Can it possibly be true that the Prime Minister, Sitiveni Rabuka, has made it known that if Lynda Tabuya goes as a result of the current PAP investigation into the sex scandal involving her and Aseri Radrodro that he will go too? That’s the astonishing claim being made by Victor Lal at Fijileaks from information presumably gained from his unrivalled network of sources built up over five decades of reporting events in Fiji. And it provides us with a shocking insight into how this inquiry – which hears from Lynda Tabuya herself tomorrow – is being manipulated to achieve the desired outcome of a large section of the PAP, including Rabuka, that it finds “insufficient evidence” to discipline the Minister for Women, Children and Social Protection, let alone send her to the backbench.
Lynda Tabuya herself has reportedly been telling people that she retains the full confidence of the Prime Minister and expects to be exonerated. Which explains why instead of being chastened by the allegations of a drug-fuelled sex romp with Aseri Radrodro in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel in Melbourne during a parliamentary visit in August, she is already behaving as if she is being cleared.
Grubsheet understands that Lynda Tabuya looked as if she didn’t have a care in the world when she attended the wedding reception on Friday of the Drua and Flying Fijians star hooker Tevita Ikanivere. She was laughing, drinking and dancing the night away, which seemed decidedly odd to some of those present when she was meant to have lodged her responses to the charges against her that very day and less than 72 hours before she appears before the inquiry in person. What does she know that the rest of us don’t know? Well as it happens, lots.
1/ She evidently knows that her patron, the Prime Minister, has breached all convention to let it be known that he wants Lynda Tabuya cleared. Grubsheet understands that a whispering campaign has already begun against a prominent individual in the PAP who is insisting that proper processes be followed, with suggestions that this person should leave the Party if they can’t fall into line.
2/ Lynda Tabuya also knows that Aseri Radrodro’s wife, Sainiana, is living in fear of retribution for allegedly being the snitch that has cost her husband his reputation and his job as Minister for Education. Instead of being supported, Sainiana is being widely treated as a pariah – the ultimate injustice to a woman who has clearly been the wronged party in this scandal. Will the women of Fiji rally to her side as more and more people come to realise that Sainiana is being made a scapegoat for the sordid antics of her faithless husband and the Great Temptress in Room 233? Anyone with a conscience and any sense of decency certainly hopes so.
3/ This blatant intimidation of Sainiana Radrodro has placed a big question mark over whether she will cooperate with the PAP inquiry. Victor Lal is suggesting that there is still a possibility of her giving evidence of what she knows but Fiji being Fiji, it is much more likely that she will be frightened into silence. And if this happens, only the most fanatical Lynda Tabuya supporter will regard it as justice. Because Victor Lal provides a graphic account below of the night that Lynda Tabuya turned up at the Radrodro family home to confess to the affair and beg for forgiveness.
4/ As the person who first broke this story – that was subsequently followed up by Grubsheet, The Times of London, The Australian, the New Zealand Herald , the ABC and Radio New Zealand, among others – Grubsheet is giving Victor Lal the final say on the eve of Lynda Tabuya’s appearance before the PAP inquiry. Read it, Fiji, and be amazed that there is even a chance of her being cleared. But powerful forces led by the Prime Minister – himself a rumoured former lover – are working behind the scenes to engineer precisely that.
Don’t expect Lynda Tabuya to do a “walk of shame” into the inquiry tomorrow. She doesn’t do shame, as we have been newly reminded in recent days with her promotion of hard liquor as rugby raffle prizes in Kadavu and her defiance of the Online Safety Commission’s directive that Fijians not share the video of a child being beaten, compounding brutality with a shocking invasion of privacy.
No, Lynda Tabuya will be strutting into the room with her usual air of supreme confidence anticipating that the inquiry has been stitched up in her favour by a Prime Minister seemingly as bewitched by her as any of her many conquests over the years. And giving a figurative reverse two-finger salute to the Fijian people and anyone else who believes in proper ministerial conduct, transparency, accountability and the rule of law.
Section 27.5(b) of the PAP Constitution – which is a public document – states that “proceedings of the Legal and National Disciplinary Sub-Committee shall be held in camera or recorded and shall be conducted in accordance with the Rules of Natural Justice”.
But the big question is justice for who? Because “natural justice” demands a lot more focus on the truth that we are currently witnessing in this sordid affair. Which if Lynda Tabuya’s supporters are to be believed, is careening towards an outcome that is about as far away from justice as it could possibly be.
POSTSCRIPT: Grubsheet has been contacted by a member of the PAP Committee to say that no formal instruction has been issued by the Prime Minister to exonerate Lynda Tabuya. Let’s hope, then, that “natural justice” is the only consideration. The nation awaits.
It is true that Rabuka has extra marital affairs with many women.
