We cannot divide military strategy to terrorism schemes. As much as an effective military strategy, so is a terrorism schemes. And while the former may be seen as efforts to uphold moral principles through protection to human values, the latter seeks to disrupt the framework of peace through attacks to civilian targets – using (perhaps killing would be the best word to use)the weak to voice out their fight.
The network between our militarised regime and the terrorist AG defines this relationship well where the innocent individual were made victims. AG, in his ploy is slowly culminating his poisoness vernom to the military Fijians and inch by inch, closing them into his own concert. A time has come when AG calling terms and the helpless military reacts subsequently.
The control is so bad that AG can know order Frank, Teleni & Leweni to shoot their Fijian relatives – blood brothers and sisters, father and mother, uncles and aunts who are members of the Methodist Church. And you know what; these Fijian military figires cannot resist but order their subordinate to “shoot to kill”.
While Frank, Teleni & Leweni attends the burial later with heaps of foods and tabua for their “reguregu”, AG relaxes with his new bird in their hiding place, thrubbing his knucles with glee saying “one down (Methodist Church), one to go (Fijian System).
It hurts when you are a Fijian and read this between the lines. But the solution is simple. Frank, Teleni, Leweni – summon all your children to parade before you and look them in their eyes. There stand is your successor – the juniors. Ask yourself this question while you look at them – can you afford to see your children abusively attacked, assaulted in the streets tomorrow? Are you prepare to see the blood of your children from the reteliation of those who are victims of your deeds.
Me na kakua ni dave na dra ni luvemudou ena vuku ni nomudou valavala. AG is not a blood relations to you. Neither did he sacrifice his life sending you to school to bring where you are today. Think of the hands of your father, mother, brothers, sisters who have braved the little income they have to put you to education and achieve greater things in what you are today. Fiji is counting on you fellas. AG is ruining you and our country.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Filipe Bole a very wicked-hearted man
The illegal government ministers are almost without exception the most incompetent bunch that has ever held the reins in Fiji.
Even those with some education are mostly fools. Old Netani was a lecturer at the FIT so he must have some education, but there’s no sign of it anything he does or says. He’s a too! and 96 percent of the voters in theTamavua/Laucala Fijian electorate understood that when they voted for someone else in the 2006 elections.
But one man stands out – Filipe Bole. He is well educated and held senior positions won by merit before entering politics. He is not a fool, so his presence in the illegal regime means he carries more guilt than his light-weight colleagues. He should know better.
But he cannot claim that he’s trying to make a bad government better than it might otherwise be. He has chosen the most evil role of all. His contribution to this pact of evil is the destruction of the education system in Fiji.
He has systematically taken money from the education system and used it to fill the greedy pockets of the dictator and his cronies. How much and what they’ve done with it we simply don’t know because there is no accountability or transparency under this dictatorship.
Every day Bole issues another press release explaining his reforms. But what are these reforms? The Fiji Intermediate, the Fiji Eighth Year and the Fiji Junior examinations will be abolished so that the dictator can save some money to spend on other purposes.
Without these examinations, students from smali rural schools will be unabie to prove that they are as good as the Junior Secondary Schools which gave a pathway to higher education for rural Fijians who might otherwise never have the opportunity.
But don’t believe me. Believe Bole himself. In January this year he was defending the role of examinations:
“Examinations and tests are essential to education as they provide an opportunity for the teacher to assess what the students have or have not learnt.”
And there’s no doubt he had the Fiji wide external examinations in mind: “External examinations are important because they provide a measure of the extent of students’ achievement of the curriculum objectives and certification.”
With Fiji wide examinations the marks of students from the smallest, most under-resourced school in the middle of Viti Levu or from the most isolated island of Lau group can be compared with the marks of a student from the suburbs of Suva.
Examinations are a point of access for rural students in Fiji. Bole knows this but he has participated in their abolition.
Shame on him. He’s the worst and most evil of this criminal gang. At least no-school Frank has the excuse that he hasn’t a clue about what he’s doing. Filipe Bole has no excuses.
May he hang his head in eternal shame.
Even those with some education are mostly fools. Old Netani was a lecturer at the FIT so he must have some education, but there’s no sign of it anything he does or says. He’s a too! and 96 percent of the voters in theTamavua/Laucala Fijian electorate understood that when they voted for someone else in the 2006 elections.
But one man stands out – Filipe Bole. He is well educated and held senior positions won by merit before entering politics. He is not a fool, so his presence in the illegal regime means he carries more guilt than his light-weight colleagues. He should know better.
But he cannot claim that he’s trying to make a bad government better than it might otherwise be. He has chosen the most evil role of all. His contribution to this pact of evil is the destruction of the education system in Fiji.
He has systematically taken money from the education system and used it to fill the greedy pockets of the dictator and his cronies. How much and what they’ve done with it we simply don’t know because there is no accountability or transparency under this dictatorship.
Every day Bole issues another press release explaining his reforms. But what are these reforms? The Fiji Intermediate, the Fiji Eighth Year and the Fiji Junior examinations will be abolished so that the dictator can save some money to spend on other purposes.
Without these examinations, students from smali rural schools will be unabie to prove that they are as good as the Junior Secondary Schools which gave a pathway to higher education for rural Fijians who might otherwise never have the opportunity.
But don’t believe me. Believe Bole himself. In January this year he was defending the role of examinations:
“Examinations and tests are essential to education as they provide an opportunity for the teacher to assess what the students have or have not learnt.”
And there’s no doubt he had the Fiji wide external examinations in mind: “External examinations are important because they provide a measure of the extent of students’ achievement of the curriculum objectives and certification.”
With Fiji wide examinations the marks of students from the smallest, most under-resourced school in the middle of Viti Levu or from the most isolated island of Lau group can be compared with the marks of a student from the suburbs of Suva.
Examinations are a point of access for rural students in Fiji. Bole knows this but he has participated in their abolition.
Shame on him. He’s the worst and most evil of this criminal gang. At least no-school Frank has the excuse that he hasn’t a clue about what he’s doing. Filipe Bole has no excuses.
May he hang his head in eternal shame.
Saiyad Khaiyum revenue raising
This “Duel Citizenship” is another marshmallow idea to justify that they are actually earning their keep. Former Fiji residents at a fee of $3000 can now have Fiji citizenship after the approval of dual citizenship was recently put through promulgation by Iloilo. It wasn’t difficult to work out why this soft easily fixed idea was put through promulgation. “Put through promulgation by Fiji’s President” sounds very impressive for an idea put forth to score Brownie points and raise revenue for an ailing illegal government. Its peanuts in dictatorship land because all that is required is the big OK from the big boss, dictator Frank Bainimarama! If the country wasn’t ruled by a dictator we the former residents of Fiji would pay double the amount for that privilege so as to give back to the country that has given us so many happy memories. Under the current situation Khaiyum and Iliolio can forget about it, we are not interested as it is not in our best interest to do so while Fiji is a dictatorship and the justice system way out of wack! Those of us that held on to our Fiji passports have recently renounced it for citizenship of our adopted country because of Fiji’s political crisis. What was wrong with the old law, “born in Fiji come and stay as long as you like on the condition you weren’t employed as that would be taking jobs away from its citizens?” After retirement most of us would like to make it our second home so that law was fine. All they are doing is allowing former residents the chance to be employed, taking jobs away from locals. We call for some real action taken on issues which aims for progress in making it easier for civil society, the main issue for me is keeping the thousands of children at school to finish their education. At present there is no better investment then that bestowed on children’s education for they are our leaders of tomorrow. These illegal ministers, or this illegal cabinet should restrain themselves from scoring Brownie points and if want to justify their existence should get on with the task of solving the difficult issues for the betterment of Fiji and its people. Some of the “soft marshmallow ideas” and no doubt we will be getting more! Duel citizenshipMarriage age now 18Cabinet approves abolishment of three external examinations.
Tales of sourcey, witchcraft and childish stupidity
Where else in this world would a national police force lock up educated weil-meaning people on the grounds they were practising sorcery?
And where else in the world would a so-called leader of a nation become personally involved in such a childish caper.
Only in Fiji, that’s where?
We are referring of course to events surrounding the regular meeting of the Lautoka iodge of the Freemasons on Monday evening last.
Now the Freemasons, one of the world’s oldest secular fraternal societies, have been established in Fiji for more than a century and the police themselves have confirmed that the meeting permit required under PER was not the issue.
No it wasn’t about PER at all. It was all about the notion that the Freemasons, who are best known for their extensive charity work, were practising sorcery!
Acting on a tip off, the Keystone Cops came storming in and arrested 14 people, including Australian and New Zealand citizens, and locked them up for the night.
Then some one contacted the illegal attorney-general and in no time the dictator got into the act and ordered the men’s immediate release.
But that was not all. According to a police, the dictator indicated he would follow through and personally check out the “evidence of sorcery” gathered by the police!
We can only guess at how this farce will be finally resolved.
Will the dictator order a new decree that proscribes the practice of sorcery and witchcraft, except when it’s being practised by the Police Commissioner as part of his promotion of his brother’s cult organization, the misnamed “New Methodist Church”?
Or will the dictator ring up Radio Tarana and profess not to believe in sorcery unless, of course, it happens to involve sticking pins into a Laisenia Qarase doll?
Folks, stay tuned. With our mad dictator running the show, simply anything is possible.
And if you don’t believe that, just look at what happened on Monday night.
And where else in the world would a so-called leader of a nation become personally involved in such a childish caper.
Only in Fiji, that’s where?
We are referring of course to events surrounding the regular meeting of the Lautoka iodge of the Freemasons on Monday evening last.
Now the Freemasons, one of the world’s oldest secular fraternal societies, have been established in Fiji for more than a century and the police themselves have confirmed that the meeting permit required under PER was not the issue.
No it wasn’t about PER at all. It was all about the notion that the Freemasons, who are best known for their extensive charity work, were practising sorcery!
Acting on a tip off, the Keystone Cops came storming in and arrested 14 people, including Australian and New Zealand citizens, and locked them up for the night.
Then some one contacted the illegal attorney-general and in no time the dictator got into the act and ordered the men’s immediate release.
But that was not all. According to a police, the dictator indicated he would follow through and personally check out the “evidence of sorcery” gathered by the police!
We can only guess at how this farce will be finally resolved.
Will the dictator order a new decree that proscribes the practice of sorcery and witchcraft, except when it’s being practised by the Police Commissioner as part of his promotion of his brother’s cult organization, the misnamed “New Methodist Church”?
Or will the dictator ring up Radio Tarana and profess not to believe in sorcery unless, of course, it happens to involve sticking pins into a Laisenia Qarase doll?
Folks, stay tuned. With our mad dictator running the show, simply anything is possible.
And if you don’t believe that, just look at what happened on Monday night.
Kunatuba has finally arrived!
Congratulations are in order for the release of former permanent secretary Peniasi Kunatabua, jailed for his part in the multi-million dollar Agriculture Ministry scam in 2000, and now a free man. Mr Kunatuba was jailed for four years on November, 2006 after he was convicted of two counts.
I have never been a fan of the yellow ribbon campaign concept, ‘when not used correctly’. But I do have to concede – that this is probably the most appropriate use of the yellow ribbon campaign to date – with the release of Mr. Kunatuba.
This gentle of a man completed his time and extra-mural term and has been utilised well for the knowledge and experience that he holds.
His parting words as noted in the Fiji Times is truly an example of a humble man. When farewelled by Prisons Commissioner Ioane Naivalurua and staff at a lunch yesterday, he likened his time in prison as a lesson and an experience he called “God’s moulding process”.
I am humbled by the way Mr. Kunatuba reflected on his days as a permanent secretary, where he thought he was high above the clouds working as permanent secretary with the Government until he landed in jail.
In his own words, he said, “”I thought I was it – permanent secretary and working in the PM’s and Attorney General’s office, I was travelling around the world,” he said.”But God had a plan for me and the token for me to be made whole, was going through this moulding process.”
You have paid your dues to society, Mr Kunatuba. You deserve your time now with your wonderful family.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Mr Kunatuba and found him to be a true man of character.
The current lot of leaders can take a leaf from this man’s life!
Prison isn’t so bad if you use it for the betterment of self and others and not just ‘kill time’ waiting to do something criminal again, like some people do!
I have never been a fan of the yellow ribbon campaign concept, ‘when not used correctly’. But I do have to concede – that this is probably the most appropriate use of the yellow ribbon campaign to date – with the release of Mr. Kunatuba.
This gentle of a man completed his time and extra-mural term and has been utilised well for the knowledge and experience that he holds.
His parting words as noted in the Fiji Times is truly an example of a humble man. When farewelled by Prisons Commissioner Ioane Naivalurua and staff at a lunch yesterday, he likened his time in prison as a lesson and an experience he called “God’s moulding process”.
I am humbled by the way Mr. Kunatuba reflected on his days as a permanent secretary, where he thought he was high above the clouds working as permanent secretary with the Government until he landed in jail.
In his own words, he said, “”I thought I was it – permanent secretary and working in the PM’s and Attorney General’s office, I was travelling around the world,” he said.”But God had a plan for me and the token for me to be made whole, was going through this moulding process.”
You have paid your dues to society, Mr Kunatuba. You deserve your time now with your wonderful family.
I have had the pleasure of meeting Mr Kunatuba and found him to be a true man of character.
The current lot of leaders can take a leaf from this man’s life!
Prison isn’t so bad if you use it for the betterment of self and others and not just ‘kill time’ waiting to do something criminal again, like some people do!
Friday, July 17, 2009
Samoan PM wants tougher Fiji trade sanctions
Samoa’s Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi says tougher trade sanctions against Fiji would make it difficult for the military regime to maintain its grip.
This is despite the Melanesian Spearhead Group comprising Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Fiji in a meeting last week in Port Vila calling for a lifting of Fiji’s suspension from the Pacific Island Forum.
The Samoan leader has told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat economic action against his Pacific neighbour would have an impact.
“That’s important, eventually economic issues will bite some people into their senses,” he said.
- Radio New Zealand
This is despite the Melanesian Spearhead Group comprising Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Fiji in a meeting last week in Port Vila calling for a lifting of Fiji’s suspension from the Pacific Island Forum.
The Samoan leader has told Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat economic action against his Pacific neighbour would have an impact.
“That’s important, eventually economic issues will bite some people into their senses,” he said.
- Radio New Zealand
The phoney sugar consultants
Our sources have confirmed the identities of the 4 ex FSC/CSR , now citizens of Australia for the last 20 years , phoney so called consultants who according to National Farmers Union cost the industry about $800,000 for some part time work.
Our sources in the industry also estimate that on a full time annualised basis , this works out to be in excess of $2 million.
Predictably and not surprisingly at all they are the same lot.
1.Rasheed Ali,
2.Gautam Ramswarup,
3, Ram Karan and
4. an unnamed functionary all enjoined symbiotically in their shameful odysssey of despicable greed and avarice.
Conscience, ethics, fairness and morality has no place in their marauding mission of naked plunder and banditry.
But you have to give to them for the way they are able to con everybody.
Cunningly disguising themselves as altruitic Fiji patriots and using many of the standard templates of the normal consultantspeake, they are ruthlesssly defrauding Fiji.
They are cold blooded opportunists-money obsesseed, unprincipled and thoroughbred extortionists who should be extradited to Fiji to account for this racket.
Our sources in the industry also estimate that on a full time annualised basis , this works out to be in excess of $2 million.
Predictably and not surprisingly at all they are the same lot.
1.Rasheed Ali,
2.Gautam Ramswarup,
3, Ram Karan and
4. an unnamed functionary all enjoined symbiotically in their shameful odysssey of despicable greed and avarice.
Conscience, ethics, fairness and morality has no place in their marauding mission of naked plunder and banditry.
But you have to give to them for the way they are able to con everybody.
Cunningly disguising themselves as altruitic Fiji patriots and using many of the standard templates of the normal consultantspeake, they are ruthlesssly defrauding Fiji.
They are cold blooded opportunists-money obsesseed, unprincipled and thoroughbred extortionists who should be extradited to Fiji to account for this racket.
Frank’s roadmap to nowhere lacks credibility
We say – believable? Nah, not for us but you decide.
Newsworthy? Not one bit except to show how FBCL continue to suck up to Fiji’s tyrant.
Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama says he has had a positive response from the people of Fiji on government’s road map. He says he has received numerous responses from people endorsing the road map as the way forward for Fiji. Bainimarama says the road map is intended to take out uncertainty. “I’ve been receiving calls and letters and txt from leaders of the community and from the business community for their acceptance of the road map and how positive the road map has made people become. Most people – if not all – the leaders has accepted the road map. We can say that this is the way forward for us.”
Newsworthy? Not one bit except to show how FBCL continue to suck up to Fiji’s tyrant.
Prime Minister Commodore Voreqe Bainimarama says he has had a positive response from the people of Fiji on government’s road map. He says he has received numerous responses from people endorsing the road map as the way forward for Fiji. Bainimarama says the road map is intended to take out uncertainty. “I’ve been receiving calls and letters and txt from leaders of the community and from the business community for their acceptance of the road map and how positive the road map has made people become. Most people – if not all – the leaders has accepted the road map. We can say that this is the way forward for us.”
Frank & Co’s new found fugitive friend’s assets to be seized
We say – Thaksin is the guy who has befriended dictator Frank Bainimarama promising to plough in millions into Fiji’s ailing economy. Where will he source his money from we wonder? Fiji’s taxpayers and FNPF perhaps?
Prosecutors in Thailand have started proceedings to permanently seize $US2.2 billion in assets belonging to convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The funds were frozen in 2006 after Mr Thaksin was ousted in a military coup.
The prosecution and defence have more than 100 witnesses to participate in the trial, which is expected to last until October.
Mr Thaksin is not expected attend. The billionaire-businessman has lived in exile since the coup, returning only briefly last year to face a corruption trial over a multi-million dollar land deal involving his wife.
He fled again before he was sentenced to two years prison in that case.
Mr Thaksin has since spent time in Britain and Hong Kong. More recently he has been based in Dubai.
His lawyers say this case is politically motivated.
They say the case was mounted by a body backed by the coup makers who forced him from office almost 3 years ago.
Some political observers say it will be difficult to prove the money was gained illegally.
Mr Thaksin changed many laws while in office, famously adjusting foreign ownership rules to allow the sale of his telecommunications firm Shin Corp to a Singapore company.
- Radio Australia
Prosecutors in Thailand have started proceedings to permanently seize $US2.2 billion in assets belonging to convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
The funds were frozen in 2006 after Mr Thaksin was ousted in a military coup.
The prosecution and defence have more than 100 witnesses to participate in the trial, which is expected to last until October.
Mr Thaksin is not expected attend. The billionaire-businessman has lived in exile since the coup, returning only briefly last year to face a corruption trial over a multi-million dollar land deal involving his wife.
