UNCONSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS: Opposition Leader Ro Kepa says Kean, Naupoto and Qiliho appointments are UNCONSTITUTIONAL and Abuse of Process and all the three appointments must be REVOKED!

7/3/2016

"They were announced by the Constitutional Offices Commission (COC) chaired by the Prime Minister, and are simply "jobs for the boys". As chair the Prime Minister has given these important state positions to known members of his inner circle of military men. One of them, Francis Kean, is his brother-in-law, so the practise of nepotism continues unabated...All of them are known abusers of human rights. That alone disqualifies them from taking up these crucial posts. Brigadier General Qiliho, in particular, has many questions to answer about allegations against him."

In a statement today Leader of the Opposition Ro Teimumu Kepa described as unconstitutional and an abuse of process the recent appointments of the Military Commander, the Police Commissioner and the Commissioner of Fiji Corrections Service. The appointments should be revoked.

They were announced by the Constitutional Offices Commission (COC) chaired by the Prime Minister, and are simply “jobs for the boys“. As chair the Prime Minister has given these important state positions to known members of his inner circle of military men. One of them, Francis Kean, is his brother-in-law, so the practise of nepotism continues unabated.

Mr Kean became Commissioner of the Fiji Corrections Service; Rear Admiral Viliame Naupoto was named Commander of the Republic of Fiji Military Forces making him the most politically powerful person in Fiji; Brigadier General Sitiveni Qiliho became Commissioner of Police.

All of them are known abusers of human rights. That alone disqualifies them from taking up these crucial posts. Brigadier General Qiliho, in particular, has many questions to answer about allegations against him.

The independence of the Police Force in any democracy is critical.

"I also consider the appointments as a further consolidation of the military’s grip in Fiji. We are a militarised state. Democracy - government by the people for the people - is being pushed back to be replaced by a new form of dictatorship.

The operations of the COC are a farce. They fall woefully short of the standards of democratic governance Fiji needs and deserves and are not consistent with the Constitution.

The decisions of the COC should be made by all the constitutionally appointed members of the Commission. They are not and the reasons for that lie with the government.

The COC functions at the moment without the Leader of the Opposition because I have withdrawn from it in protest against the amateurish and haphazard manner in which it conducts its affairs and a lack of consultation. The independent member I nominated, the prominent lawyer Mr Richard Naidu, resigned last year. He had no desire to become “an electronic rubber stamp”.

Although I was criticised by some of my own colleagues for my decision to appoint Mr Naidu, I believed then, as I do now, it was right." Ro Teimumum Kepa

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15 Comments

Chiku

7/3/2016 08:45:36 am

And we are told Fiji returns to democracy - with the holding of a phoney election. The reality is that it only gave the Bainimarama dictatorship a new garb. What the Opposition Leader is saying about these appointments is no secret. Everybody knows it is job for Bainimarama's military cronies and his brother in law. And all are known human rights abusers . What have the international gang got to say about that? Nothing of course because that is not important. What is important is getting back to " business as usual" and all that that entails, including doing the cocktail circuit with the dictator, pretending he is now a democratic leader. Excuse me, I have to stop here because the smell of hypocrisy is TOO MUCH !

