Frank begs Mahendra Chaudhry to rejoin cabinet
January 31, 2009
Our sources say that Frank is begging Mahendra Chaudhry to rejoin his junta cabinet and to take over his old portfolio as interim Minister for Finance and Sugar. This has come to light after Chaudhry’s return from India where he is believed to have made major in-roads in securing some financial assistance that the Indian government and certain high-profile businesses and individuals are keen to pump into the Fijian economy.
The revelation was also made after Frank admitted that Fiji’s economy is “in deep shit” and that he has no idea how to resurrect it. He says that he needs someone like Chaudhry to find all avenues possible to generate income for him. Frank’s poor financial management acumen was publicly flaunted after his junta failed miserably in delivering much needed flood rehabilitation assistance to those affected.
The guy was diverting unbelievable sums of monies from the national kitty to prop up his military strength living very little to channel to the flood victims. Put simply, Frank has dried up the national vaults and desperately need some get-rich quick schemes to fill it up. And the right man for that kinda job is Mahendra Chaudhry whose mineral water tax was used by Frank to boot him out of his junta cabinet last year. The same kind of tax that Frank has now adopted and applied to the water bottlers only a few days ago to help his cashflow.
The sugar industry is almost belly up. EU’s reconfirmation that there will be no grant until Fiji goes back to a general election has left the sugar industry to demand millions of dollars worth of assistance from the junta to keep the industry afloat. And Frank simply doesn’t have that kinda money to be of any help to anybody. He is broke! The sugar industry is the power base for Chaudhry and his heart is bleeding (we think) to see how his voters are suffering. And he knows that Frank can’t do, the junta can’t do, but he probably can do it with his Haryana connection.
But whether Mahendra Chaudhry will return as Fiji’s interim Minister for Finance and Sugar is something only Chaudhry can answer. Quite frankly, the business community in Fiji are dreading the thought of having the anti-business Chaundry as Minister for money. Be prepared Fiji, Robin Hood is probably preparing for a come back to steal the rich to give to the poor. Sources also say that Frank’s side-kick Aiyaz Khaiyum is not very happy with the latest development.
1997 Constitution to be abrogated by Frank’s junta
January 31, 2009
This is a well known fact ; a boring and stale fact infact that it would hardly speeden up anyone’s heartbeat with surprise – that Frank and his supporters will abrogate the 1997 Constitution. Frank’s junta, with the help of their white-collar coup terrorist wigged ones already have their plan mapped out.
They have not finished raping the 1997 constitution just yet, because the old pressie is still “sleeping on” it. And by the looks of things, the pressie will take the 1997 constitution with him to his eternal sleeping place, which is exactly what the game plan is for Frank and Co.
We have good reasons to believe that Frank and Co. are simply hanging around waiting for the frailing pressie to die, paving the way for Frank and his wigged ones to abrogate the constitution and introduce their own laws based on their dream charter.
So people, wake up and accept that all these waffles, rhetorics, promises and broken ones from Frank and Co. is all a big lie!
Clean the Fiji pot and the Fiji kettle
January 31, 2009
By Rajnalu
If this is true (IG blogs call to kill Methodist leaders), the Methodist Church of Fiji should bring this to the attention of the IG, publicly and denounce such behaviours. The IG lot are bascially inciting the very behaviour they allege that the Methodist leaders have been purporting.
If they are not speaking for the IG -who are they speaking for?? – The Muslim Community?
You dont wanna make this a religious war in Fiji – there is enough zealous ammo in Fiji to wipe out each other.
This “pot calling the kettle,black” tit-for-tat is becoming too much. What we need is for someone to clean both the pot and the kettle !!
We support Australia, New Zealand and the international community in demanding a return to democratic rule in Fiji. And we agree and support wholeheartedly the resolutions from that PIF meeting in PNG.
However, we feel that it is time to demand from Australia, New Zealand and the international community to take a hard look at their citizenry pool and to criminalize their own citizens who are adding fuel to the coup fire in Fiji when they take up appointments offered by the military regime.
Two years of Frank’s leadership clearly shows that he and his local backers don’t have what it takes to be able to run through with their coup plan alone. Most of their military regime ideas and the will to carry on has been masterminded and executed by citizens or permanent residents of Australia and New Zealand, which is totally unacceptable.