He fled again before he was sentenced to two years prison in that case.
Mr Thaksin has since spent time in Britain and Hong Kong. More recently he has been based in Dubai.
His lawyers say this case is politically motivated.
They say the case was mounted by a body backed by the coup makers who forced him from office almost 3 years ago.
Some political observers say it will be difficult to prove the money was gained illegally.
Mr Thaksin changed many laws while in office, famously adjusting foreign ownership rules to allow the sale of his telecommunications firm Shin Corp to a Singapore company.
- Radio Australia
Mere Samisoni’s reminder to the MSG
The Editor Vanuatu Daily Post, Dear Sir,
Re: The Prime Minister’s PNG/ Solomon’s/ Vanuatu in MSG decision.
LACK OF LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES FOR 21ST CENTURY NEEDS.
The recent decision by the MSG to support the so-called “road map” of Fiji’s illegal Regime (IR) is an absolute disgrace! I am writing to express my anger at the blatant disregard for the rights, expectations, conscience, will and choice of the people of Fiji that this unaccountable decision represents. Condoning the Regime’s illegitimate moves like this will only prolong the unnecessary suffering of the Fiji people. Better to continue isolating the IR and hasten their collapse from within (a process which was already underway, but which will now be needlessly prolonged).
I cannot for the life of me think what could possibly have prompted the MSG leaders to accept the Fiji Regime’s brain-dead roadmap. It is nothing more than a wish list of fine words by people who have proven time and again that they don’t know what they are doing, or how to keep their word. For these reasons alone, the roadmap is about as meaningless as it can be. And that is before you even consider the fact that it is based on their tainted “People’s Charter” which is already in place and failing to deliver on any of its promises to date, and which the Regime did not even have the guts to put to the people of Fiji by referendum or vote or any other legitimate polling method.
The roadmap is simply a joke – it lacks understanding, it lacks expertise, it lacks legitimacy, it lack popularity, it lacks detail, it lacks an economic platform, and most importantly, it lacks the commitment of the Fiji people. The only reason I can think of then, that the Regime might have been able to arm-twist support out of the MSG, is if it somehow made this into an issue of Fiji’s “sovereignty”.
If that is the case, then let me make this very clear – Fiji’s sovereignty belongs to the people of Fiji!! It does not belong to any gun-toting hooligan who happens to come along and thinks he has an idea for our collective future. Just think for a moment about the implications of accepting that, as a legitimate way of running affairs in your respective countries before you accept it on Fiji’s behalf.
The recent speech by USA President Obama to African leaders sums it up well. He pointed out that the people of Africa cannot blame colonialism or western dominance or democracy for their problems – they can only blame the tyranny and corruption of Leaders. Therefore it is up the to the African people to solve this for themselves in democratic ways of freedom, constitutional democracy and the rule of law and order.
In today’s 21-century market economy, the discipline of Leadership/Management is about fulfillment, as opposed to just effectiveness in order to sustain humanity. But the MSG completely ignored both good management practice and legal pathways in its decision. Why?
Although the MSG decision may give the IR some cause for hope, it does nothing of the sort for the people of Fiji. As I said before, this Regime is already collapsing. So even IF it makes it to its 2014 election deadline, it (or its designated successor) will not survive the verdict of the Fiji people in any free or fair election thereafter. I do not see how any legitimate Government that emerges then could find merit in an organization like the MSG whose tactics have no strategic meaning, and which so easily disregards:
1. The People of Fiji;
2. The Courts and Constitution of Fiji;
3. Commonsense;
4. Expert Advice; and
5. Basic Right over Wrong, in favor of such an illegitimate, bumbling and violent interloper as the Bainimarama Regime.
Such, an example of bad policy is not only outdated and uninformed, but goes against the heart of basic human values and hope for a free and emancipated Fiji.
The Hon. Dr. Mere Tuisalalo Samisoni MP.
Re: The Prime Minister’s PNG/ Solomon’s/ Vanuatu in MSG decision.
LACK OF LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES FOR 21ST CENTURY NEEDS.
The recent decision by the MSG to support the so-called “road map” of Fiji’s illegal Regime (IR) is an absolute disgrace! I am writing to express my anger at the blatant disregard for the rights, expectations, conscience, will and choice of the people of Fiji that this unaccountable decision represents. Condoning the Regime’s illegitimate moves like this will only prolong the unnecessary suffering of the Fiji people. Better to continue isolating the IR and hasten their collapse from within (a process which was already underway, but which will now be needlessly prolonged).
I cannot for the life of me think what could possibly have prompted the MSG leaders to accept the Fiji Regime’s brain-dead roadmap. It is nothing more than a wish list of fine words by people who have proven time and again that they don’t know what they are doing, or how to keep their word. For these reasons alone, the roadmap is about as meaningless as it can be. And that is before you even consider the fact that it is based on their tainted “People’s Charter” which is already in place and failing to deliver on any of its promises to date, and which the Regime did not even have the guts to put to the people of Fiji by referendum or vote or any other legitimate polling method.
The roadmap is simply a joke – it lacks understanding, it lacks expertise, it lacks legitimacy, it lack popularity, it lacks detail, it lacks an economic platform, and most importantly, it lacks the commitment of the Fiji people. The only reason I can think of then, that the Regime might have been able to arm-twist support out of the MSG, is if it somehow made this into an issue of Fiji’s “sovereignty”.
If that is the case, then let me make this very clear – Fiji’s sovereignty belongs to the people of Fiji!! It does not belong to any gun-toting hooligan who happens to come along and thinks he has an idea for our collective future. Just think for a moment about the implications of accepting that, as a legitimate way of running affairs in your respective countries before you accept it on Fiji’s behalf.
The recent speech by USA President Obama to African leaders sums it up well. He pointed out that the people of Africa cannot blame colonialism or western dominance or democracy for their problems – they can only blame the tyranny and corruption of Leaders. Therefore it is up the to the African people to solve this for themselves in democratic ways of freedom, constitutional democracy and the rule of law and order.
In today’s 21-century market economy, the discipline of Leadership/Management is about fulfillment, as opposed to just effectiveness in order to sustain humanity. But the MSG completely ignored both good management practice and legal pathways in its decision. Why?
Although the MSG decision may give the IR some cause for hope, it does nothing of the sort for the people of Fiji. As I said before, this Regime is already collapsing. So even IF it makes it to its 2014 election deadline, it (or its designated successor) will not survive the verdict of the Fiji people in any free or fair election thereafter. I do not see how any legitimate Government that emerges then could find merit in an organization like the MSG whose tactics have no strategic meaning, and which so easily disregards:
1. The People of Fiji;
2. The Courts and Constitution of Fiji;
3. Commonsense;
4. Expert Advice; and
5. Basic Right over Wrong, in favor of such an illegitimate, bumbling and violent interloper as the Bainimarama Regime.
Such, an example of bad policy is not only outdated and uninformed, but goes against the heart of basic human values and hope for a free and emancipated Fiji.
The Hon. Dr. Mere Tuisalalo Samisoni MP.
Boycott Shaista Shameem’s coffee shop & law firm
Can you send out the message for the people in Suva to boycott Shaista Shameem’s new coffee shop opposite FINTEL!
No one should bother going to her legal firm too.
Now she and her unemployed Fiji Air pilot husband wanna set up shop in Fiji after getting kicked out by their VB friends.
Tough luck Shaista!
Hehehe you’re stuck in Fiji with your travel ban to the modern world.
shitsta
No one should bother going to her legal firm too.
Now she and her unemployed Fiji Air pilot husband wanna set up shop in Fiji after getting kicked out by their VB friends.
Tough luck Shaista!
Hehehe you’re stuck in Fiji with your travel ban to the modern world.
shitsta
Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi- a true Christian Soldier
With all the clamour generated by Frank’s propaganda machine against the Methodist Church and especially Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi it may well pay to revisit the facts of the May 2000 coup involving the ex President of the Methodist Church .
Rev Kanailagi is from the chiefly yavusa Nayaumunu of Viwa Bau. It was Ratu Namosimalua the then Roko Tui Viwa who welcomed Reverend Joseph Hunt to set up the Methodist mission on Viwa as Ratu Cakobau and Bau were still about there heathen ways. The Reverend is also a blood relative of Viwa high chief Ratu Varani the notorious but later staunch Christian convert who ‘bent his knee to Jehovah’ on Good Friday 1845.
Reverend Captain Kanailagi is most admired amongst the real RFMF soldiers as the Padre of the 1st Battalion’s second contingent (Batt 2) UNIFIL during the tough Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s era of 1978-80.
This era is when the first Fijian’s underwent their baptism of fire and stamped the Fijian character in Middle East UN peacekeeping. He was tested under fire such as the firefight in Qana when Private Leitubadei was killed in action. Most unlike some in high military office today who are calling for his resignation.
His leadership during his presidency of the Methodist Church in the dark days of the 2000 coup is exemplary for the moral courage and physical fibre of the man. Here is the evidence from the Fiji Times of Tuesday 23rd May 2000, (page 15):
Methodists Stay Out
Methodist Church President Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi has dissociated the church from the events on Friday (19th May). Reverend Kanailagi visited the President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara at Government House on Sunday morning and the two held a prayer session together. He later visited the group held hostage at the parliamentary complex and then the captors. Reverend Kanailagi said the church had made known its stand on what happened on Friday and it did not want to meddle into the politics of it.
Wesleyans and all Christians stand up! For such a man of God in his twilight age who does not fear Frank and his guns. His strength is eternal! Praise the Lord!
With the Lotu and Vanua’s defiant stand on the Bose ko Viti being held in Rewa, let’s again revisit the facts of the May coup 2000 involving the ex President of the Methodist Church Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi.
Frank in his convoluted ‘non political’ mind spews his political venom accusing the Padre of being deviantly motivated and an agent of political instability.
Well here is published evidence in the Fiji Times of Thursday May 25th 2000 to the contrary:
Churches unit against crimes
The Fiji Council of Churches say it is against the unchristian act of those who seized members of the democratically elected government last Friday (19 May).
“We the Fiji Council of Churches stand together to oppose this very thoughtless crucifixion of democracy that has taken place” its chairman Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi said.
The Council expressed its sincere apologies to everyone affected by the rioting, looting and fires experienced last weekend.
It was an understatedly unchristian act that truly shocked us all”
The Council called on Christians to play their part in restoring order through little acts of love and kindness to all their neighbours.
“Let us look for the images of God in the faces around us and treat every individual with utmost love and respect in these trying times”. Reverend Kanailagi said.
Amen to that venerable Reverend! Stand up Wesleyans! And defend your faith against the great usuper of the state and church of our fore fathers! Come hell or high water!
Tebara sili wacala.
Rev Kanailagi is from the chiefly yavusa Nayaumunu of Viwa Bau. It was Ratu Namosimalua the then Roko Tui Viwa who welcomed Reverend Joseph Hunt to set up the Methodist mission on Viwa as Ratu Cakobau and Bau were still about there heathen ways. The Reverend is also a blood relative of Viwa high chief Ratu Varani the notorious but later staunch Christian convert who ‘bent his knee to Jehovah’ on Good Friday 1845.
Reverend Captain Kanailagi is most admired amongst the real RFMF soldiers as the Padre of the 1st Battalion’s second contingent (Batt 2) UNIFIL during the tough Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s era of 1978-80.
This era is when the first Fijian’s underwent their baptism of fire and stamped the Fijian character in Middle East UN peacekeeping. He was tested under fire such as the firefight in Qana when Private Leitubadei was killed in action. Most unlike some in high military office today who are calling for his resignation.
His leadership during his presidency of the Methodist Church in the dark days of the 2000 coup is exemplary for the moral courage and physical fibre of the man. Here is the evidence from the Fiji Times of Tuesday 23rd May 2000, (page 15):
Methodists Stay Out
Methodist Church President Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi has dissociated the church from the events on Friday (19th May). Reverend Kanailagi visited the President Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara at Government House on Sunday morning and the two held a prayer session together. He later visited the group held hostage at the parliamentary complex and then the captors. Reverend Kanailagi said the church had made known its stand on what happened on Friday and it did not want to meddle into the politics of it.
Wesleyans and all Christians stand up! For such a man of God in his twilight age who does not fear Frank and his guns. His strength is eternal! Praise the Lord!
With the Lotu and Vanua’s defiant stand on the Bose ko Viti being held in Rewa, let’s again revisit the facts of the May coup 2000 involving the ex President of the Methodist Church Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi.
Frank in his convoluted ‘non political’ mind spews his political venom accusing the Padre of being deviantly motivated and an agent of political instability.
Well here is published evidence in the Fiji Times of Thursday May 25th 2000 to the contrary:
Churches unit against crimes
The Fiji Council of Churches say it is against the unchristian act of those who seized members of the democratically elected government last Friday (19 May).
“We the Fiji Council of Churches stand together to oppose this very thoughtless crucifixion of democracy that has taken place” its chairman Reverend Tomasi Kanailagi said.
The Council expressed its sincere apologies to everyone affected by the rioting, looting and fires experienced last weekend.
It was an understatedly unchristian act that truly shocked us all”
The Council called on Christians to play their part in restoring order through little acts of love and kindness to all their neighbours.
“Let us look for the images of God in the faces around us and treat every individual with utmost love and respect in these trying times”. Reverend Kanailagi said.
Amen to that venerable Reverend! Stand up Wesleyans! And defend your faith against the great usuper of the state and church of our fore fathers! Come hell or high water!
Tebara sili wacala.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Another Fiji soldier speaks
I think its liken to “Al Qeada” – you leave in peace for a moment when you are weak, build up your army and once you’re strong…march to “Mecca” and takeover the glory.
Fistly, our friend “sayalaeke” and others from the barracks has now built a sizeable number where they can march to “Mecca”. Earlier in 2006 – 2008, it was the “sau ni madrai” that was holding them back. Now, they can afford to make a stand.
Secondly, as our accademic Meo suggested – lets contact them and assist them as they are they are leads to other things not known to the “kaiviti” that needs to be known.We are all disturbed with AG’s reported thesis on the “dismentling of Fijian structure and the Lotu”. This should not be taken lightly as we have this “kaidia” – perhaps Fijis’ “Obbiny Ladden”, who wants to take away the heritage of our children. “Yadra kaiviti, yavala de na kawa boko ko ira na luveda.”
Thirdly, those of us who make mistake and tasted the victory of repentance will accept “sayalaeke” & company when they march out. Why?…because we have made up our mind to walk away from that life. The beauty of being a repented wrong doers, we are now well aware where we went wrong and stay away from it when we meet it the next time.”Eda tamata cala kecega…ia ni sa veivutuni ka veisau mau edua na wekada…eda na ciqomi koya..se vakaevei?”
Fouthly, all military personnel are aware of the principal reason behind the coup – Franks self-centered aspiration to renew his position that made his standoff with the Qarase government. Heads were rolling for those who decides against his treasonous act of the likes of Col Tuatoko, Lt-Col Raduva, Commander (N) Koroi, Col Ratukadavulevu & others.The whole institution was dragged into his egoistic plans. The “test of loyalty” which Frank announced in the parade early 2004 is now eroding and the real thing is now surfacing. So “mai sayalaeke” lets hear more of the untold.
Cheers repented souls …. we are all in this together.
Let’s give them a hand Fiji.
ausamaidravudravua
Fistly, our friend “sayalaeke” and others from the barracks has now built a sizeable number where they can march to “Mecca”. Earlier in 2006 – 2008, it was the “sau ni madrai” that was holding them back. Now, they can afford to make a stand.
Secondly, as our accademic Meo suggested – lets contact them and assist them as they are they are leads to other things not known to the “kaiviti” that needs to be known.We are all disturbed with AG’s reported thesis on the “dismentling of Fijian structure and the Lotu”. This should not be taken lightly as we have this “kaidia” – perhaps Fijis’ “Obbiny Ladden”, who wants to take away the heritage of our children. “Yadra kaiviti, yavala de na kawa boko ko ira na luveda.”
Thirdly, those of us who make mistake and tasted the victory of repentance will accept “sayalaeke” & company when they march out. Why?…because we have made up our mind to walk away from that life. The beauty of being a repented wrong doers, we are now well aware where we went wrong and stay away from it when we meet it the next time.”Eda tamata cala kecega…ia ni sa veivutuni ka veisau mau edua na wekada…eda na ciqomi koya..se vakaevei?”
Fouthly, all military personnel are aware of the principal reason behind the coup – Franks self-centered aspiration to renew his position that made his standoff with the Qarase government. Heads were rolling for those who decides against his treasonous act of the likes of Col Tuatoko, Lt-Col Raduva, Commander (N) Koroi, Col Ratukadavulevu & others.The whole institution was dragged into his egoistic plans. The “test of loyalty” which Frank announced in the parade early 2004 is now eroding and the real thing is now surfacing. So “mai sayalaeke” lets hear more of the untold.
Cheers repented souls …. we are all in this together.
Let’s give them a hand Fiji.
ausamaidravudravua
Aiyaz Khaiyum’s bomb-making buddies confession
Aiyaz Khaiyum has been named as the key bomb-maker for an Alqaeda-like resistance group that tried to blow up the Nadi airport, the Monsavu Dam and other important infrastructure in Fiji following Rabuka’s coup of 1987.
Members of that resistance group have made their confession and affidavits prepared, where intricate but explosive details of Aiyaz Khaiyum’s bomb-making capabilities are revealed.
In the confession, these individuals have revealed for the first time how Aiyaz deserted them at the 11th hour of their terrorist attack, when members of the group were ambushed by military personnel and detained for weeks and some for months.
The Aiyaz Khaiyum led terrorist group were on the brink of carrying out Fiji wide bomb attacks when the military intervened.
They say that while they were rounded up by the military, they didn’t realise that Aiyaz was already at Nadi Airport waiting for his flight to flee Fiji.
He then lived in Sydney for a few years, working in a TV station before he left for Hong Kong where he undertook his Masters Degree.
They also revealed how unsympathetic Aiyaz was in using civilians to hide his bombs in their respective homes during their 1987 terrorist-like resistance plans.
Such a woman who helped Aiyaz Khaiyum is a distant relative of his and mother to a well known business consultant and ex-city counsellor.
Aiyaz Khaiyum’s first wife is a native from Pakistan and these individuals say Aiyaz is well connected to certain terrorist groups in Pakistan.
Members of that resistance group have made their confession and affidavits prepared, where intricate but explosive details of Aiyaz Khaiyum’s bomb-making capabilities are revealed.
In the confession, these individuals have revealed for the first time how Aiyaz deserted them at the 11th hour of their terrorist attack, when members of the group were ambushed by military personnel and detained for weeks and some for months.
The Aiyaz Khaiyum led terrorist group were on the brink of carrying out Fiji wide bomb attacks when the military intervened.
They say that while they were rounded up by the military, they didn’t realise that Aiyaz was already at Nadi Airport waiting for his flight to flee Fiji.
