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TWO APPLICANTS FOR FIJI RUGBY UNION CEO:  ‘Conman’ Cameron, despite being run out of FHL after only three months in charge, and         John O’Connor, recently reappointed CEO of the National Fire Authority

3/12/2015

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The Fiji Rugby Union chairman Francis ‘Killer’ Kean has managed to make a gigantic mess of the bid to appoint a new chief executive after the resignation of respected corporate figure Radrodro Tabualevu last month.  

Fijileaks has confirmed that Tabualevu was forced to resign after persistent meddling in management affairs by Kean and deputy chairman ‘Conman’ Carl Ngamoki-Cameron, a New Zealand lawyer specialising in litigating Maori land issues.

 
Of the applications received by the deadline on November 27 to replace Tabualevu only ‘Conman’ Carl’s meets the board-approved requirement to have a university degree in ‘Business/Finance/Commerce/Sports Management’.
 
As Fijileaks reported last month, that tertiary qualification was set so high that neither the current CEO of the New Zealand Rugby Union nor World Rugby would qualify to even apply to be head of the FRU.
 
But the complete unsuitability of ‘Conman’ Carl is finally dawning on the FRU chairman, who was appointed directly to the board by his brother-in-law PM Frank Bainimarama in May. It’s understood that Bainimarama himself hasn’t recovered from the shocking mess the Conman left at Fijian Holdings. Meanwhile Minister for Everything and Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has been plotting to have the Conman stripped of his licence to practice law (which would automatically nullify his appointment as an FRU board member).
 
Ngamoki-Cameron got the ‘Conman’ tag in 2011 following his removal after less than three months as a director and chairman of Fijian Holdings Ltd, a job for which he had been hand-picked by Bainimarama as Minister for i-Taukei Affairs. He remains a record holder for the shortest time served as a chairman of a South Pacific Stock Exchange listed company and the first and only chairman and director to be removed following a staff and senior management revolt that led to a ‘special audit’ being called by the company and a highly-embarrassed PM’s Office.
 
The ‘Conman’s’ manifest unsuitability has prompted national fire chief O’Connor to put in his application for the CEO’s position. Possibly O’Connor’s move came at the prodding of Kean, who is the chairman of the National Fire Authority that employs O’Connor. In May this year O’Connor was reappointed by Kean for a further three-year term in a job interview process that was also organised through KPMG, who handled the FRU CEO search.
 
O’Connor, a former personnel manager with the Fiji Electricity Authority, is also chairman of the Suva Rugby Union – a role he took over from Kean when the convicted killer moved from chairman to the honorary position of president in March last year.
 
However closely O’Connor’s ties are with Kean through Suva rugby and the NFA, O’Connor does not have the tertiary degree in Business/Finance/Commerce or Sports Management that were explicitly required in the job advert. This was deliberately framed to advance the case of ‘Conman’ Carl, a long-time drinking buddy of ‘Killer’ Kean; ‘Conman Carl’ even did his Masters thesis on the FRU.
 
Either way the FRU chairman has managed to arrange a situation where his board now has to select a candidate to lead Rugby House that is either totally unsuitable for the job, or totally unqualified.

http://www.fijirugby.com/vacancies/chief-executive-officer/

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Caption: Francis ‘Killer’ Kean and John O’Connor (in jacket) – chairman and CEO of the National Fire Authority, and FRU too?
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7 Comments
Tomasi
3/12/2015 10:26:12 pm

Thanks Victor. You might wish to explore the family / blood connections between O'Connor and Bainimarama. While OConnor may have the skills and experience to manage responsibilities far much better than both Kean and Bai, I think Bai and O'Connor are blood relatives through Bai;s mother. But as many of us know, like all dictators, Bai and Khaiyum must be extra careful in recruitment and selection to strategic posts. Each of their appointees must add to their power and influence, and of course wealth. That is why the longer they survive the people"s desire for change, the more deeply they are enmeshed in their own mess, corruption, deceit, manipulation, propaganda and subterfuge. But it is so sad that after many years of history, Bai and Khai do not yet realise that the longer they resist the truth, the more sad and tragic shall their ending be.

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Vili
4/12/2015 12:34:26 am

The problem with Fiji is bad leadership. This is an excellent example of how leaders in positions of trust and authority are able to manipulate the system to get their cronies and 'masi polo' types into leadership positions. Its called 'petty cronyism'.

Francis Kean is one who relies on political patronage based on is brother-in-law status with the PM.

As a man he has no substance. He is a convicted killer. He has never achieved anything worthwhile in his life.

Yet, he was able to get a PS position as well as being Chairman of the FRU when he has never in his life played representative rugby.

His handling of Julie Alexander and the bullying letter he wrote her is a another demonstration of his unsuitability. Yet we have the Acting PM declaring publicly that people will be chosen for government positions on merit.

What a load of hogwash!

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snuka
4/12/2015 09:34:03 am

Remember that the Oconnors are related to Bainimarama through his kai loma Mother's side.

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Anonymous
6/12/2015 01:09:01 am

The O'connors are related to Frank's wife Mary and Killer Kean. It is all cronyism and corruption big time.

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Niko momoka
18/4/2017 08:33:52 pm

Corruption Family!!!frank bainimarama,his bother in law fransis Killer kean and blood line relative john o corner!!

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rajend Naidu
9/12/2015 04:50:41 am

Editor,
Re : ' The Brazilian Billionaire Living in Rat Infested Jail ' Bloomberg Business 7 December.
That's where the former chairman and chief executive officer of Grupo BTG Pactual, Latin America's largest independent investment bank is currently resident.
Andre Esteves detention, along with the incarceration in June of the head of Brazil's largest construction conglomerate has spread more than a little schadenfreude in a country accustomed to impunity for white- collar crooks.
Over 110 have been arrested so far in corruption scandals.
One ordinary Brazilian citizen who struggles to make ends meet summed up the attitude of most Brazilians : " Rich people are going to jail now, and before that wouldn't happen".
Some of our rich and powerful who strut about in the garb of respectability should also like their Brazilian counterparts be " going to jail" instead of being where they are currently.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

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rajend Naidu
9/12/2015 06:46:40 am

I have lost count of the number of conman in FIFA who have been rounded up by the authorities in the US and elsewhere. Has it reached 40 to complete the Ali Baba ( Sepp Blatter, the FIFA president ) and his 40 thieves set? Sports organisations and conman seemed to have a symbiotic relationship. Soccer, rugby, cricket, athletics, swimming - there are rogues everywhere...

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