There is a stench of racism and lawlessness around the newly-created Minister for Environment and Climate, Mosese Bulitavu – who has flounced from party to party like the political whore that he is – as he sides with the notorious ODPP party animals, John Rabuku and Nancy Tikoisuva, against the newly reinstated DPP, Christopher Pryde.
The intervention of a government minister in the due process of the Constitution being upheld after Christopher Pryde was exonerated by three High Court judges of misbehaviour is extraordinary. Bulitavu is effectively suggesting that the law be ignored so that his favoured team at the ODPP – the Drunken Duo – stays in place and Christopher Pryde’s imminent return is thwarted. And all because he appears to have a personal grudge against the DPP.
We now have a situation in Fiji where an elected politician who has no business to do so feels entitled to weigh in on behalf of two individuals who have been stood aside as the DPP resumes his lawful position as head of the state’s prosecution service. Who the hell does Mosese Bulitavu think he is? Is he suggesting that his opinion counts for more than that of the judges who exonerated Christopher Pryde and the President who reinstated him? That his opinion counts for more than the nation’s Constitution?
This a direct assault on due process and the rule of law and if there is any integrity in this government, Bulitavu should be carpeted and sacked. Except there is no integrity in the Coalition and as the Prime Minister’s nephew, he can be expected to get special treatment because that is the iTaukei way.
Let’s see what Sitiveni Rabuka has to say, if anything, about his nephew’s outrageous conduct. But one of his newly-created ministers from the “Group of 9” has already gone rogue with an astonishing breach of the long-held convention that politicians butt out of the independent offices of state.
It isn’t just the grossly inappropriate nature of Mosese Bulitavu’s intervention. Is there any discipline at all in Sitiveni Rabuka’s cabinet? Or does every idiot like this monkey-faced clown have the right, whenever they like, to make a headline-grabbing public pronouncement, however inappropriate, about subjects outside their portfolio? It sure looks that way.
Are his ministers now beyond the Prime Minister’s control? No banana for getting that answer right. Because it’s been clear for some time that when it comes to maintaining a firm hand – whether it is Lynda Tabuya, Siromi Turaga and now his nephew – “Uncle Siti” has lost it.
Proper process and the integrity of the rule of law in Fiji hangs by a thread. And as Mosese Bulitavu has demonstrated, we are one step closer to anarchy with such a serious breakdown of cabinet discipline and all that entails for national stability and investor confidence.
The public crisis of confidence in the governance of the nation worsens by the day. And in the absence of any other mechanism to stop the rot, the 2026 election can’t come soon enough.
So Mo sides with John and Nancy. Of course he would. The same “no class” individual partying like there’s no tomorrow at the expense of the long-suffering Fijian taxpayer.
As far as Mosese Bulitavu is concerned, it doesn’t matter what the law or the President of the Republic says.
It is an outrageous assault on the authority of the courts, the President and the rule of law in Fiji. And Mosese Bulitavu must be sacked.
He is also someone with no self-awareness, let alone shame. Because when he was trying to get a seat for the FijiFirst Party in parliament, he was all over Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum like a monkey on heat.
He came into the parliament on Frank Bainimarama’s coat-tails and wouldn’t be there now if it wasn’t for Frank and Aiyaz. Does he honestly think that the Fijian people are so stupid that they would forget all of this as he sticks the knife into those who made him what he is?
The lowest of the low and a man totally bereft of principle. The Judas Iscariot of Fijian politics.
POSTSCRIPT:
Today’s Fiji Sun front page as Group of 16 member Jone Usamate totes up the new cabinet of which Mosese Bulitavu is now a member and pronounces it “the Pacific’s worst joke”.
He is the nephew of Sitiveni Rabuka. So that pretty much sums it all up.
Another useless runt who is on the taxpayer’s teets.
Effen loser that he is.
