RACISM ALIVE AND KICKING: The 1987 coup racist Kubuabola does not believe in Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Khaiyum's slogan 'NO RACE FACTOR' in appointments

RACISM ALIVE AND KICKING: The 1987 coup racist Kubuabola does not believe in Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Khaiyum's slogan 'NO RACE FACTOR' in appointments - just look at recent appointments in MFA!

3/5/2015

RISING HIGHER AND HIGHER LEAVING THE BOOT BOYS TO HOLD THE CAN: Lieutenant Colonel Manoa Gadai inspects his men

Diplomatic Appointment

Lt Col. Manoa Gadai has been posted to the Permanent Mission of Fiji to the United Nations as Counsellor/Military Advisor with effect from April 2015.

HQ Appointment

Ropate Cabealawa has joined the Ministry as Director for Research and Development with effect from 1 April 2015.

Promotions

Mrs. Setaita-Tupua Kalou Principal Foreign Service Officer UN/T has been promoted to Director for the UN Treaty/AMEEA Bureau with effect from 1 April 2015.

Simione D. Rokolaqa Principal Assistant Secretary Corporate Services has been promoted to Director Corporate Services with effect from 1 April 2015.

Internal Transfer

Sisalo Otelagi, former Director Corporate Services. has been transferred to take up the post of Director for Asia Oceania Bureau with effect from 1 April 2015.

Ms. Aliti Radevo Acting Senior Foreign Service Officer with Asia Oceania Bureau has been transferred to UN/T AMEEA Bureau with her existing terms.

Ms. Amelia Cobona Acting Senior Foreign Service Officer, with UN/T AMEEA to swap with Ms. Radevo.

VKB not abolished

Sunday, May 03, 2015, Fiji times

ITAUKEI people should be rest assured that the "Vola ni Kawa Bula" (VKB) will not be taken away by Government.

This is what connects every iTaukei person to their land and fishing grounds.

The statement was made by the iTaukei Affairs Ministry permanent secretary, Savenaca Kaunisela to the villagers of Naila, Bau in Tailevu following speculations reaching his office about the removal of the VKB.

On Friday night, Mr Kaunisela said there were other Government ministries that relied on the VKB, thus removing it would make work harder for these ministries.

"I want to assure those of you who are here that the VKB of indigenous Fijians is not abolishable," Mr Kaunisela said.

He added: "The VKB is an important book in the iTaukei Ministry where it is protected because it assists in the tenure royalty.

"We also have other Government ministries that need the VKB and if it is taken away from us, everything else would be meaningless," Mr Kaunisela said.

"The VKB will not be abolished," he reassured.

Mr Kaunisela said the VKB was an important part of indigenous Fijians as Fiji was also the only place in the world that had records saved for its people which connected them to their land, fishing grounds and other important information about each iTaukei.

"The VKB is also the only official document where iTaukei people are registered in," Mr Kaunisela said.

14 Comments

Dekho

2/5/2015 06:00:56 pm

Just because the coupist Frank Bainimarama and his main man Aiyaz Khaiyum have put out a slogan of no race factor in appointments does not mean that is what is happening in reality.
The ground reality in the " new " Fiji remains the same. And, Ratu Inoke Kubuabola provides good proof of that. He of course is not alone. Khaiyum has his own brand of " racial" appointments and Bainimarama's nepotism is racial as well.
The no race factor slogan simply took the people of Fiji including the intelligentsia for a ride!

Rashu

3/5/2015 03:05:16 am

You are only scratching the surface. 99% of Foreign Affairs is i-Taukei. Recent appointments as Counselors, Secretaries at Missions, support staff are almost exclusively people from one ethnic group. Climate Change Unit is back to its glory days as the exclusive domain of one group, a Missionary (kailoma) has been appointed as Director and he has lost no time in dancing to the tune of the racists by making ethnicity the only criteria in recruitment. Isn't it hypocritical though that when Neil Sharma tried to to balance the appointments in Health, the civil servants under him wrote a petition to demanding that he not be reappointed. He paid the ultimate price, the FFP used this as an excuse not to reappoint him as Minister of Health. Is there any hope for the vast majority of Indo-Fijians. I am afraid the civil service still remains out of bounds for the vast majority, what matters is family connections and friendship. Meritocracy is a joke! We are Fijian only in name.

