The deluded duo of Barbara Malimali and Tanya Waqanika just can’t keep their big mouths shut as the Judicial Services Commission convenes to receive submissions from them and from the Prime Minister about whether it ought to exercise its claimed right to reappoint Malimali as FICAC Commissioner. (see below)
In any other country, the answer to that would be a resounding “no”. But not in Rabuka’s Fiji, where the fact that one of our smallest neighbours, Tuvalu, has ruled that Malimali’s professional misconduct makes her unfit to even practice there as a lawyer makes her eminently qualified to head our corruption watchdog.
Now Tanya Waqanika’s perennial big mouth has earned her a reprimand from a magistrate in the case FICAC has brought against her for allegedly breaching the Political Parties Act. When Barbara is before the courts, Tanya represents her. When Tanya is before the courts, Barbara represents her. And it goes without saying that they always make their presence felt.
It’s an enduring double act that reportedly cost the taxpayer $160,000 when Tanya represented Barbie at the Ashton-Lewis Commission of Inquiry. And Tanya has since been trying to extract $2-million from the state if it wants Barbie to go away and drop her current legal proceedings to reverse her dismissal as FICAC head.
Both of them are insisting that now that Justice Dane Tuiqereqere has ruled that the Prime Minister wasn’t lawfully entitled to sack Barbie in the first place and that the JSC has the power to reinstate her that the JSC should quote: “put the car back on the road and everyone should stay in their own lanes” unquote. (That’s Tanya giving the wreck of Barbie’s career a fresh road-worthy certificate a few days back).
The problem is Barbie’s glaring unsuitability for the job – the multiple findings against her by the CoI that because the Fijian mainstream media studiously refuses to report them, Grubsheet again details below.
After no less than seven police investigations into the allegations against her, Barbie’s friend, the Acting DPP, Nancy Tikoisuva, has ruled that none of the cases warrant being prosecuted. Even hard evidence in document form that Barbara Malimali lied repeatedly in multiple sworn documents that she had never been found guilty of professional misconduct anywhere.
The whole thing is already a farce yet is being compounded by Barbara Malimali’s belligerence as she insists that the Prime Minister’s choice of Lavi Rokoika as FICAC Commissioner be ejected and she should be restored. That belligerence has evidently extended to her threatening privately that revenge will be visited on those who played any part in her removal in the first place. One source says she is actually boasting that when she is back at FICAC, she is going to launch formal proceedings against a range of individuals who had the temerity to take her on, including charges of treason.
This is on top of existing reports that “Bad Barbie” is filing police complaints against the Prime Minister and President for abuse of office. And as if to underline the notion that she is now on the warpath and it is pay-back time, she’s made a telling comment in relation to Waqanika’s case that is clearly designed to intimidate anyone who gets in her way: ” You punch me and I punch you”.
Yeah, we know, Barbie. (To be fair, it was a description of Tanya’s conduct that led to the prosecution, not a direct personal threat, but that’s the prevailing ethos of both of them). Thanks for confirming what we already know. And for giving the nation another lesson as to why you must never again be given a position of power at any level in public life that requires judgment, independence, a level head and a thick skin.
Making you the nation’s corruption watchdog is akin to allowing a rabid mutt to run wild – frothing at the mouth – in the kennels of a dog’s home. It must not be allowed to happen. And if the equally rabid Chief Justice, Salesi Temo, is reckless enough to insist on re-installing you as FICAC Commissioner, both of you deserve the “green dream” – to be put down, figuratively of course, because you have both forfeited your right to hold any position of public trust.
It is high time for the Prime Minister and President to man up and remove both of you – monstrous carbuncles on the face of a tottering state who should never have been put in positions of such power and responsibility in the first place.
UPDATE 1100 FIJI TIME WEDNESDAY:
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And just a reminder of Barbara Malimali’s qualifications for the FICAC job. From Chapter 7 of the CoI Report:
The Tuvalu letter. “Not a fit and proper person”:
But in Fiji…
Another sh*t show, where the the sh*t appears to be the star of the show. Welcome to Fiji where the rule of law means nothing if you are a President, Prime Minister, Chief Justice, ambulance chasing Lawyer, or really anybody that can lay claim to be related to any of the above.
This country has really gone to the dogs, and now they are running it.
Weilei Barbwire and her sidekick hippo the lack of intelligence never ceases to amaze me. It’s like watching an episode of dumb and dumber.
The Fiji politics quotes, memes and stories are never ending and the famous ones so far:
1. Malimali -” you punch me and I punch you”.
2. Tanya – “put the car back on the road”
3. Rabuka – “i am now aware”
4. Saneem- “glitch”
5. Kai – “the fact of the matter is…”
6. Kishore Kumar while blinking his eye full speed- “sa malo, eh”, “namasssssskaaaaaraaaaam”
7. Feroz Gulam Mohammed always while inside his car- “Bhula Binaka, Fiji”
8. Richard Naidu – “I have the means”.
9. One ordinary man complaining to Fiji Times this week about flood beside his house- ” Govt to fix this road because children will go to work on Monday.”
10. Also, Gavoka seems to have stopped blinking his eyes now and he seem to have given that job to kishore Kumar now.
11. Also, Gavoka was a bit unaware of a private airstrip in Nadi all these while.
12. Biman when informed of a “current”problem – “these are all caused by previous Govt’s 16 year dictatorship rule”.
13. Siromi Turaga to media interview recently not aware on the last day to hold elections.
14. Kamikamica was always saying something to the effect- “billion dollar investment here, billion dollar investment there”. Pie in the sky! Lol
PAP downfall on election day, based on on-the-ground feedback:
1. Rabuka accepting defeat re:Malimali Case non-appeal. Voters see him a weak leader leader now.
2. The failed FNU power grab exposes nepotism, Council’s FICAC complaint shows division in PAP. Voters will sway away to other parties.
3. COI Fallout and cover up. Voters no longer trust this regime. Lots of corruption exposed.
3. Rabuka not in control with constant statements saying “he is not aware”. Voters no longer confident in him.
4. Too many scandals, infighting, commissions, tribunals costing money. Voters have had enough.
5. Rabuka only supporting males and those from the North. Voters see him as biased.
6. Fear of EFL Tariff hike. Voters see this Govt not doing enough on this. Voters scared of cost of living going up.
It’s itaukei against itaukei now. Let them fight it out in the streets in courts, in koros, in schools, at bus stations and anywhere one can think of.
They will not change now. Everyone important is suing each other. Keni Dakuidreketi, Nata, FNU council, the villages wanting compensation. It will mot end. They have smelt free money and glue. We can only stand by and watch.
I like Barbara. She can punch, boob I mean bob and sway.
The numbnuts running this country and their band of baboons never cease to amaze us with their stupidity, incompetence, and their obvious lack of any intelligence.
It’s a circus! It’s like a TV serial where we await the next episode to see what other dumbf**k sh*t they get up to.
The struggle and tussle for individual power grab is not surprising. It’s inbuilt genetically into these natives. These imbeciles can’t get along – yet they claim to be reuniting the country and the different races.
Some of these primates obviously haven’t fully evolved into humans. They never will.
So, Malimali is very happy after JSC today. Looks like car will be back on the road soon.
Either that or she is getting her $2-million. If Temo is true to his word, a decision isn’t being announced till the end of March. But then the CJ’s word cannot be trusted at any level. Corrupt to the core.
Yes, fully agree, GD.