Publicly humiliated and stripped of her cabinet position, the ex-Minister for Bonking and Weed has paid a heavy price for her inability to keep her clothes on and faces the ignominy of being the only People’s Alliance MP on the backbench of the parliament – her salary more than halved to $95,000* and none of the ministerial perks like official car and driver.
As a millionaire, the loss of money isn’t as important as the loss of face. Lynda Tabuya has been stripped of her dignity – tens of thousands of Fijians and counting aware of every inch of her body and the physical assets she has used to manipulate men and get on in life. How she is going to cope with the humiliation of appearing in public, let alone in parliament, is a question on many lips. Is she now going to resign as an MP altogether? We shall see.
But her dramatic expulsion from Sitiveni Rabuka‘s cabinet is just the start. Lynda Tabuya now faces the prospect of a lot more being exposed than her body as the wolves begin circling around this sordid affair. In her own party, the disciplinary committee that found her guilty of the sex and illicit drug scandal in Room 233 and stripped her of the PAP deputy leadership is convening again to investigate “that video”.
They have the power to recommend Tabuya’s expulsion from the People’s Alliance altogether. Under the 2013 Constitution, that would automatically mean losing her seat in the parliament. And even if she tries to cling on in politics, being expelled from the PAP and the parliament would not be the ideal springboard for Tabuya’s reported plans to go it alone with her own party in 2026.
Even more daunting, Tabuya and her “bestie”, Barbara Malimali – the embattled FICAC Commissioner – face a fresh probe into the circumstances in which Tabuya claimed to have been divorced from her millionaire husband, Rob Semaan, since 2016 and didn’t have to declare his income to the Elections Office when it now transpires that they are still very much married.
The Opposition leader, Inia Seruiratu, is calling for a fresh inquiry into Barbara Malimali’s decision to terminate a FICAC investigation into Lynda Tabuya’s allegedly false income declaration. And depending on how that inquiry goes, Lynda and Barbie could both find themselves behind bars.
Read on for coverage of Seruiratu’s call in today’s Fiji Times and the rest of the stories on “Turtle-gate” in the two dailies. We also have Vijay Narayan‘s story on CFL-Fiji Village this morning. For his reporting, Vijay has gained the privilege of joining Grubsheet and Victor Lal as Lynda’s primary media bêtes noires.
Now the two front pages and other “Turtle-gate” stories…
For the background to Inia Seruiratu’s call for an inquiry and why Lynda and Barbie could be in very big trouble, here’s what Grubsheet published on October 1.
* It would have been $50,000 had Lynda Tabuya not almost doubled the salary for an ordinary MP to $95,000 as Chair of Parliament’s Emoluments Committee .
The outrageous salary increases triggered a national furore and will be remembered by many with a great deal of anger as one of her legacies in public life.
Estes Nadakuitavuki, Lynda’s permanent secretary, should also resign or be sacked too. Civil servants should be neutral and outside politics, Lynda’s famous statement protesting her innocence from any wrong doing was signed by Shameema Ali and Nadakuitavuki.
She should not have done that as a civil servant. Her position has been u detained and she should join her fellow Kadavuan Tabuya and go back to Kadavu. .
I think I am late to the party.
So Lynda claims her husband who made her video leaked it? But why would he do that?
What kind of moron is she?
Everyone in this Coalition Government has been tarred with the same brush. And aces Lynda’s remaining in Parliament will be a public reminder of it.
The PM has to disband the coalition immediately and present a slate of fresh faces.
He has the numbers.
Sack Barbara Malimali as soon as possible
Quote of the Year: “This is not a decision I have taken lightly but one that is necessary in the best interests of the people that we serve.”
People that we serve include iTaukei and non-iTaukei, or “vulagi” according to Liliana. So, since Dec 2022, all other decisions were taken lightly, such as the nominations and appointments of law breakers as President, CJ, CR, A/DPP, and FICAC Commissioner, not in the best interests of the people that we serve.
More like Lie of the Year! So all are liars from Government House to the Judiciary, Cabinet, Parliament and down to PS Women. So help Fiji, Lucifer!
Our hopes for this government faded and died with its very first decision to give Fiji’s most successful foreign company a tax holiday after a process mired with accusations of nepotism and conflicts of interest. Shameful sell outs. From that first scandal they’ve lurched to the next and the next and then next and the next
GD, the whole of Fiji is in uproar but it seems that your compadre and partner in crime, Victor Lal, of the FijiLeaks fame, is yet to be ‘aroused’ (pun not intended) by LyndaGate. Lately FijiLeaks has failed to rise to the occasion (again no pun intended. This is no dick-measuring contest). I suppose that all tend to go a bit slow and soft with age. It’s all in good fun and humor😅. It’s the best way to deal with our grim situation. Maybe Limpy Lal will stiffen to attention after this. What say, GD?
