Fiji is such a broadminded place that no-one thinks anything of the Minister for iTaukei Affairs, who is in business with a convicted Chinese gangster, appearing in public with the chief who instigated the 2000 mutiny in which seven people died, the Education Minister who almost beat the Prime Minister’s daughter to death in a domestic violence attack and the multi-millionaire he cuckolded when he had brutal sex with the man’s wife – the notorious Queen of Tarts.
There they all were yesterday at the ground-breaking ceremony of a new complex in Tamavua that the Fiji Times specifically reports as being the beneficiary of government funding. What sort of funding and how much? Because the Fijian people are entitled to know, especially given the, er, colourful backgrounds of most of those identified in the story.
Lynda’s Tabuya’s husband, Rob Semaan, is building the new complex. Or at least the company he co-owns is. Pacific Building Solutions is Fiji’s biggest construction company and has already acquired a host of government contracts, including the construction of the new GCC complex at Nasese. How it has got this new contract hasn’t been explained. But if it is receiving any government funding at all, the Fijian people have a right to know.
Imagine. We have an iTaukei Affairs Minister in the form of Ifereimi Vasu who is figuratively in bed with a convicted Chinese drug and people trafficker, Jason Zhong, who has more recently been charged by FICAC with trying to bribe a government official. We have a Minister for Women and Children in the form of Lynda Tabuya who is literally in bed with Rob Semaan, the co-owner of Pacific Building Solutions. But Semaan is evidently so broadminded that he didn’t mind his wife also sharing a bed with the Education Minister in Room 233 of the Windsor Hotel last August while Aseri’s wife, Sainiana, slept in an adjacent room. Or maybe that is all water under the bridge when it comes to business and he doesn’t mind now sharing a platform with Aseri Radrodro.
How confident can we be that whatever public funds are going to these jokers is going to be properly spent and accounted for? Yeah, that’s what I thought too. We need a blowtorch on this entire cabal, not least because Rob Semaan and Lynda Tabuya fled America with unpaid debts of more than $F100-million from their collapsed fat-busting company – something they want everyone in Fiji to forget but is inevitably going to hound them from hereon in.
They have both tried to reinvent themselves – Lynda in politics and Rob in the construction business. But it is the conflicts of interest of the power couple and those around them that ought to be flashing warning signals when it comes to proper transparency and accountability. Is there genuine dirt beneath that ground-breaking ceremony yesterday? Who knows? But given the history of most of those involved, can we really be confident that all is above board?
How much public money is involved and how has it been allocated? Explanations please.
Rob Semaan and Lynda Tabuya’s colourful business background in the US.
Two men (second left and far right) with blood on their hands – The Education Minister, Aseri Radrodro, who beat his former wife, the PM’s daughter, to within an inch of her life and anally raped her. And the Qaranivalu and high chief of Naitasiri, Ratu Inoke Takiveikata, who instigated the 2000 mutiny in the RFMF that claimed the lives of three loyalist soldiers and four rebels who were subsequently beaten to death.
The fact that these two men are still accepted in polite society in Fiji demonstrates the woefully low standards of public conduct foisted on us by the Coalition government. Small wonder that our young people are displaying the same poor standards of behaviour when individuals like these – along with Aseri Radrodro’s sexual play thing, Lynda Tabuya, the Minister for Bonking and Weed – are their role models.
The kere kere system is far more revered amongst indigenous Fijians than any attempts to avoid or manage conflicts of interest. The Coalition government doesn’t even attempt to rise above nepotism, or even pretend to! Productivity and economic growth (not to mention international trust) will be held back in Fiji so long as the kere kere system prevails.
This is Fiji and everything is all so f*cking f*cked up! This being the normal state of affairs!
Like I have said many times before, the iTaukei are a special type of people found no where else in the world. They do everything the right and the proper way.
They have the vanua, the mana and most importnatly God on their side. No other people or peoples have this going for them.
That is why the country is where it is.
