BANNING ORDER? Professor Brij Lal was banned from Fiji for calling for Democracy in Fiji and yet Ian Lloyd who called Bainimarama 'Puppet Master' is roaming the corridors of Fiji's court house!
Ian Lloyd was one of three Fiji Appeal Court judges who had ruled that the 2006 coup was illegal. The President and Bainimarama, while abrograting the 1997 Constitution, had claimed that the FCA decision had left the country with a leadership vacuum.
The then Justice Lloyd had told Radio Australia's Pacific Beat the events that followed the dumping of the Constitution were of the military's own making: "This is misinformation, quite malicious misinformation, that Bainimarama and the President have spread to enable them to abrogate the constitution and run the country as a military regime, a dictatorship that they want...We obviously anticipated that there might be problems - I don't think any of us anticipated that Bainimarama would take the judgement well, and I don't think the ramifications were out of our minds. But I don't think we quite thought that Bainimarama would go to this extreme...I don't think any of us thought things would go that far, and certainly go that far that quickly that the country would suddenly be overtaken by an illegal military regime." Lloyd had said it was clear to him that Bainimarama was behind the president's actions. "One can only assume that from the pace of what has occurred in the past few days, the president simply, from my observation, would not have been the one that was making these decisions...Clearly he would have been acting on advice, and the advice could only have come from Bainimarama. I don't think one can say other than sensibly - he is the puppet and Bainimarama is the puppet master."
Ian Lloyd QC, Randall Powell SC and Francis Douglas QC in Fiji's Court of Appeal. [ABC TV] (Credit: ABC)
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