The news that the DPP Christopher Pryde‘s salary has again been suspended to try to force him to resign has been accompanied by equally disturbing news for any Fijian looking for justice to be done in cases of wrongdoing exposed by the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair.
The Police Commissioner, Rusiate Tudravu, has revealed that the results of the various police investigations into those adversely mentioned by Justice David Ashton-Lewis in his Report have started to be processed at the ODPP at Gunu House. But they are being handled by two people adversely mentioned themselves – the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, and the Deputy DPP, John Rabuku.
It is rather like inmates being put in charge of a prison or asylum or pedophiles being put in charge of a child care centre. Tikoisuva and Rabuku are patently unfit to be deciding whether those investigated by the police should be charged and put before the courts but the establishment continues to block the return of Christopher Pryde, the substantive DPP. So the pedos are in charge of the kindy whether we like it or not.
It is a scandal unprecedented in the history of the criminal justice system in Fiji and yet another example of how far the nation has fallen under the corrupt practices of the Coalition government and its hand-picked officers of state.
Here’s what the COI has said about Nancy Tikoisuva and John Rabuku, who are currently deciding whether prosecutions should flow from the police investigations that Justice Ashton-Lewis recommended.
And in the secret Chapter 7 of the COI Report, here’s the precise recommendation relating to John Rabuku, Nancy Tikoisuva’s deputy.
But if John Rabuku and Nancy Tikoisuva had a glaring conflict of interest in relation to Barbara Malimali, how much greater is that conflict of interest when they have been given the task of deciding whether to prosecute those government ministers and officers of state who have been the subject of the current police investigations.
The substantive DPP himself, Christopher Pryde, has outlined the sheer perversity of John Rabuku and Nancy Tikoisuva having anything at all to do with making decisions on any case arising from the COI.
QUOTE: “Having read the report of the Commission of Inquiry (the Report) into the circumstances surrounding recent decisions made by the JSC, I remain extremely concerned that investigations by the police will be forwarded to the ODPP and examined by the acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva and her deputy, John Rabuku. Both these people are subject to adverse findings in the Report and both clearly have conflicts of interest.
I can only speculate that the reason for the unconscionable delay in making any decision on my matter is a deliberate ploy to ensure that I remain outside Fiji and am unable to make any decisions on the results of police investigations stemming from the Report” UNQUOTE
Well now the “Pedophile President ” – Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu – has cut off Christopher Pryde’s salary as he continues to be kept at bay and the “kiddie fiddlers” are in charge of the kindergarten.
At the same time, the attempt to discredit the COI continues with extraordinary attacks on the integrity of Janet Mason – the Fiji-born, iTaukei-speaking Counsel Assisting the Inquiry.
Janet Mason has been suspended from practicing law for a month by the High Court in New Zealand for administrative oversights that have nothing to do with her work in Fiji and which she is appealing. But you would think from the way the mainstream media in Fiji is covering the case that she has been found guilty of child abuse.
FACT: The findings of the COI were made not by Janet Mason but by the Supreme Court Judge, Justice Ashton-Lewis. She was the Counsel Assisting the Judge, not the judge herself. So what has happened in New Zealand to her has no bearing whatsoever on the credibility of the COI report.
Once again, the mainstream media is Fiji is in a conspiracy with the establishment to discredit the COI Report and protect those adversely mentioned by the Judge’s findings.
Why else would local journalists fail to question the patent conflict of interest in Nancy Tikoisuva and John Rabuku deciding whether police investigations should result in prosecutions? Why else would the corrupt Fiji Times delete the aforementioned section of Christopher Pryde’s statement last week about that conflict of interest?
God help us, Fiji. Because the rule of law has completely broke down and the corruption of the nation’s offices of state is complete. And the complicity of the mainstream media is a separate scandal all on its own.
