Once again, the Coalition’s new Minister for Information, Lynda Tabuya, has become the story herself at yet another Fiji Media Association “town hall” meeting that is meant to be giving the public fresh insights into national issues but is dishing out more of the same.
Alone in the democratic world, only in Fiji would a Prime Minister make a virtue of promoting a disgraced cabinet minister who he and his party found guilty of a “sex and illicit drug scandal” and sacked as Minister for Women and Children only to bring her back to be the government’s principal spokesperson with the media and the Fijian people.
It’s a clear sign of how much Sitiveni Rabuka‘s own moral compass is scrambled that he dismisses public dismay over his back-flip with such a trite phrase as “every saint has a past, every sinner has a future”.
No, Prime Minister, no saint has a past that includes a drug-fueled “brutal” sexual escapade in a Melbourne hotel room with a fellow cabinet minister ( Aseri Radrodro ), with his wife sleeping in an adjoining room. No saint makes a pornographic video when she is chair of the government’s Anti-Pornography Task Force and flashes her ample “butt and bush”. And then not only survives in your amoral government but thrives. And on your personal patronage.
Yes, Lynda Tabuya’s conduct has been the conduct of a sinner alright. Even leaving aside any moral judgment, this whole squalid episode has been a “sin” against all accepted standards of political conduct. And of community expectations that those we choose and pay handsomely to represent us should set an example as role models, especially to our young people .
Sinners traditionally find redemption through repentance. But what did Lynda Tabuya do?
- She lied to you and her party by denying the antics in Room 233.
- She waged war on Aseri Radrodro’s wife.
- She then made a pornographic video she risibly claimed was for her husband at the same time as she had sworn to the Elections Office and FICAC that they were divorced.
- Along with the lies, she played victim by claiming she was being persecuted and shamed because she is a woman.
- She has used her connections and the law to pursue those -including Grubsheet – who highlighted her outrageous conduct.
- And she is still refusing to take responsibility for her gross dereliction of public duty and keeps playing the victim as if she is the one who has been wronged.
And you have allowed her to get away with it. But only until the inevitable reckoning comes when right-thinking Fijians finally get to make a pronouncement on this outrage at the ballot box.
As a fellow sinner, perhaps you have a special connection with this appalling individual. Whatever your personal relationship with her, you sinned against democracy and tens of thousands of your fellow citizens when you seized power at gunpoint in 1987.
Having asked for forgiveness three decades later by telling the nation you now realised you were wrong and were sorry, we forgave you. In the Fijian way, we accepted your apology and gave you a future when many people wanted you kept firmly in the past.
It has been yet another betrayal. By your conduct as Prime Minister over almost three years, you have demonstrated that you are not sorry at all. Your racist policies continue, along with your assault on good governance and the rule of law. So while you once had a future, you have squandered the trust a forgiving nation foolishly gave you to give you another chance to redeem yourself in the history books.
Now you insult our intelligence and sense of right and wrong with a flip comment like this. But realise this, Prime Minister:
It is only because an alternative leader hasn’t yet emerged with sufficient grunt to become the next “d’Hondt Big Man” that you have any hope at all of being considered a credible political force. And when that happens, you and your fellow sinner will have no future at all in the minds of Fijians who really care about our nation and the moral abyss into which you are dragging us.
And one final question: Is it true that Lynda Tabuya (or her husband) gave you your $150,000 gold Rolex? An answer please. Because if it is true, both of you don’t deserve to be re-elected. You deserve to be behind bars. Because there is only one word for it. Corruption.
Get that, Fiji?
“In response, Mr Rabuka offered a brief but pointed reply that silenced the crowd”.
The Prime Minister is now so out of touch that he thinks those present accepted his absurd justification.
No, PM. It is much more likely that they were shocked into silence. Because you are justifying the unjustifiable. Defending the indefensible. Again.
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“He let me get away with it. Suck it up, Suckers!”