He then lived in Sydney for a few years, working in a TV station before he left for Hong Kong where he undertook his Masters Degree.
They also revealed how unsympathetic Aiyaz was in using civilians to hide his bombs in their respective homes during their 1987 terrorist-like resistance plans.
Such a woman who helped Aiyaz Khaiyum is a distant relative of his and mother to a well known business consultant and ex-city counsellor.
Aiyaz Khaiyum’s first wife is a native from Pakistan and these individuals say Aiyaz is well connected to certain terrorist groups in Pakistan.
Coup apologist Inoke Kubuabola to take up a key government position
We can report that morally corrupt Inoke Kubuabola, Fiji’s current ambassador to Japan, will be returning to Fiji soon.
This is the guy who helped Frank Bainimarama win the support of the questionable MSG members from PNG, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands.
We are also told that during that trip, Inoke Kubuabola ceased the opportunity to convince Frank to give him a job when he returns to Fiji in the next few days.
Our government sources say that Frank has given the orders that Inoke Kubuabola head the Ministry of Foreign Affairs upon his return after he successfully conned the MSG.
This is the guy who helped Frank Bainimarama win the support of the questionable MSG members from PNG, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands.
We are also told that during that trip, Inoke Kubuabola ceased the opportunity to convince Frank to give him a job when he returns to Fiji in the next few days.
Our government sources say that Frank has given the orders that Inoke Kubuabola head the Ministry of Foreign Affairs upon his return after he successfully conned the MSG.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Hari Punja bribes Frank Bainimarama on 12th july deal brokered by Aziz
It has been revealed by inside military sources that there was a secret meeting held on the 12th July between Hari Punja, Frank Bainimarama and Commissioner Central Colonel Tikoitoga (Colonel Qiliho’s albino twin brother) at HP’s residence at Kavika place.
With a spy device placed right under Punja’s elephant god Ganesh’es statue in his foyer the discussions ranged from Hari bribing Frank to buying a property for $1 million instead of the market $5 million. No surprises HP is hedging his bets again.
Frank’s deal is to be sourced from India by the Teflon don of Fijian Holdings Ltd notoriety Colonel Aziz Mohammed.
Word from Camp is that the soldiers are p#@*! Off with Aziz’s lies. For instance, Aziz strutted his stuff into the Nadi court and told the Rabaka murderers that the immunity decree covered all their crimes.
But when the verdict was read out at the Rabaka court case he told the eight guilty soldiers to take their punishment like a man.
The soldiers are fed up with being lied to! Tu cake ra gone! Me vesu o Commander lasulasu ! Dou sa vakaloloma!
Red Diamond
With a spy device placed right under Punja’s elephant god Ganesh’es statue in his foyer the discussions ranged from Hari bribing Frank to buying a property for $1 million instead of the market $5 million. No surprises HP is hedging his bets again.
Frank’s deal is to be sourced from India by the Teflon don of Fijian Holdings Ltd notoriety Colonel Aziz Mohammed.
Word from Camp is that the soldiers are p#@*! Off with Aziz’s lies. For instance, Aziz strutted his stuff into the Nadi court and told the Rabaka murderers that the immunity decree covered all their crimes.
But when the verdict was read out at the Rabaka court case he told the eight guilty soldiers to take their punishment like a man.
The soldiers are fed up with being lied to! Tu cake ra gone! Me vesu o Commander lasulasu ! Dou sa vakaloloma!
Red Diamond
BAN ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION LIFTED
LATEST FIJI NEWS 123
SWM CAN YOU PLEASE PUBLISH THIS ASAPWednesday, Jul 15, 2009 09:56 AM
FROM THE BOYS IN THE MILITARY....WE HAVE DECIDE TO END THE MEDIA CENSORSHIP THAT WAS INPLACE FOR SOMETIMES BY CAPTAIN NEUMI LEWENI..WE DONT SEE THE NEED TO CONTIUE.
RFMF NO LONGER TAKES ITS COMMAND FROM VOREQE BAINIMARAMA OR ESALA TELENI
WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR CIVILIAN LEADERS AT THIS STAGE TO CARRY ON THE ARMS OF GOVERNMNET FROM THE DICTATOR AND HIS TEAM .
ANY INTIMIDATION BY ANYONE PLEASE DONT HESTITATE TO REPORT TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION OR THE MILITARY CAMP
AS OF TODAY WE DONT RECOGNIZE BAINIMARAMA AS PRIME MINISTER OF OUR BELOVED FIJI
AS OF TODAY WE DONT RECOGNIZE EASALA TELENI TO BE THE POLICE COMMISSINER OF OUR BELOVED FIJI,ALL DIRECTORS OF POLICE ARE NOW IN CHARGE ..
WE WILL BE UPDATING THROUGH THE DAY...
GOD BLESS FIJI AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
FROM THE HEADQUATERS OF THE FIJI MILITARY FORCE
NABUA
SUVA.
thanks swm.
RUM.
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SWM CAN YOU PLEASE PUBLISH THIS ASAPWednesday, Jul 15, 2009 09:56 AM
FROM THE BOYS IN THE MILITARY....WE HAVE DECIDE TO END THE MEDIA CENSORSHIP THAT WAS INPLACE FOR SOMETIMES BY CAPTAIN NEUMI LEWENI..WE DONT SEE THE NEED TO CONTIUE.
RFMF NO LONGER TAKES ITS COMMAND FROM VOREQE BAINIMARAMA OR ESALA TELENI
WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR CIVILIAN LEADERS AT THIS STAGE TO CARRY ON THE ARMS OF GOVERNMNET FROM THE DICTATOR AND HIS TEAM .
ANY INTIMIDATION BY ANYONE PLEASE DONT HESTITATE TO REPORT TO THE NEAREST POLICE STATION OR THE MILITARY CAMP
AS OF TODAY WE DONT RECOGNIZE BAINIMARAMA AS PRIME MINISTER OF OUR BELOVED FIJI
AS OF TODAY WE DONT RECOGNIZE EASALA TELENI TO BE THE POLICE COMMISSINER OF OUR BELOVED FIJI,ALL DIRECTORS OF POLICE ARE NOW IN CHARGE ..
WE WILL BE UPDATING THROUGH THE DAY...
GOD BLESS FIJI AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
FROM THE HEADQUATERS OF THE FIJI MILITARY FORCE
NABUA
SUVA.
thanks swm.
RUM.
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Frank Bainimarama refuses to step down
Discussions between Frank Bainimarama and key military personnel have already taken place.
We’re told that Frank has been requested to peacefullly step down.
Those who have also been told to go are Iloilo, Fiji’s illegal President responsible for the purported abrogation of the 1997 constitution, his Vice, Epeli Nailatikau and the entire cabinet.
But Frank is not taking the request well out of sheer stubborness.
He knows that he doesn’t have the majority support of the military men and women.
Driti and Ului have it for their initiative to take FMF to a legally and morally correct route.
He also knows that the FMF, as an institution, is now making its move to right the treasonous route it had taken under his leadership.
And we’re also glad to learn that FMF has given Frank the time to step-down between now to August when the Methodist Church congregation will peacefully carry on with their annual conference.
The upcoming Methodist meet will surely be a peaceful and Fijian way of telling Frank that he is finished as Fiji’s dictator.
We won’t be surprised if FMF will have a choir singing at the Methodist meet.
Convoluted?
To many of us, it is … to the Fijians, that’s their way of dealing with conflict. It’s called “Conflict Resolution – Fiji Style and Fiji Time!”
Phew …. mind-boggling these Fijians but it still amazes us to follow how they solve their own problems.
We only hope this will be a lasting one with no nasty surprises around the corner!
Only in Fiji …. only in Fiji!!!!
We’re told that Frank has been requested to peacefullly step down.
Those who have also been told to go are Iloilo, Fiji’s illegal President responsible for the purported abrogation of the 1997 constitution, his Vice, Epeli Nailatikau and the entire cabinet.
But Frank is not taking the request well out of sheer stubborness.
He knows that he doesn’t have the majority support of the military men and women.
Driti and Ului have it for their initiative to take FMF to a legally and morally correct route.
He also knows that the FMF, as an institution, is now making its move to right the treasonous route it had taken under his leadership.
And we’re also glad to learn that FMF has given Frank the time to step-down between now to August when the Methodist Church congregation will peacefully carry on with their annual conference.
The upcoming Methodist meet will surely be a peaceful and Fijian way of telling Frank that he is finished as Fiji’s dictator.
We won’t be surprised if FMF will have a choir singing at the Methodist meet.
Convoluted?
To many of us, it is … to the Fijians, that’s their way of dealing with conflict. It’s called “Conflict Resolution – Fiji Style and Fiji Time!”
Phew …. mind-boggling these Fijians but it still amazes us to follow how they solve their own problems.
We only hope this will be a lasting one with no nasty surprises around the corner!
Only in Fiji …. only in Fiji!!!!
A soldier’s view on what’s happening in Fiji
FB (Frank Bainimarama) is a nobody now. We are sick of him giving controversial orders and running away overseas.And for us to keep facing the wrath of our soldiers and the public. He doesn’t know that our sense of fairness and the upholding of natural justice is the only reason he is kept alive (with Aiyaz, Leweni,John Prasad,Padam Lala, Damodar, etc). The main indicator for us when he ordered our soldiers who turned 55 to retire and he went on a globe-trotting taxpayer funded trip ,that he just cares for himself and he doesn’t care for the men’s families and he definitely doesn’t inspire the men anymore.
A Captain of a ship is always the last to leave a sinking ship. But this %#^$%&^ does the opposite – Qai lako ga mai na matai ni ua sa step. As they joke about in military college for LAMULAMU, ” You only follow them through curiosity” But now our curiosity has been fulfilled. E tamata lamulamu, ka veilecayaki.. To the methodist church , victory is ours and GOD WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US. We shall worship togetherin Rewa WITH A CLEAN HEART. QAI MACALA O IRA NA TABU LOTU E RA VIA TAROVA NA CAKACAKA NI YALO SAVASAVA KEI NA YALO DODONU.
sayalaeke
A Captain of a ship is always the last to leave a sinking ship. But this %#^$%&^ does the opposite – Qai lako ga mai na matai ni ua sa step. As they joke about in military college for LAMULAMU, ” You only follow them through curiosity” But now our curiosity has been fulfilled. E tamata lamulamu, ka veilecayaki.. To the methodist church , victory is ours and GOD WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US. We shall worship togetherin Rewa WITH A CLEAN HEART. QAI MACALA O IRA NA TABU LOTU E RA VIA TAROVA NA CAKACAKA NI YALO SAVASAVA KEI NA YALO DODONU.
sayalaeke
Methodist Church conference will go ahead
We can confirm that the Methodist Church have the Fiji Military Forces support to go ahead with their planned August conference.
FMF’s support is in direct defiance of their commander tyrant Frank Bainimarama’s earlier radio announcement yesterday that he is stopping the conference from going ahead.
FMF’s call has the full support of its landforce commander Pita Driti and 3rd FIR commander Ului Mara.
These two men wield all the power in FMF and they are now exercising it saying that Frank’s egotistical ban call is very divisive which has the impetus to cause civil unrest – a scenario many of us do not support.
We can also report that Driti and Ului are also considering ways to peacefully hand over powers to a civilian government as prescribed in the Appeals Court ruling.
We say kudos to Driti and Ului for finally showing some degree of patriotic responsibility for Fiji, especially her people.
If they are able to shift power with minimal fuss based on some solid commitment to uphold the rule of law, then we believe that they will be paving the way for immediate relief to Fiji with the lifting of sanctions, aid and things by the international community.
We also believe that for Fiji to move ahead, the Frank Bainimarama, Laisenia Qarase and Mahendra Chaudhry political trinity must be encouraged not to take part in the civilian government but they must all be given their right and freedom to fight the next general election fairly and squarely, starting now.
They are after all the key front-men in dragging Fiji to the mud and they must all step aside while an honorable group of four highly competent unbiased people take charge in moving Fiji back to a democratic election under the 1997 Constitution.
Changes to the constitution must be done legally, which we are certain will happen given the level of awareness and first-hand experience of its pros and cons since its inception in 1997.
We also say, give the Methodist Church their right and freedom to assemble, sing, fundraise and worship.
They deserve it just like any other religious group in Fiji who have had theirs or continue to have their crusade every other day.
FMF’s support is in direct defiance of their commander tyrant Frank Bainimarama’s earlier radio announcement yesterday that he is stopping the conference from going ahead.
FMF’s call has the full support of its landforce commander Pita Driti and 3rd FIR commander Ului Mara.
These two men wield all the power in FMF and they are now exercising it saying that Frank’s egotistical ban call is very divisive which has the impetus to cause civil unrest – a scenario many of us do not support.
We can also report that Driti and Ului are also considering ways to peacefully hand over powers to a civilian government as prescribed in the Appeals Court ruling.
We say kudos to Driti and Ului for finally showing some degree of patriotic responsibility for Fiji, especially her people.
If they are able to shift power with minimal fuss based on some solid commitment to uphold the rule of law, then we believe that they will be paving the way for immediate relief to Fiji with the lifting of sanctions, aid and things by the international community.
We also believe that for Fiji to move ahead, the Frank Bainimarama, Laisenia Qarase and Mahendra Chaudhry political trinity must be encouraged not to take part in the civilian government but they must all be given their right and freedom to fight the next general election fairly and squarely, starting now.
They are after all the key front-men in dragging Fiji to the mud and they must all step aside while an honorable group of four highly competent unbiased people take charge in moving Fiji back to a democratic election under the 1997 Constitution.
Changes to the constitution must be done legally, which we are certain will happen given the level of awareness and first-hand experience of its pros and cons since its inception in 1997.
We also say, give the Methodist Church their right and freedom to assemble, sing, fundraise and worship.
They deserve it just like any other religious group in Fiji who have had theirs or continue to have their crusade every other day.
DO NOT PAY YOUR FINE TO THE JUNTA
FIJI NEWS 234
News from our sources in the Ministry of Finance at Ro Lalabalavu House is that LTA Boss Etuate Koroi has been given the bum job of filling the empty illegal regime’s coffers by increasing LTA revenues through all types of traffic fines slapped on Fiji’s motorists and their vehicles.
These ‘fines’ are desperately needed to pay for government workers. 800 motorists were fined last weekend with LTA officers stationed all over the country, hiding in bushes, up mango trees, around sharp turns and under road culverts. Every “breech” of the traffic laws under the sun is being used to ensnare unsuspecting motorists and wheel barrow (Bara) boys in Suva market alike.
Even one Sigatoka farmer using his bullocks and gasita crossing the upper Sigatoka Valley road was fined for endangering oncoming traffic. The inside brief from LTA is that all officers on duty have been tasked a quota of 80 fines per day or else get demoted or chucked out on their bum.
So people IF YOU ARE ENSNARED BY THIS LATEST SHAME BY THE ILLEGAL Regime OF THUGS DO NOT PAY YOUR TRAFFIC FINES!! EVEN BETTER DON’T PAY TAXES!! AND LET THEM STEW THE CROOKS!!
Crosseyed
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News from our sources in the Ministry of Finance at Ro Lalabalavu House is that LTA Boss Etuate Koroi has been given the bum job of filling the empty illegal regime’s coffers by increasing LTA revenues through all types of traffic fines slapped on Fiji’s motorists and their vehicles.
These ‘fines’ are desperately needed to pay for government workers. 800 motorists were fined last weekend with LTA officers stationed all over the country, hiding in bushes, up mango trees, around sharp turns and under road culverts. Every “breech” of the traffic laws under the sun is being used to ensnare unsuspecting motorists and wheel barrow (Bara) boys in Suva market alike.
Even one Sigatoka farmer using his bullocks and gasita crossing the upper Sigatoka Valley road was fined for endangering oncoming traffic. The inside brief from LTA is that all officers on duty have been tasked a quota of 80 fines per day or else get demoted or chucked out on their bum.
So people IF YOU ARE ENSNARED BY THIS LATEST SHAME BY THE ILLEGAL Regime OF THUGS DO NOT PAY YOUR TRAFFIC FINES!! EVEN BETTER DON’T PAY TAXES!! AND LET THEM STEW THE CROOKS!!
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Andrew Hughes take on Frank Bainimarama
Don’t be misled by the demands made by the Commander. I can tell you what the real reasons are, and there’s two. One is, he’s in a state of self preservation. There has been widespread corruption in the military for some years and also he’s been resistant to the investigation into the murder of the counter-revolutionary warfare soldiers in 2000. There were four of them murdered by the military and we believe that he has some questions to answer in that regard himself. And secondly, that he’s a front man. He’s a front man as Rabuka was in ‘87 and Speight was in 2000. Bainimarama is a front man for power-seeking people in Fiji that failed at the last election who are not able to gain power legitimately, so they’re using him as a means to obtain that power.
Exerpt from Andrew Hughes TV interview
Exerpt from Andrew Hughes TV interview
IS IT THE GPH?
After exiled former Thailand prime minister Billionaire Thaksin Shinawatra paid a hush-hush visit following a secret stopover last week in Fiji to meet interim illegal Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama our sources reveal the following deal was made.
US $250,000 was handed to John Prasad, CEO Finance and chair of FNPF as a front down payment for FNPF’s stagnant Grand Pacific Hotel $6.5 million project.
Whether the deal goes through is another matter as corporate lawyers and Frank’s ex Marist gang Caesar Lateef and Dilip Jamanadas are still squabling with AG Aiyarse as to who gets to broker the deal and get the huge commission. It appears Thaksin’s Fiji venture has a probable hidden agenda. Thailand press speculated that Thaksin is bargaining for a safe haven for exile in Fiji and the final investment sum may never materialize given Fiji’s nose diving economy.
US $250,000 was handed to John Prasad, CEO Finance and chair of FNPF as a front down payment for FNPF’s stagnant Grand Pacific Hotel $6.5 million project.
Whether the deal goes through is another matter as corporate lawyers and Frank’s ex Marist gang Caesar Lateef and Dilip Jamanadas are still squabling with AG Aiyarse as to who gets to broker the deal and get the huge commission. It appears Thaksin’s Fiji venture has a probable hidden agenda. Thailand press speculated that Thaksin is bargaining for a safe haven for exile in Fiji and the final investment sum may never materialize given Fiji’s nose diving economy.
MSG A TRAITOR TO THE FIJIAN PEOPLE
The chairman of the Melanesian Spearhead Group, Vanuatu’s Prime Minister Edward Natapei, says the MSG doesn’t necessarily support the roadmap of Fiji’s interim regime but that it is pushing for other Fijian leadership to be involved in the process.
Following their meeting on Fiji in Port Vila, the Prime Ministers of Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands said the Pacific Islands Forum should lift Fiji’s Forum suspension which was the result of Suva failing to commit to elections this year.