A shocking beat-up in today’s Fiji Times that has nothing to do with the Judge’s findings
UPDATE THURSDAY AM:
For the second day running, the corrupt Fiji Times gives front-page treatment to Janet Mason’s suspension in New Zealand, as if it has any bearing on Justice David Ashton-Lewis’s findings. But it is all part of a concerted campaign by the paper – assisted by its legal advisor, Richard Naidu – to discredit the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry.
Here’s the latest – a Page 1 banner headline pointing to a lengthy article on Page 2 that takes the story no further than information that was freely available yesterday.
It’s a sign of the depth of the corruption at Fiji’s traditional newspaper of record that this is the kind of treatment the Fiji Times gives the lawyer who assisted at the COI but it has run absolutely nothing about the COI’s findings against the President of the Fiji Law Society, Wylie Clarke.
Why? Because “Wylie Coyote” is a personal friend of Richard Naidu – the man who ultimately decides what goes in the Fiji Times – and they both played roles in the Barbara Malimali affair.
Richard Naidu intervened at FICAC to delay Francis Puleiwai from charging Biman Prasad – the Deputy Prime Minister and Naidu’s client and political ally – before Barbara Malimali was parachuted in to shut down the Prasad case altogether. And you’ve been able to read all about Wylie Clark’s role here on Grubsheet but not in the Fijian media and especially the Fiji Times.
Here’s the thing, Fiji. Consider the contrast between the Fiji Times coverage of Janet Mason for an administrative oversight that got her into trouble in New Zealand and its failure to give any coverage at all to the COI finding Wylie Clarke liable to the criminal offence of perverting the course of justice.
That’s the supposed new era of “media freedom” in Fiji and it is scandalous – so much so that Grubsheet will be campaigning at the next election for an incoming government to strip the Motibhai Patel family of Ba of its ownership of the Fiji Times.
As for Richard Naidu – the paper’s gatekeeper – and his friend, Wylie Clarke, they are already suffering a loss of reputation in the court of public opinion way beyond any damage the Fiji Times will be able to inflict on Janet Mason.
The Fijian people know that she was the Judge’s helper, and not the Judge herself. And being suspended for failing to fulfill some relatively minor administrative requirement in New Zealand pales into insignificance when Wylie Clarke and a conga line of others stand accused of perverting the course of justice in Fiji.
NOTE:
In yet another scandalous manipulation of the facts by the Fiji Times, the original reference was to Janet Mason being “medically unfit”, not unfit in any other way to carry out her duties.
Another nail in the coffin of the Motibhai Patels of Ba and their grubby little imitation of a once credible newspaper and their continuing betrayal of their readers and the national interest.
These pigs will do everything they can to keep Pryde away. The pedo President us acting on the instructions, not advice, of the JSC led by the sewage rat Temo. Anyone thinking that Rabuka has nothing to do with this is seriously deluded.
Anyone having faith in Tudravu is also retarded as he is a total f**kwit racist who has been placed in that post to carry out the work of his Master. Tudravu is all talk, but a total dickead out to take revenge on those behind his removal. Whilst Pryde may have good things to say about Tudravu, let’s not forget, it’s normal and common for these f**kheads to change allegiance and loyalty as the tide changes – just see those who betrayed Bainimarama.
For these kind of people, the only thing that matters is 3 claps of the sevusevu and money. There is no loyalty.
So, anyone who thought that there will be prosecutions, don’t hold your breath.
Another attempt to muddy the waters, these goons are cluching at straws in order to try and convince themselves, as no one else believes it, that they can now blame Janet Mason for all of the wrongdoing that they have inflicted on the Fijian people.
They are a disgrace to humankind and should be ashamed of themselves. Not worthy of a low paying job let alone an overpaid job supposedly running a country.
There will be a complete whitewash at Gunu house , the rich will get richer and more corrupt and the poor will get poorer unless the electorate decide it’s time for a change at the next elections .
Rabuka and the President are no longer running the show. If you observe carefully they have become mentally and physically feeble. They can barely walk or make decisions. The circus has new masters. The young thugs in every government department are in total control. There is fight for power at every turn by the itaukeis. The streets, homes and government are being run into their grounds. Alas viti is khalaas (finished).
