There is something deeply disturbing about the sight of police descending on the Aspen Hospital in Lautoka demanding to see the former attorney general, who has suffered a stroke and has applied to get medical treatment overseas. (see previous story)
It is bad enough that the corrupt Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, refuses to expedite a bail variation hearing when Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum‘s doctors and lawyers say he requires urgent treatment that isn’t available in Fiji and is at risk of dropping dead. But for the authorities to disbelieve them to the extent of insisting on seeing him and demanding access to his medical records is more akin to the conduct of the Nazis than a civilised democracy.
It is especially galling when those who have ordered the Gestapo-like raid are prosecutors in the ODPP who have been accused by a Supreme Court judge of corruption and in the case of the Deputy DPP, John Rabuku, faces a charge of perverting the course of justice. What moral right do they have to harass a man who is similarly accused of abuse of office but for whom the wheels of justice are already turning?
It is even more distasteful when the man ultimately responsible for this outrage – the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka – has the gall to resurrect his pre-election mantra of “letting love shine”. Pass the sick bag, Siti. Your love shines only on your supporters. And you preside over a government that has lost all moral authority in the country – mired as it is in corruption, illegality and vindictiveness.
The treatment of Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum is a test of the most basic standards of decency on the part of a government that professes to be guided by Christian principles, preaches “love” yet has no idea of what Christ had in mind when he entreated his followers to “love one another, as I have loved you”.
These people are not Christians. They are self-serving, evil and corrupt. And whatever Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum’s record in government, they are certainly no better and, indeed, are arguably a lot worse, having accelerated Fiji’s descent into a police state in which the rule of law is routinely violated.
Shame on them and shame on every Fijian who endorses their hypocrisy and un-Christian conduct.
Meanwhile, more hypocrisy and cant from the Pharisee -in -Chief.
To add insult to injury, cheek by jowl on the same front page.
Never mind chilly mornings. It’s nothing compared with the chill that has descended on the entire nation because of this government’s appalling conduct.
The true state of the nation, from the Gospel according to Supreme Court Judge David Ashton-Lewis in his Commission of Inquiry Report.
To the shame of every mainstream media outlet in Fiji, none of them have published this even though it isn’t redacted and is readily available with an Internet search.
Sorry, Fiji, we’re not going to act decisively because we are not in the least bit serious about fighting corruption.
Instead, we are going to give you empty homilies on loving one another. That’s the real betrayal, the real mockery of justice.
But judgment day awaits. At the ballot box and when these fake Christians finally meet their maker.
If there is nothing hide, let the police do their part in confirming the true medical status. Perhaps an independent government doctor could evaluate and give true status of ASK for a proper decision.
The question is why not allowing the police to do their work as required by law to respond on bail variation applications.
You only hide things when your intention is malicious.
Non-cooperation with the police will raise high level suspicion, so best way out is to assist the police.
As previously noted, what a disgraceful, disgusting, filthy, and vile country Fiji has become under the gold rolex wearing bottle collector and his band of compassionate, contrite, hypocritical, racist christians.
You’re lucky if you can find any positive attributes in any of them.
Life is tough. It’s tougher if you’re a stupid christian-exibit A(ss):take a break.
A simple online search sheds some very basic information about patients’ rights. ‘Patients have several key rights regarding their health information, including the right to access and obtain copies of their medical records, request corrections to inaccurate information, receive a notice of how their health information may be used and shared, and request restrictions on certain disclosures. They also have the right to receive an accounting of disclosures of their health information and to file complaints if they believe their rights have been infringed.’ End quote.
A gestapo-like police warrant does not negate a patients right to privacy, nor obligates the medical care provider(s) to comply with the gestapo police.
Additionally, medical providers are required by law to implement and maintain administrative and physical safe guards for all medical records in their possession.
In other words, medical records are private and confidential, and not for public use or distribution.
To continue the bleeding obvious: “In complex patient cases, a doctor’s opinion holds significant weight in court, particularly regarding diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment options. However, the value is contingent on the doctor’s expertise, the thoroughness of their assessment, and their ability to present their findings clearly and objectively to the court. The court ultimately determines the weight given to the medical evidence, but a well-supported and reasoned medical opinion can significantly influence the outcome of a case.” End quote.
By the way, in comparison, we have yet to see our half educated police act with the same zeal to go after the stars of the CoI- Santa Lause CJ, baboon Just-us, scratchy-itchy milamila Barbie, or Nancy, or the nancy boy crooning stallion, or nancy boy ex-AG ling leung, or why lie coyote or karia neora baimaan, or the guy with the means in Butt Street, or, well, you get the point.
Boot and ass-lickers as take-a-break will not understand the purpose of equal justice in any society due to serious comprehension deficits and blind racism.
Instead, the bottle collector and his ilk persist, nay, insist without realizing a strength overused becomes a weakness.
