Leweni for NZ Ambassador? Bah ha ha ha ha ha

Fiji coup figure heads to Wellington (Source: ONE News)

Fiji’s military government is hoping to post one of its most controversial coup figures to Fiji’s New Zealand high commission office.

In a move that is likely to ruffle feathers in the New Zealand government, Fiji has applied to have Lieutenant Colonel Neumi Leweni working from Wellington.

Leweni played a major role in the country’s 2006 coup and has been responsible for censoring local media, deporting Australian and New Zealand journalists and curbing free speech.

He, like others directly connected to the country’s regime, is banned from even travelling to New Zealand or Australia.

But the Fiji government hopes to have him officially installed in a counselling post in Wellington under a new arrangement to boost diplomatic ties between the two countries.

New Zealand’s foreign minister Murray McCully offered the extra posting at the start of January as an olive branch to mend regional relations and help return Fiji to democracy earlier than the 2014 election date set by leader Frank Bainimarama.

The self-appointed prime minister has broken several promises to go to the polls since staging a December 2006 coup.

Bainimarama’s office has told the Fiji Village website it has nominated Leweni for the job, while Leweni himself says his nomination is yet to be confirmed.

Fiji government sources confirmed to Fairfax New Zealand that Leweni’s name has been put forward.

Bainimarama did not confirm the name on Auckland’s Radio Tarana on Thursday but says he is awaiting New Zealand’s response on the posting.

“We are extremely pleased that the New Zealand government is taking a step forward in redeeming our diplomatic relations,” he told the station.

“We have submitted our nominee for the position for counsellor as agreed to in our initial meeting between our two foreign ministers.

“New Zealand is yet to respond on this.”

Source – TVNZ

Don’t take the posting, Leweni. Don’t do it. Right now everyone in Fiji knows how incompetent  you are, and out of your depth. But we are ‘the devil you know’. You put yourself forward as Ambassador to New Zealand, and your stupidity will be on stage for all to see throughout the Pacific. They say people get promoted to their own incompetence – well, you have already surpassed yourself. Please don’t go any further. You really don’t need to, and We The People really don’t want you to.

God bless Fiji

Fiji’s ambassador to the UN

Heard on the coconut wireless that Peter Thomson, a true son of Fiji and former Permanent Secretary to Ratu Penaia Ganilau, has been earmarked to become our new Ambassador to the UN. This news is received with mixed emotions.  On the positive side, at least Peter is a ‘good-un’ and may be able to be a force for good within the illegal regime.  On the negative side (and there are a lot of negatives), anything that can be seen to legitimise the illegal regime is a living tragedy.

Only Peter himself, author of ‘Kava in the blood’, knows in his own mind his reasons for entertaining the idea. I like to assume it’s because, like the rest of us, he wants to see Fiji back on its own feet.

Meanwhile, Fiji’s diplomatic freeze is slowing thawing. Vore’s strategy has always been to wait it out, and force the international community to accept his illegal regime. What can be done?

For a start, We The People must never forget these names :

Tevita Malasebe, Nimilote Verebasaga, Sakiusa Rabaka

We must never forget the 1997 Constitution and the freedoms it upheld. We must never forget that Human Rights are inalienable rights.

The pig cannot avoid justice forever. Tabu soro.

God bless Fiji

Please can a kind nurse poison the pig?

Bainimarama was rushed to Hospital on Sunday morning

Dictator of Fiji and coup leader Commodore Frank Bainimarama was rushed to hospital on 2:25am Fiji time after suffering from  a mild heart attack,according to our source from within the Fiji military Force Headquaters.

Has anyone else heard any more news on this? Pliz, can some kind nurse or orderly at the good hospital just poison the pig or turn off his life support system whenever he’s there?Vinaka.

God bless Fiji

FICAC case against Jalal adjourned

Posted at 05:27 on 08 January, 2010 UTC

A prominent international human rights lawyer appeared in court after the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption, or FICAC, charged her and her husband with seven counts, including operating a restaurant without a license.

Imrana Jalal, who is a member of the International Commission of Jurists, and her husband are accused of not having displayed a licence at restaurant which they owned.

The case was heard in the Magistrate’s Court where the FICAC lawyer asked for the matter to be taken to the High Court.

The lawyer acting for the defendant challenged FICAC, saying the allegation is a Suva City Council issue and not a corruption matter.

The case has been adjourned until January the 28th.

A previous hearing in the case led to the magistrate being sacked for concurring that the FICAC charges were a municipal matter.

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What a joke. Imrana Jalal and her husband are the antithesis of corrupt. Meanwhile, the illegal government continues to perpetuate Fiji’s largest and most heinous crime – the rape of our Constitution, our rights and our liberties.

Free elections! Tabu soro.

God bless Fiji

CIA World Factbook on Fiji

Check out this simple statement on the CIA’s website that sums up our situation in Fiji.

Parliamentary elections held in August 2001 provided Fiji with a democratically elected government led by Prime Minister Laisenia QARASE. Re-elected in May 2006, QARASE was ousted in a December 2006 military coup led by Commodore Voreqe BAINIMARAMA, who initially appointed himself acting president but in January 2007 became interim prime minister. Since taking power BAINIMARAMA has neutralized his opponents, crippled Fiji’s democratic institutions, and refused to hold elections.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/fj.html

God bless Fiji

New Blog for Fiji Democracy Now

Bula fellow bloggers

This is to let you know that, in response to the military dictatorship’s efforts to block Fiji freedom blogs, including Fiji Democracy Now, we have launched a new blogsite.

It’s a blog version of our website and carries all the same news, views and comments as the original FDN, which continues.

If family or friends in Fiji cannot access FDN’s website due to blocking, tell them to look up:

http://fdnblog.wordpress.com

To all other blogs: please link to our new blog.

Long live democracy and long live freedom of speech!

Fiji Democracy Now

God bless Fiji