Now we know Tabuya is on the list too.
Jeez. Just throw them out PAP.
PAP has better people who can step up. Manoa and Vosarogo make ideal leaders.
Fijians don’t care about Rambo and they don’t even bother about Tabuya anymore. Their popularity and existence is gone way past redemption. Kick them out.
Silence is an answer in itself.
Sainiana Radrodro PLEASE do the right thing by stepping up on behalf of the Women Children and voters of Fiji.
Jezebel, in all her wicked deception must be stood down. A promiscuous, sly, devious woman who is void of all class, common decency, humility and professionalism. She HAS to go.
“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.“Proverbs 31:8-9
How astounding that before the party’s committee is yet to consider the conduct of Lynda, the Prime Minister is to have allegedly said ” if she goes I will go”.
Given that many describe the Government and its performance to date as being a shambles, perhaps the party should call the bluff of the PM and invite him to ‘go’.
There are others in the Government who would do a better job!
Fiji is now worthy of a Netflix series….????. Valoloma the everyday people; will there ever be Govt to rule for the people and not themselves??
Kick both bags of garbage out and include Siromi as the third bag. Manoa Kamikamica is an honorable man and he can run this country way better.
Mrs Radrodro
Kerekere bibi from the women and children of Fiji.
Do us all a moral justice.
Stand up and Speak up the truth.
Redeem your respect as a woman.
Kick her to the kerb where she belongs.
We hold our faith in you.
Otherwise you are equally gone down the gutter item as these lot.
Do it for a better Fiji.
Thank you sincerely,
Women of Fiji
The fact that Lynda is spitting into the wind with every single increasingly vile action means there is a wide chasm between her voters and the majority of the online crowds that support the political blogs and social media pages. She is well aware of this and knows her acolytes don’t know or don’t care because they reward her with the “you look beautiful” and simple heart emojis comments that are so demeaning to the work we do. She wants to own that space while she demeans us at the same time. There I said it! These people matter because they are one equal vote every snap year and and they will look past her treachery because she looks good in the fashion shows. My God, how she plays to our lowest common denominator. The difference between Lenora and her could not be any greater. Once acts with grace, the other with gall. She sets back gains made over decades of Fiji’s real women activist’s efforts.
But here’s why donors and AU and NZ will not do anything at all. She and Rabuka and all the patriarchal thieves know that at no other point in history are the foreign supporters more willing to look the other way because of one word, China. The Pacific Islands are so rich in minerals, fish and geo-positioning that they will not do a thing. They are fully aware that any outward threats to cut funding will result in a “No worries, China has our back” response. If you doubt it, what organisation spoke up once about Radrodro? Say what you will about Lynda’s actions (pre-affair, drug use, nude image sharing, child video exploitation, etc.), his offenses were and are still far more egregious and they were met with shrugged shoulders more often than not. They are even greater examples of the incessant hypocrisy we have witnessed from our muted local female leaders across the board, myself included. Will Sainiana speak up? Maybe she is the hero we all needed. Tonight I will pray for her and her alone no matter what she decides to do. God Bless Sainiana.
Is Rabuka thinking that he is indispensable? Please go
You have become a disaster and an embarrassment .
What a shame and waisted vote given to PAP. There is absolutely no dignity and credibility in this RABUKA government.
Just as worst as the BAINIMARA government. Both commanders leadership
Is a big failure and the nation suffers more than ever before. Fiji will have to put up with this nonsense for another three years. Forty years in total. Before things get better.
As diaspora, observing this current coalition, it became apparent that when coup leaders are given the honour of leading a country, no with regard to ‘merit’ or a democratic vote, then the people of that country were on the back foot from the start. A military coup leader that topples a democracy and rewrites the Constitution is acting illegally.
My question is – why is there an expectation of honesty, transparency, and intelligent decision making from Leaders with no prior experience, qualifications who conducted criminal acts eg changing constitutions without referendums?
A bushman like Aseri Radrodro will not recognize a good woman when he has one! The guy has never met my fancy! I reckon Sainiana did all the hard yards to get that lowlife to where he was able to reach being a Minister. Now terminated and out on his ass, Sainiana should do herself a favor and leave him to Lynda! They deserve each other.
Sainiana, you have a lot of fans and a lot of enemies too, but for the latter, they simply cannot accept your class, elegance and grace. You’ve kept your silence amidst this raging storm and it couldn’t have been easy!! You have my respect! Stay dignified! You don’t have to do something you’re not comfortable doing! Be true to yourself and your family for they are the only thingthat matters at the end of the day!
It’s a dog race!
What utter nonsense is that, Ashamed?
Word on the grapevine is that she is just the same as Lynda, they specialise in “butako sui”. She’s now got her just desserts. Lynda has hers coming… Karma anyone? LMAO!