For any patient who suffers stroke or has cardiac issues, he or she cannot fly with commercial airlines with other passengers.
We need a air ambulance or charter a plane.
Almost a month now and looks like ASK is not serious.
ASK can’t go now as he is not the king anymore.
I think they will only be satisfied when they jail a very sick man. Only then will they have achieved what God put them there for. It is all for the love of God. They want to have a kaila. Until then nothing else matters. It is the primitive mentality me thinks.
They put a sick man in Qarase in jail. Time for him to taste his own medicine.
Most jurisdictions would allow conditions of bail to be varied for health reasons. Regardless of opinions on ASK, he deserves to seek treatment so that he may face the legal process fair and square.
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” from Sir Walter Scott’s poem comes to mind when I think about how the Coalition are struggling to disentangle themselves and strangling Fiji in the process.
We are suffering the saddest days of Fiji’s once esteemed history where once our example was “the Paradise of the Pacific”. The corruption and evil are insidious.
What goes around comes around.
It’s so simple, authorities need to find out if he is faking or situation is real.
If ASK is faking than lay more charges and never allow him to travel out of Fiji until he is cleared of his allegations.
Also if need be charge his lawyers for asking for bail variations under false pretense .
Thank you.
More Christians. Where are the lions when we need them?
All gone into hiding GD
Even the lions would turn their noses up at these so called Christians.
Smart kaidia bohut lawaki. Tell him to be a man and face the music. Stroke and heart condition are treated in Fiji hospitals everyday. While success rates are 50/50, here is a man who had complete control to change the standard of service for 16 years. He deserves to be treated in Fiji for subjecting the majority to suffer these pathetic services for so long.
I am putting the Curse of Grubsheet on you. By the end of the day, you will be eaten. If not by a lion, which you deserve, but consumed by your own bile.
Crap talk
Are you God?
No, I am a lion. And just as God told Rambo to do his coup back in 1987, God has told me to eat any Christian who doesn’t behave like one.
Oh!I now understand why a hospital is called a vale ni bula and sometimes a vale ni mate.How intuitive.
Thei islamists are killing Christians in Pakistan. Should we not worry about that too?
Are we in Pakistan and is santa clause the cj of Pakistan? Red herring.
However, since you’re so concerned, they spit on and murder Christians in Israel. They very recently bombed a Catholic church.
Are you conveniently forgetting the Christian Crusades of the 11th and 13th centuries?
Yet still, Christians in most places are free to practice their faith -be it Iran, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, et al.
Racist bigots exist in all societies, same as in Fiji. Idiots destroy temples, rob, destroy property, arson, and the desecration of faith texts with immunity.
Enjoy your church service on Sunday wd.
Jono go and drink some more of your homebrew under the mango tree. The weed and the homebrew has obviously affected your mental and intellectual capacity to an extent that your peanut sized brain can no longer function, albeit if it was functioning at all.
Uneducated. Racist PIG.
Truth hurts bhaiya
A simple solution..get a doctor from NZ to carry out independent assessment. After all, a lot more has been wasted on frivolous endeavours.
Comments here and the hired assassins on social media on ASK show a depraved and well coordinated assault on any form of justice for the beleaguered man. He has no hope for any other outcome than either death or a reckoning worse than that as a broken man in jail. Fiji has hit the pits and then some.
For all those saying he can’t travel for month. Note that he is now under medication which will keep him alive for a month till evacuation is finalized. Since he suffered a stroke I think mid July, he needs to be evacuated before the effects of his medication or injection wears off. And people should stop being dramatic about chartered flights etc. If he has medical insurance, the insurance company arranges for air ambulance etc. If he doest, he will pay for the expenses. Good lord the vile people in fiji deserve what they are getting. And the government playing to the gallery. For those saying what goes around etc. Yes it will on you all.
I once thought the people of Fiji were God fearing and compassionate, how wrong I was! The savagery of the CJ and the actions of his cabal at the ODPP is on full show right now.
The CJ has, in my view, a vendetta against ASK and will do anything to achieve it, including the death of ASK by denying medical care. He clearly by his actions has made this personal.
Countries are judged by how justice is administered! Fiji is quickly descending into the cellar.
When the bail hearing is called the Judge should order for the Dr and Hospiral Registrar to appear in person to testify on his condition and if the medical report reflects that. Also if treatment is available in Fiji or can treatment be faciated in in Fiji by getting ASK overseas Dr to Fiji.
Well will this lame squad (Temo, RaKubu, Siromi etc) who have been adversely mentioned in COI report ever been taken to task? Who in Fiji represents average citizens? Mainstream media wont, not the Gov, Police or anyone.
Who will rise up and represent ALL of us and not just the selectfew ?? Don’t know when will this happen but history tells us it will happen as evil cannot live forever.
What our media does not report or mention (no surprises there) is:
How was a warrant granted?
