointment of the Permanent Secretaries.
According to Section 126(1) of the 2013 Constitution, the Public Service Commission appoints Permanent Secretaries with the agreement of the Prime Minister.
PSC Chair Luke Rokovada confirms that there will not be any further discussion on the matter.
Minister for Education Aseri Radrodro confirmed this to FBC News this afternoon.
Kuruleca was appointed by the Public Service Commission in late May.
Radrodro says the Union argued that there were other qualified candidates for the PS Position.
He says that he was also not consulted prior to her appointment.
The Minister adds that he would have aired his concerns to avoid what he calls an unfortunate scenario.
Meanwhile, the PSC is not required to consult ministers when it comes to the appointment of the Permanent Secretaries.
According to Section 126(1) of the 2013 Constitution, the Public Service Commission appoints Permanent Secretaries with the agreement of the Prime Minister.
PSC Chair Luke Rokovada confirms that there will not be any further discussion on the matter.
NAVIN RAJ, the former Principal of Indian College (formerly JAI NARAYAN COLLEGE) in Suva was let down by the NFP in the three-legged Coalition government.
*But we are not surprised, for since 1987 coups, the party has been PIMPING Coupist Rabuka to lead them in a coalition pact. In December 2022, they got their wish, finally.
*In October 1987, the former NFP Deputy Leader Mrs IRENE JAI NARAYAN (the school was named in her husband's honour) had become Rabuka's MINISTER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, endorsing the gross human rights violations, beatings, torture, and rape of Indo-Fijians, not to mention the political disenfranchisement of the Indo-Fijians in the name of bogus i-Taukei indigenous rights claims. Neither Mrs Narayan, Jai Ram Reddy nor Biman Prasad had (have) the right to whitewash Rabuka's treasonous crimes against Indo-Fijians.
*These political pimps don't represent Indo-Fijians views on RABUKA.
As the late SIR VIJAY SINGH once reminded us, Rabuka looked around and found that NFP was a willing PARTNER to protect his TREASON
"Thank you Mr Speaker sir, I called the Honorable Prime Minister last night when we finished from here, just to apologize to him because what was said last night by honourable Ketan Lal was not only disgraceful, it was in bad taste, it was designed to fan further racial ill will and hostility between the communities and as the Honorable Prime Minister said himself..."
"I was around Sir in 87, I had started my work. I was probably as young, probably younger than Honorable Ketan Lal and probably younger than Honorable Rinesh Sharma. And we know what happened. We have history. We saw what happened since 87. We saw the Honourable Prime Minister over those many years. We saw when he was Prime Minister..."
"We saw when he led this country into a process of reconciliation and formulation of the 1997 constitution. The 1990 constitution sir, that was imposed on us under which the Honorable Prime Minister was Prime Minister, he had no reason, he had the majority to change that constitution..."
"That was a landmark, historical leadership shown by the Honorable Prime Minister. Mr Speaker sir, yesterday, and I thank the Honorable Leader of the Opposition, I thank him very much for stating what he stated - taking the responsibility. Mr Speaker in this August house in the past, we have suspended members of parliament when I was in opposition for statements much less hostile than what was uttered by Honourable Ketan..."
"In fact in the last session of parliament when he spoke Mr. Speaker sir, I was tempted to refer him to the privileges committee then. If you remember, if you look at Hansard and the speech that he made and I thought Sir, that as you quite rightly pointed out..."
"I know him. He used to be a very strong National Federation Party supporter once. Don't know what happened. He moved to some people. He became Fiji First. He is a member of parliament, I respect him and as the Honorable Leader of the Opposition said..."
"I myself was an activist during 87 and beyond that and we like young people to be in parliament to contribute. And we want them to grow outside the shadows of some others, but what I heard yesterday not only from him, Mr Speaker Sir, but from some others as well is some disgraceful attack, personal attack, attack on the family..."
"I sat on the opposition Sir for 8 years on the other side. Never once I attacked an Honorable Member's family. In politics Sir, in this day and age, the families have a lot of burden on them. And when you make those kinds of statements as was made by him, I don't mind. Sir, I always remember Winston Churchill's famous saying, where he said that you will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. So I always tell myself and I accept what people say about me..."
"I think if this matter is not to if it is not to go to the privileges committee, then honourable Ketan Lal must unreservedly apologize to the Honorable Prime Minister and give an undertaking that he will not repeat, not only to the Honorable Prime Minister but to other Honorable members on the government side or even with his own colleagues..."
