Grubsheet has rarely has such a high-level response privately to any story than our article last week about how the President, Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, has effectively seized executive control of the government from the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka.
We have had senior people who are reputedly “in the know” contacting us to say that the article is “100 per cent correct”and that consequences will inevitably flow from what is occurring that have the potential to affect every Fijian.
We don’t yet know precisely what is going to happen but the drums are beating increasingly loudly, such is the gravity of Ratu Naiqama’s conduct and the Prime Minister acquiescing to an astonishing assault on the Constitution to placate his chief.
Here it is again if you missed it.
You won’t see any of this in the mainstream media because they are being drip fed and chronically have their fingers off the nation’s pulse.
Their new conduit to the top, the Minister for Lasulasu-Jhoot as well as for Bonking and Weed, Lynda Tabuya, told the gormless Vijay Narayan on his “Bent Talk” program during the week that if something isn’t on the government’s Facebook page and other official media outlets, it hasn’t happened and is “fake news”.
Oh really? If you want to live in a fool’s paradise, Fiji, then by all means believe the deluded Strumpet of Room 233. But if you want to know what’s really happening in the country, best keep an open mind and one eye on Grubsheet and the other on Victor Lal’s Fijileaks.
The volcano is rumbling. Whether it will blow, I personally can’t yet say. But as a new week begins, it is definitely rumbling.
A brief synopsis of where things stand:
- Naiqama Lalabalavu appointed his relative and friend, Salesi Temo, as Chief Justice last December against the wishes of the Prime Minister and in violation of Section 82 of the Constitution that stipulates that he must only act on the PM’s advice.
- The President is refusing to suspend Salesi Temo after the Chief Justice was accused of perjury, abuse of office and obstructing and perverting the course of justice by the Ashton-Lewis Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry.
- Ratu Naiqama’s agenda is reputedly to use Temo to restore the provisions of the 1997 Constitution and with it the power of the chiefs in the upcoming Supreme Court review of the 2013 Constitution.
- Doing so would abolish the common and equal citizenry and the common identity and abolish the immunity provisions in the 2013 Constitution that protect those who took part in the 2006 coup.
- This not only poses a threat to the rights of the minorities but would expose Frank Bainimarama and those who assisted him to prosecution. They include some of the most senior current officers in the military, along with former officers who took part in the events of 2006 such as the Tui Nayau, Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba Mara.
- The Tui Nayau – the newly-installed high chief of Lau – is now on a collision course with the Tui Cakau – the high chief of Cakaudrove (Ratu Naiqama), in yet another dimension to this brewing crisis. Because the President supporting the notion of a fellow high chief losing his constitutional immunity will inevitably be seen by Lauans as a hostile act.
Think about it, Fiji. Unlawful conduct at the pinnacle of the state and an imminent threat to the constitutional rights of non-indigenous Fijians and key elements of the military. Plus a chiefly showdown in the vanua.
What happens next? Sa bera ni macala (we don’t yet know). But it is a volatile mix and it certainly won’t be business as usual in the coming days and weeks.
All this while the pedo President is in his nappies, can’t stand up and can’t walk.
Rabuka is now an old man. His age is showing. He is not the real PM. He is PM in name only.
The country is being run by the paedophile President and the rogue deputy prime minister Biman Prasad.
The new information minister Lynda Tabuya is also very dominant as evidenced by her remarks about bringing the Online Commission under her ministry and controlling social media.
Rabuka did contradict Lynds but too late the hero, and it still shows that his control over his ministers is weak at best. His control has progressively weakened. Not surprising since he is aging and the likes of deputy PM Biman, who are younger, and a Machiavellian President, are pulling wool over his eyes at every opportunity.
For example, the tax concession to Fiji Water was planned by Biman as finance minister and his Fiscal Review Committee chair appointee, Richard Naidu,
The plan was executed to perfection by Biman and Richard. The biggest beneficiary was Fiji Water and Richard’s law firm Munro Leys. The biggest losers were the resource owners, Fiji taxpayers and the country as a whole.
On the part of Rabuka, he was duped into selling out the resource owners and the tax payers of this country.
Rabuka was party to a betrayal of the national interest.
That a clueless Rabuka agreed to the tax concessions shows how out of touch he is and how he can’t be trusted with major decisions.
Rabuka’s resolve was weakened by his meeting with the Fiji Water owners in America. They hosted Rabuka for dinner and he agreed to tax concessions worth millions every year for the next seven years.
Biman and Richard understand the indigenous psyche and they knew that after the Resnik’s hospitality, Rabuka would be keen to repay a few hours generosity and a few thousand dollars a millionfold – literally in that Fiji Water scam.
Khaiyum is not the only smart Kai-India. So are Biman and Richard.
They knew that Rabuka was easily amenable and would agree to any concession and set him up for the fall.
