Only in Fiji would the Prime Minister embark on an overseas tour leaving the nation in the hands of one of his deputies who is being investigated by FICAC and is facing the prospect of years behind bars.
Two of his fellow MPs have testified on oath that Manoa Kamikamica offered to use his friendship with the sacked FICAC Commissioner, Barbara Malimali, to block a corruption investigation into one of them.
It is said to be the most straightforward of the cases arising from the Supreme Court Commission of Inquiry into the Malimali affair – two MPs swearing on the Bible that Kamikamica engaged in a act of grave criminality. So far FICAC has seized his phone as part of its ongoing investigation.
Yet not only has the Deputy Prime Minister not been stood aside while that investigation proceeds, he is now running the country while Sitiveni Rabuka is away in India.
Visitors to Fiji from Australia and New Zealand would be startled to know that their Pacific playground is in the hands of an alleged crook. But they won’t be reading it in the local media, which continues to avoid putting Kamikamica under the kind of scrutiny that would be routine in any properly functioning democracy.
We are seeing someone under an active corruption investigation presiding over all sorts of official gatherings and even being feted as chief guest at the cadet passing out parade at Lelean Memorial School. Do the students there know that the avuncular politician being paraded before them as a role model is currently before the corruption watchdog?
It is not as if the FICAC interference allegation is the only question mark over Manoa Kamikamica’s character. There are other allegations of shady conduct – so glaring, in fact, that Sitiveni Rabuka regarded him as one of the biggest crocodiles needing to be publicly identified when he commissioned Justice David Ashton-Lewis to carry out his COI. Yet now the Snake leaves the Crocodile in charge of Fiji. Sweet, eh?
Here’s the COI finding against Manoa Kamikamica in the section of its Report listing “Possible Offences”.
And here are all the details that you won’t have seen in the corrupt Fijian media but that have been covered at length in these columns.
The country isn’t in a safe pair of hands while Sitiveni Rabuka enjoys the hospitality of Narendra Modi and the rest of his Indian hosts. In a sign of just how far Fiji has fallen under the corrupt Coalition government, the country has been left in the hands of an alleged crook – someone who can now use his powers as Acting Prime Minister to lean on FICAC just as Francis Puleiwai alleges he has done before.
Read on. Genuinely gob-smacking.
Cum on Davis, give Manoa a break, first you call his mate Pramesh Sharma a pussy grabber and now you are calling Manoa a crook – next you will call his wife Mata Hari – please stop speaking the truth.
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He went quiet on Walesi.
3 years and still waiting to find and know how much money has been laundered to NZ.
How would the little ones know that their role models are thieves, Eves and Ali babas. Practically 80% of children up to year 13 can barely read, teachers standards are not up to par and that is why the politicians can do whatever they want. Keep the serfs uneducated, unemployed and ill informed so you can rule over them forever and ever. Amen.
The wannabe PM is acting PM. There is no prouder moment than to have serious allegations hanging over one’s head, be a crook, be convicted, fiddle your trust account, be incompetent and hold high office in in your own land – as long as you are iTaukei. These characteristics make ideal qualifications to hold high office.
Other countries should learn from Fiji.
If you are a vulagi and
are unhappy with the i’taukei being in the majority in the land of their ancestors and have the numbers to govern, then you are free to migrate.
We will all stand at shoreline and sing “Isa, isa vulagi lasa dina”
Once all the vulagis are gone then turn to the weakest standing next to you in the chorus make a lovu and have a meke over the burning pit. Once every week repeat the event.
@Fiji for Fijians, with people like you all over Fiji, why do you complain about things then? Afraid of the vulagi? Lamusona.
In a real sense we are all vulagis on this earth.
We are born naked and when we die, as we all will one die, we take nothing with us.
You don’t own the land; you merely take care of it for the next generation.
Numbers to govern? That is debatable.
Bainimarama got 136,829 votes, Rabuka got 77748 votes. Fiji First got 26 seats, PAP got 5 seats less.
Who got the mandate?
Rabuka, the worst prime minister ever for Fiji, clings to office by making every PAP, Sodelpa and NFP parliamentarian, either a minister or an assistant minister and must be the only country in the world to have 3 Deputy Prime ministers.. If that wasn’t enough, he hijacked 9 FF parliamentarians and made most of them ministers and assistant ministers. Taxpayer money used to fund these bloated ministry, could be better used for ordinary people.
Scandal, after scandal, after scandal. Lynda and Aseri, Vasu and the ex-jailbird, Nancy and Rabuku, Temo and Malimali etc etc.
Even i’taukeis are migrating.
The nine Fiji First MPs deserted a sinking ship and crossed over on their own accord. There was no ‘hijack’.
Stop smoking that stuff bro, its messing with your brain.
Rats desert a sinking ship.
Naivalurua with 1221 votes, Naupoto with 830 votes and Bulitavu with 631 votes only made into Parliament given the massive popularity of Frank Bainimarama who polled 136,829 votes. People like Chaudhary and Narube polled much better, but still could not make it.
These 3 are now cabinet ministers, drawing a ministerial salary, official car, and all the perks of the office, paid for by the taxpayer. What work do they do all day?
Were the 9 enticed to throw their support to PAP to get to the required 75% needed to change the constitution?
I think so.
Fiji for the Fijians
You are a low life racist bigot. I am sure you went to church today pretending to be a Christian.
