We will know this afternoon at 2.30 pm whether the Supreme Court is going to give the green light to changes to the 2013 Constitution and at least one third of the nation is very much on edge.
Why? Because we know that the majority party in the Coalition, Sitiveni Rabuka‘s People’s Alliance, is looking to the Court to open up the prospect of returning to the racially-weighted 1997 Constitution. Or at least changing the 2013 Constitution to reassert the paramountcy of the iTaukei, the power of the chiefs and for the minorities to again become second class citizens in their country of birth.
Who is in the way of this? Well certainly not the RFMF Commander, Major General Ro Jone Kalouniwai, who has spent the week apologising to iTaukei for any hurt the military has caused them but has said nothing whatsoever about the threat to national unity posed by the minorities being disadvantaged if the dominant political party gets what it wants.
All of which means that the minorities are going to have to fight for their existing constitutional rights against any attempt to overturn them, either by changes to the existing Constitution or a return to 1997.
Read our lips, Fiji. Ending the common and equal citizenry – which is at the heart of the current supreme law – will be regarded by the minorities as a hostile act. And it will be fought, not only by the minorities in Fiji and the diaspora but anyone who believes in the principle of equal opportunity the world over, including Fiji’s development partners.
Why? Because it is simply NOT ACCEPTABLE in the modern world for some citizens of any nation to have more rights established in law than others. It is an attack on democracy and an attack on basic human rights. And it is to the enduring shame of the People’s Alliance, SODELPA, the Unity Party and anyone else pressing for a return to 1997 that they have betrayed the interests of a third of the nation to pursue their racist agenda.
Before 1987, the fact that Fiji was majority Indo-Fijian might have justified a racially-weighted constitution to protect the interests of the iTaukei. But ever since the iTaukei became the majority population with the exodus of Indo-Fijians triggered by Sitiveni Rabuka’s coups, there can be no justification whatsoever for anything other than equal opportunity for all.
More rights for the iTaukei over other citizens is the tyranny of the majority against the rest. It wouldn’t be acceptable in 2025 in any member country of the United Nations, the Commonwealth or any other global organisation. It isn’t acceptable in polite society anywhere in the civilised world. And it is a sign of how arrogant and out of touch with global opinion many indigenous politicians in Fiji have become that they either don’t know or don’t care if Fiji gains pariah status as a nation by re-establishing the notion that some citizens are more equal than others.
The common and equal citizenry is the one thing that is NON-NEGOTIABLE in the coming national debate on constitutional change.
It is all very well for the Prime Minister to be in India decrying attacks on Hindu temples in Fiji and embracing Indian modes of greeting. But his silence on the question of racial equality in Fiji is deafening.
Sitiveni Rabuka presides over a party that wants to marginalise the minorities in Fiji. He refuses to defend the common and equal citizenry and rule out winding back the clock. And for that alone, he is not a leader for all Fijians irrespective of ethnicity. He is a leader for one group – the iTaukei. And it is deeply disturbing that he is telling iTaukei privately that he intends to complete the agenda he began 38 years ago to establish their supremacy once and for all.
We are set for the mother of all showdowns. And the first salvo is fired this afternoon at 2.30.
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The principles and rights conferred on all Fijians in the 2013 Constitution. They must and will be defended.
Ugly portents of what might be to come.
Non-negotiable:
How sad, FRANK ensured in the 2013 Constitution that the people should have the privilege, by way of referendum, to make amendments to the constitution.
Rabuka and his cabal of f**kwits want to wrest that privilege away from the people and in the control of Parliament, a parliament acquiescent to the GCC, an outdated body that doesn’t even act in the interests of grassroot ITAUKEIS.
No time for passive aggressive protest.
Irrespective of what is in store regarding the constitution, it is clear from what is going on with the government and the justice system at present that those wielding the power in this country don’t give a toss about what is acceptable and normal in society today.
They will do whatever they want with the opinion that nobody can do anything about it. They are a bunch of self serving individuals who, in any other developed country, would not be allowed to run a kindergarten.
For what they have done over the last few months and continue to do, they should hang their heads in shame. Their behaviour is unacceptable and they should all be ashamed of the actions they have taken in their attempts to take over the country and run it into the ground.
“Any OTHER developed country”?
Little about Fiji is “developed” and especially the sensibilities of those who govern us and their lack of concern for national unity and the well-being of every citizen.
This should be in mainstream news in Australia and New Zealand. Deserves a huge protest outside Fiji embassies worldwide, today!
Those that calling for protest, or do this and that are just harping for nothing.
They are the one’s that won’t be seen during a march or protest.
Keyboard warriors they call them.
Constitution will not put food on the table for poor or send their children to best schools and buy lunch out of school canteen.
It is the honesty of the governments.
As long as we will have self serving and opportunist ,racist Parliament, nothing will change.
Last government used equal rights and opportunity for all.That was their tool.