"I know Mr Speaker there were other things said by other members yesterday. Those who are experienced, we will deal with that separately but on this I accept your very wise intervention and counsel in this matter. But I once again Mr Speaker, I apologize to the Honorable Prime Minister. On behalf of whoever is there, if there are members of the Indo-Fijian community..."
"In fact a lot of them called me last night and they were deeply deeply disturbed by the way in which Honorable Ketan Lal spoke and spoke disparagingly not only about the Prime Minister calling him incompetent, but also invoking racial invoking incidents 1987, to invoke racial hatred, racial ill will and link it to crime and other things. When in fact no, we should be hosing all those down in the social media that comes..."
"Otherwise Mr Speaker we will be stuck - the past is important. We look at history, it's important. We learn from history and I know she is commenting but she also talks about 87. I mean, we already Mr Speaker, we are talking about how to get over it and here she is still not pleased with what has happened..."
"And that's the arrogance that we want to take out of this house. But Mr Speaker if we are ,to move forward with this, then I move that we ask Honorable Ketan Lal to apologize unreservedly and give an undertaking that he would not repeat this, thank you Mr Speaker."
"I was around Sir in 87, I had started my work. I was probably as young, probably younger than Honorable Ketan Lal and probably younger than Honorable Rinesh Sharma. And we know what happened. We have history. We saw what happened since 87. We saw the Honourable Prime Minister over those many years. We saw when he was Prime Minister..."
"We saw when he led this country into a process of reconciliation and formulation of the 1997 constitution. The 1990 constitution sir, that was imposed on us under which the Honorable Prime Minister was Prime Minister, he had no reason, he had the majority to change that constitution..."
"That was a landmark, historical leadership shown by the Honorable Prime Minister. Mr Speaker sir, yesterday, and I thank the Honorable Leader of the Opposition, I thank him very much for stating what he stated - taking the responsibility. Mr Speaker in this August house in the past, we have suspended members of parliament when I was in opposition for statements much less hostile than what was uttered by Honourable Ketan..."
"In fact in the last session of parliament when he spoke Mr. Speaker sir, I was tempted to refer him to the privileges committee then. If you remember, if you look at Hansard and the speech that he made and I thought Sir, that as you quite rightly pointed out..."
"I know him. He used to be a very strong National Federation Party supporter once. Don't know what happened. He moved to some people. He became Fiji First. He is a member of parliament, I respect him and as the Honorable Leader of the Opposition said..."
"I myself was an activist during 87 and beyond that and we like young people to be in parliament to contribute. And we want them to grow outside the shadows of some others, but what I heard yesterday not only from him, Mr Speaker Sir, but from some others as well is some disgraceful attack, personal attack, attack on the family..."
"I sat on the opposition Sir for 8 years on the other side. Never once I attacked an Honorable Member's family. In politics Sir, in this day and age, the families have a lot of burden on them. And when you make those kinds of statements as was made by him, I don't mind. Sir, I always remember Winston Churchill's famous saying, where he said that you will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. So I always tell myself and I accept what people say about me..."
"I think if this matter is not to if it is not to go to the privileges committee, then honourable Ketan Lal must unreservedly apologize to the Honorable Prime Minister and give an undertaking that he will not repeat, not only to the Honorable Prime Minister but to other Honorable members on the government side or even with his own colleagues..."
"I know Mr Speaker there were other things said by other members yesterday. Those who are experienced, we will deal with that separately but on this I accept your very wise intervention and counsel in this matter. But I once again Mr Speaker, I apologize to the Honorable Prime Minister. On behalf of whoever is there, if there are members of the Indo-Fijian community..."
"In fact a lot of them called me last night and they were deeply deeply disturbed by the way in which Honorable Ketan Lal spoke and spoke disparagingly not only about the Prime Minister calling him incompetent, but also invoking racial invoking incidents 1987, to invoke racial hatred, racial ill will and link it to crime and other things. When in fact no, we should be hosing all those down in the social media that comes..."
"Otherwise Mr Speaker we will be stuck - the past is important. We look at history, it's important. We learn from history and I know she is commenting but she also talks about 87. I mean, we already Mr Speaker, we are talking about how to get over it and here she is still not pleased with what has happened..."
"And that's the arrogance that we want to take out of this house. But Mr Speaker if we are ,to move forward with this, then I move that we ask Honorable Ketan Lal to apologize unreservedly and give an undertaking that he would not repeat this, thank you Mr Speaker."
LAMU ROLLED OVER AND APOLOGISED AFTER GETTING A 'MASSAGE' FOR TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT RABUKA AND 1987 COUPS