You are an embarrassment to us iTaukei.
Educate yourself on the meaning of humanity and learn the real value of Christianity and stop listening to the racist politicians. Most of these people just use race to get into parliament to fill their pockets. They dont really care about you.
Fiji for Fijians you are a dinwit and an unevolved primate with limited mental and intellectual capacity just like the current corrupt government. Once all vulagis leave, not only will you lot have to eat each other but you will also have to go back to live in the caves.
Don’t forget you lot were not the first inhabitants of Fiji. Your ancestors killed and consumed the original inhabitants who probably could not fight back.
And remember also, history also shows how weak your ancestors were- they ceded Fiji to Britain because they couldn’t fight the Tongans.
Nothing much has changed over time. You guys were losers back then, live off the vulagis hardwork, and remain unevolved primates till now Enjoy the stolen land and free food.
And not forgeting the DInau which the Brits had to pay for on your behalf. And the Dinau continues to date.
If all vulagis migrate than who your type will rob . Maybe rob your own people to survive
So true, Fijian blood. And PM and his Coalition are trying their best to increase the Taukei’s share of registered and active businesses from under 5% of the total. A tall order given that effort has been ongoing since, not 1987, but 1970.
Q: So who will the Government/FRCA turn to for tax revenue if the 95% vulagi corporate taxpayers leave the country?
A: Fiji will turn to China and India, perhaps Russia too, thus more vulagi inflows.
Think again then, Fiji for the Fijians.
The media are quiet because they have been bought by this government. I understand that Stanley Simpson is on first name basis with Manoa ‘Fatboy’ Kamikamica, and word in the business sector is that his company, MaiTV, received a hefty government grant due to his political connections.
Finance Minister, Baiman Prasad is using taxpayers money like it’s his father‘s money – baap ke paisa – in order to curry favor with the media.
Baiman has been shamelessly greasing Rabuka’s balls but he keeps getting bypassed for the acting Prime Minister position whenever Rolex Rabuka is out of the country.
The NFP is the second largest party in the coalition government but Baiman is such a weak and pathetic leader that he has been designated junior deputy Prime Minister, last in the line behind Kamikamica and Gavoka, because no one respects a weakling traitor who sold out his own people.
This is Fiji, the gangsters paradise. Rabuka has revived the banana republic.
The population is sick, fat apathetic and ignorant so it’s quite likely that Manoa, Baiman, Rabuka and all other crooked politicians will get away scot free.
That’s the reality of the situation, as that other crook Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum liked to say.
Gangster Paradise. What is this obsession with ASK? It’s like some of you fellahs cannot call out the follies of the current government without mentioning ASK.
Contrary to the many claims made by people like goofy Manoa and others and even people like you, having worked for and with him, we know that ASK was straight as a bat as far as integrity and incorruptability was and is concerned.
Manoa at one stage claimed that ASK had over 30 million dollars in a Singaporean bank! Some claimed JVB and ASK had hundreds of millions in Swiss banks. How f ing stupid is that? ASK’s finances are well known like his medical reports and everyone including our mates at CID, who are not the model of privacy know that this guy ain’t no crook or has stacked up millions.
By the way none of charges they have laid against him, which are what we call bullshitty charges and would have ever been laid if Christopher Pryde came to Fiji and took his job, have anything on him receiving any kind of material benefit.
We think that the fact you bring his name up is the latent racism and religious bigotry that saddles nearly every bloody strata now in Fiji and the fear of those, like ASK, who rise above mediocrity and call out the bullshit for what it is, without fear or favour and speak or spoke on areas that used to be the reserved territory or domain of only a few or specified ethnic groups. We really enjoyed working with him. Don’t get us started on the current lot.
Gangster Paradise don’t be going gangster on the wrong gang!
That’s right, WTF – Welcome to Fiji
But “Fiji for the Fijians”, it is not just the vulagis who should end their exploitation and profit from emigration. The corrupt Elite iTaukei also impoverish their own kai via a feudal system, “at the bottom, peasants or serfs work the land” without any political power and minimal or no wages. I do wish these could easily emigrate, make successful happy productive lives overseas, and leave the elite iTaukei to suffer the consequence of having no slaves.
A den of thieves.
– Rabuka pillaged and used the NBF as his personal piggy bank. Never brought to account.
– Baiman Prasad gifted his wife over a million dollars disguised as education grants. Victor has a well documented set of articles on Baimans money laundering activities.
– Maona Kamikamicas slogan of “Ill work harder if you pay me” also sees him being compared to Asif Ali Zardari (AKA Mr ten percent and husband of late Benazir Bhutto) as there are enough people to confirm his shady dealings.
People forget Fiji is a free country now. So the politicians, the media, people in the judiciary, and people holding high office are now free to do as they please. This is the Fijian understanding of freedom. Just like verses of the Bible, Fijians know the right way to interpret laws. Ethics and integrity are out the window. Primitive thinking is appropriate in their own land. Vulagi laws are an inconvenience.
Manoa for PM. He is the GoAT fat Boy aka slippery Sweetums. He can turn things around and get Fiji to dizzy heights with the billions coming in soon on the sonalevu investment pipeline. There is no investigation no charges will be laid. All part of a charade worthy of old Suva playhouse pantomimes. Rambukaji meanwhile plays vulagi with Mod Modi and all is well in the gangsters paradise. And so say all of us. For the Jolly Good MK Gandoo.