Heathcliffe spelt runt wrong
Rabuka is buying the 75% majority that he needs in Parliament in order to change the constitution. The power struggle is truly at the forefront and he knows the enemies within PAP that are against him and this ensures he solidifies his position and is able to achieve his sinister divisive and racist agendas.
If these corrupt thugs are not stopped soon, Fiji is destined to become one of the most rogue states in the world.
@ Freedom Fighter
In the current circumstances, how else can Rabuka obtain the required 75% majority in Parliament?
That is the problem when you make it virtually impossible to change the Constitution.
You force people to resort to resort to devious means (within the law) to reach the required conditions for change.
@ Uluiqalau. It is possible if there is respect, unity and that the objective is for the common good. For this, the unity for the numbers, the endorsement must be from the leaders of the Vanua, in unity to serve the Itaukei and protect the vulagi.
The FF government was dismissive of the ‘power’ that the leaders wield nor did it fully commit to establishing for the Itaukei, knowledge that their security in their own land is guaranteed, and, that they commit to sharing Fiji with the vulagi.
Surely you don’t want to invite your readers to familiarise themselves with yet another of Pryde’s failures as DPP by giving prominence to the legitimate complaints of Mosese Bulivavu??
Poke this ants’ nest and we find: Yet another Pryde/ODPP Nolle Prosequi. Yet another regime opponent targeted. Yet another nonsense charge of ‘sedition’ – allegations of spray painting rude words on bus stops that hurt Bainimarama’s feelings. Yet another prosecution of sedition by a DPP serving a military regime that only came into being by itself committing treason:
– Charged in 2011
– sent to trial in May 2017 in the Magistrates’ Court
– convicted in March 2018
– Freed by the High Court on appeal ‘due to a grave miscarriage’ [Fiji Times]
– Following which the DPP’s office admitted in writing afterwards ‘the evidence no longer met the evidential threshold required to take the matter to court for retrial’
Unlike the usual Pryde Nolle Prosequis, which would flame out on the eve of going to trial, this was particularly egregious. The evidence that the High Court subsequently shredded on appeal resulted in Bulitavu [and Jagath Karunaratne] spending four months in jail.
[The High Court judgement criticised magistrate Deepika Prakash. There is a resident magistrate Deepika Prakash in the three-person Tuilevuka Tribunal. Bulitavu’s freedom was secured by Barbara Malimali btw.]
Bulitavu is very much an acquired taste.
And whether he’s the PM’s nephew or not, in Rabuka’s Fiji he and fellow citizens have agency. What he said was wholly proportionate.
Bulitavu’s comments were mostly directed at ASK who Qorvis served so faithfully for so many years. His most pointed comment was to ask Pryde rhetorically: ‘“Why did you allow my case to continue Mr Pryde if you knew there was no evidence?”’
In the circumstances, as someone who served four months in jail and was tied up for over eight years in what was a nonsense prosecution, Pryde got off lightly.
Oh, and one final point. Please don’t pretend the Tuilevuka Tribunal gave a ringing endorsement of Pryde. He was criticised for his ‘extensive discussion’ with ASK which ‘violated [the] principle’ that officers ‘avoid outside activity that could reasonably be perceived as a conflict of interest’. But the Tribunal said this, in and of itself, did not amount to misconduct as defined.
In addition, the Tribunal roundly criticised Pryde for calling for a stay on proceedings ‘on account of his alleged inability to afford a Rolls Royce representation’.
And who can forget the Tribunal’s lament that ‘the media would report comments from Mr Pryde which appear to scandalise the Tribunal and undermine public confidence … the media would, on a daily basis, publish Mr Pryde’s views on evidence given while the hearing was on foot. The Tribunal denounces this disrespectful and contemptuous conduct on his part.
‘The issues were sub-juice. Mr Pryde should have known better!’
Charlie Charters, why am I not surprised that someone else with a grudge against Christopher Pryde for having done his job emerges from the wintry plains of Yorkshire to join Mosese Bulitavu in his inexcusable attempt to derail the rule of law.