The best way out was to appoint a team of former experienced prosecutors or investigators away from ODPP and FICAC to assess the evidence and advise the Commissioner of Police accordingly. The difficulty here is both prosecuting bodies are in conflict with the COI report and an independent establishment was necessary.
Plus what I am suggesting perhaps could not be constitutionally possible as both FICAC and ODPP exists through constitution and any decisions coming out from special set up could be subject to legal challenge.
Good job
Why waste tax payers money for being unproductive .
Every cent counts these days.
@Tomu, good smart point, put aside 2 million for the milamila pay-off.
Mr.Anonymous
Correct,it’s $2 million.
That money will stay in Fiji and straight away circulate into Fiji’s economy. Sitting in New Zealand and bank rolls for you. Oh wow,lucky.
Imagine 2 million dollars, that type of money goes into itaukei hands.
They hire a taxi to just go 100 meters.
Kua ni leqa!
No need to worry about one more legal challenge or another constitutional fook-up as not much has been done “constitutionally” up to now, so another tinny wenny jigabooboo would do no more harm than has already been done.
However, agreed that the $2m must be kept in the back pocket for hard times should milamila scratch through.
This is really sad and disappointing news to me as youth it pains and aches me to see my country in such people’s hand, who are leading everyone to darkness.
All the hard work and struggles done by our ancestors and previous generations seems wasted. I’m feeling helpless as i write this. Karma will not forgive them.
GD. You should read Stanley “i will only pretend to be a journalist when I want to push a govt agenda” Simpsons piece where he takes lots of not so subtle pot shots at Janet Mason whilst pretending to be impartial. The shy to be kaidia from savusavu is still smarting from the dressing down that Mason gave him when he made all sorts of unsubstantiated claims against her during the COI proceedings.
Obviously these media arseholes now have two reasons to support the govt..cos they are getting lots of tax payers money from biman and rabuka and because they have always supported anyone who was anti frank, aiyaz and FF. All this while Stanley and Mai tv owes tens of thousands of dollars to the givt for unpaid license fees going back quite a few years.
So biman instead of asking Stanley and Mai for what is owed to govt is instead paying Stanley 1.7 million dollars of taxpayers payers money. Everyone in the media knows this but no one will do a story about it. Cos they are bunch of incestuous bastards.
The COI report will soon be officially discredited and nothing will happen to anyone implicated in it. The two dogs at the dpp won’t recommend any charges against anyone and this too will become a forgotten chapter in our sorry country’s history.
Anyone who thinks rabuka isn’t behind anything that’s going on is a stupid git. The evil cock s**ker knows everything and instigated most of the hard whilst pretending to know nothing. The stupid believe him.
I know exactly what happened from the start and the mystery behind why the baku called for a coi in the first place. But that’s for another day. Just know that right now he is using all his goons to damage control a few things that got out of hand for him. We truly are an unlucky country.
CJ Temo, Acting DPP Nancy Tikoisuva, Deputy DPP Rabuku, and Acting FICAC Commissioner Lavi Roko Rokoita all must be stood down from their jobs if we are to expect fair decisions on all those being investigated as per the COI Report.
They have all become impediments to the Police Commissioner’s work. Both Tudravu and Pryde can then do their work transparently and unhindered.
PM and the President must act now to save the legal system.
Imagine the terror and fear in which the legal fraternity must be living in.
They are supposed to be the pinnacle of society. Unfortunately, in our beloved Fiji it seems this whole cohort of Society has gone to the dark side. No bravery, no courage, only cowardice in the face of evil criminality.
Imagine having to work in a situation where the head, the Boss, is a thug .