Tomasi

7/3/2016 12:45:03 pm

The three recent appointments by Bainimarama’s COC is a very significant political and antidemocratic benchmark for Fiji. It is an unequivocal statement and indisputable evidence of the past ten years of dictatorship and a declaration of the current regime’s intentions about the future. It is a blatant challenge to all those who value democracy and the protection and exercise of our sacred human rights, the importance of our basic values, principles and ethics in our private and public lives and the basic idea that there is a right and proper way to live.
By their past public records of human rights abuse, Kean, Qiliho and Naupoto are not even worthy for consideration for these posts. They have demonstrated beyond any doubt that they are not decent and respectable human beings, are morally and intellectually bankrupt, and should be in prison serving sentences for their serious crimes. Kean is a murderer, Naupoto is a torturer, and Qiliho is a criminal and a sexual parasite. Each of them ought to hold their heads in shame for what they have done to others and their implications for Fiji.
But only in the New Fiji. They have been “appointed” to very high posts of considerable influence. The question is not how, but WHY ??
The reasons are many and complex. Consider some of the following possibilities:
1. They represent the current regime of unethical and morally bankrupt people. They come from the private, public, NGO and international sectors. They have an agenda they have secretly sworn to accomplish.
2. Voreqe and Khaiyum publicly claim they are popular and have many followers who love them. This triple military appointment and the continued militarisation of everything strategic in Fiji says otherwise.
3. Voreqe and Khaiyum are more afraid and feel more insecure today than ever before. That is why they must appoint cronies and loyalists who will do their bidding as slaves and warriors of the new Fijian order. They are not satisfied with their own personal bodyguards. They must reinforce their own safety by ensuring that all the three disciplinary forces will be always loyal to them in the event of a public uprising.
4. The two Fijian dictators and their close associates such as QORVIS, Kodagoda, Gates, Shameem and others know that the time is drawing nigh when the people of Fiji will know the real truth behind all the lies of Dec 2006, rigged elections, torture, murders, thuggery, thefts, etc. despite the intense and extensive propaganda to hide or distort the truths.
5. While the international sector will always promote their own agendas and interests, Bai and Khai now realise that it is the local Fijians who will decide their fate soon. The vidence is mounting by the day, and every week and months that passes bring to the people of Fiji the glaring truths about this dictatorship and its selfish agenda.
6. Make no mistake that this Bai-Khai regime is the new mode of “democratic leadership” and government that has become acceptable and is the new norm for the New World Order. The subtle combination of force, fear and intimidation will displace righteousness, human rights and freedom as the major pillars of the new rule of law.
Please wake up Fiji. A new “dawn” of has come. Darkness is gradually hovering over our land. Our leaders have abused their powers, to the extent they have set themselves as powers unto themselves. Their secret statement is “ To hell with the people. To hell with God. To hell with right and wrong. We will decide. No one must dare question our authority. We must control the monkey parliament. We must control the media. We must control the education system. We must control the minds of the people. But when the people rise up, we must exercise zero tolerance. We must also prepare for rapid evacuation in case …..”

Sota

8/3/2016 08:43:55 pm

Yes Tomasi, Khaiyum's 2013 Constitution is a FRAUD.

Kana Nikua... Raida Mataka... It's all AG's Fault is it?

7/3/2016 07:26:09 pm

SDL started to support the unconstitutional activities in 2001 when they sought votes to defy the constitution. To achieve that but failed was the Agri Scam hand outs.

Then they supported un-constitutionalism by locking out constitutional partnership of FLP in the cabinet.

Then they supported un-constitutionalism by offering FLP portfolios of Minister for toilet affairs, etc without a budget and permanent secretary.

After missing a few more examples ... then they supported the un-constitutionalism by supporting un-constitutionalism change to the constitution to one man one vote, thus showing the AG that he was on the right track to the law making.

Then they succumbed to the decree to form a new party SODELPA with the unconstitutional decree.

Then they participated in the unconstitutional election.

What is another few unconstitutional mess ups to cry fowl about?

Pita

8/3/2016 12:38:44 am

You are a cynical AH. Get a life u moron. We talking about a nation of 900,000 people here. And u trivialise things.

Trivial by Whose Standard?

8/3/2016 09:42:29 pm

Get to the root cause, admit then repent. Once that is done then there may be room to bring down ego and defensive mechanism of others in power now who followed the same principles as introduced to them.

You cannot stand ground of un-constitutionalism on others and hide your face in the sand at the same time. Indeed there were a nation of about 900,000 people than having same needs and wants as today.

DISMAC only just delivers food rations to most disaster victims in Ba 2 weeks AFTER the Cyclone. Are they less a Fijian for timely support as the rest of victims or were the excess roads not opened to reach them?

Honourable Karavaki says Parliament needs a HEALER. It starts off with REPENTING your wrongs and in chronological manner.