A greedy and lazy PM who thinks he is God’s gift to the people of Fiji. We gave him a second chance only to discover that he is simply not up to the task. When asked about breaking the election promise of no pay raises for parliamentarians, this time he was incapable of a ‘brief but pointed’ reply’.
Instead, we discover that the man famous for sexual kamasutra is also good at verbal kamastura as he waffled on and on without giving a straight answer.
What a dork!
This man is a complete waste of taxpayers’ time and money.
He’s a conman at heart.
A complete and utter failure as PM.
Not fit for the position at all.
Im glad to see that you are admitting to being one of the many idiots like Graham who gave rabaku a “second chance”. Because of you lot’s stupidity in not being able to learn from simple history our country is now a hell hole for all its people, even for clowns like you lot.
The evil c**t has publicly demonstrated countless times in the last 40 years of being a double speak lying power hungry greedy charlatan who only cares about his own survival. And yet maha bhadua chutiyas like you, Graham, shamimi, Richard, the pontificating academics and elite gang, half the fijian media, the racist itaukei rabuka supporting throng, ignorant and dense civil servants and teachers, selfish and bigoted Muslim-hating Biman supporters and the short sighted Frank and Aiyaz-hating dense and easily misled peanut gallery can now only lament about a monumental problem that you f**ked up lot have created.
Congratulations. You have ended up with a government that you helped create despite surely knowing at the back of your heads that Rabaku and Biman were going to do a terrible job. But your hate for either Aiyaz or Frank or the Muslims or your jealousy of their success and their determination to steer Fiji into modernity was so great that you bastards sacrificed our beloved country and all it’s people at the altar of crime, corruption, bigotry, racism and chaos.
How intense was your hate for Frank and Aiyaz that you sacrificed all of us and our country?
On behalf of all of us that tried to stop Rabuka and biman from destroying fiji, I hope you all have terrible life.
Now that you have got that off your chest, I hope you feel better.
I have never hated Frank or Aiyaz. They became increasingly tin-eared and dictatorial to the point of detaining opposition members and I came to believe they had been in power for too long and democracy would be served by a change of government.
In the normal course of events, many of us believed that four years in opposition would give Frank and Aiyaz an opportunity to reinvent themselves and make a strong comeback if the Coalition proved to be a failure. Never in our wildest dreams would we have imagined that they would stage a monumental hissy fit and take home their bats and balls, leaving the field totally in the hands of their opponents.
You have failed to mention any of this unforgivable desertion of the democratic process. It was a betrayal of the swings and roundabouts of proper democracies, in which governments govern until they become complacent, oppositions win and govern until they become complacent and then the whole cycle begins again.
So don’t blame me for wanting to change the nation’s underwear. Blame them for shitting on the whole notion of proper governance by abandoning us all just because they faced losing the baubles of office and couldn’t stand the thought of four years in the wilderness to reinvent themselves and regain the nation’s trust.
That is their fault, not mine. They would have been back in government at the end of next year had they respected the democratic process, such is the current disillusionment with the “New Order”. But like so many autocrats in the past, they believed in some divine right to rule. Whereas Fiji deserves a proper democracy in which personalities and parties EARN their right to govern.
Yes, the key point here is that all sides appear to have insufficient appreciation and respect for Parliament.
If Frank and Aiyaz had stayed, parliamentary privilege would have provided them with a powerful platform for their voice to be heard. Instead, we have these ongoing cycles of retribution through the courts, typical of flawed democracies.
Then we had the corruption of Parliament through the buying of members of the Opposition with ministerial salaries. Finally, we have a had gaggle of lawyers and unquestioning fourth estate (the media) have us think Parliament should abide by a court opinion.
No, Parliament is the highest court of the land, and it will decide. Has it? Everyone and everything else plays second fiddle. Once all parties start respecting Parliament, things will go better all around.