PAP had 3 main heads in its manifesto
1. Bring back the Chiefs – Build a House for them. Give back the main share of lease, royalty monies collected to them.
2. Qoliqoli Bill
3. Amend/Remove 2013 Constitution
To achieve removal, amendment of the Constitution has required PAP to fiddle with the legal system. To get the result they want, they must put, have their people in place. To remove them now would mean the end of the this whole process to deliver an election manifesto promise.
No doubt this course of action was planned out prior to the elections by the young Turks in the legal profession. Instead of thug oath breakers in balaclavas the oath taking girls and boys of the wigged fraternity have taken up the cudgel to implement Constitutional change.
The Military was torn apart, now the Justice system, FOR WHAT?
Constitutional change !
That is why the Ghai Constitution had a CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY !!!!! of 50 seats, that was REMOVED BY the MILITARY!!!
The Constitution provides for the Military to take care of the “well being” of Fiji and all Fijians. The Fijian people are certainly taking care you, to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
May I suggest that you are the solution to our present dilemma.
The IMPOSSIBILITY of amending the Constitution!!
The Military Council needs to take a course of action that is approved by the Constitution.
There is absolutely no doubt that this present situation justifies a course of action that allows for the Amendment of the Constitution, WITH YOUR OVERSIGHT!!! There should be no threat , or fear that past crimes be revisited.
The 50 seat Constitutional Assembly must be brought back.
The framers of the 2013 Constitution included this Assembly precisely because they knew that the Constitution must be an organic document that reflects the needs of society as time passes. Nobody can argue against this !
The fear of the twin pot dictators scuppered this critical tool for our future well being.
The Military needs to assert its duty bound Constitutional responsibility and save the countries Judicial system which is the bedrock of a NATION !
1. Find a spine and balls to ACT.’
2. Tell the President and PM to suspend all those implicated in the COI, this is an imperative.
3. Form a task force immediately to implement a strategy that causes the least amount of disruption to the administration of the nations governance.
4. Can be with the total cooperation of the President , PM and Parliament or not. To what degree depends on what degree do these players want to take it ? Resist and be gone or co-operate till the end of you Parliamentary terms, your choice.
5. Task force to determine how Military conducts its entry and control and to make law for the Parliament to pass, just as in the Constitution Section 121 requires Parliament to make law, to breath life into this section, just as life must be breathed into the section on Military having the responsibility for our Nations “well being”.
6. Constitute a 50 seat Constitutional Assembly, before holding the next elections. Its make up will no doubt provide a flurry of evil discourse, but ultimately one has to bend to the nature of our society . Is it evil or good ?
7. Referendums should be held at the same time as elections.
8. Want advice call me, or invite me to meet, I am only a 2 hour drive away.
BTW
There is a lot of crap being thrown at the COI – its Judge and helper.
Jeeez, Mr Richards and myself could have held this COI.
We can read and comprehend.
All we would do is what every judge and magistrate in the country does all day long, determine who is telling the truth and who is the bloody liar. To think, every time both sides swear an oath on their holy book and one side is a lying son of a gun.
All those witnesses swore to tell the truth and nothing but the truth.
We have all read the transcript, we have heard the witnesses and I judge that the Judge and helper did a good job, considering that the sound system seemed to be not the best .
It seems to me, with some lawyers, defending criminals every day blurs their honesty and integrity. At what point do they become so absorbed in their own arrogance and ego that they can no longer discern criminality, or if criminal, justify themselves with a smooth tongue of deceit that paints their delusions.
Oddly, I find myself seemingly finally agreeing with my fellow citizen from the north.
Or is my mind finally bending to Ian’s will. Or I need help.
Or I’m confused. Help me!
I know the feeling. While I haven’t been a supporter of the constituent assembly because I argued that our elected representatives in the parliament shouldn’t have to be second guessed by a second chamber, it’s infinitely preferable to the Great Council of Chiefs. Why? Because many of them would be elected and not owe their power and influence to hereditary privilege. In other words, more democratic.
I also agree with Ian about the need for the military to exercise its authority under the current constitution to ensure proper governance. Because he is right to say the wheels have fallen off the locomotive of state under this miserable lot.