A convicted criminal who is not only responsible for removing an elected government and having been responsible for the killing of many soldiers and having served 20 years in prison is now taking centre stage.
He has paid his dues and is now engaged in finishing unfinished business.
Welcome to Fiji, it is a very special place, under the watchful eyes of God. We now just not sure which one for the time being.
Talking about fixing things the iTaukei way, there is a report in Fijivillage of a young lady who has been missing since 2019. That is five years and nothing seems to have been done. She went missing after some disagreement with the mother in law. A strange way and reason to disappear indeed. I hope it is not a case of this missing person being resolved the iTaukei way- that is, traditional laws apply and the vulagi laws should stay out of it. I feel for this lady and I hope justice isn’t being denied to her due to “iTaukei traditions”.
There seems to be a lot of pretend people practicing vulagi Christianity but only when it suits the purpose. What have the police done in the last five years?
It is like the stoning by RKS students of Lalean Memirial students is being resolved the traditional way. Does that mean the person(s) injured in the stoning will just have to grin and wear it? I mean the minister and all those in the photos have done an excellent job and seem very proud. Isn’t the Fijian way of fixng things the best!
And then they all wonder why the country is where it is – a beggar state. And the PM and ministers go around the world very begging and very proudly so.
I mean this is all the chiefs are good at. Ground breaking ceremonies, building buildings which will take forever to repay the loans by the ordinary itaukeis. They most likely will never see a dime from all these investments. Then free funding is provided and still nothing works. And every day in the papers sad stories are printed of how the itaukei are suffering, suffering and suffering. No other race seems to matter. It’s just them. I give a pineapiu award to all the journalists and a kokonut to the elite.
People were very worried about ASK and Bai.
Tabuya is really milking it in every way.
Where is the Naita crowd?
Blind and mute now.
What hope is there when conflicts of interest abound? It’s scarcely believable but it seems from the reporting here and on Fiji Leaks that the conflicts started right from the off, promulgated (shall we say) by the Fiscal Review Committee who advised the collision government.
All because of Skumbag Baiman Prasad
Have you changed your tune or are you being scarcastic?
Biman: I will never form a government with a coup leader.
This photo: Coup leader, abuser, prisoner.
We have such a wonderful clowntree.
Fraudulent people just everywhere.
It’s reached such a level that all those who were barking for good practice are slowing going quiet. The change they wanted.
Isn’t it funny that Aseri was talking about safety and non violence to the students.
I wonder how these youth look at these Ministers and the PM and think who put these people here to be the role models against violence! lol.
We have done our youth and this country such a great shame. Men of violence and womanisers are taking leadership positions. No wonder the matanigasau is rolled on repeat. Oh the irony of it all in Viti.
A country of God, violent leaders, youth running wild, drug fuelled economy. One would think we in Mexico somewhere.
Then there is Tabuya and her men. What on earth. I heard that the hubby’s company was recently taken to court by a client in Taveuni. Shows some serious cowboy builders in making. The client won his case. There you go. Scamming in the blood for these lot.
There is one thing the i taukei, the kai loma, the Hindustan, the Rotuman, and every other race residing in Fiji, must do. Vote these guys out at the voting booth.
They have lost all sense of morality and basic commonsense. Fiji Fijians, we must wake up to this nonsense. Yes, we have a great culture, but do not let it cloud or obstruct our vision to see what this good for nothing coalition is doing to our beloved country. Rise Up Fiji! Stop the rot!
Chiefs such as the Qaranivalu will remain important in Fiji’s development. To get more than 60% approval of landowners to grant leases for their land to be developed, the chiefs still play a crucial role in getting the necessary approval over the line.
Rt Takiveikata here was instrumental in getting 11acres to be open for commercial development. With Fiji’s landownership structure, these chiefs are still needed. When they lose their mana and respect, then the land will remain idle until the clans can get their acts together. The lands are owned by clans and tribes not by individuals. So thank you Ratu. We need more chiefs like you to ask their clans and tribes to let us develop it for you.