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NFP President: "Militarization of the Police Force Cannot Be Tolerated"

12/11/2015

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“The unexplained, controversial and sudden departure of the Police Commissioner as well as the appointment of the Fiji Military Forces Land Forces Commander to act as the Head Police is clearly continued militarization of various state offices including the Police Force,” says NFP President, Hon Roko Tupou Draunidalo.

“This shows that military rule remains supreme in the country and above civilian rule enforced by the police.
It is evidently clear that Police Commissioner Ben Groenwald was given his marching orders abruptly by the Prime Minister because three police officers are facing prosecution for alleged brutality on an prison escapee” adds Hon Draunidalo.

Hon Draunidalo says police officers being recruited as soldiers in the Fiji Military Forces after being suspended from the Police Force with the Land Force Commander publicly saying they were ‘abandoned’ by the Police Force was also very concerning.

“Mr Groenwald’s confirmation of interference from the military is well and publicly documented in his comments to both local and international media. On Fiji One News on Wednesday 11th November he even goes on to say that ‘the military was harbouring a suspect’ in the Iowane Benedito case and that ‘to him this was perverting the course of justice’,” states the NFP President.

“These are very strong and serious statements coming from the Head of a law enforcement agency. It proves that the military is above the law and is abusing its constitutional authority as the supposed ultimate guarantors of peace and security of the nation, and it throws grave doubt as to whether Parliament as the highest authority of the land really will be respected by the military”, states Draunidalo.

The NFP President says the process behind this saga lends credence to the view that the Prime Minister knew of this interference. The Prime Minister appears to have forced Mr Groenwald out of office and once again abused his authority as Chairman of the Constitutional Offices Commission to make an acting appointment – and that too from the military. By doing this qualified, competent and career police officers who assisted the Commissioner were by-passed.

“The forced resignation of Groenwald is wrong, the appointment of the Acting Commissioner is a case of nepotism and cronyism of the highest order.

Meritocracy has been trashed in favour of jobs ‘for the boys’,” states Hon Roko Tupou Draunidalo.

“This sad episode illustrates the Fiji First Government has no regard for the rule of law and the Constitution that it formulated and forced upon the people of Fiji,” states the NFP President.

“It will also demoralize members of the police force who should now rightly fear the security of their employment after their boss was cast aside,” adds Hon Draunidalo.

The NFP President says the military continue to be a law unto themselves. The local legal fraternity and the international community should stop turning a blind eye to all of this this for the sake of preserving and promoting pseudo-democracy and at least condemn this act in the strongest manner.

The Prime Minister has a lot of explaining to do."

Hon Roko Tupou Draunidalo
President

COUPING his way from 1987 to be PRESIDENT:
Jioji Konrote in Government House

In November 2006, during the trial of five soldiers who had abducted and tortured an Indo-Fijian USP academic Dr Anirudh Singh over the burning of the 1990 racist Constitution, Konrote had testified that there was a secret Special Operations Security Unit, which had been set up after the first Rabuka coup; he should know, for he was part of the beginning of the coup culture in Fiji
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"The writ in this case was issued on the 1st July 1993 and the Statement of Claim annexed to it alleges that on the 24th October 1990 the Plaintiff [Dr Anirudh Singh] while walking along Rewa Street, Suva, was assaulted by the 2nd and 5th Defendants who then over-powered him and pushed him into the rear seat of a car which was being driven by, the 4th Defendant who in turn were assisted by the 3rd Defendant who was sitting in the rear seat of the car. The car was then driven to Colo-i-Suva where the Plaintiff was blindfolded by putting pads on both eyes before a strip of cloth was tied around his head in a blind-fold and a balaclava pulled securely over his head and tied around his neck. The Plaintiff alleges he was then walked into the woodland where his hands were tied behind him after which he was made to sit down and another rope then tied around his feet and slung around his neck. He alleges that one of the Defendants sat behind him holding a noose around his head and keeping him pulled backwards. The Plaintiff was told not to make any sound or try to escape. Afterwards he alleges he was repeatedly punched and kicked violently in the head, face and body and interrogated whilst he remained defencelessly bound. His captivity lasted some 11 hours. Towards night fall, the First Five Defendants either jointly or severally put on dark balaclavas and unbound the Plaintiff. He alleges they then assaulted him violently on the head and face from both sides for a prolonged period lasting some 10 minutes and methodically smashed up both his hands with a metal pipe furnished with a wooden handle. Afterwards, the Defendants cut the Plaintiffs hair, burnt it with cigarettes and disappeared into the darkness, taking the Plaintiff's shoes with them and leaving him alone in the dark in the forested hill. As a result of this abduction and torture the Plaintiff was hospitalised for three weeks at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital in Suva and alleges he suffered the following injuries:(a) Facial bruising around the left eye and orbit with sub-conjunctival haemorrhage;(b)Rope burns around both wrists; (c) Fracture of right radial styloid;(d) Compound fracture of the left fifth finger;(e) Fracture of base of fifth meta-carpal; (f) Abrasions of both hands; (g) Superficial burns of left shoulder and right forearm consistent with cigarette burns;(h) Contusions of anterior chest wall; and (i) Decreased sensation of left hand due to neuropraxia (bruising) of radial nerve from the wrist-rope. The First to Fifth Defendants at all material times are alleged to have been members of the Fiji Military Forces and servants and/or agents of the Government of Fiji, the Sixth Defendant being the legal representative of the Government of Fiji and vicariously liable for the acts of the First to Fifth Defendants."
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13 Comments
Rustam
12/11/2015 08:29:24 pm

What does the FRAUD Constitution say about the Constitutional appointments and dismissals??