Racism is PERMANENT

3/5/2015 03:20:13 pm

Absolutely. And by next election even the number of Indians in parliament will further reduce and those who do will be mere puppets of the leadership.

And they say George Speight was racists but ignorance and corrupt politicians have gone on to deliver the desires of Rabuka coup with disguised slogan "We Are All Fijians".

I-Taukei PS - an idiot

3/5/2015 03:33:43 pm

iTaukei Affairs Ministry permanent secretary, Savenaca Kaunisela said "I want to assure those of you who are here that the VKB of indigenous Fijians is not abolishable,"

"This is what connects every iTaukei person to their land and fishing grounds."

Ho wdoers this VKB protect the excessive fishing licence offered to Chinese to drain out all fish for benefit of their citizens.

Soon there will be less fish left for those i-Taukei who rely on fish as their staple diet due to overfishing by the corrupt.

As for land how does VKB protect the land as same Chinese are exporting all surface soil to China apart from the bauxite extraction and redumping of soil back into ground so replating can take place over it.

They even stealing soil as they over extract above their contract.

What will be VKB be WORTH for these I-Taukei in the long term?

Chiku

3/5/2015 03:43:29 pm

And what about all the military wallahs installed in civil administration posts which race do they belong to ?
Anyone who has been persuaded to believe the propaganda of Bainimarama and Khaiyum that race is no longer a factor in Fiji is an intellectual imbecile.

Turning Point - Parliamentary supremacy against Fiji Indians

3/5/2015 03:57:21 pm

YES - While Chinese are now draining all of i-Taukei's resources... and giving loan for overvalued infrastructure development, these i-Taukei are happy so long as they can carry on with slogan that they don't want Indians to Govern but it is Indian govt that gave $15million to help develop i-Taukei in rural regions.

Sooner rather than later they will realise it is their attitute towards Indians is what will lead to bankrupting their Fiji.

Their FNPF will be "worth" merely $0.50c/dollar as the value will evantually reflect Fiji's debt to population ratio while yearly budget continues to be giving at least $300m annual net deficit.

There will not be any fish or mineral left to process and sell to pay these huge debts that are getting accumulated, because they are getting taken away right now by Chinese with a small carrot of $million in lease payment.

This govt is a sell out govt and not one that are capable of a holistic policy approach for protecting its future but rather destructing it for short term gain to meet their protectors RFMF's budget handouts.

Yet we i-Taukei will go on to silently support "No Indian Govt" and support "one man one vote" policy to keep control on parliament that is cutting our legs to spite our face.

Ismail Al Habab

3/5/2015 06:10:42 pm

who says indians arent in government? we are everywhere - khans, alis, mohammed. So get your facts right.

On-song

3/5/2015 11:30:13 pm

You see, no matter your individual grievances now, you are all victims of the biggest con-job mooted by the two sneakiest snakes of the Fiji First Party. It is better you come to grips fast with reality and know that the big business wullahs that backed the coup and financed the ruling party aint compaining because business is thriving much better than before and they dont give a damn on who gets the cushy jobs nor which race is favoured; afterall most of you celebrated being reclassified as Fijian and ignoring your roots as Indian, true Fijian, Chinese, Rotuman, Kailoma etc. Blindly supporting the top 2 snakes of the ruling party for leadership, you dared to set aside the warning signs openly given - promotions of military personnel (previously true Fijians) into top Govt. positions and the many broken promises of the coup makers. Complaints of not many Indians making it to the top Govt. jobs due to unfair appointments may be true, but look at those Indian fellas that made it by your votes, only to be exposed as totally corrupt and either kicked out or awaiting the availability of Court judges to preside. We have the Govt. that the supposed majority voted for; now plan for the next and plan well. Kubuabola is a known quantity, why the surprise? you see, race will always be a factor regardless of creed and will always show up in deed - this will not change overnight nor anytime in the near future; our problem is that we have been decreed to exist under the one racial grouping which is English in origin.........just lovely!!