Reconciliation begins at home and when you first look in the mirror and say I am sorry. Learn from Rabuka who said he was sorry for his wrongs. After all Lucifer is the destructor and maybe our prayers are not strong enough to weaken its hold on us.

YUP...

8/3/2016 09:54:33 pm

It takes one arrogance to develop into another and each time it replicates it gets worse than the last one. This is the nature of the beast.

Admitting your wrongs can dilute the new beasts desires to control without listening to any other views. After all you voted in this FRAUD Constitution and when 90% voted within it that is now legalised "politically".

Wasn't this how it were during Alliance Government when any opposition views to vote on meant it must be opposed because the idea comes from opposition. It is not their idea.

That may be why the GCC made a constitution for Multi Party Cabinet making every view in Parliament as equal... but it was too much for the ill minded whoever they were to originate the coup in 2000 and then in March 2009?

rajend naidu

7/3/2016 09:44:43 pm

Editor,
Corrupt Military Man
Nigeria's former chief of defence staff has appeared in court charged with siphoning off money ( $20m) meant for the fight against Boko Haram to buy a mansion and build a shopping mall ( The Telegraph 7/03).
Retired air chief marshal Alex Badeh is accused by the elite anti- corruption agency, the economic and financial crimes commission, of fraud, criminal breach of trust and money laundering.
He is one of former military and security chiefs who served under former president Goodluck Jonathan to be prosecuted for corruption by the administration of his successor, Mohummadu Buhari.
Badeh 59 is accused of stealing public money when he was chief of air staff in 2013.
The following year he got promoted by Goodluck Jonathan...
Now it would appear luck has run out for Badeh and he might be heading off to jail - where he deserves to be if the charges are proved in court.
And, if that happens nobody would be surprised because there is no shortage of corrupt military chiefs.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Samjha

8/3/2016 04:07:05 am

Lest we forget let us remind ourselves that the chair of the Constitutional Offices Commission is the same coupist Frank Bainimarama who grabbed power under the pretext of a " clean up " and then LIED to the people of Fiji that no military personnel will profit from his takeover.
And the reality has been the very opposite. Instead of a clean up he has made governance and politics very dirty - with corruption, nepotism, cronyism, coercion becoming the new norms.
And his military buddies have been slotted in cushy jobs and everywhere.
What a rotten liar !

Pita

8/3/2016 10:07:14 pm

I must admit Adi T has a point. For justice to occur the intent of the Constitutional provision needs to have been served. By not consulting with other members of the Commission in appointing his cronies, including his very own brother in law, to the top positions of the coercive arm of the state -- the military, politice and prisons -- Bainimarma has breached the Constitution. The Opposition should take the matter to Court and send a letter to every member of the United Nations where Bai boasted in his last address to the General Assembly in July how he was running a happy democratic state.

You R Right

9/3/2016 12:20:09 am

Yes one should repent their wrongs as the intent of the Constitutional provision needs to have been served was not followed by SDL 2001-2006.

Taking the matter to UN against the current wrongs and breaches will then be 'effective' once having adduced evidence of own ills.

Without doing so, you should understand that having criminals of 2000 and 2006 have to be in the top jobs is the only logic thing to do so that they fear persecution if they lose the control.

The issue is who can protect my backside... when push comes to shove...

pita

9/3/2016 10:03:38 am

"You R Right" why r u so concerned about protecting yr backside. You must've just come from the Gay Mardi Gras in Sydney last weekend. Why r u raking uip old coals? The SDL is finished. Doesn't exist anymore.. We shud focus on the here and now. Two wrongs don't make a right. The point at issue is that the FFP Government is abusing the Constitution and what is SODELP and the NFP Opposition are going to do about it?

Tomasi

9/3/2016 07:35:37 pm

Pita, "what is SDL and NFP going to do about it? ? is a valid question indeed. As our reps in the monkey parliament, we expect them to do their part. But come on, what else can they do when all they have done and all they will do will have very minimal effect to change the direction and momentum of the FFP Govt policies. We might as well have no parliament at all because it is all a farce, a sham and a waste of money. It is but a rubber-stamping, false fronting showroom of democracy to propagate a false image and to win local and international credibility, respect and support.

