Will FNPF and Hibiscus queen Mere Nailatikau bring hope to disillusioned Fijians?

Will FNPF and Hibiscus queen Mere Nailatikau bring hope to disillusioned Fijians?

August 30, 2009

Mere Nailatikau heralds a new era not only to the Hibiscus Festival of which she is the queen but to the face of what Fiji really is today.

Here is a young, modern, articulate and intelligent Fijian lady who in a way represents what Fiji is all about,, minus the political and power-trip coup nonsense its older generation leaders are caught up in right now.

Sources there say that the Hibiscus Festival of 2009 is one of the best in its history coupled with the unbelivable good weather right throughout the festivity week.

The Hibiscus Festival is almost synonymous to rain but that curse was broken last week.

The military regime fears of a possible uprising from the banned Methodist Church annual conference or from the hibiscus festival itself has proven to be nothing but unsubstantiated claim that originated from fear itself.

So the Suva Hibiscus week has come and gone bringing together the oppressed people of the over-populated Suva City to enjoy the festival and encouraged camaderie with their Suva folks.

It would have been undoubtedly the biggest public gathering since the coup of December 2006.

Mere Nailatikau is now the reigning Hibiscus queen and with it comes great responsibilities.

Will she be able to articulately address the many valid but disturbing issues that face her sponsors FNPF members since the coup of 2006?

Will she be the face and voice  the FNPF board and management will use to try and water-down the financial hemorrhage it's plagued with?

Or will she be used by the Suva City Council and Hibiscus Festival organisers for their own agenda.

Is Mere Nailatikau brave enough to advocate for the removal of human rights breaches of soughts on the people of Suva and Fiji by Frank Bainimarama's junta?

Mere professes to be a proud Fiji Islander.

We believe many people in Fiji feel that way too.

But is it safe to say that Mere Nailatikau is also proud of what the Fiji peoples are going through under the tyranny of Frank & Co?

We don't think so!

We think Mere Nailatikau is too brilliant a girl to imply that she is also proud of Fiji's murderous and tortureous military regime her country men, women, youth and child are forcefully subjected under as we blog.

She simply couldn't admit it because doing so would have seen her and her beautiful green dress with its dazzling sparkling crown get hauled up to the military camp for breaching the Public Emergency Regulation.

But we're hopeful that someday, somewhere, sometime, Mere Nailitakau will be brave enough to stand up for her fellow countrymen and say it like it is!

Our congratulations is definitely in order for Miss FNPF and Miss Hibiscus 2009, Mere Nailatikau.

 
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