Who applied for such a warrant?
The police? If so, why?
The ODPP? If so, why and what was the necessity?
The moron, racist CJ? If so, why and on what basis?
The acting ass baboon AG? On what or whose asking, how, and why?
Why couldn’t have the courts simply waited for the defense to present medical reports and, if the patient so choose to, have an medical expert inform the court of the medical condition -diagnosis and treatment- based on science.
The game is rigged. Tudravu should go hang himself in shame.
Where is the Fiji Law Society now?
Where is the Asia Law Society now?
The rest of the legal vultures and organizations that rallied around Why Lie Coyote at the drop of hat in the FICAC saga and the CoI?
Where is amnesty international now?
Where is human rights watch now?
Where are the myriad Fijian NGOs now?
Another rhetorical question: where is FREE the local media now?
No reports about morality and the idea of equality and treating all
individuals the same. $1.7m.
No more loud advocating for goose and gander equality before the courts?
Well said Jay.
Back in the days there was a PWD team based full time in hospitals and maintenance was done 24/7.
There was special budget allocated to them.
Qualified crew were on standby.
CWM lived by its name.Many lives were saved.
Even rich were there once or sick would be brought in from every corners of Fiji for specialized treatment.
After ASK killed PWD the whole hospital looks like a mortuary today.
Now it’s anyone’s guess when those glory days will be back for the sick.
CWM was so good in Viti Makawa that I was not only born there but more than a decade later, I got my teeth straightened there by a British orthodontist. Very handy for a young lion.
It’s the weekend, so FLS is closed .
You call them on Tuesday to get answers please, Don’t call on Monday as many members stay away on Mondays after whiskey, weed, meth and beers on the weekend.
Many who are protecting and talking about humanity or this and that are those that hasn’t been to a government hospital.
We have been to CWM hospital many times.
Our relatives were admitted in government hospitals.
Conditions are in a filthy state.
Hospitals need to be demolished and a brand new one should be built.
Conditions of toilets is a eye so.
Tiles are broken and Plumbing is in urgent need.
Floors are wet.
Patients are admitted on corridors where sewer pipes are leaking.
If one has gone through that experience, he will tell you what a experience he has gone through.
Watery dhal,rice and some bele eaten by insects were served.
Even those overseas volunteer especialist doctors commented on the conditions of CWM hospital.
ASK ignored those calls.
Very pathetic state one commented.
These conditions didn’t happen yesterday but was falling apart from last 20 years.
Less to no maintenance at all.
Volunteers fund raised or painted walls.
When ASK had control over everything, he didn’t find that health was a priority and citizens need better.
Health minister was a old mate of his.
Imagine filling up buckets to flush toilet while drips and needles are hanging out of our skin.
Minister for health issued dodgy tenders to family and friends.
There were so much wastage.
New birthing unit at CWM hospital had a ground breaking ceremony some 10 years ago, till today there isn’t any completed structure.
We read some health case in court regarding tenders.
All 3 were top men of government back than.
Those rich who just sneeze are seen on the next flight or admitted at private hospitals for check up,surrounded by high profile friends or families.
My poor family can’t afford a taxi to go to hospitals.
They have to wait for public bus and if lucky, their bus cards needs to be topped up first.
When you loose power ,it hurts.
Same is happening to ASK.
He now must be seeing what a government hospital looks like, unless his admitted to a paying ward.
The very company (Aspen) ASK brought into Fiji,is looking after him at Lautoka hospital.
Unfortunately they will not provide any tablets from Monday.
Hope he can get better soon.
Only problem with this is that itaukeis can’t swallow that ASK was running the country.
All itaukeis just keep this in mind. Without an indo fijian in parliament, you guys can’t run fiji .
You guys will sell this country for peanuts . Don’t forget if rabuka can come back after so many years, ASK can also come back.
Next election definitely a new government is coming in then you will see these coalition ministers will be visiting the CID every day.
The level of corruption that this coalition has done is nothing compared to what ASK did . Wait and watch.
To Fijian Blood.
Yup, I couldn’t agree more. The Indian diasporas are at the helm of many famous international conglomerates; Google, Microsoft, World Bank et al), as well as presidents (Singapore), Prime Ministers too many to name, Cabinet Ministers too many to name, and Chief Ex of American Corporations where 21 Indian-origin CEO’s run billion dollar companies. Even in Fiji, the hard working industrious Indian community
makes a substantial contribution to Fiji’s economy and well being.
The iTaukeis’ should not forget that they are very much a “close” family.
Does the Fiji government value human life or not? Let the man go and get his treatment where he chooses.
If the government is so worried about him not returning to face charges, then send a law enforcement officer with him. Plus the government can put certain conditions so the man is compelled to return.
What is happening here is a direct violation of human rights. This will not serve well for the government in the eyes of the international community. Remember, karma is a bitch!