Victor sometimes spends Christmas with his kids in Norway. So let’s not read anything untoward into his absence. He does a sterling job and deserves a break sometimes.
Word is that he sent the video to the PM.
The email that started this was sent by Limpy Lal to Rabuka, Manoa K and a few others. He aint Lumpy. See the copy of the email in ” one mind one goal”
Honesty, integrity, and transparency are great and florid words that are best said from lips and secretly kept in books. In Fiji these words means nothing. The free flow of drugs, together with prostitutions including child prostitution on every corner of our streets is a great example. Big sharks are swimming with senior bureaucrats and senior politicians and have no regards to laws, yet from time to time we hear peasant users caught, harassed, and charged. Another example is the prevalence of nepotism and cronyism in the appointment of senior bureaucrats position without positions being advertised.
Talking about integrity, why is Rabuka reacting now during festive season when majority of the peoples minds are switched off from politics and current affairs. Rabuka should have sacked both Aseri Radrodro and Lynda long time ago but continued to carry them and let them loose to exploit the system, isnt it time now that Rabuka should also go? Where is transparency, integrity, and honesty!!!
Will this be another Aseri Radrodro type of disciplinary action. A cooling off period as a backbencher and back with a ministerial post later next year.Only time will tell.
I imagine the mood is to expel. They have had enough of her antics. And her threats to leave and set up her own party now brand her as a traitor.
perhaps yes, Rabuka did not learnt the lesson that the same Lynda together with Mosese ousted him from sodelpa
The Milamila is spreading too fast and PM needs to apply antifungal cream quickly or he’s also going to start itching soon.
PM can show he’s still got some integrity left by swiftly curing fiji of the Milamila, but has he got it in him, or will he wait until the itch reaches his balls?
Let’s make porn videos about all the ministers in the coalition government so that they are removed and expelled from their parties.
To hell with the ministerial post.
Soon she would be sitting in few boards and earning more than the ministers get.
There is a position about to be vacant.
Joel Abraham is going home.
That’s over quater of a million dollars salary package.
That’s the plan ‘B’
Watch the space folks.
We had a smart kaindia, we also have a smart kaiviti.
Kinda disappointed, actually. You would think that with all that money, she’d be able to afford a trim and an ass.. i mean…class. But, nooo.. ratchet all the way to the end. Oh, Lynda Lovelace!
As a human being and some respect of human,I do feel sorry of what has happened to Lynda.
Worst timing of her life.
She miscalculated between public life and private life.
She could have done better.
Unfortunately social enjoyment took her by her neck.
It is very important how one should behave if you are a public figure ,especially when you representing people in Parliament.
Her actions will haunt her later in life.
Many prominent people smoke weed and go mad with alcohol.
A prominent lawyer was charged half a dozen times for possession of drugs.
Doctors smoke it and even the lawyers too.
She surely needs a psychiatrist for some assessment.
She needs treatment here.
Best option for her is to take a break and get herself treated.
At the moment she is a dead women walking.
People are stoning her but please don’t stone her to death.
Let her lickk her wounds and stand up again.
After all we are all Fijians.
Happy new year.
No, Mary no! Wrong.
The idiot beach don’t need pity, she needs a good kick up her pants. She owns this. A repeat offender who is clearly sexually deranged.
Think about it, who makes pornnographic videos at home ‘for her husband?’ Would another mother do such an unthinking vile thing?
What other government minister IN THE WORLD would do such a thing?
What messages is this sending the youth of Fiji? Porn is good?
You makenit sound like porn os normal when it isn’t.
Such conduct is unbecoming of any wife. Deviant, depraved, demented, and shameful conduct bybthis individual married person as a mother, sister, public figure, and weed smoking, drunk government minister.
In order the seek treatment, the patient must fist consent. Admit that s/he needs help. Yet, this sorry excuse for a woman remains defiant.
No one can force her to better herself just as no one forced her to belittle herself as a slut.
Graham, can youhighlight the developments in Fiji under each of the Prime Ministers except Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara. Also please rank the Ministers in the present government from 1 to 10, 1 being the lowest.
No. There aren’t enough hours in the day already and it is the Christmas holidays.
😂😂😂😂😂
My brother made a startling comment about how LT is now famous and that men will be wanking themselves silly after watching her video!