You have never forgiven him for prosecuting your mother-in-law, the late Mere Samisoni, after a car registered in her name was lent to fellow indigenous nationalists intent on burning down Suva. Evidence of petrol bombs was found in that car.
The fact that a nolle prosqui was eventually filed in the case is neither here nor there. There was sufficient evidence against your mother-in-law to lay charges on the traditional basis that there was a reasonable chance of securing a conviction and that the prosecution was in the public interest.
This campaign of degradation against the DPP that you have waged for a decade – which you have extended to me because I have dared to stand up for due process and the rule of law – is inexcusable. And it says a great deal more about you than it says about Christopher Pryde or me.
He was doing his job when he prosecuted your mother-in-law. I was doing mine working for Qorvis in Fiji for a government on which I eventually turned and carry a great deal of responsibility for having removed.
I wouldn’t mind in the least if your criticism was based on solid grounds. But yours is a personal vendetta that is rooted in resentment, frustration and an inability to see that your mother-in-law’s conduct was entirely self-inflicted.
By supporting Mosese Bulitavu in trying to derail Christopher Pryde’s return, you too are on the wrong side of the law. Instead of supporting due process and the constitutional procedures laid down, you are intent on subverting them. Which makes you someone who is also supporting lawlessness and is blinded by personal prejudice from what is right and wrong.
In the case of Bulitavu in the courts, the fact is that he was convicted in a magistrate’s court and sentenced to two years in prison. The magistrate convicted on the basis of the evidence presented by the prosecution. So whatever Christopher Pryde and his prosecution team put forward, it was accepted as proven beyond reasonable doubt.
That conviction was quashed on appeal and the matter was sent back down to the magistrate’s court for a retrial. Again, the fact that a nolle prosequi was eventually filed is neither here nor there. It doesn’t mean there was no evidence against Bulitavu, which is what he is claiming absurdly in his outburst against Christopher Pryde now. There WAS evidence and he was CONVICTED.
The DPP was doing his job, just as he was in your mother-in-law’s case. Mere Samisoni had admitted in her caution interview to lending her car to the bombers knowing what they intended to do with it. To have not prosecuted her under those circumstances based on the police docket sent to the ODPP would have been a gross dereliction of duty.
So get over your personal vendetta and get out of the way of due process and the rule of law being followed. And go back to your pint of Old Peculier and try to drown your self righteous, bigoted, anger in the national interest and the interests of all of us who unlike you, believe that the law should be followed in this instance without personal vendettas influencing the outcome.
PS. In relation to the Tribunal judges and their comments about the DPP, it was the Attorney General, Graham Leung, who said that Christopher Pryde had been “exonerated”. Are you saying that he too is wrong?
Charlie speaks banana same as tourism blinky pigeon speaks jambalaya.
Charlie Charters aka Pate S from the rugby watchdog account. Focus on your fake account posting Charlie. You surely have no clue about what’s right and wrong.
Perhaps Bulitavu feels that as a minister, he can do and say anything.
As a first-time accidential minister, he could have never thought he would become a minister, but thanks to Uncle Siti, who is obsessed with getting numbers on his side.
Rather than commenting on climate change and environment, he starts with putting his nose on a matter that is already in the stench.
Bulitavu can’t be trusted as he is for himself, and only for the radical itaukeis. Rabuka has no control over his ministers. Half the cabinet is under investigation, and it does matter to him. The country is suffering as never before.
Grab a popcorn, sit back and enjoy the journey of itaukei leaders destroying Fiji.
The game has just begun. Come the end of 2026…majority itaukei youth will be on the roads or in jail or so high on drugs that they cant recognize themselves.
Bimaan is making the money he needs to abandon ship and run off to Australia at first opportunity. The poor itaukei will continue to suffer under Rabuka who’s promised them the clouds but delivering only scams and shitty leadership.