Rich friends and families were getting richer.
This government wants more for itaukei’s.
This is like the weapon used to fool people and be in power.
We can have dozens of constitution,nothing will change, what we need is a honest ,transparent, robust and a educated government.
Every member should be accountable.
The minorities read Indo Fijians are divided and increasingly into religious silos by their own volition. They simply don’t seem to have an idea of what is in front of them. Their international diaspora are either led by self serving f**kwits more interested in organising FIJI nostalgia than engagement with the international community to pressure Fiji to sustain true and equal citizenry. Then there is Baimaan and the self serving world of his past academia bent on filling pockets or white washing the prospects ahead by attacking Fiji First and demonising Aiyaz. Truly they deserve what they get no matter how hard it is to stomach. The Kaiindia in Fiji have been their worst enemy and continue to be so.
“The minorities read Indo-Fijians”. There are other minorities. ie any citizen who is not indigenous. And that needs to be remembered in this debate.
We get the government we vote for.
Congratulations Fiji
Let the nation become the next Haiti or Uganda if this is what they want.
The minority communities, especially the Indo Fijians should live a life of dignity elsewhere.
When one door closes,another opens
Do it for the next generation.Grow up and move on with life.Why bother with people who don’t appreciate you.
The Coalition Government’s attempt to dismantle the amendment safeguards of the 2013 Constitution is a dangerous attack on Fiji’s democracy.
The 75% parliamentary threshold and referendum requirement were not obstacles for their own sake—they were deliberate protections against the ethnic and political manipulation that has scarred our history.
By seeking to water these down to a two-thirds vote and scrapping the referendum, Rabuka and his Coalition partners are trying to silence the people and hand constitutional power solely to politicians.
Their real agenda is clear: remove equal citizenry, abolish the common name “Fijian,” declare Fiji a Christian state, and restore the Great Council of Chiefs as a political powerbroker.
This is not reform—it is regression. The 2013 Constitution gave Fiji equal citizenry, secular governance, and stability.
It restored our place in the world and underpinned investment and growth. Those who now attack it have built their political careers, wealth, and power under it.
Every Fijian must ask: Why is the Coalition so afraid of letting the people decide? Why dismantle safeguards that protect us all?
The truth is simple—this is about reviving racial supremacy. Fiji must reject this reckless gamble and defend the Constitution that belongs to all its people.
The 2013 constitution must stay.
Whatever the “opinion” of the Supreme Court is, its credibility must be illegitimate when we have serious potential allegations and charges upon the head of the person who will deliver the “opinion”. Serious charges such as perjury, perverting the course of justice and misuse of office.
In fact any judgement by this idiots is illegitimate. How come he is still sitting on the bench in the first place?
We have the former PM and former COMPOL in court for misuse of office, so how come this idiot is giving judgements and opinions with even more serious charges, in addition to being completely incompetent.
Very true. This is ridiculous. How come the Chief Justice is going to announce the decision when in fact he should be charged by the Police. There is no law and fairness in Fiji.
You call for the minorities to fight for their rights to equal citizenry.
Will you come over and lead that fight?
Or remain a shit stirrer in Australia?
You are just a racist, arrogant idiot, Wacol.
Its all in the DNA and you cannot change it.
Remember, a donkey will always remain a donkey, you cannot change it into a horse.
Just how many more are there like you in Fiji?
And then we all wonder why Fiji is where it is.
Yesterday’s sentencing of the drug dealers is merely telling people look how good this government is. Look look we have no hesitation in sentencing itaukeis involved to years and years of imprisonment. They will be let out under yellow ribbon scam some years down the line anyway. So in order to create a diversion, today they will give a ruling in changing the constitution. My worry is that we may not have elections for some years and these mob will continue to create havoc.
But as someone has rightly said we should move our younger generation out of fiji as we will never be appreciated.
Get ready fiji for 2.30 pm today with that smug looking Temo from Temu to make history.
Just like the COI Report, we all should ignore whatever the incompetent, biased, crooked and no ethics CJ says today.
Just ignore the judgement because he has no authority to deliver any judgement in my opinion.
And I am definitely right.
It’s not rocket science – a prejudiced, incompetent, racist, arrogant dickhead has no right to hold any high office let alone the office of the CJ.
Don’t worry with Biman Prasad and the NFP we have nothing to fear. Biman is a lion who is fighting tooth and nail for Indians in Fiji. Our knight in shining armor. He is selfless leader who will sacrifice anything for Fiji Indians. He is not afraid of Rambo or PAP.
Go NFP!
Have you taken your medication? Clearly not. Grrrr…..
Between Baimaan, Ferris- wheel, karia nitya and choran singh it is hard to tell who is the dacoit.
Tough to call but Baimaan by a nose from among this most skilled group of dacoits ever assembled is the biggest dacoit to have ever been given the keys to the treasury.