The MSG leaders accepted the reasons given by Fiji’s interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama for putting off elections for another five years after he briefed them in Vanuatu about his strategic framework for change in Fiji.
Mr Natapei says the Commodore displayed genuine will to work towards democracy.
“We had our views also and we made it clear at the meeting that we would like consultation to take place if possible to bring in other groups in Fiji also into the plans that they have so that it includes other groups and if possible nationwide reconciliation and dialogue should take place in Fiji.”
Edward Natapei said it remained to be seen whether Pacific leaders as a group will lift Fiji’s suspension at next month’s annual Forum summit in Australia.
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Following their meeting on Fiji in Port Vila, the Prime Ministers of Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands said the Pacific Islands Forum should lift Fiji’s Forum suspension which was the result of Suva failing to commit to elections this year.
The MSG leaders accepted the reasons given by Fiji’s interim Prime Minister Commodore Frank Bainimarama for putting off elections for another five years after he briefed them in Vanuatu about his strategic framework for change in Fiji.
Mr Natapei says the Commodore displayed genuine will to work towards democracy.
“We had our views also and we made it clear at the meeting that we would like consultation to take place if possible to bring in other groups in Fiji also into the plans that they have so that it includes other groups and if possible nationwide reconciliation and dialogue should take place in Fiji.”
Edward Natapei said it remained to be seen whether Pacific leaders as a group will lift Fiji’s suspension at next month’s annual Forum summit in Australia.
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FHL faces suspension from stock exchange
The South Pacific Stock Exchange is still yet to receive the Corporate Governance audit report of Fijian Holdings Limited.
SPSE Chief Executive, Jinita Prasad says, a deadline set for last Thursday, had been moved to end of today.
Prasad reiterated the report will only be released to the public, if there is any material information contained in it.
She adds the Exchange will take action, if FHL fails to comply with the deadline set for today.
SPSE Chief Executive, Jinita Prasad says, a deadline set for last Thursday, had been moved to end of today.
Prasad reiterated the report will only be released to the public, if there is any material information contained in it.
She adds the Exchange will take action, if FHL fails to comply with the deadline set for today.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Our eroded political leaders
The military emasculation of the SDL/FLP Multi-Party Government, and more particularly, the SDL leadership is all too obvious.
When the 2006 coup took place, all the SDL and FLP Ministers, except for Qarase and Kinivuwai, disappeared over the horizon.
The Fijian political intelligentsia retreated into their “culture of silence” or “culture of acquiescence”, joining the winning military “band-wagon”. Some retaliated by secretly blogging away.
The Fiji Labour Party leaders readily joined the Military Government, throwing aside decades of moral and lawful opposition to military coups and undemocratic governments. So also did the National Alliance Party.
With serious questions being raised about millions of dollars given by India for dispossessed Fiji cane farmers ending up in Chudhry’s Australian accounts, what kind of leadership can the FLP provide to the Indo-Fijians.
Intellectually weakened by the massive emigration of professional and skilled persons, the Indo-Fijian political and social elite who remain, blindly “follow the leader” or are totally indifferent.
Witness the abject silence and disinterest of the majority of young educated Indo-Fijians in national events, immersed as they are in Bollywood, and pre-occupation to emigrate from Fiji.
The irony is that when these apathetic Indo-Fijians emigrate, they will have lost 20 percent of all their life savings in Fiji, because of the 20% devaluation, with more losses to come in the future.
When the 2006 coup took place, all the SDL and FLP Ministers, except for Qarase and Kinivuwai, disappeared over the horizon.
The Fijian political intelligentsia retreated into their “culture of silence” or “culture of acquiescence”, joining the winning military “band-wagon”. Some retaliated by secretly blogging away.
The Fiji Labour Party leaders readily joined the Military Government, throwing aside decades of moral and lawful opposition to military coups and undemocratic governments. So also did the National Alliance Party.
With serious questions being raised about millions of dollars given by India for dispossessed Fiji cane farmers ending up in Chudhry’s Australian accounts, what kind of leadership can the FLP provide to the Indo-Fijians.
Intellectually weakened by the massive emigration of professional and skilled persons, the Indo-Fijian political and social elite who remain, blindly “follow the leader” or are totally indifferent.
Witness the abject silence and disinterest of the majority of young educated Indo-Fijians in national events, immersed as they are in Bollywood, and pre-occupation to emigrate from Fiji.
The irony is that when these apathetic Indo-Fijians emigrate, they will have lost 20 percent of all their life savings in Fiji, because of the 20% devaluation, with more losses to come in the future.
MELANESIAN SPEARHEAD GROUP GO AND GET FUCKED
The MSG gang don’t seem to understand what fools they’ve made of themselves by supporting a tin-pot dictator.
Fiji has a right to be represented in trade talks and other regional matters but Frank doesn’t represent Fiji. If they can’t understand this you’ve got to wonder what they think they’re doing in their regional meetings.
But what is their motive for standing up for a dictator? Are they on the payroll of a state that wants to see the Aussies and Kiwis pushed out of the Pacific?
Or do they have some secret dream of replacing Fiji as the hub of the Pacific? If we degenerate further into the status of a tin-pot dictatorship it’s true that Vanuatu could start to replace us as the hub but others may be hoping to pick up a share of regional activities which are currentlyheadquartered in Fiji.
I don’t understand their motives at all, but I do know that when they say Frank’s roadmap to nowhere should be seriously considered, they have some other motive. The only thing that’s clear from the roadmap is that the dictator does not intend to share power with anyone for the next five years. If they can’t see that it means they’re blind or have some other secret, dirty motive.
Navosavakadua
Fiji has a right to be represented in trade talks and other regional matters but Frank doesn’t represent Fiji. If they can’t understand this you’ve got to wonder what they think they’re doing in their regional meetings.
But what is their motive for standing up for a dictator? Are they on the payroll of a state that wants to see the Aussies and Kiwis pushed out of the Pacific?
Or do they have some secret dream of replacing Fiji as the hub of the Pacific? If we degenerate further into the status of a tin-pot dictatorship it’s true that Vanuatu could start to replace us as the hub but others may be hoping to pick up a share of regional activities which are currentlyheadquartered in Fiji.
I don’t understand their motives at all, but I do know that when they say Frank’s roadmap to nowhere should be seriously considered, they have some other motive. The only thing that’s clear from the roadmap is that the dictator does not intend to share power with anyone for the next five years. If they can’t see that it means they’re blind or have some other secret, dirty motive.
Navosavakadua
THERE IS NO SUPPOT LEFT FOR THE MILITARY COUNCIL
So, the ongoing strategy and tactics of the Commodore – even since the 2000 coup – need to be more clearly and carefully defined so they can be understood. I wonder: is not the slow-motion, carefully crafted strategy of the Military Commander, over this decade, and with his more recent efforts to slow down Fiji’s return to parliamentary democracy, not part of his ongoing determination to weed out the “dangerous leaven” he perceives within the military itself, from officers who are not militaristic, from officers who have not bowed the knee to the military idol and who refuse to do so?
Here’s my “two bob’s worth”. First, try and think about what happened in Fiji in a global context where, more and more, the US has become the dominant peace-keeper around the world. Think of the efforts of President Woodrow Wilson to make the world “safe for Democracy”. Insightful commentary has suggested that this was an attempt to do for the early 20th century what Emperor Constantine the Great did when he made the Roman Empire safe for Christianity many centuries before that.
And so, what has been the long-run impact of the American effort to “make the world safe for democracy”, after the Great Depression, the Second World War, the cold war, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the war on terror? The US has increasingly been involved in a process which, by its military might, renders the world susceptible to US-type leadership, if not US type control. Usually American imperialism goes like this – “We are the ones who by our historical calling will prevent any (other) nation from engaging in imperialism.” The US is the world-stage actor which wants to be known as anti-imperialist – and we might say they are the anti-imperialist imperialists.
Under President Bush the US as a nation – with all its power and control – has, more and more, become deeply anxious about itself, about its ability to keep itself safe, about its own ability to promote freedom and democracy, let alone prosperity, let alone make the world a safer place “for ever”. And GWB’s militarism simply brought that anxiety to fever-pitch.
Now, think about the coups in Fiji of December 2006 and Good Friday 2009, and the rationale given for them by the Military Commander, and also by all of his over-anxious apologists wherever they have been found. What have they been saying? What have they suggested the coups have been about? These coups are allegedly about making Fiji safe for all Fijian citizens, (the coup to end all coups etc etc) but, from this distance, it seems quite obvious that this has been a massive and repeated failure which simply winds up the military’s own levels of anxiety and paranoia. This creates further hardship for all of Fiji’s peoples. It is nothing less than a series of repeated attempts to find a safe path for the nation to take in order to make Fiji safe for Fiji’s military! That’s my suspicion about these last two coups – making Fiji safe for Fiji’s military.
The arguments, when they have been given, have been little more than poor attempts to suggest that Fiji cannot be a safe place for democracy until Fiji is a safe place for the Fiji Military (and thus any laudable search to reform the military gets taken up within the military by those who want to make the military a safe haven for all those who have engaged in treason and justified the recent and previous coups).
Clearly Fiji’s own emergent parliamentary democracy was viewed as a massive threat to Fiji’s own military and especially to those who nurture a desire to maintain a militaristic faith at the heart of the republic’s life.
But not all soldiers are militarists. Not all soldiers worship the military idol. And, it would seem, that those soldiers are precisely the ones who have long threatened the militaristic regime and its pretensions. Are they not the “enemy within” to the ruling junta? So we note that the Military Commander, by continuing down this path, to ensure his own safety under his version of militarism, has actually changed this institution into something else, something at odds with its founding mandate. Hitherto the RFMF has given Fiji reason to be proud of its place among the nations; but that is well and truly in the balance. The question is: when will those who reject the worship of the military idol within the RFMF, among the Chiefs, and in the Methodist Church and other political parties, stand up and together refuse to bow?
Here’s my “two bob’s worth”. First, try and think about what happened in Fiji in a global context where, more and more, the US has become the dominant peace-keeper around the world. Think of the efforts of President Woodrow Wilson to make the world “safe for Democracy”. Insightful commentary has suggested that this was an attempt to do for the early 20th century what Emperor Constantine the Great did when he made the Roman Empire safe for Christianity many centuries before that.
And so, what has been the long-run impact of the American effort to “make the world safe for democracy”, after the Great Depression, the Second World War, the cold war, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the war on terror? The US has increasingly been involved in a process which, by its military might, renders the world susceptible to US-type leadership, if not US type control. Usually American imperialism goes like this – “We are the ones who by our historical calling will prevent any (other) nation from engaging in imperialism.” The US is the world-stage actor which wants to be known as anti-imperialist – and we might say they are the anti-imperialist imperialists.
Under President Bush the US as a nation – with all its power and control – has, more and more, become deeply anxious about itself, about its ability to keep itself safe, about its own ability to promote freedom and democracy, let alone prosperity, let alone make the world a safer place “for ever”. And GWB’s militarism simply brought that anxiety to fever-pitch.
Now, think about the coups in Fiji of December 2006 and Good Friday 2009, and the rationale given for them by the Military Commander, and also by all of his over-anxious apologists wherever they have been found. What have they been saying? What have they suggested the coups have been about? These coups are allegedly about making Fiji safe for all Fijian citizens, (the coup to end all coups etc etc) but, from this distance, it seems quite obvious that this has been a massive and repeated failure which simply winds up the military’s own levels of anxiety and paranoia. This creates further hardship for all of Fiji’s peoples. It is nothing less than a series of repeated attempts to find a safe path for the nation to take in order to make Fiji safe for Fiji’s military! That’s my suspicion about these last two coups – making Fiji safe for Fiji’s military.
The arguments, when they have been given, have been little more than poor attempts to suggest that Fiji cannot be a safe place for democracy until Fiji is a safe place for the Fiji Military (and thus any laudable search to reform the military gets taken up within the military by those who want to make the military a safe haven for all those who have engaged in treason and justified the recent and previous coups).
Clearly Fiji’s own emergent parliamentary democracy was viewed as a massive threat to Fiji’s own military and especially to those who nurture a desire to maintain a militaristic faith at the heart of the republic’s life.
But not all soldiers are militarists. Not all soldiers worship the military idol. And, it would seem, that those soldiers are precisely the ones who have long threatened the militaristic regime and its pretensions. Are they not the “enemy within” to the ruling junta? So we note that the Military Commander, by continuing down this path, to ensure his own safety under his version of militarism, has actually changed this institution into something else, something at odds with its founding mandate. Hitherto the RFMF has given Fiji reason to be proud of its place among the nations; but that is well and truly in the balance. The question is: when will those who reject the worship of the military idol within the RFMF, among the Chiefs, and in the Methodist Church and other political parties, stand up and together refuse to bow?
Inoke Kubuabola
So Frank is now in bed with the knuckle head know all Inoke Kubuabola as he tries to use this parasite of a politician as a frigging phoney foreign minister to wiggle back into the regional and international community. Here is the low life that was all very much part of the 2000 coup which Frank keeps harping back to as his overburdening reason in his cleanup campaign. Ironically the excerpt below is written by another coup apologist and frigging political opportunist double dealing Dakuvula. . Read all about it folks!
COMMENTARY: WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN IF SPEIGHT GIVES UP?
By Jone Dakuvula
A personal view: Former organizing secretary of the Fiji Labour Party, former media adviser to ex-Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, adviser to Opposition Leader Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, currently with the Citizens’ Constitutional Forum (CCF).
SUVA, Fiji Islands (May 25, 2000 )… “I write here with some inside knowledge because I was once one of Ratu Inoke Kubuabola’s close advisers on the Opposition sides between June and September 1999. I was aware then that a shadowy Committee was formed in June last year to initiate a campaign of destabilization aimed at toppling the Government in the shortest time possible. Thereafter, we kept hearing rumors of postponement of dates.
It all began when Ratu Inoke said to the SVT Management Board Meeting on May 27th 1999 (in which I was present) that they must be prepared to fight and to shed blood if need be to return political power to the indigenous Fijians.
In June 1999, Apisai Tora joined this committee and later, some members of the rebel F.A.P. faction. I learnt in June last year that there was an understanding with the late Sakiusa Butadroka, that the members of the Fijian Nationalist Party would do the dirty work while the S.V.T. supports from behind and fronts the public campaigns in Parliament and outside.
Most of the members of the destabilization committee I think were not members of Parliament but their activities last year were undertaken with the knowledge of Ratu Inoke Kubuabola.
At the time, I was in the Opposition Office; he was receiving regular reports of these campaign activities. I do not know whether Ratu Inoke and his S.V.T. colleagues know of George Speight’s illegal Cabinet and their other actions in which they have shown their public support of the coup.
That is why I believe MPs who supported the coup should leave Parliament.
Having allowed Speight to announce the abolishment of the Bose Levu Vakaturaga (Great Council of Chiefs), where do the SVT supporters of Speight’s coup now rest their case as the party that was formed by the BLV”…?
COMMENTARY: WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN IF SPEIGHT GIVES UP?
By Jone Dakuvula
A personal view: Former organizing secretary of the Fiji Labour Party, former media adviser to ex-Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, adviser to Opposition Leader Ratu Inoke Kubuabola, currently with the Citizens’ Constitutional Forum (CCF).
SUVA, Fiji Islands (May 25, 2000 )… “I write here with some inside knowledge because I was once one of Ratu Inoke Kubuabola’s close advisers on the Opposition sides between June and September 1999. I was aware then that a shadowy Committee was formed in June last year to initiate a campaign of destabilization aimed at toppling the Government in the shortest time possible. Thereafter, we kept hearing rumors of postponement of dates.
It all began when Ratu Inoke said to the SVT Management Board Meeting on May 27th 1999 (in which I was present) that they must be prepared to fight and to shed blood if need be to return political power to the indigenous Fijians.
In June 1999, Apisai Tora joined this committee and later, some members of the rebel F.A.P. faction. I learnt in June last year that there was an understanding with the late Sakiusa Butadroka, that the members of the Fijian Nationalist Party would do the dirty work while the S.V.T. supports from behind and fronts the public campaigns in Parliament and outside.
Most of the members of the destabilization committee I think were not members of Parliament but their activities last year were undertaken with the knowledge of Ratu Inoke Kubuabola.
At the time, I was in the Opposition Office; he was receiving regular reports of these campaign activities. I do not know whether Ratu Inoke and his S.V.T. colleagues know of George Speight’s illegal Cabinet and their other actions in which they have shown their public support of the coup.
That is why I believe MPs who supported the coup should leave Parliament.
Having allowed Speight to announce the abolishment of the Bose Levu Vakaturaga (Great Council of Chiefs), where do the SVT supporters of Speight’s coup now rest their case as the party that was formed by the BLV”…?
Response to the Melanesian Leaders re Support to Fiji
The Community Development Program Manager of the Fiji Australia Community Development Program Susana S. Lolohea, based in Sydney, is a silent political activist in her own right who consistently monitors her interest regarding her country of birth Fiji – shares news and current affairs to her Fijian community in Sydney and the world regarding the economic down trodden country of Fiji , and led by an illegal regime and a Dictator. What bothers us, the fact that the word Illegal Government has not sunk into Bhainimarama’s hard nut. He cannot be that mad or is he drunk not knowing what to do next, or has the bad spirits really turned him on to do adverse things. Ulukaukau is so true.
Sir Michael Somare and his other Melanesian Spearhead Group need to look at the real picture of Fiji – the People of Fiji do not need your assistance, your people are still in the dark ages compared to Fiji, your witch craft is still rife and you are just playing pally pally with the Dictator who runs an illegal government
To us Fijians, it means that you have ignored the stance Australia, New Zealand, and the whole world have taken – that is simply the message to the Dictator Bainimarama – give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, give back to Fiji what is theirs and give Bainimarama the marching orders, give the country of Fiji back to the people give them the opportunity to elect their own government. After all no government is a government without a government elected by its people. The Dictator Bainimarama needs to first apologise to the people of Fiji for the hurt and damage he has caused them – his time is coming to an end soon.
The Pacific Islands Forum’s support has never faltered, it has always been there, the Dictator Bainimarama has caused himself this rift, not attending Forum meetings, sending his Leech Aiyaz Khaiyum to represent him at the Pacific Leaders Meeting in PNG, absent from the Niue meet and not a even a Sorry word.
All you leaders or the Melanesian neighbor, please leave Fiji out of the Cairns meeting, the Dictator Bainimarama has to prove himself once more that the elections will be held in 2009 and not 2014. Only then, should all the Leaders agree that the Dictator attend the Cairns meeting. He has let the Fijian people down so bad. He has let the Methodist Church Leaders down in one of the most dictatorial stance, any Fijian has done
I suppose now the Leader of Fiji’s Illegal Government realizes – as like Sitiveni Rabuka’s book, there is no other way. China has turned his back on Fiji, India’s 2 main banks Habib Bank and Bank of Baroda have turned and will not support the financing of the BP Oil deal worth $190m, the whole world will not support an illegal government run by a Dictator as Bainimarama.