No PM in his right mind would have agreed to such a proposal. It makes one question whose interest Rabuka as the PM of the country represents? Who comes first for Rabuka? Resources owners, taxpayers, citizens and the national interest? Or Biman, Richard the Resniks and the interests of Fiji Water.
By listening to Biman and Richard, who took advantage of an aging PM, Rabuka sold the national interest, the interest of resource owners and the interest of taxpayers.
Why don’t the now free media in Fiji find the then 15yo special needs mother {at the time} and the child fathered by this pedo and tell us the full story?
Perhaps the Minister of Information should provide us the full information.
In dreams only. There will never by any intervention of military or anyone else. The whole country is moving forward. Everyone is educated in Fiji and knows the consequences of seizing power. The repercussions will be same for everyone and all knows how painful it will be in the end by the long arm of the law. Learn from Mugambe, Saddam, Bainimarama, George Speight and Khaiyum on their ultimate demise.
And people are not blind nor illusioned, the election and voting is the only method for democracy and nothing else matters for Fiji now.
It appears that desperation is kicking in for those who once thought they were so protected and immortal that even God could not touch them or hold them to account.
Now the table has turned and these people spineless people should stop using institutions to save their exposed back side. It will get more worse for them.
Unconstitutional conduct invites unconstitutional conduct. Or more accurately, when the supreme law is being so blatantly violated by the President, it is open to the RFMF to behave lawfully (ie within the Constitution) by invoking the RFMF’s duty under Section 131 to ‘ensure at all times the security, defence and well-being of Fiji and all Fijians”.
It would actually be the military on the right side of the law taking to task a President who is acting outside the law through his violation of Section 82 by seizing executive authority from the elected Prime Minister. Qori.
Not so. If you think someone has broken the law, report it to the Police. The Army is not there to commit treason just coz some a$$&*hole is unhappy with ones interpretation of unfolding events.
The military is there to lawfully defend the well-being of Fiji and all Fijians. It is their constitutional duty to do so and that is an absolute fact.
If that well-being is threatened by a rogue President and Chief Justice who are breaking the law, they arguably have a duty to remove them. It would be an intervention to defend democracy, not destroy it. And it would be all totally legal under Section 131 of the Constitution.
“The whole country is moving forward”. How many more people in Fiji think that? The vast majority I think. The way to move the country forward is to put a dickhead from 40 years ago as PM and then some more dickheads from that time in all other high offices.
That is how you move the country forward, back to the past.
There are so many idiots in Fiji who do not know they are idiots and that is the main problem. I think it is all God’s fault. It is always someone else’s fault, isn’t it.
Dear Take a Break: It was God who put Fiji First into Government. He is in control overall remember. Then the devil asked permission to let the current coalition govt come into power so they could destroy Fiji…permission was granted , for an indefinite period of testing, but not forever more.
Take a break, will Rabuka join your list of leaders headed by Mugambe? If not, then why? If yes, then no one knows when. Perhaps posthumously? Or is he a godsend?
The late Mugabe would have had you in jail for misspelling his name.
This is an extract from the Fiji Sun today where these judges are sitting on the Constitutional Amendments case:
“The six judges are Chief Justice Salesi Temo, President of Court of Appeal, Justice Sikeli Mataitoga, Justice Terrence Arnold, Justice Dame Lowell Patricia Goddard, Justice William Young and Justice Robert French”.
How can any of these judges sit in the same room as another judge who has been found to be wanting and has been recommended to be sacked by the COI for misconduct?
My mind boggles when foreign judges lower their standards. Their character is questionable as far as I can see.
Of the six, two are mega-racists, rabid fundamentalist ‘christians.’
It’ll be interesting to see who out of the rest of four will have the cajones to bell the rabid vapid cats. Rather, in this case, PIGS, off springs of swines- as in stinking runts.
One of the two pigs went on the $3m flight business class to the holey land so you never know the fear of god might inspire him.
It will be difficult, though, to convince the lucifer appearing as Santa Claus in a sheep’s hat with an intelligence to match.
It ain’t over yet me thinks. Popcorn at the ready to see how it all plays out.
Netflix has to buy the rights.
The flag bearer of Itaukei hate against other ethnic groups in Fiji is the Pedophile President.
The hate against other ethnic groups is clearly exhibited in the recent viral video where an Indo Fijian Police Officer stopped an Bula ambulance driven by a itaukei driver who was driving recklessly on the road especially near a School crossing. The racial slurs and hate thrown against the Police officer due to his ethnicity is concerning.
Later the Police Commissioner has backed up the need for the stop by the Police Officer as the person lying at the back of the ambulance was not a real patient but jumped in the back so to act as a patient being transferred despite being very well.
But before the ComPol statement went out, the comments on the viral video by itaukeis were hateful against the Indo Fijian.