It means that Australia and New Zealand are the breeding grounds for coup professionals in Fiji and the Pacific and we think that governments in both countries should be ashamed of themselves too for not dealing with such an obvious fact.
Tough measures should be adopted by Australia, New Zealand and the international community by treating such individuals as “WHITE-COLLAR COUP TERRORISTS” who support illegal tyrants like Frank & Co.
It’s a waste of everybody’s time telling team Frank what to do if Australia and New Zealand are not even seen to be taking a hard stand on their own terrorist citizens who are lending a hand in promoting the coup culture in Fiji.
Isoa Gavidi says Frank & Co. plan to take Fiji down with them
January 28, 2009
Many like us were disappointed when Isoa Gavidi agreed to serve in Frank’s junta. He obviously was exercising his freedom of choice after a long talk with his good wife Emi and his family members and we respect that.
But it didn’t take long for Isoa Gavidi to be reminded of the wrong choice he made when his good intentions were prematurely aborted by his ex-boss Frank. Isoa Gavidi must have thought that his wealth of experience as an ex-Ambassador of Fiji, ex-CEO of FTIB and other experiences he acquired along the way will somehow make Frank understand that Fiji is not an island but a member of a global family that depend on each other to survive.
But Frank doesn’t think so. He thinks he is the macho-macho man. Frank has an itch and he knows only one way to scratch it – with the butt of his gun. He doesn’t want Isoa Gavidi’s diplomatic way of scratching cause he ain’t got no time for diplomacy. He scratches on the go and doesn’t care how unsightly or embarassing it is.
And now that Isoa Gavidi has had a taste of that gun-butt scratch, we doubt that he will want to rejoin the junta in any other capacity.
But we have been told that Isoa Gavidi simply couldn’t accept what was going on at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in particular the militant style in dealing with the international community and the undiplomatic orders told to them by their boss Frank to execute on his behalf. Gavidi tried hard to add his wide range of diplomatic spices into Frank’s foreign affairs pot but the coupster continued adding his cooking spoon measures of gun powder mix turning it into a diplomatic hot and spicy explosive dish.
The guy has said that he just couldn’t believe the garbage that’s in the junta’s scheme of things and is sure that Frank and Co. will stick to their my way or the highway attitude even if it means pulling Fiji down with them. No surprises there given Frank’s repeated signs of insanity.
More calls to kill the Methodist by the interim regime supporters
January 28, 2009
By Aiyaz Khaiyum, Shaista Shameem, Riyaz Khaiyum, Christoper Pryde, Rizan ud Dean & Co.
“We apologize to our readers that when we asked that Waqairatu be strung up by his feet, we had failed to add cult leader Manasa Lasaro to the whole affair. These two men should be strung up by their feet then set on fire for the world to see what happens when you try to commit seditious acts or incite racial hatred. These men are not fit for this world and since they worship the devil in secret, they should be sent to his world accordingly.”
Colonel Aziz Mohammed approves Frank’s property purchase
January 28, 2009
Colonel Aziz Mohammed, Chairman of Merchant Bank, has approved the purchase of the bank’s residential property by his boss, Frank Bainimarama.
The property at Muanikau was once occupied by Laisenia Qarase when he was CEO of Merchant Bank and later as Prime Minister. Our sources say that the house was advertised on the dailies calling interested parties to tender.
But as we had been reporting here many moons ago, that ad was only meant to meet the Bank’s tender procedures with the purchaser already identified and approved as Frank Bainimarama.
Sources say that the purchase price has been drastically discounted for the sake of the coupmaker and that Merchant Bank will be financing the purchase for Frank. Merchant bank is a subsidiary of Frank’s Holdings Limited and its CEO, Sereana Qoro, had already announced Merchant Bank’s long term plan to rebrand it to Frank’s Bank.
John Samy getting cold-footed
January 28, 2009
The father of the Peoples’ Charter is no where to be seen or heard. The guy is lying very low and very quiet. The consistent inconsistencies and lies ozzing out of the militrary regime he serves is beginning to frighten him.
The latest development with the PIF meeting in PNG reconfirms to John Samy that his grand charter concept is the very thing that now stands between Fiji and the rest of the world. John Samy’s charter continues to be used by Frank’s junta to justify its existence.
John Samy’s charter has divided instead of unifying the people of Fiji and it is proving to be attracting the same divisive energy at the international arena.
