* Sitiiveni Rabuka and the Chiefs and i-Taukei Elites stole over $400m from the National Bank of Fiji and disappeared into the sunset.
*While i-taukei are living in poverty, their Chiefs are either in Parliament or Prison or getting Pardons for their crimes from the President.
*Tradition is a guide and not a jailor. It is time to cut extravagant spending on traditional welcomes, solis, funerals, and kerekere culture.
*What happened to Tukana's Fly Now, Pay Later gofund campaign to clear $2.6million debt to Fiji Airways?
*Whose Land Is It Anyway? In 1977, Semi Tukuna's fellow Lauan and Chief Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara had reminded Fiji when Sakeasi Butadroka had introduced his insidious motion: 'Indians Go Home, to India', and had accused Prime Minister Ratu Mara of running a Lauan administration - claiming that the people of Lau were reaping the most benefit, and that the Lauans received the best jobs and government opportunities.
Ratu Mara: 'Today, it is the Indians. Tomorrow, it will be the Chinese and Europeans. Next will be the Lauans, told to Go Back Home.'
*In the 1987 election, the late Dr Timoci Bavadra (deposed by Coupist Sitiveni Rabuka) and his Fiji Labour Party accused Ratu Mara of diverting the country's wealth for the development of Lau. The USP's assistant registrar Ratu Isimeli Cokanisiga asked why $169,278 worth of scholarships went to Lauans as against $19,278 to the people of Lomaiviti. Bavadra claimed that resources poured into Lakeba, Ratu Mara's home province, were derived from wealth produced elsewhere in the country, mostly the western division.
*Semi Tukana, Look to Africa, The Land of I-Taukeis' Ancestors. Fiji, with such demagoguery, is heading towards African style of civil war and tribal conflict, if such calls from Tukana go unchallenged.
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From Fijileaks Archives, reproduced from Coupfourpointfive archives
The NBF loans was supposed to be an affirmative action program to advance soft loans to the disadvantaged indigenous population but became, in fact, a slush fund for the privileged. After the Rabuka coups in 1987, his paramount chiefly family - the Ganilaus - and their companies - disappeared with over $2million from the National Bank of Fiji; the Cakaudrove Provincial Council with $73,179.64; the late Fijian nationalist leader Sakeasi Butadroka with $59,393; G & S Speight $100,591; Rabuka's Attorney-General Kelemedi Bulewa $352,418; three 1987 Taukei Movement leaders Ratu Inoke Kubuabola - $198,951, Ratu Meli Vesikula - $8,000, and Apisai & Melania Tora, $194,393 (Remember their banners before the Rabuka coups: "We don't want this Indian [Bavadra] government'), and even Daniel Fatiaki with $28,000, just to name a few individuals.
The principal culprit who disappeared with the NFB debtors was Sitiveni Rabuka. He disappeared after losing the 1999 general election with his side-kick and NFP leader Jai Ram Reddy, and became chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs.
From Fijileaks Archive, 1 February 2022