At the end of the day, nothing will happen to anybody. Everyone keeps their jobs. No charges. There are no further updates from commissioner Masipolo.
Any remote chance the indo-Fijian policeman had of a promotion is dead on the water.
See pm’s office driver-the son killed 2 adults in Bau. He keeps his job still. Zilch.
See higher education hilarious clown “chairman” and pretend kailoma/kaiviti but 💯 kaindia. His drunk driver crashed office official car driving and running an after-party sortie for alcohol. All quiet now. No charges. The clown chairman keeps his job. Zilch.
See drunk brawling acting corrections commissioner and full-time pig. Add the fact he has complaints pending of making violent threats. Still on the job. Zilch.
No kaivata and kilavata will be taken to task.
No one has any shame.
The Fiji Water saga reaches global notoriety:
https://youtu.be/C-4fzL07Vl0?si=F4TI0szwAt6vuMSF
Pedophile President doing what Pedos do. It is circumnavigate the law so to satisfy their fantasies.
Made worse by his hatred for non itaukei in this country.
That pedo spent some time in the goal for taking over the Labasa Army Camp in 2000.
He recieved $1.4 million as loan from what was then the National Bank of Fiji. Did he pay back? NO.
And who was at the helm of the $220M scandal? Rabuka.
Now, he has virtually taken over the Goverment with Rabuka, his partner in crime. And like NBF, the nation is heading for liquidation- bankruptcy.
So help us God.
Can anyone tell me why we need such a large army. What do they do 7 days a week for all the years they have been there. They are a burden to the taxpayers.
Clean the guns. Spit shine shoes over and over. Shine biscuit tin medals. Eat at the officer’s mess. Kava. Sleep. Repeat.
Too little too late…SLR has conned Fiji big time and as long as the Kai India bogey is waved around he will ride a tractor on all notions of fair play justice and accountability. The end result a Fiji going backwards in all indicators of growth productivity development and social justice. The prospect of RFMF intervention will add to the chaos and we have already witnessed the depravity of forces that have taken advantage of grubsheet and Fijileaks influence for change based on “anything will be better than Fiji First “. Moce Viti…we are doomed to Kingdom come.
Mary MacGregor’s hit song back in the 70s, Torn Between Two Lovers, could be reality with the CJ.
Caught between two Tui’s: his friend and relative, the Tui Cakau, and his paramount chief, the Tui Lau.
Q: Where will his allegiance be?
A: CJ of course, as the source of his wealth.
This is concerning. A person who does not carry the mandate of the people through a lawful election processes is leading the country.
A clear case of the aim of a insurrection. Why? People choices and aspirations are begin destroyed and subverted by unelected people.
“Please stop this nonsense about speaking the truth “ – according to Pramesh Sharma’s page, this site is talking crap and GD is irrelevant – lol Pramesh, you are an idotic corrupt sex pest with an ego bigger than your ass – this article is based on investigative journalism, not some whiskey drinking session where you telling everyone about the true FIJI, then we have SheeLund Raju who is claiming the truth written here as crap on his racist FB page, stick to fueling alcohol to the wheelbarrow boys for protection ( hope they wear protection ), it’s embarrassing to read your thick comments, you are NOBOCI
If I’m so irrelevant, why are they talking about me? 🙂 Poor sods.
1. Naiqama Lalabalavu only got 652 votes in 2022 general elections. Frank Bainimarama got 136829 votes ie for every vote that Naiqama got, Frank received slightly more than 200 votes. Even someone named Rajendra Prasad, a PAP candidate got 751 votes, nearly a hundred votes more than the Tui Cakau.
2. Utterly rejected and humiliated by the voters, he nevertheless managed to get on the taxpayer payroll as the Speaker not on merit but purely and simply he happened to be Rabuka’s Chief. Jobs for the boys and the Chief was Rabuka’s recruitment policy. Ironically as a parliamentarian, his membership was suspended for two years in May 2015 after he was found guilty of making “scurrilous” remarks about the then Speaker Jiko Luveni.
3. In an Auckland hotel room Rabuka informed Ratu Wiliame Katonivere that an Internal Audit and an Internal Investigation Report was reported to him by the Board Chairperson of three Government Companies Ratu Wiliame had served on. Rabuka says these were then subjected to forensic re-examination and to the Attorney General for advice on whether to prosecute or not. Did Rabuka pressure Ratu Wiliame not to seek a second term as President?
4. Wasn’t the Presidency, once the position became vacant, to be offered to Adi Kepa in exchange for Sodelpa joining the PAP in a coalition?
5. On 4th April 2005 Naiqama was sentenced to 8 months imprisonment. Given this criminal record, why was he appointed as President ?
6. If he is acting on his own accord and not on the advice of the PM, then really both of them should go back to Cakaudrove and let people of ability and good character lead Fiji.
In Jesus name
Amen