As Grubsheet predicted, Fiji is now getting a caning in the international media for its treatment of the suspended DPP – New Zealander Christopher Pryde – who is alleging a conspiracy to remove him as part of a wider agenda to remove expatriates from the pubic sector in Fiji.
And he clearly has a point, when we also know that the sacked Assistant DPP, Elizabeth Rice, claims she was specifically told by John Rabuku, who was Acting DPP at the time, that she was being removed because she was “white”.
The following Radio New Zealand story is highly damaging for the nation’s reputation and has the clear potential to deter outsiders from taking employment in Fiji, not only in the civil service and offices of state but in any sector where a contract dispute might end up in the courts.
There has still been no official reaction to Christopher Pryde’s explosive announcement on Wednesday that he is withdrawing from further participation in the judicial Tribunal hearing that is due to commence on Monday (Dec 2) into the allegations against him of misbehaviour, that he is now claiming have been contrived.
The DPP isn’t refusing to take part altogether. But he says he is simply unable to adequately defend himself against the charges after his salary was unlawfully suspended six months ago and he can no longer afford his local counsel – the respected British-trained Lautoka lawyer, Adish Narayan. He has blamed the Acting Chief Justice and head of the Judicial Services Commission, Salesi Temo, for cutting off his access to justice and says he will only take part in the process once his salary is restored and he can pay for his defence.
Will Monday’s hearing go ahead without him? It’s hard to see how it can with any credibility at all. Because without Christopher Pryde’s participation, the Tribunal will inevitably be regarded as a “kangaroo court” of a kind more suited to Joseph Stalin‘s Russia than Sitiveni Rabuka‘s Fiji. With of course, the added embarrassment that the Prime Minister himself has sided with the DPP by saying that he is entitled to continue to be paid.
As this story shows, the Coalition and its hand-picked Acting Chief Justice are suckers for punishment – prepared to drag Fiji’s reputation through the mud to support a position that is unlawful and demonstrably unconscionable in denying natural justice to a foreigner at the pinnacle of the offices of state.
Meanwhile, got it in one in today’s Fiji Times…
And from Saturday’s Fiji Times...
Plus a novel proposal from the prolific Rajend Naidu in the Fiji Sun to break the impasse.
COMING SOON…CHAOS IN THE ODPP.
Christopher Pryde’s removal was supposed to herald a new era in which iTaukei were promoted to the top jobs in the nation’s prosecution service.
It has been a disaster.
iTaukeis are best at running their own affairs. It is just that vulagis and vulagi things always seem to be getting in the way. Including a vulagi religion or religions depending on whether it is Christianity or Judaism, because there seems to be some confusion and uncertainy exactly which religion they should follow or whether they are Israelites or Christians. But one thing is unquestionable, they are God’s gift to the world.
These vulagi laws are a pain in the arse, in my opinion. How the fcuk do we get rid of that?
That is the main cause of all of Fiji’s problems – just ask the Acting CJ and John Rabuku and their ilk, including the PM and the GCC. “The law is an ass” – one would think the iTaukei came up wth that saying!
If the Fiji Government is purportedly removing foreigners from Government service because they are ‘white’, I note that the government has also terminated the services of Sri Lankans and Paki’s who were hired by the FijiFirst government. But no howls of disapproval from the Fifth columnists. Is it because they were not ‘white’?
It is a direct quote in one particular instance – Elizabeth Rice’s account of what John Rabuku said to her that he has not denied. Trust you to try to extrapolate it into something wider. No banana.
Bhaiya, they are removing the descendants of girmityas from positions as well. They have been here for more than 150 years. They know no other country. They are not temporary residents but are made to feel so. The whites, Pakis, Sri Lankans are recent imports. That does not make it right.
The thing is they want exclusively iTaukei everywhere and they want all others to be grateful that they have allowed them to stay. They are definately not happy if vulagi, recent or otherwise, are appointed to any position that matters. They want the vulagi to be grateful they are allowed in because this is not anyone’s country except for the iTaukei. Just ask the PM and the GCC and the iTaukei.
Everyone else should be appreciative and just pay money to the iTaukei to breathe the Fijian fresh air. It is not free.
Taukei Power, please take your medication, lie down for an hour then return to your keyboard, You are clearly hyper ventilating again and it’s time to calm down please and come up with more sensible comments and analysis befitting of a civilised online community.
I find the comments of iTaukei Power very sensible and not far from the truth. The qoliqoli bill has the potential to ask the vulagi payment to breath fresh Fijian air apart from walking on their land and swimming or fishing in the sea. There are some extremist dickheads in the GCC.
And aren’t vulagi being slowly displaced from every position, or are they just Muslims, so that is alright then?
Perhaps Julius Caesar should make full disclosure and tell us he is in full agreement with what is happening in Fiji with a useless idiot from 37 years ago in charge.
It is apparent the international media are beginning to see Fiji descend into North Korean style rule. The only difference is that Fiji has not yet started killing people it doesn’t like and instead, creates false charges against them and either jails them or destroys their reputations.
Every opportunity must be used to expose this corrupt government being run by very racially biased people.
North Korea style rule!
Geez, what you smoking bro?
I just like to see Fiji descent into destruction. What I want to know is how much worse will Fiji get? Do the clowns truly think that they can remove Christopher and replace him with an incompetent Native Fijian?
We could have appointed an incompetent and uncircumcised kai India vulagi instead!
What a missed opportunity to even the score!