So to all the Melanesian Leaders, leave Fiji alone the people do not wish to see the Dictator enter the Cairns meeting, unless he makes a statement that the elections will be held in 2009 as he had promised at the Leaders Meet in Tonga.The Road Map launched by the Dictator of the Illegal Government of Fiji will not be realized nor recognized if the Peoples of Fiji are not given the right, the right to elect their own government for their own survivalhood – so Sir Milchael Somare tell your counterparts that is the turn you need to understand – anyway leave Fiji alone. Fiji will not be accepted into the PIF in Cairns, unless the Dictator Bainimarama assures the PIF that Fiji will hold elections in 2009. If he has not got this assurance in his Road Map, then the PIF Chairman and his members must not allow him to the forum. Bainimarama knows this very well unless his leech Khaiyum is doing the hard push from the back – for what? The PIF members will not bow down to your illegal tactics. No, no.
You Melanesian Leaders say that you will support Fiji in their plans to restore democracy through Bainimarama’s roadmap launched last week – come on ‘get out of here’ you guys. I do not have to spell things out to you Melanesian Leaders, we are more Australians than Melanesians anyway or more Polynesian four times over. When I say Australians because we have been brothers with Australia for years – they have assisted Fiji in its development, its training programs they even as of today, accepted people into Australia to survive.
Tongans settled in Nadroga in the 1800s and they speak pure Tongan – they also arrived and settled in Kadavu, Lau they’ve inter married. We are more Polynesian now than Melanesians. So your claim to get Fiji into the Melanesian group of Islands no thanks, we will remain with Australia and New Zealand. They run their government in a democratic manner, their Peoples are well maintained, and the country is there to look after all of us as well.So how can you tell us that we are Melanesians. You have no cultural ways, no respect – your own peoples need to be taught this. Your islands are still in the dark, witch crafting, stone monies still being used, your dress sense does not help the community of the world, most of your people are still in the stone age. Fiji has moved forward and are blessed – they no longer live in the dark ages. So leave Fiji alone you Melanesian leaders.
For the Dictator Bainimarama to cripple the media in Fiji up until to date, is not a way forward, and to allow Emergency Rules until the end of 2009 is no way forward. This is no way forward for the Peoples of Fiji. So you Melanesian Leaders what are you harping about, why do you have to support Bainimarama’s Road Map where elections will be in 2014. Can’t you realize that the poor people of Fiji are suffering from Bainimarama’s Illegal Government. Can the word Illegal register in your brains. As long as it remains illegal the Peoples of Fiji will suffer. So we want an elected government NOW not in 2014. Most of the Melanesian people we spoke with do agree with our statement, so keep the peace Sir Michael Somare and co., just support what the people need – that is to survive, election in 2009, rid of the Illegal Government and voila!! Peace, Love and Unity to all.
We are ashamed of having leaders as Sir Michael Somare and the leaders of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in our midst who support the Bad Vibes of Fiji, you are a horrifying lot.
Hey we all want democracy, and the Fijian People want it NOW. They are struggling to survive, especially those who do not live near the sea, unemployment is on the rise, the health is at risk.
Our family members in Fiji, the people of Fiji want elections NOW and not to 2014. You Melanesian leaders should support Fiji in their plans to restore democracy. After all to have an election soon in 2009 is to have democracy why wait for 2014. There is no economy, there is no money why wait for 2014, where does Bainimarama think the money will come from then, Thailand? Etc., What have the Melanesians got to give Bainimarama? Stone money? I don’t think Bainimarama likes that. Hard Cash is needed here and Millions of these. So Melanesians stay out please because Fiji is not invited to the meeting of PIF in Cairns.
We plead with the Chairman of the Pacific Island forum in Cairns and all other leaders not to lift the suspension, if the election will wait until 2014 do not lift the suspension. If the dictator has successfully played his dirty game with the advice of all his leeches in Fiji, the Melanesians of the Pacific Island Leaders Forum can play its own too, before the meeting in Cairns like, get a commitment from the Dictator that the elections will be in 2009 and not 2014. Our poor people of Fiji are pleading for this our family members in Fiji are suffering.
The Dictator of Fiji failed to meet the deadline of lst May 2009 to set a date for the elections – last chance for him, he did not care and Fiji suffers, out the door you go Fiji, no more a member of the Pacific Island Leaders Forum. Melanesian leaders must be mindful of all the failures the Dictator Bainimarama has caused the people of Fiji and the Pacific Leaders Forum. Lord Have Mercy.
The Dictator overruled the Pacific Leaders Forum, and said lst May 2009 is not on. Instead he said elections have been postponed to 2014. Why should he be invited to the Cairns meeting.
How can the Melanesian leaders have faith in the Dictator Bainimarama for such cheap and without trust type of attitude. This is no leader, he has no status. Do not allow yourselves to be made this way too. Think of our Fijian people if you would please. Election in 2009 and not 2014. Our family members in Fiji are crying out for help – to their family members living away.
Somare you don’t know this. We’ve been sending remittances from Australia where we live, New Zealand, America, Canada to give our family members some life, until we have a democratic government and the world will be at our door steps to assist Fiji.
We ask the Melanesian neighbor, leave Fiji alone. You are dealing with a government which is illegal – there is nothing legal about it – the constitution has been abrogated by an ailing and corrupt President – who also dismissed Judges for rightfully placing its orders – that the case between the former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase of a Democratic Government versus Dictator Bainimarama and the President were proven that the Dictator and the President erred.Somare, how can you support the Dictators Road Map when the government is illegal. Why can’t you make a deal with Bai to have an election in 2009 because you feel for the children and peoples of Fiji who are facing a lot of hardship because of the traumatized way the illegal government dictator runs his business. Somare who do you support? Please support the peoples of Fiji, they make the government.
Fiji wants the people for a quick election, they want their country back to normalcy, all have been in an abnormal state since 2006, crimes have escalated so please Sir Michael Somare and your neighbours have your mindset on the People of Fiji and not on the Dictator – in some ways, seemingly your meeting is rather personal, by the way you have reacted as such by your statement.
You have met Ratu Epeli Nailatikau in the past for some friendly chat – but it is the Fiji people you need to meet, they are going through hell what with the economy at its rock bottom, the people want the elections in 2009 to elect their own government and not in 2014.
So please concentrate on the People Michael Somare – you are also facing big problems in your country with your own people and the Asian People, in the end it’s your people you need to listen to. Same thing.
So you Melanesian Leaders do not try and turn your back to the people of Fiji, remember we have Polynesian Blood Streaks, so if you are going to help the way forward for Fiji, we demand you to support an early election in 2009, that after all this is done the formation of committees will be in the plan, to discuss the Road Map on hand but discussed in an elected Parliament. Whatever the Dictator has in his Plans – should be through a Cabinet in Parliament by an Elected Government. You leaders should know the drill.
That is the Democracy you need to support. I am prepared to visit you in Cairns or in the islands to lay the cards of our humble people of Fiji and to give you the love message we have of our country Fiji. Your other future discussions could be heard in a democratic elected government.
By the way a mouse has just called, the Dictator is running towards the end of the road – time is running out. There’s a new shadow of a representative coming forth… ouch.
Susana S.Lolohea (no relation to Timoci Lolohea)Fiji Australia Community Development IncorporatedSydney.
Sir Michael Somare and his other Melanesian Spearhead Group need to look at the real picture of Fiji – the People of Fiji do not need your assistance, your people are still in the dark ages compared to Fiji, your witch craft is still rife and you are just playing pally pally with the Dictator who runs an illegal government
To us Fijians, it means that you have ignored the stance Australia, New Zealand, and the whole world have taken – that is simply the message to the Dictator Bainimarama – give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, give back to Fiji what is theirs and give Bainimarama the marching orders, give the country of Fiji back to the people give them the opportunity to elect their own government. After all no government is a government without a government elected by its people. The Dictator Bainimarama needs to first apologise to the people of Fiji for the hurt and damage he has caused them – his time is coming to an end soon.
The Pacific Islands Forum’s support has never faltered, it has always been there, the Dictator Bainimarama has caused himself this rift, not attending Forum meetings, sending his Leech Aiyaz Khaiyum to represent him at the Pacific Leaders Meeting in PNG, absent from the Niue meet and not a even a Sorry word.
All you leaders or the Melanesian neighbor, please leave Fiji out of the Cairns meeting, the Dictator Bainimarama has to prove himself once more that the elections will be held in 2009 and not 2014. Only then, should all the Leaders agree that the Dictator attend the Cairns meeting. He has let the Fijian people down so bad. He has let the Methodist Church Leaders down in one of the most dictatorial stance, any Fijian has done
I suppose now the Leader of Fiji’s Illegal Government realizes – as like Sitiveni Rabuka’s book, there is no other way. China has turned his back on Fiji, India’s 2 main banks Habib Bank and Bank of Baroda have turned and will not support the financing of the BP Oil deal worth $190m, the whole world will not support an illegal government run by a Dictator as Bainimarama.
So to all the Melanesian Leaders, leave Fiji alone the people do not wish to see the Dictator enter the Cairns meeting, unless he makes a statement that the elections will be held in 2009 as he had promised at the Leaders Meet in Tonga.The Road Map launched by the Dictator of the Illegal Government of Fiji will not be realized nor recognized if the Peoples of Fiji are not given the right, the right to elect their own government for their own survivalhood – so Sir Milchael Somare tell your counterparts that is the turn you need to understand – anyway leave Fiji alone. Fiji will not be accepted into the PIF in Cairns, unless the Dictator Bainimarama assures the PIF that Fiji will hold elections in 2009. If he has not got this assurance in his Road Map, then the PIF Chairman and his members must not allow him to the forum. Bainimarama knows this very well unless his leech Khaiyum is doing the hard push from the back – for what? The PIF members will not bow down to your illegal tactics. No, no.
You Melanesian Leaders say that you will support Fiji in their plans to restore democracy through Bainimarama’s roadmap launched last week – come on ‘get out of here’ you guys. I do not have to spell things out to you Melanesian Leaders, we are more Australians than Melanesians anyway or more Polynesian four times over. When I say Australians because we have been brothers with Australia for years – they have assisted Fiji in its development, its training programs they even as of today, accepted people into Australia to survive.
Tongans settled in Nadroga in the 1800s and they speak pure Tongan – they also arrived and settled in Kadavu, Lau they’ve inter married. We are more Polynesian now than Melanesians. So your claim to get Fiji into the Melanesian group of Islands no thanks, we will remain with Australia and New Zealand. They run their government in a democratic manner, their Peoples are well maintained, and the country is there to look after all of us as well.So how can you tell us that we are Melanesians. You have no cultural ways, no respect – your own peoples need to be taught this. Your islands are still in the dark, witch crafting, stone monies still being used, your dress sense does not help the community of the world, most of your people are still in the stone age. Fiji has moved forward and are blessed – they no longer live in the dark ages. So leave Fiji alone you Melanesian leaders.
For the Dictator Bainimarama to cripple the media in Fiji up until to date, is not a way forward, and to allow Emergency Rules until the end of 2009 is no way forward. This is no way forward for the Peoples of Fiji. So you Melanesian Leaders what are you harping about, why do you have to support Bainimarama’s Road Map where elections will be in 2014. Can’t you realize that the poor people of Fiji are suffering from Bainimarama’s Illegal Government. Can the word Illegal register in your brains. As long as it remains illegal the Peoples of Fiji will suffer. So we want an elected government NOW not in 2014. Most of the Melanesian people we spoke with do agree with our statement, so keep the peace Sir Michael Somare and co., just support what the people need – that is to survive, election in 2009, rid of the Illegal Government and voila!! Peace, Love and Unity to all.
We are ashamed of having leaders as Sir Michael Somare and the leaders of Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in our midst who support the Bad Vibes of Fiji, you are a horrifying lot.
Hey we all want democracy, and the Fijian People want it NOW. They are struggling to survive, especially those who do not live near the sea, unemployment is on the rise, the health is at risk.
Our family members in Fiji, the people of Fiji want elections NOW and not to 2014. You Melanesian leaders should support Fiji in their plans to restore democracy. After all to have an election soon in 2009 is to have democracy why wait for 2014. There is no economy, there is no money why wait for 2014, where does Bainimarama think the money will come from then, Thailand? Etc., What have the Melanesians got to give Bainimarama? Stone money? I don’t think Bainimarama likes that. Hard Cash is needed here and Millions of these. So Melanesians stay out please because Fiji is not invited to the meeting of PIF in Cairns.
We plead with the Chairman of the Pacific Island forum in Cairns and all other leaders not to lift the suspension, if the election will wait until 2014 do not lift the suspension. If the dictator has successfully played his dirty game with the advice of all his leeches in Fiji, the Melanesians of the Pacific Island Leaders Forum can play its own too, before the meeting in Cairns like, get a commitment from the Dictator that the elections will be in 2009 and not 2014. Our poor people of Fiji are pleading for this our family members in Fiji are suffering.
The Dictator of Fiji failed to meet the deadline of lst May 2009 to set a date for the elections – last chance for him, he did not care and Fiji suffers, out the door you go Fiji, no more a member of the Pacific Island Leaders Forum. Melanesian leaders must be mindful of all the failures the Dictator Bainimarama has caused the people of Fiji and the Pacific Leaders Forum. Lord Have Mercy.
The Dictator overruled the Pacific Leaders Forum, and said lst May 2009 is not on. Instead he said elections have been postponed to 2014. Why should he be invited to the Cairns meeting.
How can the Melanesian leaders have faith in the Dictator Bainimarama for such cheap and without trust type of attitude. This is no leader, he has no status. Do not allow yourselves to be made this way too. Think of our Fijian people if you would please. Election in 2009 and not 2014. Our family members in Fiji are crying out for help – to their family members living away.
Somare you don’t know this. We’ve been sending remittances from Australia where we live, New Zealand, America, Canada to give our family members some life, until we have a democratic government and the world will be at our door steps to assist Fiji.
We ask the Melanesian neighbor, leave Fiji alone. You are dealing with a government which is illegal – there is nothing legal about it – the constitution has been abrogated by an ailing and corrupt President – who also dismissed Judges for rightfully placing its orders – that the case between the former Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase of a Democratic Government versus Dictator Bainimarama and the President were proven that the Dictator and the President erred.Somare, how can you support the Dictators Road Map when the government is illegal. Why can’t you make a deal with Bai to have an election in 2009 because you feel for the children and peoples of Fiji who are facing a lot of hardship because of the traumatized way the illegal government dictator runs his business. Somare who do you support? Please support the peoples of Fiji, they make the government.
Fiji wants the people for a quick election, they want their country back to normalcy, all have been in an abnormal state since 2006, crimes have escalated so please Sir Michael Somare and your neighbours have your mindset on the People of Fiji and not on the Dictator – in some ways, seemingly your meeting is rather personal, by the way you have reacted as such by your statement.
You have met Ratu Epeli Nailatikau in the past for some friendly chat – but it is the Fiji people you need to meet, they are going through hell what with the economy at its rock bottom, the people want the elections in 2009 to elect their own government and not in 2014.
So please concentrate on the People Michael Somare – you are also facing big problems in your country with your own people and the Asian People, in the end it’s your people you need to listen to. Same thing.
So you Melanesian Leaders do not try and turn your back to the people of Fiji, remember we have Polynesian Blood Streaks, so if you are going to help the way forward for Fiji, we demand you to support an early election in 2009, that after all this is done the formation of committees will be in the plan, to discuss the Road Map on hand but discussed in an elected Parliament. Whatever the Dictator has in his Plans – should be through a Cabinet in Parliament by an Elected Government. You leaders should know the drill.
That is the Democracy you need to support. I am prepared to visit you in Cairns or in the islands to lay the cards of our humble people of Fiji and to give you the love message we have of our country Fiji. Your other future discussions could be heard in a democratic elected government.
By the way a mouse has just called, the Dictator is running towards the end of the road – time is running out. There’s a new shadow of a representative coming forth… ouch.
Susana S.Lolohea (no relation to Timoci Lolohea)Fiji Australia Community Development IncorporatedSydney.
Communications Fiji announcing Frank’s bluff
Wonder why it’s only Communications Fiji, FM96, Navtarang seem to be the only mainstream media in Fiji giving air time to tyrant Frank Bainimarama to announce his and Aiyaz Khaiyum’s decision to ban the Methodist Church conference?
Its news director, Vijay Narayan, is Frank Bainimarama’s buddy and supporter.
Sources from that media house say that Vijay gave the ok to air their one-sided story on Frank’s bluff without giving the same opportunity to air the Methodist Church version on the outcome of their meeting with the dictator today.
These media personnel say Vijay is playing along with the censors by not allowing balanced reporting, especially on matters that directly involve Frank Bainimarama.
But don’t be fooled by Frank’s bluff ….. he is not in control of Fiji’s Military Forces.
Of course he will try to make all sorts of media announcements to give the perception that he is still in control.
Driti and Ului control the fire power, not Frank.
Someone will have to cop the 2006 coup idea and it’s not going to be Driti or Ului but Frank and Aiyaz!
Its news director, Vijay Narayan, is Frank Bainimarama’s buddy and supporter.
Sources from that media house say that Vijay gave the ok to air their one-sided story on Frank’s bluff without giving the same opportunity to air the Methodist Church version on the outcome of their meeting with the dictator today.
These media personnel say Vijay is playing along with the censors by not allowing balanced reporting, especially on matters that directly involve Frank Bainimarama.
But don’t be fooled by Frank’s bluff ….. he is not in control of Fiji’s Military Forces.
Of course he will try to make all sorts of media announcements to give the perception that he is still in control.
Driti and Ului control the fire power, not Frank.
Someone will have to cop the 2006 coup idea and it’s not going to be Driti or Ului but Frank and Aiyaz!
The show is not over yet until the fat lady sings
Frank Bainimarama is desperately trying to disseminate his wish to stop the Methodist from having their August annual conference.
Will the Methodist followers believe him?
Of course not – what Frank is doing is actually fueling the resentment these Methodist have towards the source of his oppresive conduct in trying to marginalise them.
Who does Frank have to help him stop the thousands of Methodist from congregating in Rewa?
Himself, Aiyaz Khaiyum, Sada Reddy, Colonel Aziz Mohammed, Padam Lala, John Prasad, John Sami, Pramesh Chand, Leweni, Teleni, Atu Vulaono and others?
And with what?
Home-made molotov bombs?
Will the Methodist followers believe him?
Of course not – what Frank is doing is actually fueling the resentment these Methodist have towards the source of his oppresive conduct in trying to marginalise them.
Who does Frank have to help him stop the thousands of Methodist from congregating in Rewa?