The sacked Minister for Women and Children, is the best example of how to get famous in Fiji.
Make and leak a nude video and you’ll be famous with all the wankers out there.
I hope to God, that there’s still men of integrity in Fiji but I’m not holding my breath!
Cool it folks.
Like what he did with Aseri Radrodro, the PM has blown the whistle and flashed Lynda a ‘Yellow Card’ and sent her to the Sin Bin for a while.
He will bring her back in a few months coz he needs her votes in 2026. Just wait and see.
Wee Willie the eternal optimist. This video clip will stalk her for life. Political suicide.
BTW, she says it was for her husband. Who was filming the clip? Think about it.
It’s time to expel her from the party as well.
This will ensure she loses her seat as well.
LT is a lecherous leech. She has abused her position (Aseri also did various positions on her) frequently and transported drugs into Australia using her diplomatic immunity.
It is high time the government and the party take a firm position and boot her out.
The positives are that Rabuka finally got his mojo back and that the party could potentially expel her.
The negatives:
1. Rabuka has done too much damage
2. He seconded appointments that were outright wrong and controversial
3. Rabuka is only doing what will benefit him and his cronies going forward. He does not have the country’s interest at the forefront
4. Aseri is still a minister even though he was LT partner in crime in Melbourne. What’s his future now?
5. Will Rabuka have the political courage to act on Barbie Mali2? She is part of this rot that is eating away at PAP. He can’t pull the plug on one minister and yet have no courage or integrity to do the same to other questionable appointments…
He should follow the example of Pio
Positives
1. Lynda is no longer minister and she will therefore no longer be the face of the very issue she was appointed to lead
2. Maybe, just maybe, the PAP party might just garner enough courage to push Rabuka after this latest debacle.
Hopefully there will be enough backlash from the PAP membership and general public to expel Lynda.
Until then, Fiji is at the mercy of this rotten and corrupt cabal parading as the saviours of the nation. Absolute horse dung!!!!
By default, politicians and public figures do not have private lives.
Your taxpayer-funded benefits (including exclusive political access) are under public scrutiny 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
It’s a privilege that we give you. Not something that you demand.
No one presented a whale’s tooth to bring you into public office. Sega ni tuberi na kemu tabua mo curuma na bula vakapolitiki!
You were voted in by the citizens of Fiji to honour and provide the highest level of public service delivery that is commensurate with your parliamentary privileges.
We trusted you.
But you betrayed that trust with the greatest disrespect that any government minister, and a Fijian woman minister at that (!!) could ever reciprocate.
Your real private/personal character has been revealed to the public. Those digital records will unfortunately remain in cyberspace for eternity.
There’s no need to hound the people who are sharing the video.
They did the people of Fiji a huge favour – imagine what other damage you could do in the future to wreck this nation??!!
Whether or not you were really recording it for your “husband” is another story. Is that another lie? We hope not. Either way, a man or woman of integrity in that position would have already resigned with that kind of stupidity and sexual promiscuity. You bring great shame to your family.
Why are you still prideful and arrogant, even at this stage?
Resign now and save whatever little you have left of your personal integrity. We already that there’s more out there and only time will tell.
People view you as sexually promiscuous, an unguarded and immoral woman, wife and mother and NOT FIT to be a member of parliament in my country!
There are many more deserving men and women out there who will do a much better job than you.
Eat humble pie and just exit stage left.
Fiji does not need you.
The party does not need you.
What an embarrassment!
Your political career is finished. And you have no one to blame except yourself. Absolutely no discipline. A low-value woman politician.
Out you go!
Lynda must be charged with perjury and providing false information to FICAC in an investigation. Barberra must be removed immediately for her knowledge that Lynda and Rob were defacto married and living under the same roof in fact as proven by Lynda’s own email in relation to her porn video.
“Who can find a virtuous wife?
For her worth is far above rubies.”
This loose woman politician needs to be expelled from the party asap.
She’s already unashamedly scheming for a comeback. No shame at all.
Drug-energized sex bunny/pros with no moral compass and a lack of good judgment. No conscience. A person of good character who made a mistake would have expressed remorse and resigned.
How can we have this deranged woman in Fiji’s parliament?
The people of Fiji deserve better!
God’s don’t lie and on the 2nd year anniversary the flood gate has opened. It is pouring heavily as it did during Bai and Kai’s regime.
God is punishing the people through it’s leaders actions. You see this rain and flooding, never happened during Christmas but it did this year.