For John Samy, he has no other choice but to try and finish off what he started. He knows deep down in him that he has erred big time on this one. That Frank and his coup supporters have simply been marinating him as another of their sacrificial loin meat.
But who knows, John Samy might finally realise that he still has the time to redeem himself by just dropping his Peoples Charter tools, admit that the regime has gone off chart onto another tangent, and remain in NZ with his family. The decision is yours John Samy!
Robin Nair teaches John Samy a great lesson
January 28, 2009
Robin Nair’s decision to tell it like it is to the military regime is commendable and appreciated. Here is an ex-Fiji citizen who refuses to take sides, he professes to be apolitical and has no interest in the politics of his adopted country, Australia, or his birth country Fiji, but has a deep interest in developing the young in Fiji in the field of diplomacy.
Robin is a scholar, a foreign relations expert and understands fully the importance of diplomacy and respect for all. As an idealist, he hates race as a factor of life but believes that people should be judged by the content of their character and not by their heritage.
The ailing President of Fiji appointed him as one of the 3-member indepent monitoring group (IMG) to monitor the transperancy and consultation processes of the NCBBF. The other two members are Amy Chambers and Seal Molisa. That group later submitted a no-holds bar report stating that the polling method used by NCBBF had been challenged by some political parties as flawed and that members of the public were being intimidated and forced to vote for the Peoples Charter as some of the field promoters were members of the military and police forces. The IMG in their submission sought authorization from the President to allow them to seek opinions from professional pollsters to assess the polling methodologies by NCBBF as they were not experts in that field. A response from the President is still pending since the day it was submitted to him at the beginning of December, 2009.
Robin Nair was again selected as a co-interlocutor with Halapua for the political dialogue forum initiated by the President. Again, the two have submitted their report but like the IMG report, it is still mucking time somewhere Paula Nacewa’s office, the Permanent Secretary to the President.
The guy has come out openly about his views for the way forward, but his truths hasn’t gone down too well with team Frank. They thought they could hoodwink Robin Nair to be a player in their illegal activities and plans but unfortunately for the junta, they have found that Robin Nair is a guy who will stick to his principles and will not sell his sole for 2 dimes like their confused Charter Daddy, John Samy.
We think Robin Nair represents the modern Fiji, the new Fiji that doesn’t see race as a barrier, the new Fiji that embraces intermarriages producing beautiful children who have abit of Fiji and the rest of the world in them. The new Fiji that respects the rights of Fijians as the indigneous people of the Fiji Isles and the existence, respect for the kaleidoscope of other Fiji citizens’ cultures who call Fiji home, and a new Fiji that respects the rule of law. Robin Nair is a great example of that with his genes graciously intertwining with other cultures in Fiji, India, Italy, Ireland and others through intermarriage.
President Obama’s first words to Fiji’s coupmaker Frank Bainimarama
January 28, 2009
Press Statement
Robert Wood Acting Spokesman Washington, DC January 27, 2009
The United States is extremely disappointed that Fiji’s self-appointed leader, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, refused to attend the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) conference of leaders in Port Moresby on January 27. The United States firmly supports the PIF’s statement that “More than two years of rule by an unelected military government, with no clear timetable for the return of constitutional government to the people, is not acceptable by international standards.” The United States strongly endorses the PIF position and urges Fiji’s interim government to move immediately to restore democracy and to hold free and fair elections by the end of this year. 2009/080
Kill the Methodist Church and their Fijian followers says IG
January 27, 2009
The IG blog’s call to kill the Methodist Church, Tuikilakila Waqairatu, is a call to kill the Methodist Church and its Fijian followers, says many observers.
And that call has infuriated many in that island nation who say that such terrorist-like call by people like Shaista Shameem, Aiyaz Khaiyum and Co. is totally irresponsible that has put the lives of all Indo-Fijians in great danger.
Comments obtained from a cross-section of people regarding the call to kill Waqairatu have many saying that killing one another is not a Fiji thing and that the IG blog should apologize for inciting a holy and a racial war in Fiji.
The call to kill Waqairatu has even attracted Frank and the Military Council’s attention. Our sources from within say that the military council is very concerned about it with one branding the call as “inciteful and very no good”.
And whether the IG blog intended it or not, the fact remains that their call to kill the Methodist Church and their leader will definitely find its way to the pulpit for as long as Frank’s military regime is alive.
Fiji Times says it like it is!