I reckon a more appropriate and timely question we should pose is, What are we the people of Fiji going to do about it? It is time we realise that things will get increasingly worse as the criminal and disgraceful actions and decisions become even more blatant and absolutely wrong and evil.

Let us just back up for a moment here. How more blatant and wrong can the following be?

1. Kean is Voreqe's BIL ( bro in law ). That is the very definition of nepotism.
2. Kean is a convicted criminal who deliberately acted to remove a human life. He became a prisoner, but because of all that has earned sufficient merits to become the COP ( Comm of Prisons or Corrections,,,)
3. The yellow ribbon programme was engineered to give convicted person ( Kean ) a get out of jail card.
4. The get out of jail card was very important because the prisoner was still being paid his salary while being a guest of HM Prisons in Fiji.
5. Kean was rapidly promoted several times to assume a top Govt post in his bro in law's regime as PS Works..
6. Now, he is the Com of Prisons himself, having graduated from prison and gaining sufficient confidence and arrogance over the years of dictatorship in his BIL's banana democracy.

Now, Perhaps a brief illustration will help us here. Suppose a patient has been declared seriously ill by the competent and legitimate authority, He goes and spends time in a hospital. While there, he gets VIP treatment, even being paid a high salary for being sick. He gets out of hospital even before he is cured. Because his bro in law is the dictator, he gets promoted to be a GM in one of the dictator's companies. Then the patient is promoted to become the country's Chief Medical Superintendent and Surgeon General of all the hospitals in the Banana Land called Fiji.

Get the idea folks" Now that is precisely what has happened to Kean Percy, the sailor with a violent temper and a mountain ego, who killed a man at a wedding party. Now, all these are simply echoes of an older and similar story of Kean's very own BIL, Voreqe Bainimarama. A sailor, intellectual moron, coward, woman torturer, thief, liar, murderer, and mental patient of Fiji's exclusive psychiatric resort up at Samabula.

Percy Kean, Fiji's newly appointed Prisons Com is the next of kin to Fiji's PM and military dictator Bai Voreqe. Both a people with very special skills, attitudes and experience in the evil arts where lies, deceit, thuggery, murder and subterfuge are most vital for success. A sham of a democracy has been created, through a series of shams, namely constitution, election, parliament, media, etc. Hence, we have a sham of a system of justice, law and order, leadership, etc.

Now we have just looked at the two brothers in Fiji's first evil family, Kean and Bai. The story has parallels right across the current Government and FFP empire. That is why we the people must ask the more relevant question and do something about it before people stop believing in group think and take their own actions.

ha ha ha

10/3/2016 02:40:28 am

Tomasi I love ur scribe. but its Francis Bulewa Kean. Not Percy Kean. Thats the brother. And oh don't forget the new PS regional Development appointed last two months is Meleti Bainimarama. Frank's younger brother! And yes Litiana Loabuka whom we never heard of before until 2006 coup is Litiana Bainiamarama, Franks daughter! And yes Fiji's Ambassdor to Malaysian who recently died was Rt Meli Bainimarama Franks brother too! And and why bother again? Why quit the Commission now when you all agreed in the first place to participate in a sham elections under an illegal Constitution? In fact...YOU legalised the Constitution so why complain now Sodelpa and NFP? You were too busy and too greedy to get back into power you forgot the people and became blinded by your greed! So suck it up and self reflect. Don't be a hypocrite guys! The people need a new Party. None of the current ones are truly for the people!

True Reconciliation

10/3/2016 10:34:49 pm

EXACTLY....WELL SAID

Clean up begins when non SDL and SODELPA members who never took any active political roles in the past and are young in their early 50's are able to form and lead a new multi-racial party.

A party that is ready to write-off all past losses legal or illegal both constitutional and unconstitutional.

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