And

4/5/2015 03:46:58 am

And that is putting the situation prevailing in Fiji so succinctly. You couldn't have been more perceptive or more precise.

Vili

4/5/2015 04:00:00 am

@ On Song

You hit the nail on the head! We have all been conned.

Vote differently the next time - but, the other mob in Opposition are just as worse!!!

Indians now realize they are between the devil and the deep blue sea !

khaderu

4/5/2015 03:51:51 am

When any Indian in position were good to another Indian ?. They all became sahibs overnight once appointed. I remember at least Rabuka gave us a bottle of lemonade and some biscuits when he saw us cutting burnt sugarcane cane on roadside in 38 deg heat > 20 yrs ago. He appreciated our hard work. It was the same day Indian kulambar did not sign papers for burnt cane when my uncle appeared 5 minutes late of sector office closure for the day. .

Better be Fijian in authority at least they are easier to deal with.and do have empathy. Frank is giving us security and that is what matters so we can safely go to work and sleep in peace.

So please do not make something big out of nothing. Good on all I'Taukis who get promoted..

BaINIMARAMA JINDABAAD !. .

RIGHT BAAT

4/5/2015 09:13:50 pm

ha ha ...on this note I agree with you, and that due to Frank that we can go to work and sleep in peace.

And agreeing with Vili, Frank seems a better devil than the history behind the opposition.

However both have been bankrupting Fiji during their terms.

QARASE brought back FNPF's US currency to fakely boost foreign reserves in 2006, while illegally allowing cane land that was previously "donated to the State" annexed by beneficery of lease money landowners.

So Qarase helped getting them CURSE as it is un-Christ to claim ownership of donated land to the State by their forefathers (ALTA) for their own economic gain.

Once they developed economically, then their lease money beneficiaries STOLE the land by disguising as owners once states lease to leaseholders came for renewal. ALL by support from State institutions politicising this land in question.

Qarase's Lau did not have any ALTA land, but his journey to Rotuma did have $300k worth of agri scam goodies on board that he learnt of it while the ship was still in mid sea. Yet the goodies got unloaded to be handed out...!!!

And they say why Indians supporting this new bunch of bankrupting govt...? Indeed they do know a Sailor cannot manage govt finance, so they are kind of geared towards accepting reality.

They also knew Qarase was a banker but debt accumulated at an average of $300m each year, ALTA land annexed putting thousands in squatter, and foreign reserve severely depleted.

At the end of day, they can sleep in peace under Frank's style of rule... until SODELPA shows evidence of their policy to influence the Indians.

Afterall they voted for i-Taukei ...haven't they?

And

6/5/2015 05:52:07 pm

And despite the on going racism in appointment to top government posts and the nepotism, favouritism and corruption and the intimidated media in the country, the coupist Frank Bainimarama continues to lie about his " reforms " ushering in the first genuine democracy in Fiji's history ( Fiji Times 7/5 ).

ropate baisagale

16/6/2015 03:01:15 am

Our life on earth is but short why can't we in Fiji with it's 320 so islands just learn to treat each other like we want to be treated. There is only one race and it's the HUMAN RACE we are supposed to be Christ like! FORGET about our rights. If we will continue to be divided because of how we look or who arrived here first then we have already fallen from Grace. All the laws of the land the famous VKB ,GCC, SCHOOLS, FACTORIES,SPORTS,CIVIL SERVANTS,HOSPITALS ETC ETC are not our original cultures they were brought here by mother igiladi or Great Britian.So my little 2 cents advice " let us do unto others what we want to be done to ourselves" Because the Greatest Landlord of all landlords is watching us. LET US LOVE ALL OF GODS CREATION because one day we will all stand B4 HIM and be judged for our LOVE.

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RACISM ALIVE AND KICKING: The 1987 coup racist Kubuabola does not believe in Frank Bainimarama and Aiyaz Khaiyum's slogan 'NO RACE FACTOR' in appointments - just look at recent appointments in MFA!

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