February 2023From: Rajend Naidu <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 at 6:20 am Subject: Pathetic attacks To: Letters <[email protected]> My fellow Sydneysider Nadia Naaz, a person with great insight on Fiji politics, says “ Opposition members attacking the Coalition Government, which has been in office for just two months, is the lowest of the lows Fiji’s Parliament has ever heard “ ( FT 20/2 ). I agree. These same Fiji First members mounting their pathetic, pre-mature attacks on the new government were quiet as a church mouse when their two men government was in power and despite all the rot that was happening as Nadia points out. I’ll be frank I find it very hard to respect parliamentarians like that. Rajend Naidu Sydney. Speaker Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu
Matter of Privilege I received a notification on Monday afternoon from the Minister for Home Affairs and Immigration the Hon. Pio Tikoduadua raising a matter of privilege pursuant to Standing Order 134. The matter of privilege is against the response to His Excellency’s Address by the Leader of the Opposition the Hon. Josaia Bainimarama on Monday, 13 February 2023. In accordance with Standing Order 134 clause (2), the Hon.Tikoduadua has in his notification outlined the facts and the resulting grounds on which the Hon. Tikoduadua believes that there has been a breach of privilege. The facts and the grounds notified by the Hon. Tikoduadua are as follows – “that on the morning of 13th February, 2023 during the debate on the motion to thank His Excellency the President for his most gracious speech, the Hon. Josaia Bainimarama uttered words that are “denigrating and humiliating to the Head of State His Excellency the President also as Commander in Chief, while appealing “to the rank and file in the RFMF” which in the view of the Hon. Tikoduadua are highly seditious and disrespectful while dishonouring the dignity and bringing Parliament into disrepute, which are contravention of Standing Order 62 clauses (3) and (4). I have now had the opportunity to review the uncorrected Hansard report for Monday, 13 February 2023, I have considered the matter raised by the Hon. Tikoduadua and decided as follows – Privilege is accorded to everyone in this House as a matter of right. Standing Order 133, which states that – “Every Member, and any other person speaking in Parliament, has – Freedom of speech and debate in Parliament, subject to these Standing Orders.” Therefore, any Member can say whatever they want in this House but what you say in Parliament is subject to the Standing Orders. The dignity and respect of this House must at all times be upheld. In this respect, Standing Order 62 clause (3) states – “The conduct of members, the President, the Chief Justice (performing the functions of the office of President under section 88 of the Constitution), members of the judiciary, or other persons acting in a judicial capacity must not be raised, except on a motion with notice introduced with the Speaker’s permission. In any other situation, reference to the conduct of any of these individuals is out of order.” Clause (4) states – “It is out of order for a Member, when speaking, to use – Offensive words against Parliament or another Member; Treasonable words; Seditious words; or Words that are likely to promote or provoke feelings of ill-will or hostility between communities or ethnic groups within Fiji.” The words used by the Hon. Leader of the Opposition are matters which are out of order in this Parliament and constitute a prima facie breach of privilege. Given the above, pursuant to Standing Order 134 clause (2)(a) and Standing Order 127 clause (2)(c), I have decided there is a prima facie breach of privilege and I hereby refer the matter to the Privileges Committee for its consideration. The Privileges Committee is directed to meet from lunch time today on 15 February 2023 and provide its report for tabling in Parliament on Friday, 17 February 2023, and Parliament shall consider the Report of the Privileges Committee. How the tables have turned on the corrupt, nasty, dictators, Finally! Fiji's dictators at CID headquarters to answer questions, while their bakewa cheerleaders hang around outside.