Himself, Aiyaz Khaiyum, Sada Reddy, Colonel Aziz Mohammed, Padam Lala, John Prasad, John Sami, Pramesh Chand, Leweni, Teleni, Atu Vulaono and others?
And with what?
Home-made molotov bombs?
The moral gutting of Fiji and coming economic collapse: to raise our voice as one
Professor Wadan Narsey
For two and a half years, we have watched our society unraveling in bits and pieces.
Too close to each incident and emotionally traumatized, we are unable to see the totality of the massive erosion that is taking place in our nation.
Every civilized nation has institutions, glues, threads, moral values, and accepted social processes, that enable all citizens to fully contribute to their family’s and country’s growth and development.
But what happens when all the glues dissolve, when all the sacred institutions and organizations become morally gutted by the unlawful actions of a few? Sadly, that is Fiji today.
Just as one can climb a mountain with one small step after another, so also can a country descend into a social and economic hell, if its citizens take one wrong step after another, while the others watch in silence.
With the active collaboration of many “good” citizens following their own narrow agendas to “move Fiji forward”, Bainimarama continues the destructive moral gutting of Fiji, depriving us of our basic human rights, and leading us into deepening disaster.
Our people’s fundamental right to elect a government and leaders has been stolen by the country’s soldiers, armed with guns paid for by the tax-payers themselves.
Self-imposed leaders now tax the people, borrow and increase the public debt as they will, and spend tax-payers’ money wherever and whenever they want.
They hire and fire civil servants and board members without any heed to signed contracts or natural justice, or future lawsuits that they certainly won’t bear.
The highest in the judiciary take illegal oaths and support treason.
The military rank and file are warned they owe allegiance not to the State but personally to the Commander.
The police are told that the way for crime prevention is through Church Crusade antics.
Unelected people, with no accountability, make fundamental decisions on the country’s only pension fund, without any reference to the fund owners- the workers of the country.
The Military Government stifles any dissenting voices through ruthless censorship of the media, whose owners either readily capitulate, or collaborate perniciously.
Major religious organizations willingly support the illegal government, blatantly ignoring the rule of law. Many willingly collaborate.
Man-made financial disasters and scams arise again. Social organizations disintegrate.
Once the TV images of the failed African states seemed so far, now they are very near.
Instead of energetically building this country, the majority of our decent citizens watch in totally demoralized silence, this pervasive moral gutting and erosion of the very foundations of our society, deeply worried about the future, with many choosing to emigrate.
Take stock today, and witness how Fiji is morally gutted, from the top down.
A morally eroded President
In 2006, the President of Fiji allowed himself to be removed by the Military Commander, and then reappointed as the President in a Military Government.
While massive electoral fraud and corruption were the excuses for the coup, almost three years later, no convincing evidence of either has been produced.
Then for two years, the Military Government, the NCBBF and its Co-Chairman Archbishop Mataca, John Samy and their collaborators spent tens of millions of dollars and massive amounts of civil servants’ time, on national meetings, consultations, the drafting and printing of a glossy Charter. Alleged to be “a Sacred Covenant”, the Blueprint for Fiji’s recovery, it was eventually approved by the Military President.
The Charter proudly began “We the People of Fiji, Affirm that our Constitution represents the supreme law of our country, that it provides the framework for the conduct of government and the people”.
But when the highest court in the country- the Court of Appeal- ruled against Bainimarama, the President and the Military Government, the very same Constitution was thrown aside and purportedly abrogated.
There was not a whimper from all the upright citizens who were members of the NCBBF which developed the Charter allegedly with the co-operation and consent of all the people of Fiji: Mataca, Barr, Arms, CCF’s Yabaki and Dakuvula, Arya, DC Maharaj, Tevi, Serulagilagi, Tabakaucoro, and the hired consultants like John Samy all have remained silent on the Constitution’s alleged abrogation.
How ironic that in his abrogation speech, the President asserted that the Charter had been supported by 64% of the people of Fiji but with his next breath he claimed to abrogate the very 1997 Constitution whose supremacy was stated in the Charter’s first paragraph.
Did he even understand what he read, or was he blindly following the orders of Bainimarama?
Did the President’s advisers tell him that by claiming to abrogate the 1997 Constitution that had been approved by the whole Parliament, all the political parties, and the Great Council of Chiefs, he was committing treason against the Republic of Fiji?
If he did understand what he was reading, then a morally eroded President now treasonously presides over a Military Government which continues to erode and destroy the nation the President is sworn to protect.
It is tragic that the Tui Vuda is being led through this massive charade, by Bainimarama and his legal advisers.
The Morally Eroded Commander
Some of the origins of the 2006 coup may be in the attempted coup and mutiny of 2000, still largely unexplained.
But the seeds of the 2006 coup must be seen in Bainimarama’s own attempted abrogation of the Constitution in 2000 (rejected by Justice Gates), the 2000 mutiny by the CRW soldiers who tried to assassinate their own Commander, and the murder of CRW soldiers taken alive from their homes in the military’s attempt to get at the truth behind the mutiny. No one has been charged for those deaths in military custody, although Hughes said the police were close to doing so when the 2006 coup took place.
It would seem that Bainimarama planned a coup from 2003, and eventually executed it in 2006. With that 2006 coup, Bainimarama also stalled his own prosecution for the military’s $26 millions of over-expenditure of tax-payers’ funds in 2006 and much more in the years before.
Appointing himself Prime Minister and Finance Minister, he misappropriated for the military another $50 millions of tax-payers funds in 2007, and another $30 millions in 2008. It is unknown what he is misappropriating in 2009.
Bainimarama gave himself $180 thousands as back-pay for 30 years of accumulated “leave”- a benefit denied to the lower ranks of soldiers.
Despite all the Charter’s grand claims towards greater transparency and accountability of government, Bainimarama, as Minister of Finance, refuses to release the Auditor General’s Reports to the public. And no one in the NCBBF is even asking Bainimarama for the Auditor General’s reports.
Bainimarama is enjoying his role as Prime Minister, with all the financial benefits, adulation, the status, and the immense power he wields using his guns.
No one knows who Bainimarama’s real advisers are, although clearly influential are the Military Attorney General (Aiyaz Khaiyum), the Military Council including Colonel Aziz, a few well-known senior business tycoons and rising stars (they are all named on the blog sites), and foreign consultants like John Samy who still come and go.
Whoever they are, they ruthlessly and callously play Russian Roulette with the lives and future of Fiji’s people.
Bainimarama is not accountable to the Military Council or his Military Cabinet or to the people of Fiji. He hires or fires at his whim. He may sell public assets to whoever he wants to. Or do deals on tax-payers’ behalf, with international fugitive millionaires.
It seems clear that Bainimarama will drag his Military Government out as long as he can.
He used the excuse of the NCBBF and the Charter for the last two years, a Roadmap this year, work on a “new” Constitution and a simple electoral reform from 2012 (why three years from now? duh!) a new “pocket-size” Constitution by 2014 (why “pocket size”? duh!) and, if anyone wants to believe it, parliamentary elections in 2014.
And who’s deciding all this for we Fiji people? Commodore Bainimarama, armed with the guns we gave him to protect us.
Bainimarama seems to care little that by 2014, he will have brought the economy and the people of Fiji to their knees, that he has so deeply divided this country that he has to impose total censorship of the media, to hide the cracks.
Is his Military Council (including advisers like former Military Commander Paul Manueli) going along with this destruction of Fiji? Will they take joint responsibility for the tragedy they are creating?
The morally eroded judiciary
After the military takeover in 2006, a High Court judge (Naz Shameem) did a “coup” on the previous Chief Justice by purporting to appoint Anthony Gates as Acting Chief Justice. Gates, together with Pathik and Byrnes, then purportedly legalized the actions of the President and the military during the 2006 coup, and thereafter.
But when the judgment of the Appeals Court in 2009 made clear that the actions in 2006 by the President and the military were totally illegal, the 1997 Constitution was purportedly abrogated by the President and Bainimarama reappointed as Prime Minister.
High Court Judges Gates, Pathik and Byrnes then rejoined the judiciary under the new military regime, totally ignoring their sacred oaths under the 1997 Constitution.
Gate’s decision to become the Chief Justice was not justified on any argument that the Appeals Court judgment was wrong. No. He merely argued that the judiciary had to be kept going. That the people needed a functioning system of laws.
The most senior judges in our judiciary have themselves now taken illegal oaths, the same crime for which they imprisoned a number of persons after the 2000 coups.
These senior judges will now claim to apply the “rule of law” to Fiji’s people, but by the Military Decrees, our people will have no legal right to challenge any military actions prior to the decree.
This morally compromised judiciary is now to be the ultimate protector of the human rights of the people of Fiji.
They will probably perform the same function as was performed by the other Shameem who emasculated Fiji’s Human Rights Commission, in defending and justifying the 2006 military coup.
So what if investors now have no faith in contracts and simply will not invest, however much FTIB jumps up and down? So what if the economy does not grow and the poverty increases? Oh, that’s not the judiciary’s problem.
The gutted Great Council of Chiefs
In the 1997 Constitution, the GCC and its nominees to Senate, played many critical roles in being the last safeguard for the welfare of Fijians, especially regarding land.
More than $30 millions of scarce tax payers’ money were spent on housing this so called “august body of Fijian elders”.
But the GCC has been closed down by the military, and the chiefs sent home, with not a whimper.
There has been no organized opposition from the Chiefs, high or low. No great statements have been made against the actions of the military. No lines drawn in the sand. No meetings with their people. No meetings amongst themselves.
A few of the chiefs, including two former military commanders, have even joined the military regime, yet again profanely swearing oaths on sacred bibles, oaths they have never kept before.
We still socialize with them, drink grog, play golf, have a laugh, pretending that life goes on as usual, while these prominent chiefs help the country to collapse around us, destroying our poor people’s livelihood.
With the increasing emigration of the educated Fijians, the chiefs supporting the military government are also helping Bainimarama to gut the Fijian people of much needed and relevant leadership for the future.
The eroded military and police
After the first coup in 2006, Bainimarama appeared to be merely following the President’s lawful directives.
And strengthened by the Gates, Pathik and Byrne judgment, military personnel could have followed their Commander’s orders in good faith. Similarly, the police rank and file may have understandably followed the military-appointed Commissioner of Police.
For two years, the Military Government bought off most of the senior officers with improvements in their salaries and conditions.
But following the 2009 judgment of the Fiji Court of Appeal, the insides of most of those in the Military Council, the Fiji Military Forces and the Fiji Police Force, at all levels, must be now in turmoil.
They know that in abrogating the 1997 Constitution, the Military Commander and the Military Council, and all the Ministers appointed by the Military, are now committing treason against the state of Fiji.
They know in their hearts that in following the orders of the Military Government, they are also engaging in treason, as well as a whole range of illegal activities, such as censorship of the media, and detention and intimidation of ordinary civilians without good cause.
What must the ordinary rank and file soldiers and police be thinking, when they are asked to mount full-time guards around the persons and residences of the Commander, the Commissioner of Police, and the Attorney General? What? Our country’s guards have been reduced to providing guards for themselves? Never has this happened in the history of Fiji.
Many in the police know that there should be no room for Christian Crusades in a secular professional police force, yet they follow orders, or risk losing their livelihoods.
In following the immoral orders of their Military Commander and Police Commissioner, the professional military and police officers are being morally eroded, on a daily basis.
The innermost morale of the professional soldiers and police officers must be at an all time low. Such erosion of professionalism in the military and police will take decades to correct, if ever, as the experience after the 1987 coups showed.
The soldiers and policmen must also know that any future economic collapse of the economy or the FNPF, must also affect them and their families.
The Eroded Civil Service
Gone are the days when civil servants had the confidence to give proper professional advice, knowing that they had the protection of their association, and ultimately the protection of the judiciary against unlawful treatment by their employer.
Since December 2006, senior civil servants have been fired willy nilly, with not a thought to natural justice.
Worse still, senior civil servants have been hired out of the blue for key positions, with no proven track record, or without going through the proper channels.
For instance, a NZ citizen (John Prasad) is appointed as the Permanent Secretary of Finance, against the protests of all the professional senior civil servants in that Ministry.
He has no relevant qualifications for the position. He is known to be related by marriage to the Military Attorney General. But he has now been given powers for all manner of commercial dealings using Fiji tax-payer’s funds, accountable to no one except the Military Commander.
Does he have conflicts of interest through companies which do consultancies with the Fiji Government?
On what basis would such a person then be appointed to be the Chairman of the Fiji National Provident Fund, where he will now have ultimate responsibility for all decisions regarding our pension savings.
He may lend our money to risky projects that the military wants to support- like Fijian Holdings Limited’s potentially disastrous $190 million bid for BP South Pacific. He can sell off FNPF assets, with no accountability to FNPF stakeholders. He may reduce pensions to all and sundry.
John Prasad will also be ultimately responsible for board decisions to lend more of FNPF money to the Military Fiji Government to cover its irresponsible deficits and expenditure. As Secretary of Finance, he will simultaneously also have joint responsibility for deciding how much to borrow from FNPF on tax-payers’ behalf.
How ridiculous? It is as if the Military Government used its guns to make the largest borrower from Westpac, the Chairman of the Board of Westpac.
Has John Prasad’s appointment been approved by the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Jo Serulagilagi? Does the current Chairman of the PSC take responsibility for whatever happens as a result of John Prasad’s decisions?
The eroded business community
The business community, as always, do not give a jot for what happens to the country or its ordinary people. They have never had any morals to be eroded.
They give every support to the Military Government, publicly and privately, in return for the expected favors.
Largely because of the support of such immoral businessmen, Bainimarama and his Ministers have been able to maintain the great pretense that they are successfully running a “Government”.
These immoral businessmen and business tycoons have no qualms in ignoring that the economy is in dire straits; that poverty and unemployment are far worse than in 2006; that crucial national institutions such as the Fiji National Provident Fund, are in the process of being gutted by this Military Government and their cronies.
As long as these tycoons (and all of Fiji know who they are) can make even bigger fortunes which will end up outside Fiji.
Too late, a few will find that those who could not abide by the law when it comes to an elected government, will not abide by the law of contracts signed and sealed: note the FICAC raids on RB Patel offices.
Our eroded political leaders
The military emasculation of the SDL/FLP Multi-Party Government, and more particularly, the SDL leadership is all too obvious.
When the 2006 coup took place, all the SDL and FLP Ministers, except for Qarase and Kinivuwai, disappeared over the horizon.
The Fijian political intelligentsia retreated into their “culture of silence” or “culture of acquiescence”, joining the winning military “band-wagon”. Some retaliated by secretly blogging away.
The Fiji Labour Party leaders readily joined the Military Government, throwing aside decades of moral and lawful opposition to military coups and undemocratic governments. So also did the National Alliance Party.
With serious questions being raised about millions of dollars given by India for dispossessed Fiji cane farmers ending up in Chudhry’s Australian accounts, what kind of leadership can the FLP provide to the Indo-Fijians.
Intellectually weakened by the massive emigration of professional and skilled persons, the Indo-Fijian political and social elite who remain, blindly “follow the leader” or are totally indifferent.
Witness the abject silence and disinterest of the majority of young educated Indo-Fijians in national events, immersed as they are in Bollywood, and pre-occupation to emigrate from Fiji.
The irony is that when these apathetic Indo-Fijians emigrate, they will have lost 20 percent of all their life savings in Fiji, because of the 20% devaluation, with more losses to come in the future.
Our eroded religious organizations
The Military Government has muzzled the Methodist Church and denied them their freedom of assembly and speech. But there has not been a cheep of protest from the sister Catholic or other Christian Churches or Hindu organisations.
But then, seduced by Bainimarama’s rhetoric of racial equality in Fiji, these same latter organisations had all joined the NCBBF ride to create the Charter, whose foundation was stated to be the supremacy of the 1997 Constitution.
But there were no strong protests from Mataca (Co-Chair of the NCBBF) or the other religious organisations and their followers (Arya Samaj and Sanatan Dharam), or the CCF (Yabaki and Dakuvula) when the 1997 Constitution was abrogated and tossed aside by the Military Government, and their sister organization prosecuted for their political views.
Indeed, one head of a Hindu organization has made a lot of money out of the printing of all the NCBBF and Charter documents- none of which acknowledge the printer.
No religious organization is protesting that the Commissioner of Police is thrusting his sectional Christian Crusade down the throats of all police personnel, and telling dissenters that they can resign if they don’t like it.
ECREA’s Kevin Barr, happy with his marginal Wages Council gains and a million tax-payers’ dollars for squatter housing, is happy to ignore the massively bigger destruction of the economy and people’s livelihoods, the increases in poverty, the increasing inability of tax-payers to look after health and education needs of the needy..
David Arms, happy that a minor electoral reform may be implemented in the future, does not care that the alleged need for minor electoral reform has been used to justify the treasonous over-throw of a lawfully elected government and the 1997 Constitution. He is also now silent.
The Citizens Constitutional Forum, awash with EU money, can now of course help the Military Government on Fiji’s forthcoming new constitution!
Our religious organizations and clerics are so morally eroded that they cannot make a principled stand any more on the treasonous abrogation of the Constitution, because they threw in their lot with Bainimarama two and a half years ago, believing his rhetoric of equality of races, religions and cultures.
Even Bainimarama, whose Charter keeps harping about the equality of all religions, is totally quiet on the Police Crusades.
The morally eroded former and current citizens
We would not be where we are today, had it not been for the many former citizens, especially elite Indo-Fijians, who supported this 2006 coup, many because of some racism against them in the past: a leading economist driven out by the 1987 coup: a High Court judge who did not receive government support for an international position; a high flying CEO who did not get Government support for a Brussels position; an economist bureaucrat who was bypassed for the position of the Governor of the Reserve Bank; senior managers in the sugar industry; rejected good applicants for Government and statutory organization positions; media personalities who thought they deserved better; and many more.
Without any moral qualms, many have accepted appointments at the expense of other Fiji citizens who were arbitrarily removed without a hint of natural justice.
However one may sympathize with their unfair treatment in the past, two wrongs will not make a right.
Then of course, there are many former citizens who just appeared out of the wood-work, using their friendships with those in the Military Government, to get into astonishing positions of power and authority, earning themselves massive financial benefits.
These morally eroded former citizens are quite comfortable lapping their milk and honey, and basking in the recently acquired power and glory in Fiji, caring little about the future of ordinary Indo-Fijians who will remain in this country for the foreseeable future.
Of course, these opportunist former citizens, while claiming eternal love for their country of birth, will eventually disappear back to the security of their newly adopted countries, where they and their families can happily enjoy civilized lives, under a rule of law which they have helped to destroy in Fiji.
Some may have been genuine at wanting to help, like Robin Nair, who realised all to late that he was just being used. He left quietly when he realized there was no “President’s Mandate”, just instructions from a military dictator.