“monumental hissy fit and take home their bats and balls, leaving the field totally in the hands of their opponents…”
GD, in all fairness, is exactly what the electorate and the blind cheerleaders asked them to do. And the duo complied. Now we complain they did as asked by the electorate–albiet by one vote on the parliament floor.
We for get that other FFP had garnered still that highest number of votes from the electorate and entered parliament in a strong position to govern again.
After much political horse trading, greed, betrayal of the voters by minority parties, outright prejudiced, racist bigotry, jostling, and elbowing for power- finally FPP was dislodged from governance.
Cue, the wild street dancing, and even wilder drum beating celebrations. With lots of lard asses shamlessing joining in.
Yes, no government is perfect.
However, no government should be as incompetent as this one is and will continue to be so. Simply because they are brainless fart faces full of feces.
It is no fib that in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Too many fat-assed people danced with joy in the streets and were beating the drums of victory not realizing they were celebrating putting a vile, lying, hateful, racist, and bigot back in power.
How could we not have seen that? That the lesser of two evils is always better.
Niw, brainless dolts like the porn queen, a baboon as ag, jambalaya blinky, checkered manoa, doghla kuta baiman, criminals, sexual deviants, pedophile, drunks, drug dealering ginger farmers, and too many others otherwise unemployed and unemployable have been appointment to high government positions far beyond their capabilities.
How can we not have seen a serial adulterer, serial treasonous lying bastard racist bigot will practice hat he knows best- ethnic purging of the civil service, diplomatic corps, statutory boards, and reintroduce overt everyday racism?
That is what Anonymous says- October 18, 2025, at 8:26am. is asking/saying.
Not mentioned -probably due tonplain diagust, are the drunkard corrections commissioner facing criminal prosecution, the drunk chief registrar, and a corrupt racist bigot CJ, the bigot crooning d/dpp, incompetemnt squirrming a/dpp, and assistant dpp with crabs, all desperately clinging to their positions by sheer dint of kaivata-ism and cronyism.
ATTENTION ANONYMOUS:
Your accusation in your response to this that I have associated Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum with the Taliban is a lie. I have never done so and you know it.
On the contrary, I have always had the deepest respect for ASK’s religious faith and sometimes accompanied him to mosques in Fiji, where I was always greeted warmly by other Muslims.
I have also been in Afghanistan as a journalist under Taliban rule and ASK’s tolerance for people of other faiths, including Christians, is as far away from the Taliban as it’s possible to get.
Your comment is disallowed. You have had your say. Now bugger off.
Hear, hear! Vinaka GD.
Bigotry must be called out.
Let’s not confuse our political opinions with religious bigotry.
Rabuka has every reason to accept Lynda. Primarily because he is sleeping with her and always has hence the violent outburst resulting in his sacking Aseri after he found his hated former son in law was also dipping into his bush-
And secondly because he gets to pay back through Lynda the lady who dared marry his former son in law . You see the mighty Rabuka the PM and former Army General has never been able to accept that his adulterous daughter who slept and was caught in bed with his friend Inia KUBUABOLA’s son was dumped !
Did you know that Sainiana was prosecuted for 7 long years by FICAC because of a complaint lodged by Rabuka and his daughter now Director Training at FNU Salaseini Rabuka. They used Colonel Langman former FICAC Commissioner during the Bainimarama reign to prosecute Sainiana.
So of course Rabuka and Lynda paid back Sainiana for taking up with the equally adulterous Aseri!
I seen the Butt but I did not see the Bush. Can you post a proper photo. hahaha
I am banned from doing so by the Australian e-Safety Commissioner because I do not have the tart’s permission to share it. Oh, and we are family blog site. My regrets.
But always remember the old saying: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. It’s just that she perennially has more than one hand in there.
..just that she perennially has more than one hand in there…Hahahahaha!
Reminds us of a joke: a genealogist and a gynecologist were neighbors. People were confused about what the difference was between them.
