Incredibly, none of the 12 cases referred by police to the ODPP arising from the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair are to be prosecuted. Yet it isn’t the end of the matter – far from it – as FICAC independently continues its pursuit of a number of cases involving prominent individuals.
Detailed analysis to come on a decision that continues to raise serious questions about the integrity of the criminal justice system.
I guess you have eggs on your face GD.
You guess wrong. Watch this space.
Am I surprised? Not at all!
I predicted this in an earlier post.
There are those in Fiji who are seen by many, including me to be ‘protected species’ and to whom the laws don’t apply to.
Let us see what FICAC does with its cases.
Like I always say, this is iTaukei land and vulagi laws do no apply to iTaukei. They make their own laws as they go.
The same Laws Itaukeis makes puts you in Naboro to pick up sandsoap
Kaila..
Next, charges against baimaan, mandua, et.al. to be dropped.
Bitchi, where the coconuts are thicker than thieves.
I hope you are right GD as the hopes of clear justice in this country (Fiji) is fading.
No doubt the various diplomatic missions and NGOs are watching with interest. Fiji is really lucky China is such a regional threat else the aid tap would surely be turned off in the not too distant future.
Fatty fatty obese Nancy fancy sitting on files that were clearly filled with evidence provided by COI judge and refuses to act to save Saleshni temo for perjury (clearly with audio recording evidence), drink driving Baini bhalu (a messenger for saleshni Temo saying that no court will accept charges on baimanu). Next and new Govt please charge fatty fatty obese nancy fancy for abuse of office plij………RFMF Kalau, where art u? exercise s131 now, turaga.
It would appear that the evidence gathered and written down by the police investigation team that worked on providing the cases to be assessed, were not completed to the extent that they should have been as in the case of Temo, there was a recording of him admitting his crime, so what more evidence was required to put this before a judge and ask for an explanation?
So, either the police got it wrong or the files were doctored so that the perpetrators could be exonerated before having to stand in front of a Judge and swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
This is so wrong and in any normal country ALL of those cases would have been put before a Judge.
There is no hope for this place, those in power ride roughshod over the people, the rule of law and any moral boundaries that are expected of everybody and more especially of elected officials.
Other countries that give handouts to Fiji need to wake up and stop supporting a corrupt government and an even more corrupt judiciary.
Cut them loose and hold off any freebies until there is a government that plays by the rules and operates as a democracy, with transparency.
Fiji is a lost cause and will remain that way until people realise that you can’t run a country this way.
GD
While the Commission of Inquiries are often inquisitorial and political in nature, however, their fact based findings and evidence gathered and under oaths could potentially inform, trigger, or assist in formal criminal prosecutions or some other type of administrative civil justice (suspending their licence to practice, as an example). This is my understanding of the law regarding the CoI’s.
The Ashton-Lewis Inquiry had made some very serious allegations of misconduct or violations against very senior or high-level public office holders after an exhaustive fact sensitive and fact finding inquiry which requires a further more targeted investigations such as (malfeasance in public office or some other charges) against those named individuals and bring them to justice.
One just can’t whitewash those adverse findings of fact against the Chief Justice et al in the CoI’s Report and letting them get away with it, in my humble opinion.