And then there are the many good citizens who have stepped up to help the illegal Military Government: Rishi Ram, Winston Thompson, Isoa Gavidi, Jo Serulagilagi... . the list is long, and still growing.
They all bear joint responsibility for this illegal edifice that has been created after 2006, and the economic disaster that is being visited on us.
Will these good citizens ever stand up to right the wrong they have done the country? Or will they, like Pontius Pilate, simply wash their hands off the matter and disappear from public eye as many have done and others are doing now?
The eroded Fiji Law Society
Of all the professions in the country, the legal profession may be expected to give the ordinary people the greatest guidance during legally confusing times such as these.
But bar a few, the majority of lawyers have failed Fiji miserably. They have failed to enlighten the country on any of the major issues. They have failed to defend the Constitution as their oaths obliged them to.
One of the key objectives of any “Law Society” is the provision of guidance to members on issues that affect them all collectively. What could be of greater collective interest than their own registration.
But the Fiji Law Society decided to let members decide for themselves, with the inevitable result.
A principled few (two?) may refuse to take oaths under the illegal regime. But most will willingly serve under an illegal Military Regime’s rules, even if clearly illegal: clients need to be served; the legal system has to keep going; and of course, bread and butter has to be earned.
And no doubt, a select few are able to enjoy not just bread and butter, but also a lot of sweet jam, from their closeness to the Military Government.
The eroded accountants and auditors
The accountants and auditors recently had their annual Accountants Congress.
As they have done since 1987, they ask non-accountants (usually naive economists, lawyers, and even historians) to make bold speeches that will shake up Fiji, re-engineer Fiji, raise troublesome issues, and challenge governments of the day.
The accountants and auditors themselves have never ever “rocked the boat”. They are too busy making money from government contracts and making sure that they stay appointed on the important boards in the country.
They even choose to ignore vital issues of the day, which ought to be central to the accounting and auditing world: the 2009 Accountants Congress did not ask why this unelected Military Government is not releasing the Auditor General’s Reports for 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Reports which would no doubt outline how $150 millions of tax-payers’ money has been over-spent by the Military? And how tens of millions of tax-payers’ dollars have been wasted on the Charter Charade, the NCBBF, Police Crusades, etc?
The Accountants Congress did not really mind that their invited guest speakers were removed from their Congress program. Indeed, their Chairman even thanked the Military Government for allowing their Congress and AGM to proceed. How nice for all.
The eroded media
Worse than after any previous coup, we now see total censorship of the country’s media, taking away our rights to freedom of expression and free speech.
Anything which raises questions about what is happening, does not make it to the public eye or ear.
Critical opinion articles are censored from newspapers. TV interviews are either heavily censored or just cut altogether. One cannot even ask questions on the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation airwaves about our own pension funds, and why totally unaccountable and inappropriate persons are being appointed on the FNPF board by this Military Government.
This Military Government has been able to decide who will not be allowed to speak to a Pacific gathering of youths, partially funded by Fiji’s tax-payers (including the banned speakers).
We Fiji people quietly accept that this unelected Military Government armed with guns will decide what we can see on television, read in papers or hear through radio.
The Military Government has virtually stopped Fiji’s people from knowing what is going on in their lives and to their own welfare.
And the media has capitulated, of course protecting jobs and livelihoods, but also protecting their large corporate profits.
Our eroded social and sports organizations
Our moral gutting is not confined to the formal institutions of state but extends to all our major sports and social organizations.
The Fiji Sports Council has gone through several revolutions with hints of scandal, mismanagement and power politics.
The Fiji Football Association hierarchy has kept its iron grip on the sport, preventing by fair means or foul, any challenge to the leadership which might have taken away huge financial benefits from the incumbents, while the sport stumbles along.
Year after year, the Fiji Rugby Union and the Fiji Netball Association have gone through paroxysms of organizational and professional conflicts, with massive public acrimony.
The boxing organizations have split, fallen apart and regrouped in competing camps.
All manner of social clubs, all over the country, keep getting their funds embezzled by office bearers, some are taken over by the trustees, some eventually closed down in prime city locations.
Everywhere, schools’ management committees have fights with school principals- the discretionary control of school funds usually at the heart of it.
Credit union and co-operative funds have a long history of being abused, while Fijian co-operative efforts like CBM collected massive amounts of funds from ordinary villagers, eventually disappearing from sight with nothing to show. Somewhere along the way, a Banaban Trust Fund was also gutted, without inquiry.
Fiji is totally morally gutted and the massive financial disasters are the glaring symptoms.
Our major financial disasters
Rabuka’s 1987 military coup and military appointments led to the collapse of our National Bank of Fiji, with hundreds of millions of dollars eventually lost by tax-payers. A public inquiry was called for, but Makrava then said, “If I go, all the high and mighty in Fiji will go with me”. There was no public inquiry.
In the nineties, a Commodity Development Fund Scam involving tens of millions of dollars surfaced, and disappeared, with no public inquiry. In this decade, the Agricultural Scam came and went, also with no public inquiry, while a few small fry were convicted.
And today, a huge financial disaster is about to be imposed by this Military Government on our Fiji National Provident Fund, the effects of which may well financially gut the savings of the current and future working generations, and take this entire country into economic collapse.
For no good cause, the military government has removed employees’ (and employers’ representatives) on the Fiji National Provident Fund. Those removed were not antagonistic to the Military Government- some were quite sympathetic but are unable to even speak to Bainimarama. The censorship ensures that their views are not known to the public.
This unelected Military Government is now appointing even more dubious representatives to the FNPF Board, who presumably will be amenable to the Military Government’s demands on where to lend, who to lend to, and how much.
FNPF is in the process of being financially gutted by a Military Government, accountable to no one.
This Military Government’s censorship is making sure that the FNPF shareholders (including even their soldiers and policemen) cannot hear about it, or talk about it, until it will be all too late.
Our impending economic collapse
What does the future hold for us?
Just as one can climb a mountain with one small step after another, so also can a country descend into a social and economic hell, if a few citizens take one wrong step after another, while we others watch in silence.
Fiji seems destined to slowly disintegrate over the next five years, as we are doing now.
Bainimarama and his Ministers, will continue their grand parading and charade of good governance for as long as they can, surrounding themselves with and being reassured by “yes-men” and sycophants.
Civil servants will continue to support the Military Government initiatives, or lose their jobs, while some will gladly collaborate for the promotions they will get.
Empty speeches will continue to be made about tourism looking up, new investments here and there, inflation figures, or GDP figures, etc. etc.
The Military-appointed Reserve Bank Governor, now safely a NZ Permanent Resident, will make supporting noises here and there.
There will be a few cases of corruption exposed, involving a few millions.
But this Military Government, its Ministers, and coup supporters, will continue to ignore the harsh economic reality that the ordinary people of this country have already lost more than a billion dollars because of their 2006 military coup.
They choose to ignore that our pension fund may lose hundreds of millions more in bad loans.
Millions of tax-payers money will be spent on white elephants like new Police Headquarters which will not make an iota of difference to crime prevention.
Without adequate investment there will be little economic growth, our foreign reserves will keep falling, and more devaluations will occur.
There will be continuing inflation, sending everyone’s savings, in FNPF and elsewhere, down the drain- including those of all the soldiers and policemen who are blindly following the orders of their Commander and Police Commissioner.
The incomes of our poorest people will not rise to compensate for the increases in the cost of living. It will be increasingly difficult, if not impossible to construct a moral society, on empty stomachs.
There will be a worsening of poverty, crimes, violence against women and children, and prostitution.
Our educated, both Indo-Fijians and increasingly the educated indigenous Fijians, will continue to emigrate.
Our people will continue to claim to hear nothing, see nothing, and say nothing. Until it is too late.
Then, their eyes will not be able to avoid seeing, and they will weep tears; while their ears will hear hungry and angry mouths wailing.
Is it really too late?
It is not too late
What will we tell our children when they ask us: “Dad, Mum, what did you say or do, when you saw that our future was being destroyed”. You did nothing? You said nothing?
But this beautiful country of ours, with it gorgeous kaleidoscope and rainbow of peoples, religions, and cultures, deserves better; our poor deserve better; our children deserve better.
Whatever our past differences, the social and political leaders of Fiji must get together and convince Bainimarama and the Military Council to return to the lawful constitutional path, to prevent this impending disaster, and to enable all citizens to join in contributing to national recovery and development.
As was said by a forlorn diamond, whose musical rays and twinkling toes bewitched his generation, despite his very human flaws:
“There is nothing that can’t be done, if we raise our voice as one”.
For two and a half years, we have watched our society unraveling in bits and pieces.
Too close to each incident and emotionally traumatized, we are unable to see the totality of the massive erosion that is taking place in our nation.
Every civilized nation has institutions, glues, threads, moral values, and accepted social processes, that enable all citizens to fully contribute to their family’s and country’s growth and development.
But what happens when all the glues dissolve, when all the sacred institutions and organizations become morally gutted by the unlawful actions of a few? Sadly, that is Fiji today.
Just as one can climb a mountain with one small step after another, so also can a country descend into a social and economic hell, if its citizens take one wrong step after another, while the others watch in silence.
With the active collaboration of many “good” citizens following their own narrow agendas to “move Fiji forward”, Bainimarama continues the destructive moral gutting of Fiji, depriving us of our basic human rights, and leading us into deepening disaster.
Our people’s fundamental right to elect a government and leaders has been stolen by the country’s soldiers, armed with guns paid for by the tax-payers themselves.
Self-imposed leaders now tax the people, borrow and increase the public debt as they will, and spend tax-payers’ money wherever and whenever they want.
They hire and fire civil servants and board members without any heed to signed contracts or natural justice, or future lawsuits that they certainly won’t bear.
The highest in the judiciary take illegal oaths and support treason.
The military rank and file are warned they owe allegiance not to the State but personally to the Commander.
The police are told that the way for crime prevention is through Church Crusade antics.
Unelected people, with no accountability, make fundamental decisions on the country’s only pension fund, without any reference to the fund owners- the workers of the country.
The Military Government stifles any dissenting voices through ruthless censorship of the media, whose owners either readily capitulate, or collaborate perniciously.
Major religious organizations willingly support the illegal government, blatantly ignoring the rule of law. Many willingly collaborate.
Man-made financial disasters and scams arise again. Social organizations disintegrate.
Once the TV images of the failed African states seemed so far, now they are very near.
Instead of energetically building this country, the majority of our decent citizens watch in totally demoralized silence, this pervasive moral gutting and erosion of the very foundations of our society, deeply worried about the future, with many choosing to emigrate.
Take stock today, and witness how Fiji is morally gutted, from the top down.
A morally eroded President
In 2006, the President of Fiji allowed himself to be removed by the Military Commander, and then reappointed as the President in a Military Government.
While massive electoral fraud and corruption were the excuses for the coup, almost three years later, no convincing evidence of either has been produced.
Then for two years, the Military Government, the NCBBF and its Co-Chairman Archbishop Mataca, John Samy and their collaborators spent tens of millions of dollars and massive amounts of civil servants’ time, on national meetings, consultations, the drafting and printing of a glossy Charter. Alleged to be “a Sacred Covenant”, the Blueprint for Fiji’s recovery, it was eventually approved by the Military President.
The Charter proudly began “We the People of Fiji, Affirm that our Constitution represents the supreme law of our country, that it provides the framework for the conduct of government and the people”.
But when the highest court in the country- the Court of Appeal- ruled against Bainimarama, the President and the Military Government, the very same Constitution was thrown aside and purportedly abrogated.
There was not a whimper from all the upright citizens who were members of the NCBBF which developed the Charter allegedly with the co-operation and consent of all the people of Fiji: Mataca, Barr, Arms, CCF’s Yabaki and Dakuvula, Arya, DC Maharaj, Tevi, Serulagilagi, Tabakaucoro, and the hired consultants like John Samy all have remained silent on the Constitution’s alleged abrogation.
How ironic that in his abrogation speech, the President asserted that the Charter had been supported by 64% of the people of Fiji but with his next breath he claimed to abrogate the very 1997 Constitution whose supremacy was stated in the Charter’s first paragraph.
Did he even understand what he read, or was he blindly following the orders of Bainimarama?
Did the President’s advisers tell him that by claiming to abrogate the 1997 Constitution that had been approved by the whole Parliament, all the political parties, and the Great Council of Chiefs, he was committing treason against the Republic of Fiji?
If he did understand what he was reading, then a morally eroded President now treasonously presides over a Military Government which continues to erode and destroy the nation the President is sworn to protect.
It is tragic that the Tui Vuda is being led through this massive charade, by Bainimarama and his legal advisers.
The Morally Eroded Commander
Some of the origins of the 2006 coup may be in the attempted coup and mutiny of 2000, still largely unexplained.
But the seeds of the 2006 coup must be seen in Bainimarama’s own attempted abrogation of the Constitution in 2000 (rejected by Justice Gates), the 2000 mutiny by the CRW soldiers who tried to assassinate their own Commander, and the murder of CRW soldiers taken alive from their homes in the military’s attempt to get at the truth behind the mutiny. No one has been charged for those deaths in military custody, although Hughes said the police were close to doing so when the 2006 coup took place.
It would seem that Bainimarama planned a coup from 2003, and eventually executed it in 2006. With that 2006 coup, Bainimarama also stalled his own prosecution for the military’s $26 millions of over-expenditure of tax-payers’ funds in 2006 and much more in the years before.
Appointing himself Prime Minister and Finance Minister, he misappropriated for the military another $50 millions of tax-payers funds in 2007, and another $30 millions in 2008. It is unknown what he is misappropriating in 2009.
Bainimarama gave himself $180 thousands as back-pay for 30 years of accumulated “leave”- a benefit denied to the lower ranks of soldiers.
Despite all the Charter’s grand claims towards greater transparency and accountability of government, Bainimarama, as Minister of Finance, refuses to release the Auditor General’s Reports to the public. And no one in the NCBBF is even asking Bainimarama for the Auditor General’s reports.
Bainimarama is enjoying his role as Prime Minister, with all the financial benefits, adulation, the status, and the immense power he wields using his guns.
No one knows who Bainimarama’s real advisers are, although clearly influential are the Military Attorney General (Aiyaz Khaiyum), the Military Council including Colonel Aziz, a few well-known senior business tycoons and rising stars (they are all named on the blog sites), and foreign consultants like John Samy who still come and go.
Whoever they are, they ruthlessly and callously play Russian Roulette with the lives and future of Fiji’s people.
Bainimarama is not accountable to the Military Council or his Military Cabinet or to the people of Fiji. He hires or fires at his whim. He may sell public assets to whoever he wants to. Or do deals on tax-payers’ behalf, with international fugitive millionaires.
It seems clear that Bainimarama will drag his Military Government out as long as he can.
He used the excuse of the NCBBF and the Charter for the last two years, a Roadmap this year, work on a “new” Constitution and a simple electoral reform from 2012 (why three years from now? duh!) a new “pocket-size” Constitution by 2014 (why “pocket size”? duh!) and, if anyone wants to believe it, parliamentary elections in 2014.
And who’s deciding all this for we Fiji people? Commodore Bainimarama, armed with the guns we gave him to protect us.
Bainimarama seems to care little that by 2014, he will have brought the economy and the people of Fiji to their knees, that he has so deeply divided this country that he has to impose total censorship of the media, to hide the cracks.
Is his Military Council (including advisers like former Military Commander Paul Manueli) going along with this destruction of Fiji? Will they take joint responsibility for the tragedy they are creating?
The morally eroded judiciary
After the military takeover in 2006, a High Court judge (Naz Shameem) did a “coup” on the previous Chief Justice by purporting to appoint Anthony Gates as Acting Chief Justice. Gates, together with Pathik and Byrnes, then purportedly legalized the actions of the President and the military during the 2006 coup, and thereafter.
But when the judgment of the Appeals Court in 2009 made clear that the actions in 2006 by the President and the military were totally illegal, the 1997 Constitution was purportedly abrogated by the President and Bainimarama reappointed as Prime Minister.
High Court Judges Gates, Pathik and Byrnes then rejoined the judiciary under the new military regime, totally ignoring their sacred oaths under the 1997 Constitution.
Gate’s decision to become the Chief Justice was not justified on any argument that the Appeals Court judgment was wrong. No. He merely argued that the judiciary had to be kept going. That the people needed a functioning system of laws.
The most senior judges in our judiciary have themselves now taken illegal oaths, the same crime for which they imprisoned a number of persons after the 2000 coups.
These senior judges will now claim to apply the “rule of law” to Fiji’s people, but by the Military Decrees, our people will have no legal right to challenge any military actions prior to the decree.
This morally compromised judiciary is now to be the ultimate protector of the human rights of the people of Fiji.
They will probably perform the same function as was performed by the other Shameem who emasculated Fiji’s Human Rights Commission, in defending and justifying the 2006 military coup.
So what if investors now have no faith in contracts and simply will not invest, however much FTIB jumps up and down? So what if the economy does not grow and the poverty increases? Oh, that’s not the judiciary’s problem.
The gutted Great Council of Chiefs
In the 1997 Constitution, the GCC and its nominees to Senate, played many critical roles in being the last safeguard for the welfare of Fijians, especially regarding land.
More than $30 millions of scarce tax payers’ money were spent on housing this so called “august body of Fijian elders”.
But the GCC has been closed down by the military, and the chiefs sent home, with not a whimper.
There has been no organized opposition from the Chiefs, high or low. No great statements have been made against the actions of the military. No lines drawn in the sand. No meetings with their people. No meetings amongst themselves.
A few of the chiefs, including two former military commanders, have even joined the military regime, yet again profanely swearing oaths on sacred bibles, oaths they have never kept before.
We still socialize with them, drink grog, play golf, have a laugh, pretending that life goes on as usual, while these prominent chiefs help the country to collapse around us, destroying our poor people’s livelihood.
With the increasing emigration of the educated Fijians, the chiefs supporting the military government are also helping Bainimarama to gut the Fijian people of much needed and relevant leadership for the future.
The eroded military and police
After the first coup in 2006, Bainimarama appeared to be merely following the President’s lawful directives.
And strengthened by the Gates, Pathik and Byrne judgment, military personnel could have followed their Commander’s orders in good faith. Similarly, the police rank and file may have understandably followed the military-appointed Commissioner of Police.
For two years, the Military Government bought off most of the senior officers with improvements in their salaries and conditions.
But following the 2009 judgment of the Fiji Court of Appeal, the insides of most of those in the Military Council, the Fiji Military Forces and the Fiji Police Force, at all levels, must be now in turmoil.
They know that in abrogating the 1997 Constitution, the Military Commander and the Military Council, and all the Ministers appointed by the Military, are now committing treason against the state of Fiji.
They know in their hearts that in following the orders of the Military Government, they are also engaging in treason, as well as a whole range of illegal activities, such as censorship of the media, and detention and intimidation of ordinary civilians without good cause.