January 27, 2009
To the people of Fiji we say this — we will continue to follow the letter of the law and fight for democracy and the truth. No amount of intimidation will deter us.
– Fiji Times Editorial, Weds 28th Jan, 2009
We can report here that the call to kill the Fijian Methodist Church leader, Tuikilakila Waqairatu, is indeed supported by Aiyaz, Riyaz, Pryde, Shameem, Ud Dean & Co. culminating as a blog post on their IG blog. And we can also confirm that Shaista Shameem was the author of that post knowing that their Aiyaz -led IG bloggers group share the same sentiment.
The irate Shaista Shameem just can’t help but scream her fingers out on her laptop keyboard when she is faced with difficult questions exposing the twistedness of her convoluted, impractical, divisive and murderous ideals.
She’s angry when fools like us confront them with the very basics of their arguments and blame us for being mundane for telling them like it is.
She’s angry that her co-blogger Aiyaz may be giving them the wrong information after all about that 2010 election lie.
She’s angry that maybe, what we have told them about Frank and the military council having a totally different plan to their 2010 election plan, is looking so real following Frank’s public announcement, confirming what he told our sources days ago which we reported earlier on.
Her blog post to stone a fellow citizen, Tuikilakila Waqairatu to death, is something she can not twink off. The words has been said, released and read by many.
And in return, we have rebuked her call to kill, in line with our spiritual belief that “thou shall not murder”, overlapping our political ideal that irrevocably denounces Frank/Aiyaz/Shaista Shameem & Co. murderous military regime.
The cat is now out of the bag and the final truth has been lamented on the IG blog for the world to witness.
At least Shaista Shameem has exposed the real intangible underlying pillar that is acting as the foundation for the 13 Pillars in Frank’s Charter, which is “TO KILL THE METHODIST CHURCH AND ITS INDIGENOUS FIJIAN WORSHIPPERS”.
Pacific Leaders set Fiji Deadline
January 27, 2009
By BBC News
Regional leaders have given Fiji’s military rulers until the end of 2009 to hold an election, or face sanctions from the Pacific Islands Forum. Meeting in Papua New Guinea, the forum said the situation in Fiji was “not acceptable by international standards”.
But Fiji’s self-appointed leader, Frank Bainimarama, said no vote would be held until his reforms were completed, which he claimed could take 10 years.
Mr Bainimarama, an army chief, seized power in a coup in 2006. He now serves as Fiji’s prime minister, but has simultaneously also held several other ministerial portfolios.
‘Complete contempt’
His government has missed several deadlines to hold elections – including one agreed at the forum in 2007 – and Fiji’s nearest neighbours appear to have run out of patience.
“More than two years of rule by an unelected military government, with no clear timetable for the return of constitutional government to the people, is not acceptable by international standards,” the forum’s statement said.
If Fiji does not declare an election date by the start of May, and hold the vote by the end of December, the forum said Fiji would be excluded from regional meetings and lose development funding.
After the forum’s meeting, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told reporters: “The interim [Fijian] government has shown complete contempt for its previous commitments to hold democratic elections by March of this year. “The ball now is very much in the court of the interim government of Fiji to see what they do.”
‘Five or 10 years’
Mr Bainimarama, who did not attend the forum’s meeting, has long said he cannot hold elections until Fiji has made changes to its racially based electoral system.
The Fijilive news website reported Mr Bainimarama as saying on Monday: “The Electoral Act will be changed.
If it takes us five years or 10 years to hold elections then so be it.”
Mr Bainimarama justified his coup by accusing the elected Fijian government of corruption and saying it was pursuing racist policies against the country’s ethnic Indian minority.
But since then, his actions have attracted strong criticism from around the world.
The government’s treatment of the media has come under particular scrutiny, with three Australian publishers being expelled from the country in the course of a year.
Fiji Times publisher Rex Gardner was the latest journalist to be deported, arriving back in Australia on Tuesday.
His paper had been convicted of contempt of court for printing a letter criticising judges who supported the military
IG blogger confused with Frank’s own confusion
January 27, 2009
- Why hasn’t Frank announced the 2010 election lie?
- Why is Frank, Aiyarse and the junta reverting to anonymous blogging to announce their 2010 election bull instead of the credible main media stream?