The questions on everyone's' mind at the moment is - Is Law and Order totally down the drain?? Or is it another Military take-over?

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Kai vuda
12/11/2015 09:29:07 pm

Draunidalo senior was was involved in the planning of 1987 and 2000 coup.
Why didn't Tupou speak up against the 2000 coup knowing her father was one of the colonels behind the coup.
Indians were raped and brutalised why didn't she speak up.
NFP financial supporters financed 2000 coup.
Tupou should be investigated and suspended for financial mismanagement and unpaid election bills to a Nadi based rental car company.
Supervisor of elections and acting commissioner of police should investigate Tupou.

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Chiku
12/11/2015 10:08:32 pm

Militarisation not only of the police force but the entire civil administration of the country has been taking place since the unlawful Bainimarama takeover. We have tolerated it. We have been able to do sweet buggerall about it. This is the " New Fiji ".like it ( many apparently do ) or lump it.

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Kai vuda
12/11/2015 10:26:50 pm

Vinaka Saamjha and fijileaks.
Saamjha offended by my comment on Tupou and late col Draunidalo?
Don't react like Naiqama other wise you will be suspended like him.
Did NFP declare outstanding debts incurred by Tupou.

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Saamjha
13/11/2015 07:01:49 am

Kai vudi you are a small mind dwelling on small things. There are bigger fish in Fiji to fry. There are far more corrupt and thuggish people in power in Fiji for the people of Fiji to contend with. You are trying to distract focus from them. You are one of them!

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Vinay
13/11/2015 01:24:21 am

Thanks kai Vuda on the spot . All this lot From 87 to present coup lots of people were behind the scene and different sets of people different times , from Kaidia to kaiviti , now a different lot is power so the other lot has taken a high moral ground .
For me it should start from 87 and people have to accept the responsibility of f...ing a heaven like country where many different people lived in harmony clean air and abundance of fresh food water .it will take a long time to finish this coup cycle as there is no accountability for treason in Fiji.

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Kai vuda
13/11/2015 08:55:10 am

Totally agree with Vinay that we start with 1987.
It seems that Saamjha wasn't around in 1987 and he didn't suffer from this thug col Draunidalo who brutalised Indians in Saweni,Vuda and lomolomo.
Treasonist Draunidalo was in charge of military operations in the west.
We need to hang all rapist of democracy from 1987 to 2006 including Bai and Kai.

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Dekho
13/11/2015 09:34:31 pm

The brother of the Bainimarama regime installed new President George Con Rot described him as " a man of faith " ( Fiji Times ).
That is one man of faith from the 1987 racist military coup when Indo- Fijians were hounded because of their race and religion. Another is Ratu Inoke Kubuabola who was the leader of the Fiji Bible Society. Both are now in Bainimarama's " multiracial " Fiji !

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And
13/11/2015 11:14:01 pm

And the two you mention from 1987 are not the only ones. There were and still are many more in Bainimarama's line up from that dark and evil time in Fiji's history. In fact Bainimarama himself - another man of faith no doubt - also hails from that 1987 mob of thugs .

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Also..
14/11/2015 03:23:38 pm

..That former Prison And Police Comm, now parading in China as Fiji's Ambassador, the one in balaclava with Rambo removing Dr. Bavadra.

NFP Record
14/11/2015 10:19:10 am

Kai Vuda and so called cohorts should known as history dictates that NFP and it's backers had never got involved in any form in any coups.
It respects lawful processes in every aspect of governance, it respects independent judiciary, it respects civil society and harmony amongst faith and race.
Alliance Party, SVT, Sodelpa, Labor all compromised their principles for self enrichment and greed for power, they have now all but banished.

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Kai Vuda
14/11/2015 06:01:31 pm

For the information of NFP Record one of the financiers of 2000 coup was Punjas group based in lautoka.
Why did yogesh Punja leave Fiji after the coup?
Yogesh moved to India after the 2000 coup and later when investigations stopped by Qarase govt he moved to NZ.
We can name many current and former supporters of NFP who financed the 2000 coup.

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Kai vuda
14/11/2015 06:10:11 pm

Mr clean The balaclava commissioner was named by late Tui Nayau as one of them who forced him to resign as president in 2000.
Mr Clean is very close to taukei movement leader Inoke Kubuabola as both hail from Taveuni and related.
For Saamjha information they are Saamdi.
Mr clean acts as $10m investment manager for kubuabola in China.

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