While Ian and I have had our differences, we all recognise a patriot when we see one. And the fact that he takes the trouble to post these comments under his own name when the proverbial Blind Freddy knows that we are all yelling into a vacuum marks him out as a patriot. However much some of his opinions – such as the superiority of the Chinese and Russian systems of government to our own (one party state versus Westminster-style multiparty democracy) – are a bridge too far.
Vinaka Ian. Your education is only partially complete but you’ll get there! 🙂
Well said!
You have Fiji in your heart and see it being destroyed. We need more like you!
Rabuka and his Coalition have no shame. They don’t even seem to put as much effort into the “optics” of their corrupt and shambolic behaviour anymore. The plausible deniability is gradually slipping away, and the people that defend them are seeming less rational by the day.
It will take decades for Fiji to recover the lost ground from this government. We can only hope that the tourists keep coming, remittances and government aid keep flowing, and no one starts to see behind the bula smiles.
The cancer in the legal and judiciary continues to consume the legal systems of Fiji, aided and abetted by the CJ, the Chief Registrar and the cabal of tainted and incompetent appointees at the ODPP and FICAC.
In any other country those named in the COI would have been suspended, so the allegations could be investigated, but more importantly prevented those named for having any ability to interfere, subvert or tamper with investigations or the administration of justice.
Rabuka and the President are both spineless!
Their lack of action will see Fiji’s reputation and standing in the business, legal and diplomatic worlds fall to a point where the country is labelled a ‘Third World basket case’ or as some call it ‘A Banana Republic’.
Business and investment will decline, standards of living will also decline, and the average Fijian will be a whole lot worse off.
This is Fiji, where the rot and devilry is seen as wise and strategic.
But the fruits are damaging to the people.
They go and pray on Sundays but that same afternoon they could riling each other up from the behind.
Just look at the stats for HIV and NCDs. Since this bunch got into power sicknesses and diseases have gone through the roof.
The bible states that God lets calamities and sicknesses afflict a nation if evil people rule.
So is Pryde suspended again? On the advice of jsc? And again without pay?
This is unjust. I thought some court or tribunal already ruled in his favour. He won the case completely, didn’t he?
Also didn’t the fiji court already decide in some other previous case that it is unlawful to suspend like this without pay and without fairness?
If i remember correctly, Aiyaz got some people suspended without pay and they won their case too. And a court ruled some years back that the previous government and aiyaz breached the constitution by acting like this?
I saw in news that government offered to pay out malimali… so pay Pryde too or let him back. He won his case!
They’ve haven’t suspended him. They’ve suspended his pay.
Suspending him, which is what they are baulking at doing, would mean setting up another tribunal of judges to try him for misbehaviour. And they know this would fail. Again.
A lot more on this to come.
This is absolutely shocking stuff, fellow Fijians. What happened to ‘Fiji, the way the world should be’?
This is the new, ‘Fiji corrupt to the core’.
It’s always been a joke that Fiji could be like a Singapore. The first step includes taking all the rotten, corrupt bastards, women included, out the back and shooting them all!
Take them out the back, but before shooting them dead they must suffer special indignities…
No, wouldn’t need to stoop to the levels seen up at the barracks in the past, just shut the door, ‘shooters and the to be shot’ see what happens, would anyone get shot ? Likely not, Fiji style, some bullshit negotiations, and walk out free, free to do it all again another day – only in Fiji as they say !
In Singapore (& China), the bad buggers be shot dead, with a single bullet, then the families be asked to come in, take the bodies and pay for the bullet !
Suara! Hahaha! Gives a whole new meaning to the silver bullet.
Fiji is doomed to the fate that all those who scrambled on the anti Fiji First bandwagon and voted this cabalistic group in. Not so subtly we are now firmly under an ethnocracy of our own making. Hoping for justice and a nation fit for future generations is not happening without a complete reversal of leadership and governance. And that ain’t happening anytime soon. Our racially weighted electorate will be cementing this ethnocracy come 2026. Be afraid, be very afraid.