From: Rajend Naidu <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2023 at 6:13 am Subject: Bainimarama’s perverse statement To: Letters <[email protected]> Opposition Leader Voreqe Bainimarama’s perverse statement in Parliament denigrating the President as having failed the Fijian people by aiding and abetting “ the most incompetent and divisive “ coalition government to destroy constitutional democracy ( FT 14/2 ) shows his disconnect with reality. If anything all the state parties he castigated including the Fiji military force have diligently upheld the principles of good democratic governance since the exit of Bainimarama’s ruling Fiji First government following the 2022 Election. It is my contention that it is exit from his 16 year hold on power that Bainimarama finds awfully unpalatable. He would actually be waxing lyrical about the President and the Fiji military had they intervened in the democratic process to prevent the coalition government from taking office. He and his right-hand man Aiyaz Sayed Khaiyum had in fact attempted to get them to do that immediately after the result of the election was declared but thank God they did not oblige. They ensured democracy prevailed. Let us not forget that is what Bainimarama did not do as Fiji military commander when he carried out his fictitious “clean up” coup against the Qarase government in 2006 to grab power for himself contrary to the 1997 Fiji Constitution. So the talk of constitutional democracy out of the mouth of Bainimarama, the erstwhile dictator of Fiji, sounds hollow and hypocritical. Rajend Naidu Sydney. Fiji's 2013 Constitution was imposed on all Fiji, without parliamentary participation or approval, writes Prof Wadan Narsey in his blog, Fiji’s cancerous 2013 Constitution (appeared in FT 9/11/2019 as “Fiji’s Constitutional Conundrum”). The facts are, says Prof Narsey, is that the people of Fiji have never approved the 2013 Constitution and neither did they ever approve the purported abrogation of the legitimate 1997 Constitution.
This means that the entire immunity to a whole range of people under Chapter 10 of the 2013 Constitution, which has not been approved by any parliament, has no legitimacy and therefore does not apply. Justice Anthony Gates, Chief Justice under the Bainimarama Government, also said that it is not possible for any man to tear up the Constitution. He has no authority to do so. The Constitution remains in place until amended by Parliament, a body of elected members who collectively represent all of the voters and inhabitants of Fiji … Usurpers may take over as they have in other jurisdictions, and in some cases rule for many years apparently outside of, or without the Constitution. … [but] the courts cannot pronounce lawfulness based simply on the will of the majority. … and the courts will not assist usurpers simply because they are numerous, powerful, or even popular”. [In Koroi v Commissioner of Inland Revenue [2001] FJHC 138, pp 10-11. Quoted by Margaret Twomey (2009) 83 ALJ 319.] So there is no immunity from any criminal prosecution for anyone who participated [directly or indirectly] in the 2006 Coup, including the events during the 2000 coup and 2000 mutiny. What's interesting is that Clause 155 of the 2013 Constitution continues the immunity provisions of Chapter XIV of the 1990 Constitution (imposed by the unelected Rabuka Government) which had been continued in the 1997 Constitution which had been approved by the elected Parliament of 1997. This means that Rabuka's 1997 immunity is still intact, and he walks free while others who committed treason in 2000 still serve time in prison. HOME Affairs Minister Pio Tikoduadua reiterated that no one is exempt from the law, so this means that those who participated [directly or indirectly] in the coups of 2000 and 2006 should be investigated and charged accordingly, including Pio. Military and the law
by Rajend Naidu <[email protected]> Subject: Military and the law To: <[email protected]> It’s very clear cut : the military has a subordinate role to the elected national leaders in a democracy. The question is whether the Fiji military respects and abides by that role. It’s record of serial coups is an aberration of its true role in a democracy. It’s ultimate “guardian role” under the imposed 2013 Fiji Constitution is a deliberate distortion of the Fiji military’s authentic role. It’s inclusion serves an ulterior hidden agenda. We all know from our direct military coup experience what that agenda is. It’s as simple and straightforward as that. Rajend Naidu Sydney The Coalition Government has a ONE vote majority in Parliament, so we are not out of the woods just yet, especially with these sorts of rumblings going on. Got to wait and see how the next few weeks and months pan out.
The former Attorney General Aiyaz Saiyed-Khaiyum pictured inspecting the renovated facilities at the Fiji Corrections Services (FCS) in Natabua, Lautoka on 30 September 2020. So both he and convicted murderer the former Fiji Correction Services Commissioner Francis Kean both know what to expect when they eventually move in.
Former Supervisor of Elections, Mohammed Saneem was stopped from leaving the country this morning as he is now under investigation by FICAC.
When contacted by fijivillage News, Attorney General, Siromi Turaga confirmed that Saneem was trying to go to Australia at 8.30am this morning however border officials stopped him at Nadi International Airport. The Exorbitant salaries paid to executives of the bankrupt Fiji sugar Corporation, under former Prime Minister and Minister for Sugar, the incompetent, clueless and corrupt Frank Voreqe Bainimarama.
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