The town crier explained: one looks up the family tree, and the other looks up the family bush.
Rabuka should understand that running a government is not a testing ground for saints or sinners. All elected people should have a blemish-free character or should behave with utmost sincerity and decorum during their term. If they want to flounce, flounder, have physical encounters, lie, cheat eat and enjoy they are not fit to serve the people at the people’s expense. How dare he talk about God. Saints and sinners in the same breath.
Moreover, why does Sona Rolex not apply his “every saint has a past and every sinner has a future” mantra to his enemies currently facing charges?
Oh, we, know, one rule me, and another for thee. Thee thee.
“All sinners have a future and all saints have a past” – I think Rambo was talking about himself!
But, as always, all the idiots in Fiji cannot work that out………….. until now.
So whats the go with Malimali and your office staffer where are their future? And the Vulagis have to commit a sin or many more sins if they have not yet done so to have a future in Fiji. What a nincompoop. What a standard or benchmark to assess suitablity of candidates in the Fiji Government and its Department (some such as FICAC/DPP etc)
Graham- We had this conversation before, you have shown remorse in supporting this corrupt administration prior elections and instrumental in removal of Fiji First together with Victor Lal. You are a man of ethics and that is appreciated but Victor has let us down. Less said the better about him, but he has lost support of the Indo Fijian community.
We want you back on Facebook and I can help you back despite your exit from fb but you should be back, you must be back and you will just have to observe the reporting side and no one can remove you. That way you can monitor the traffic and hit it hard in getting rid of this corruption in Fiji. Please Graham, let’s do it
“Every saint has a past…. ”
This statement is highly offensive to anyone who has the self awareness and discipline to walk on the straight and narrow – because of knowing what is wrong and right.
Don’t make excuses to cover up for your own willing misdeeds. Don’t drag every other saint into the pit with you. Especially when you never learn from the mistakes.
This statement has been grossly abused by the PM and others to get off scotf free and normalize bad behavior.
I think it is naive (in Fiji) to assume that Fiji First – FB and ASK – would have had a fair chance to contest elections again after their loss to the coalition. The nationalist lynch mob was ready to make sure that would never happen. Their removal from being in position to lead Fiji again was a foregone outcome…just like the return of the DPP Pryde. This is the decolonisation the powerful ethno-nationalists want. This is Fiji politics . Fiji…the way the Democratic world should not be.
They would have still been in the parliament heading the biggest political party, having won more votes than anyone else at the 2022 election. Of course, that would have put them in a stronger position with a government with a majority of just one seat on the floor of the house.
Don’t forget about Lynda directly benefitting from award of many government controlled or influenced construction contracts to Pacific Building Solutions (PBS Group)
NOTE TO MY READERS:
If anyone is wondering why certain comments have been disallowed, it is because the authors insist on referring to “Indians” in the Fiji context.
Indians live in India. Fiji citizens of Indian descent are Indo-Fijian or otherwise Fijian like everyone else.
It is what the newly-endorsed 2013 Constitution and its provision on the common identity says and I insist that the supreme law be respected.
If you don’t like it, go elsewhere.
As observed by Noa Tora on Facebook, Rabuka is all fart no sh*t:
“ Prime Minister Rabuka’s comments in my vanua of Tavualevu exposed a troubling reality: he is more concerned with the administrative convenience of investors than the fundamental rights of iTaukei landowners.
What’s particularly disturbing is the contradiction between Rabuka’s international rhetoric and his domestic actions.
At the 78th UN General Assembly, he proclaimed Fiji’s commitment to “the values of peace, justice, respect, human rights, tolerance, and solidarity.” He specifically highlighted Fiji’s adherence to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the ILO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention. He spoke eloquently about “leaving no one behind” and ensuring vulnerable communities aren’t marginalized.