What a disgraceful, disgusting, filthy country Fiji has become and we live in.
Don’t want no bastards with heads in the sand saying “get out” if you don’t like it.
Yet unsurprisingly, such a knee-jerk reaction is to be expected as normal from the majority of the ignorant population.
Sadly, the majority of people fail to see what an utterly corrupt country Fiji has become in only 2 short years.
Social corruption. Domestic violence. Murder. Rape. Drugs.
Moral corruption. See above and below.
Media corruption – junkets, plane rides, $1.7m gifts, bidding for a corrupt government, slanted “reporting.”
Political corruption.
Foreign policy corruption.
Judicial corruption. (Say no more)
Legal society corruption.
Law enforcement corruption.
Reports about Valelevu police officers accused of kidnapping(!), assault, and extortion, demanding $15,000 from a businessman, is but one example. It is no secret that the police are drug runners themselves, users, and abettors and shield the dealers.
The inept police commissioner spouts the expected and empty inevitable usual empty words such as ‘taken to task’ ‘remove them from the force’ ‘let the law take its course’ and other meaningless jibberish and innuendo.
Government corruption. The PM speaks with a forked tongue-never able to hold a position or decision for long. He has no shame telling outright lies repeatedly.
Financial corruption. (See Baimaan)
Billionare tax breaks on the backs of the ordinary workers who see no trickle-down benefits.
NGO groups corruption – selective advocacy propping up government corruption, failing to speak against lopsided social justice issues created by the rich and powerful.
Worker-Union corruption – woeful disgraceful minimum wage further enriching the elite.
Disgracefully under paid tourism and service sector workers.
Religious corruption screaming hate, bigotry, and racism from the pulpit in coded double-speak.
If we think the issues above aren’t serious enough to warrant a change in leaders across the entire spectrum of society, factor in drugs, alcohol, violent crimes, a terrible public health system, personal safety and security in the streets, home invasions and high unemployment.
Granted the unemployment rate is partly due to living large on other people’s sweat and labor, relying on remittance, stealing, selling illicit drugs, prostitution, sex trafficking, HIV, and plain old failure to want work, (we import foreign labor), and other related ills in society.
All this while the so-called “leaders” flaunt gold watches in three-piece suits, shamelessly and ostentatiously displaying the fruits of bribery while 50+% live in poverty on noodles and tea.
We have pastors of distrust and disaster preying on the congregants’ ignorance and vulnerability to rape and molest their way to prison.
We have pastors coming out of prison being feted and garlanded as heroes, welcoming them into the same community they abused.
We have disgraceful domestic violence situations everywhere. This is borne out daily in the news reports and international organizations’ statistics that highlight this undeniable shame on our society.
We have disgraceful levels of child (sex) abuse fueled by the morally corrupt bible thumpers and morally corrupt community leaders and powerless pontificating chiefs looking out for themselves only.
What a disgraceful disgusting filthy and corrupt country Fiji has become. All the malaise with those 900, 000 people.
Fiji, the way the world must not be.
If Pryde comes to Fiji, he will turn from yellow to orange.
He’s white, not yellow. And we know that Fiji is no country for the white man. Not anymore.
But, yes, that’s why he’s not going to risk coming back when there’s a chance he’ll be arrested and kept from leaving the country. And who can blame him when three High Court judges have already exonerated him of wrongdoing from the same file these bastards have had all along.
It is a monumental personal injustice as well as an act of gross corruption on the part of Salesi Temo, Siromi Turaga and the rest of the said bastards. The Curse of Grubsheet is on all of them for degrading the criminal justice system and the rule of law.
To really prove there is no racism in Fiji is to have equal representation of other ethnic groups in the FMF. That will not totally solve the problem we have since 1987 but will be a good start. All other Government agencies and Departments to follow suit. It will be self policing with its check and balance. Caveat is if there is a will.