This Government will soon be in bankruptcy once a major cyclone hits. The sin meter has collapsed and God’s wrath is upon Fiji.
It’s not a wise move to draw God into something that is assumptive. Weather patterns come and go, to say that God’s wrath is upon the people of Fiji is inaccurate and presumptuous.
God will move and deal with the wrongs of His people in His own gracious time frame. In the meantime we are tasked with dealing with reality.
God, please help Fiji during this crisis.
Assume Nothing, I agree with you. We should not draw God into something that is assumptive. Whatever God wills and whenever God wills will happen.
But I wonder where were you when on Xmas day Linda T compared her dirty act parallel to when Jesus faced accusation and mockery with grace and compassion.
Please note no nation or natives own Christanity. We vulagis also love our Jesus.
Please don’t bring God into this woman’s lusty habits. You cannot stop a flood by throwing water on it!
Most of her activities as minister seemed to be networking for personal gain and lining up future business deals. Her biggest scandal was that she never served her portfolio – the most vulnerable members of the community. She was like a paid walking billboard for private finance and donors.
I am a mother of 4 daughters and 2 sons. All professional people. 3 of my children work as civil servants in Fiji. I was a civil servant once for 35 years.
Never in my wildest thought I would have ever imagined a woman so disgusting within the four walls of the parliament. There has been many men of worse character like Rabuka himself. But a woman was beyond my wildest imagination and now the fear is real.
Tabuya and Malimali are examples of what our daughters and granddaughters don’t need. They are the examples of what contributes to harm in families. Lies, infidelity, corrupt behavior, manipulation.
I have lost all faith in our government.
Agree.
Lynda has brought shame and dishonour upon Fijian womanhood.
She does not deserve to be Minister for Women & Social Protection etc.
Time for Kalouniwai and his goons to step in on a ‘clean out’ mission.
Public distrust in the capacity of political institutions in Fiji to deliver a clean and efficeint government they can trust and rely, has increased way beyond redemption. The ‘social contract’ has been lost.
The enabler of all this low lives is that mother f***ker Baimaan Prasad. He will get his just desserts from minor other than the c**ks he has been sucking.
He will not what the f**k hit him. Not long to go.
Soon Lynda will cry about being targeted by everyone because she’s a female.
Firstly, It was a porn shooting (by definition, to sexually arose by watching) lady LT’s husband. It was intended to be private. It is very much within her democratic Fijian rights. It could have been anybody really trust worthy, (children, neighbours, member of GCC, etc) doing video recording. We really don’t know.
Secondly, being a role model, Minister for Women, we should be encouraged to the same, as long as it is kept private? Maybe, I will ask my trust worthy neighbour to do a similar porn shooting of my wife and send it to me while I am way overseas. I need it at times! I hope no bastard will leak it in the social media. Ummh, I am still thinking!
Finally, we shall wait for FMCC champion’s comments regarding sacking of lady LT from ministry of women portfolio. She is a stong lady. Is she going to call PM mysogynist like she used to falsly label Frank at every opportunity. Or is Rambo doing something special for her? I wonder!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-27/lynda-tabuya-minister-dismissal-explicit-video-fiji/104764428?fbclid=IwY2xjawHbF4xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYZ8L16NT2DDEBROLSbLk3UCDGgW1URIqKm1-lVBAVvIZM93FL-o0ImxwA_aem_qWnRM-GTg9EiGrfjE4Y_Ew
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-27/lynda-tabuya-minister-dismissal-explicit-video-fiji/104764428?fbclid=IwY2xjawHbF4xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYZ8L16NT2DDEBROLSbLk3UCDGgW1URIqKm1-lVBAVvIZM93FL-o0ImxwA_aem_qWnRM-GTg9EiGrfjE4Y_Ew
Can someone explain how a private video became public?
Wouldn’t it be the husband named and shamed her after what she did with Aseri Radro2
Would any husband like if his wife being banged by another man and wife saying she is bruised.
Looks like husband paid her back by showing the world how she did it with Aseri.
Sorry just thinking?
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This deed of LT’s will not remain confined to Fiji. This is going down in world’s recorded history as the only female minister who so vigorously preached anti-porn that she ended up practicing it! Rugby 7s and Tourism isn’t the only way to put Fiji only the Global front. We just found out there’s this other way… as shameful and disgusting as it is!!
Wasn’t she the minister tasked with combating pornography…well she certainly had some skin in this challenge!
Was that video an advertisement for the Fat Buster [scam] pills. Yes on good evidence they don’t seem to have worked (the pills) – as she works her charm.