But Native Fijians will still vote for Shityveni and PAP.
Of course they will vote for him. Its all part of ‘group dynamics’ in Fiji politics. When threatened, like-minded groups will stick together.
No self-awareness, no shame, bereft of principle. A great cultural fit for the Coalition.
As for discipline within Cabinet, he has the same level of that as the rest of the Coalition, the PM included.
Until Fiji decides that the culture of the Coalition isn’t a good fit for the people of Fiji, this will be Fiji.
Perfectly worded and expressed ! I couldn’t have said it any better myself.
Unfortunately, I have literally run out of words to express myself with the endless mess created by these questionable characters that make up the coalition Government.
The bottom line is that Rabuku and Bulitavu are cousins and close blood relatives. Welcome to the new Fiji!
The prime minister is waiting for the report on RFNS Puamau, he is waiting for a report on RFNS Timo, he is waiting for a report on Lynda Tabuya, he is waiting for someone to complain about Siromi, he is waiting for a report on the FICAC saga, he is waiting for a report on what is happening at the ODPP, he is waiting for a report from the GCC, he is waiting for a report from many other areas. He is a waity, waity prime minister and the people of Fiji are waity, waity people.
In fact, the people of Fiji are totally oblivious that they have been waiting for 38 years – the total proud idiots that they are.
In their wait, idiots like Bulitavu have wriggled they way through. Fiji no doubt has the highest proportion of idiots in the world on a per capita basis – and proudly so.
All in God’s time mate. Steady and sure.
Bulitavu belongs to the cassava patch. Can somebody please take him back to his farm.
One suspects Bulitavu prefers the animal farm. Or the barn.
No matter what the 2026 election result, the likelihood is that Fiji will be so impoverished that GOD (Government Of the Day) will be looking at all ways to bring money in from overseas, even to selling iTaukei land to rich overseas interests. They have already sold off Fiji’s fisheries to the extent that locals can barely catch fish to get the protein they need. Maybe this is why iTaukei brains are deteriorating.
Under Operation Kidacala or Operation Surprise, Rabuka was training 700 CRW soldiers in Namosi alone. No one knew this was happening except his close mates.
So, he we are. Operation Kidacala continues.
We are seeing a surge of right winged racists Fijians, and don’t be surprised that this includes Gujerati’s in the mix. We can already see how Div Damodar praises all things questionable (including the Tourism
Fiji debacle) and Patel at Fiji Times controls media narratives . These are the folks with money and power. They love praising Tabuya as a great leader.
We are just beginning the long journey ahead but this time many wise kaiviti are leaving the country. They have had enough. Under the Bainimarama government the wise lot got educated and are leaving. I hate to think what will happen to the health and other sectors in few more years. The doctors will stay as no one wants them overseas. The nurses and allied health workers have an opportunity and they are using it to their full
advantages already. Same for the teachers, accountants, and trade sector people.
Samoa as I hear is gearing up to keep more of their students home or send them to Australia or NZ. They have been aware of how Fiji has been using their students as free labour in their hospitals.
Time is changing and with a decline of trust in Fiji’s governance the other Pacific countries will be looking elsewhere for workforce education opportunities. This is where we were post 1987 and it is where we are again.
Err Graham. He is not a monkey. According to an article in last Saturday’s FT, he was an owl who turned into a rat hahaha.
A monkey first, racist baboon always, morphing to a racist rat. That’s evolution for you. lol!
A true Grasshopper Politician as they would say in downtown Honiara. A special species that’s growing in Fiji; female ones too like Lynda. Plus those selfish ex-FFP members who are now Ministers.
Are MPs trained on proper conduct, like not chipping in on independent state offices? Hopefully, UNDP and other development partners cover such topics when training newly elected MPs on governance? But self eventually overrides principles.
Wonder where Pio is nowadays, Graham?
Pio is trying to keep a straight face after being caught with his hands in the cookie jar.