Yet here at home, when faced with reforming colonial-era mining laws that directly violate indigenous land rights, he frames justice as a bureaucratic burden. Where is that commitment to indigenous rights when iTaukei landowners demand their due? Where is that promise to leave no one behind when the vanua asks for a fair share of mineral wealth extracted from beneath their feet?
He acknowledges the historical injustice but refuses to act decisively to end it.
Instead, we get the familiar deflection: more consultations, more discussions with investors, more committees.
The vanua doesn’t need more consultation. They’ve been consulted to death while their resources are extracted for others’ profit. What they need is a leader with the courage to prioritize their rights over investor convenience.
Rabuka speaks powerfully on international stages about indigenous rights and justice. It’s time he demonstrated that same commitment at home. Action over rhetoric.
PM Rabuka concluded his speech at the 78th United Nations General Assembly and declared: “The people of Fiji on whose behalf I address this Assembly, have given me the responsibility to lead our ‘large Ocean State.’ I cannot fail them.”
You are failing them.
You said we need “genuine and durable partnerships that ensure our collective security, facilitate economic prosperity, and safeguard our resources.”
The vanua is asking you to safeguard their resources.
The iTaukei landowners are demanding that you facilitate their economic prosperity, not the prosperity of foreign mining companies operating under colonial-era laws. Where is the “genuine partnership” when you prioritize investor concerns over the rights of your own people?
You proclaimed: “It is time to tell it as it is. It is time to be bold and blunt. To do what is necessary for our very survival.”
Then be bold and blunt now.
Tell it as it is: the Mining Act is a colonial relic designed to rob iTaukei landowners of their mineral wealth.
The survival you spoke of at the UN isn’t just about climate change—it’s about the economic and cultural survival of the vanua whose lands are being stripped while they receive nothing.
You said you cannot fail the people of Fiji.
Yet when the vanua demands justice after 150 years of dispossession, you offer them consultations and cite complexity.
That is failure.
Mean what you said at the 78th UNGA.
Act on it at home.
Otherwise, that was just an empty performance.
By Noa Tora”
GD, you definitely need to get back in FB and just as you did prior to the 2022 elections in lobbying against FFP, you need to do the same against the 3 coalition parties.
More importantly, you need to “target” individuals in the Coalition starting with Rabuka. Others that need to be named and shamed, and obliterated from politics include Baimaan, Gavoka, Siromi, Lynda, Aseri, Sashi, Manoa, Agni, Charan, Naupoto, Naivalurua, and others from FFP who have jumped ship to cash in by betraying their voters.
I’m sure you would be able to gather evidence and pool resources from your faithful and supportive readers in the build up to 2026.
It’s important to expose the current lot’s corruption, nepotism, lies and deceit. It’s important to document these and keep reminding people of how this govt has conned everyone for their personal gain.
But Rabuka said ‘an Indian is an Indian’.
Even Mahen Chaudhry uses the word “Indian” to describe his own ethnicity.
So you now want us to use the word “Indo-Fijian” as a label for Fiji-born Indians?
Yes. They are not Indians. The Constitution says they are Fijians. And the Supreme Court has just endorsed that as the supreme law.
Hear, Hear GD.
I am glad you are ‘educating’ people who are still running with the hares and hunting with the hounds. One of the hallmarks of the 2013 constitution was dignity and equality to all Fijian citizens, That was a major reason that voters gave such overwhelming support to the FFP.
As for shadowy characters like ‘Anonymous’ now labelling the electorate as ignorant, uninformed etc for deserting FFP, I am sure he together with ASK, FB etc would now be wishing (on hindsight) they too had done things a little differently. I do not want to catalogue the list of arrogant, blatant and dictatorial practices of the FFP after so many years in government.
The voters can be forgiven for wanting a change. And that is precisely what they would do in 2026, now that we have had the opportunity to ‘test’ out the current lot.
The environment is ripe for a genuine, decent and uncorrupted leadership, which can govern for all and take our beloved country back to its rightful status.