What must the ordinary rank and file soldiers and police be thinking, when they are asked to mount full-time guards around the persons and residences of the Commander, the Commissioner of Police, and the Attorney General? What? Our country’s guards have been reduced to providing guards for themselves? Never has this happened in the history of Fiji.
Many in the police know that there should be no room for Christian Crusades in a secular professional police force, yet they follow orders, or risk losing their livelihoods.
In following the immoral orders of their Military Commander and Police Commissioner, the professional military and police officers are being morally eroded, on a daily basis.
The innermost morale of the professional soldiers and police officers must be at an all time low. Such erosion of professionalism in the military and police will take decades to correct, if ever, as the experience after the 1987 coups showed.
The soldiers and policmen must also know that any future economic collapse of the economy or the FNPF, must also affect them and their families.
The Eroded Civil Service
Gone are the days when civil servants had the confidence to give proper professional advice, knowing that they had the protection of their association, and ultimately the protection of the judiciary against unlawful treatment by their employer.
Since December 2006, senior civil servants have been fired willy nilly, with not a thought to natural justice.
Worse still, senior civil servants have been hired out of the blue for key positions, with no proven track record, or without going through the proper channels.
For instance, a NZ citizen (John Prasad) is appointed as the Permanent Secretary of Finance, against the protests of all the professional senior civil servants in that Ministry.
He has no relevant qualifications for the position. He is known to be related by marriage to the Military Attorney General. But he has now been given powers for all manner of commercial dealings using Fiji tax-payer’s funds, accountable to no one except the Military Commander.
Does he have conflicts of interest through companies which do consultancies with the Fiji Government?
On what basis would such a person then be appointed to be the Chairman of the Fiji National Provident Fund, where he will now have ultimate responsibility for all decisions regarding our pension savings.
He may lend our money to risky projects that the military wants to support- like Fijian Holdings Limited’s potentially disastrous $190 million bid for BP South Pacific. He can sell off FNPF assets, with no accountability to FNPF stakeholders. He may reduce pensions to all and sundry.
John Prasad will also be ultimately responsible for board decisions to lend more of FNPF money to the Military Fiji Government to cover its irresponsible deficits and expenditure. As Secretary of Finance, he will simultaneously also have joint responsibility for deciding how much to borrow from FNPF on tax-payers’ behalf.
How ridiculous? It is as if the Military Government used its guns to make the largest borrower from Westpac, the Chairman of the Board of Westpac.
Has John Prasad’s appointment been approved by the Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Jo Serulagilagi? Does the current Chairman of the PSC take responsibility for whatever happens as a result of John Prasad’s decisions?
The eroded business community
The business community, as always, do not give a jot for what happens to the country or its ordinary people. They have never had any morals to be eroded.
They give every support to the Military Government, publicly and privately, in return for the expected favors.
Largely because of the support of such immoral businessmen, Bainimarama and his Ministers have been able to maintain the great pretense that they are successfully running a “Government”.
These immoral businessmen and business tycoons have no qualms in ignoring that the economy is in dire straits; that poverty and unemployment are far worse than in 2006; that crucial national institutions such as the Fiji National Provident Fund, are in the process of being gutted by this Military Government and their cronies.
As long as these tycoons (and all of Fiji know who they are) can make even bigger fortunes which will end up outside Fiji.
Too late, a few will find that those who could not abide by the law when it comes to an elected government, will not abide by the law of contracts signed and sealed: note the FICAC raids on RB Patel offices.
Our eroded political leaders
The military emasculation of the SDL/FLP Multi-Party Government, and more particularly, the SDL leadership is all too obvious.
When the 2006 coup took place, all the SDL and FLP Ministers, except for Qarase and Kinivuwai, disappeared over the horizon.
The Fijian political intelligentsia retreated into their “culture of silence” or “culture of acquiescence”, joining the winning military “band-wagon”. Some retaliated by secretly blogging away.
The Fiji Labour Party leaders readily joined the Military Government, throwing aside decades of moral and lawful opposition to military coups and undemocratic governments. So also did the National Alliance Party.
With serious questions being raised about millions of dollars given by India for dispossessed Fiji cane farmers ending up in Chudhry’s Australian accounts, what kind of leadership can the FLP provide to the Indo-Fijians.
Intellectually weakened by the massive emigration of professional and skilled persons, the Indo-Fijian political and social elite who remain, blindly “follow the leader” or are totally indifferent.
Witness the abject silence and disinterest of the majority of young educated Indo-Fijians in national events, immersed as they are in Bollywood, and pre-occupation to emigrate from Fiji.
The irony is that when these apathetic Indo-Fijians emigrate, they will have lost 20 percent of all their life savings in Fiji, because of the 20% devaluation, with more losses to come in the future.
Our eroded religious organizations
The Military Government has muzzled the Methodist Church and denied them their freedom of assembly and speech. But there has not been a cheep of protest from the sister Catholic or other Christian Churches or Hindu organisations.
But then, seduced by Bainimarama’s rhetoric of racial equality in Fiji, these same latter organisations had all joined the NCBBF ride to create the Charter, whose foundation was stated to be the supremacy of the 1997 Constitution.
But there were no strong protests from Mataca (Co-Chair of the NCBBF) or the other religious organisations and their followers (Arya Samaj and Sanatan Dharam), or the CCF (Yabaki and Dakuvula) when the 1997 Constitution was abrogated and tossed aside by the Military Government, and their sister organization prosecuted for their political views.
Indeed, one head of a Hindu organization has made a lot of money out of the printing of all the NCBBF and Charter documents- none of which acknowledge the printer.
No religious organization is protesting that the Commissioner of Police is thrusting his sectional Christian Crusade down the throats of all police personnel, and telling dissenters that they can resign if they don’t like it.
ECREA’s Kevin Barr, happy with his marginal Wages Council gains and a million tax-payers’ dollars for squatter housing, is happy to ignore the massively bigger destruction of the economy and people’s livelihoods, the increases in poverty, the increasing inability of tax-payers to look after health and education needs of the needy..
David Arms, happy that a minor electoral reform may be implemented in the future, does not care that the alleged need for minor electoral reform has been used to justify the treasonous over-throw of a lawfully elected government and the 1997 Constitution. He is also now silent.
The Citizens Constitutional Forum, awash with EU money, can now of course help the Military Government on Fiji’s forthcoming new constitution!
Our religious organizations and clerics are so morally eroded that they cannot make a principled stand any more on the treasonous abrogation of the Constitution, because they threw in their lot with Bainimarama two and a half years ago, believing his rhetoric of equality of races, religions and cultures.
Even Bainimarama, whose Charter keeps harping about the equality of all religions, is totally quiet on the Police Crusades.
The morally eroded former and current citizens
We would not be where we are today, had it not been for the many former citizens, especially elite Indo-Fijians, who supported this 2006 coup, many because of some racism against them in the past: a leading economist driven out by the 1987 coup: a High Court judge who did not receive government support for an international position; a high flying CEO who did not get Government support for a Brussels position; an economist bureaucrat who was bypassed for the position of the Governor of the Reserve Bank; senior managers in the sugar industry; rejected good applicants for Government and statutory organization positions; media personalities who thought they deserved better; and many more.
Without any moral qualms, many have accepted appointments at the expense of other Fiji citizens who were arbitrarily removed without a hint of natural justice.
However one may sympathize with their unfair treatment in the past, two wrongs will not make a right.
Then of course, there are many former citizens who just appeared out of the wood-work, using their friendships with those in the Military Government, to get into astonishing positions of power and authority, earning themselves massive financial benefits.
These morally eroded former citizens are quite comfortable lapping their milk and honey, and basking in the recently acquired power and glory in Fiji, caring little about the future of ordinary Indo-Fijians who will remain in this country for the foreseeable future.
Of course, these opportunist former citizens, while claiming eternal love for their country of birth, will eventually disappear back to the security of their newly adopted countries, where they and their families can happily enjoy civilized lives, under a rule of law which they have helped to destroy in Fiji.
Some may have been genuine at wanting to help, like Robin Nair, who realised all to late that he was just being used. He left quietly when he realized there was no “President’s Mandate”, just instructions from a military dictator.
And then there are the many good citizens who have stepped up to help the illegal Military Government: Rishi Ram, Winston Thompson, Isoa Gavidi, Jo Serulagilagi... . the list is long, and still growing.
They all bear joint responsibility for this illegal edifice that has been created after 2006, and the economic disaster that is being visited on us.
Will these good citizens ever stand up to right the wrong they have done the country? Or will they, like Pontius Pilate, simply wash their hands off the matter and disappear from public eye as many have done and others are doing now?
The eroded Fiji Law Society
Of all the professions in the country, the legal profession may be expected to give the ordinary people the greatest guidance during legally confusing times such as these.
But bar a few, the majority of lawyers have failed Fiji miserably. They have failed to enlighten the country on any of the major issues. They have failed to defend the Constitution as their oaths obliged them to.
One of the key objectives of any “Law Society” is the provision of guidance to members on issues that affect them all collectively. What could be of greater collective interest than their own registration.
But the Fiji Law Society decided to let members decide for themselves, with the inevitable result.
A principled few (two?) may refuse to take oaths under the illegal regime. But most will willingly serve under an illegal Military Regime’s rules, even if clearly illegal: clients need to be served; the legal system has to keep going; and of course, bread and butter has to be earned.
And no doubt, a select few are able to enjoy not just bread and butter, but also a lot of sweet jam, from their closeness to the Military Government.
The eroded accountants and auditors
The accountants and auditors recently had their annual Accountants Congress.
As they have done since 1987, they ask non-accountants (usually naive economists, lawyers, and even historians) to make bold speeches that will shake up Fiji, re-engineer Fiji, raise troublesome issues, and challenge governments of the day.
The accountants and auditors themselves have never ever “rocked the boat”. They are too busy making money from government contracts and making sure that they stay appointed on the important boards in the country.
They even choose to ignore vital issues of the day, which ought to be central to the accounting and auditing world: the 2009 Accountants Congress did not ask why this unelected Military Government is not releasing the Auditor General’s Reports for 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Reports which would no doubt outline how $150 millions of tax-payers’ money has been over-spent by the Military? And how tens of millions of tax-payers’ dollars have been wasted on the Charter Charade, the NCBBF, Police Crusades, etc?
The Accountants Congress did not really mind that their invited guest speakers were removed from their Congress program. Indeed, their Chairman even thanked the Military Government for allowing their Congress and AGM to proceed. How nice for all.
The eroded media
Worse than after any previous coup, we now see total censorship of the country’s media, taking away our rights to freedom of expression and free speech.
Anything which raises questions about what is happening, does not make it to the public eye or ear.
Critical opinion articles are censored from newspapers. TV interviews are either heavily censored or just cut altogether. One cannot even ask questions on the Fiji Broadcasting Corporation airwaves about our own pension funds, and why totally unaccountable and inappropriate persons are being appointed on the FNPF board by this Military Government.
This Military Government has been able to decide who will not be allowed to speak to a Pacific gathering of youths, partially funded by Fiji’s tax-payers (including the banned speakers).
We Fiji people quietly accept that this unelected Military Government armed with guns will decide what we can see on television, read in papers or hear through radio.
The Military Government has virtually stopped Fiji’s people from knowing what is going on in their lives and to their own welfare.
And the media has capitulated, of course protecting jobs and livelihoods, but also protecting their large corporate profits.
Our eroded social and sports organizations
Our moral gutting is not confined to the formal institutions of state but extends to all our major sports and social organizations.
The Fiji Sports Council has gone through several revolutions with hints of scandal, mismanagement and power politics.
The Fiji Football Association hierarchy has kept its iron grip on the sport, preventing by fair means or foul, any challenge to the leadership which might have taken away huge financial benefits from the incumbents, while the sport stumbles along.
Year after year, the Fiji Rugby Union and the Fiji Netball Association have gone through paroxysms of organizational and professional conflicts, with massive public acrimony.
The boxing organizations have split, fallen apart and regrouped in competing camps.
All manner of social clubs, all over the country, keep getting their funds embezzled by office bearers, some are taken over by the trustees, some eventually closed down in prime city locations.
Everywhere, schools’ management committees have fights with school principals- the discretionary control of school funds usually at the heart of it.
Credit union and co-operative funds have a long history of being abused, while Fijian co-operative efforts like CBM collected massive amounts of funds from ordinary villagers, eventually disappearing from sight with nothing to show. Somewhere along the way, a Banaban Trust Fund was also gutted, without inquiry.
Fiji is totally morally gutted and the massive financial disasters are the glaring symptoms.
Our major financial disasters
Rabuka’s 1987 military coup and military appointments led to the collapse of our National Bank of Fiji, with hundreds of millions of dollars eventually lost by tax-payers. A public inquiry was called for, but Makrava then said, “If I go, all the high and mighty in Fiji will go with me”. There was no public inquiry.
In the nineties, a Commodity Development Fund Scam involving tens of millions of dollars surfaced, and disappeared, with no public inquiry. In this decade, the Agricultural Scam came and went, also with no public inquiry, while a few small fry were convicted.
And today, a huge financial disaster is about to be imposed by this Military Government on our Fiji National Provident Fund, the effects of which may well financially gut the savings of the current and future working generations, and take this entire country into economic collapse.
For no good cause, the military government has removed employees’ (and employers’ representatives) on the Fiji National Provident Fund. Those removed were not antagonistic to the Military Government- some were quite sympathetic but are unable to even speak to Bainimarama. The censorship ensures that their views are not known to the public.
This unelected Military Government is now appointing even more dubious representatives to the FNPF Board, who presumably will be amenable to the Military Government’s demands on where to lend, who to lend to, and how much.
FNPF is in the process of being financially gutted by a Military Government, accountable to no one.
This Military Government’s censorship is making sure that the FNPF shareholders (including even their soldiers and policemen) cannot hear about it, or talk about it, until it will be all too late.
Our impending economic collapse
What does the future hold for us?
Just as one can climb a mountain with one small step after another, so also can a country descend into a social and economic hell, if a few citizens take one wrong step after another, while we others watch in silence.
Fiji seems destined to slowly disintegrate over the next five years, as we are doing now.
Bainimarama and his Ministers, will continue their grand parading and charade of good governance for as long as they can, surrounding themselves with and being reassured by “yes-men” and sycophants.
Civil servants will continue to support the Military Government initiatives, or lose their jobs, while some will gladly collaborate for the promotions they will get.
Empty speeches will continue to be made about tourism looking up, new investments here and there, inflation figures, or GDP figures, etc. etc.
The Military-appointed Reserve Bank Governor, now safely a NZ Permanent Resident, will make supporting noises here and there.
There will be a few cases of corruption exposed, involving a few millions.
But this Military Government, its Ministers, and coup supporters, will continue to ignore the harsh economic reality that the ordinary people of this country have already lost more than a billion dollars because of their 2006 military coup.
They choose to ignore that our pension fund may lose hundreds of millions more in bad loans.
Millions of tax-payers money will be spent on white elephants like new Police Headquarters which will not make an iota of difference to crime prevention.
Without adequate investment there will be little economic growth, our foreign reserves will keep falling, and more devaluations will occur.
There will be continuing inflation, sending everyone’s savings, in FNPF and elsewhere, down the drain- including those of all the soldiers and policemen who are blindly following the orders of their Commander and Police Commissioner.
The incomes of our poorest people will not rise to compensate for the increases in the cost of living. It will be increasingly difficult, if not impossible to construct a moral society, on empty stomachs.
There will be a worsening of poverty, crimes, violence against women and children, and prostitution.
Our educated, both Indo-Fijians and increasingly the educated indigenous Fijians, will continue to emigrate.
Our people will continue to claim to hear nothing, see nothing, and say nothing. Until it is too late.
Then, their eyes will not be able to avoid seeing, and they will weep tears; while their ears will hear hungry and angry mouths wailing.
Is it really too late?
It is not too late
What will we tell our children when they ask us: “Dad, Mum, what did you say or do, when you saw that our future was being destroyed”. You did nothing? You said nothing?
But this beautiful country of ours, with it gorgeous kaleidoscope and rainbow of peoples, religions, and cultures, deserves better; our poor deserve better; our children deserve better.
Whatever our past differences, the social and political leaders of Fiji must get together and convince Bainimarama and the Military Council to return to the lawful constitutional path, to prevent this impending disaster, and to enable all citizens to join in contributing to national recovery and development.
As was said by a forlorn diamond, whose musical rays and twinkling toes bewitched his generation, despite his very human flaws:
“There is nothing that can’t be done, if we raise our voice as one”.
DO NOT PAY YOUR TAX AND FINE IN FIJI UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
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News from our sources in the Ministry of Finance at Ro Lalabalavu House is that LTA Boss Etuate Koroi has been given the bum job of filling the empty illegal regime’s coffers by increasing LTA revenues through all types of traffic fines slapped on Fiji’s motorists and their vehicles.
These ‘fines’ are desperately needed to pay for government workers. 800 motorists were fined last weekend with LTA officers stationed all over the country, hiding in bushes, up mango trees, around sharp turns and under road culverts. Every “breech” of the traffic laws under the sun is being used to ensnare unsuspecting motorists and wheel barrow (Bara) boys in Suva market alike.
Even one Sigatoka farmer using his bullocks and gasita crossing the upper Sigatoka Valley road was fined for endangering oncoming traffic. The inside brief from LTA is that all officers on duty have been tasked a quota of 80 fines per day or else get demoted or chucked out on their bum.
So people IF YOU ARE ENSNARED BY THIS LATEST SHAME BY THE ILLEGAL Regime OF THUGS DO NOT PAY YOUR TRAFFIC FINES!! EVEN BETTER DON’T PAY TAXES!! AND LET THEM STEW THE CROOKS!!
News from our sources in the Ministry of Finance at Ro Lalabalavu House is that LTA Boss Etuate Koroi has been given the bum job of filling the empty illegal regime’s coffers by increasing LTA revenues through all types of traffic fines slapped on Fiji’s motorists and their vehicles.
These ‘fines’ are desperately needed to pay for government workers. 800 motorists were fined last weekend with LTA officers stationed all over the country, hiding in bushes, up mango trees, around sharp turns and under road culverts. Every “breech” of the traffic laws under the sun is being used to ensnare unsuspecting motorists and wheel barrow (Bara) boys in Suva market alike.
Even one Sigatoka farmer using his bullocks and gasita crossing the upper Sigatoka Valley road was fined for endangering oncoming traffic. The inside brief from LTA is that all officers on duty have been tasked a quota of 80 fines per day or else get demoted or chucked out on their bum.
So people IF YOU ARE ENSNARED BY THIS LATEST SHAME BY THE ILLEGAL Regime OF THUGS DO NOT PAY YOUR TRAFFIC FINES!! EVEN BETTER DON’T PAY TAXES!! AND LET THEM STEW THE CROOKS!!
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