We erroneously reported last Thursday (Jan 23) that John Rabuku was back running the ODPP in Christopher Pryde‘s absence despite the fact that three Supreme Court judges had ruled that he was unfit to head the state’s prosecution service because he has been found guilty of professional misconduct.
It transpires that while John Rabuku as Deputy DPP may have expected to succeed Nancy Tikoisuva after Tikoisuva’s tenure as Acting DPP lapsed with the reinstatement of Christopher Pryde and Tikoisuva reverted to being a humble state prosecutor, the job of Pryde’s stand-in went instead on his say-so to Pauline Madanavosa, one of the Assistant DPPs.
Madanavosa is said by insiders to have Christopher Pryde’s confidence and for once, her appointment to fill in for him while he is on leave answering the recycled charges of misbehaviour laid against him by Nancy Tikoisuva has been uncontroversial. John Rabuku may be smarting about having been passed over but them’s the breaks. And for once, he hasn’t taken to social media to complain about being sidelined.
How Rabuku could have possibly thought he could occupy the most senior position in the ODPP when he was found guilty of professional misconduct is a mystery known only to the man himself. Plus Nancy Tikoisuva, who appointed him Deputy knowing that he would eventually have to fill in as Acting DPP but can’t, and before that the Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, who made Rabuku Acting DPP before the three Supreme Court judges deemed it unlawful.
Pray God that when Christopher Pryde returns next Monday (Feb 3) on the same day that Rusiate Tudravu takes over as Police Commissioner that the unseemly drama and dysfunction at the ODPP is finally laid to rest and they can get on with the job of working together to tackle the current breakdown of law and order, which is one of the nation’s top priorities.
This whole debacle has gone on long enough.
Suave but sidelined. John Rabuku, aka the “Crooning Stallion”.
Why? Because of the shirt he was wearing bearing the image of a stallion in the drunken video clip leaked from the last ODPP’s Conference.
That’s Nancy with the bottles in front of her lolling her way into professional oblivion.
Pauline, Nancy, Rabuku, Meli, Laisani, etc etc…are birds of a feather. Although she has been in the system for a long time, her performance and competencies, or lack thereof, are well known, including her inability to reach court on time.
I guess Pryde had to go with “better the devil you know”. The good thing is that Pauline will be reluctant to endorse anything which may be forced upon her by the thugs in the office for fear that she will have to pay a heavy price later. She’d definitely want to keep her record clean in that regard and not rubber stamp what the thugs say.
It’s certain that Pryde’s hit list is getting longer with Nancy being the first on the chopping block for certain. These pests and kalavos need to be exterminated.
I’m certain many of us are looking forward to those better days when Pryde is back in office, except for Charlie “Chaplin” of the Fiji Times, who is still sobbing over Mere’s charges.