If Aiyarse & Co. from the IG blog can not answer the two questions above, then we suggest you keep your bull to yourself as manure for later. Without the answers, then we are sorry but any claims of a 2010 election is your wish, definitely not Frank’s.
Oh, and by the way, we thought you guys said you are an “independent group of people” whose “identities are not known to the Military Council. Yet, in another thread, you say that “only those who have some connections with the reality of the situation will testify to this fact (2010 election) - and that group is us.” And guess what, Frank and the Military Council know nothing about your group’s 2010 election idea. Ouch!!! You guys are independent and isolated all right. Ask your leader Aiyarse how it feels like to be treated like an “independent outsider” in PNG. Ask him how he was cut to size. And while you are at it, take the time to understand Frank a little bit more. You’ll find that the 2010 election pledge is too early a suicide date for him. Got it or still confused?
Methodist church, where were you and where are you?
January 27, 2009
Has anyone heard or seen Methodist church cell groups anywhere helping out the flood victims? We’ve hardly heard or seen anything in the news except some plea by that Manasa Lasaro dude asking members to contribute.
Ok, call us all sorts of names for picking on the Methodist only, but this blog post will be centered around the Methodist being the biggest religious denomination in Fiji. But some of the following questions also apply to all other religious sects.
Our questions are:
- Why isn’t the Methodist Church Board fired up in pushing for a flood relief drive, similar to how they have zealously pushed for the political anti-regime and anti-charter drive?
- Why isn’t the Methodist Church Board seeking assistance from their overseas Methodist body and why haven’t we heard of anything in that regard?
- Why didn’t the Methodist Church offer their churches to shelter the flood victims, irrespective of who they are and to work with the interim regime in feeding and protecting them? That would have been in keeping with true Christian principles.
- Why are all coupmakers in Fiji Methodist Fijians and what is the church doing about it?
- Has Methodist prophets failed Fiji and her people for not warning the leaders to repent of their sins and to stick to their Christian principles while governing Fiji?
So are we going to hear from Lasaro or Tuikilakila soon to understand what they have done to the flood victims irrespective of who they are and to answer some of the pertinent questions above? One hopes that they are true to the second most important commandment of all : “Love your neighbour as you love yourself” and will continue to reach out and help the victims without demanding much mediafare like some we all know.
Perhaps it is high time Tuikilakila, Lasaro and the whole Methodist church top hierarchy humble themselves too and reflect on whether they’ve been really true to their calling or have they merely been manipulating their sometimes very gullible flock to line their own pockets and to feel important with their vast number of followers.
Aiyaz to announce 2010 election in PNG?
January 27, 2009
We are waiting with bated breath for Frank to announce the December, 2010 election suggested on the IG blog. Or better still, will we be pleasantly surprised with the announcement by Aiyaz in PNG?
If the December 2010 election time is true, then of course, we will be the first ones to celebrate and will cheers to that. At least Fiji will have something to work towards. O.k, so let’s zoom ahead by taking away all the processes to get there to election, what guarantee can anyone give that the military will not stage another coup if the winning party (old or new) is not acceptable to them? What then?
I will send PNG envoy home, says Frank
January 26, 2009
Frank has said in uncertain terms that he will send PNG’s envoy to Fiji back to his motherland. These revelations were passed on to us by some people who met Frank Bainimarama a few days ago.
They said that Frank was like a raging bull when he said it and was pissed off with the way Michael Somare tried to corner him into attending the leaders forum that is now underway in Moresby.
A whales tooth was given to the Fiji Ambassador to PNG by Somare who requested him to take it to Frank in Fiji with some of Somare’s government officials. But Frank declined it and in the process has made Michael Somare and PNG a diplomatic clown.
It is also understood that strong words were exchanged between the two leaders in their final telephone conversation before Somare called it quits which could have caused Frank to have blurted out his anger to these sources by threatening to dismiss the PNG High Commissioner.
But whether he will push it through or not is something only time will tell depending on Frank’s roller-coaster mood.
Fiji’s IG calls for more death to the Methodist Fijians
January 26, 2009
An interim government blog managed by Aiyaz Khaiyum and his mostly Muslim supporters have called on the people to kill the Methodist Church General Secretary, Tuikilakila Waqairatu.
“People such as Tuikilakila Waqairatu should be strung by their feet and the people of this country should stone these heathens to death for their comments and actions which have led this country to the brink of a racial war,” Aiyaz Khaiyum said.
The call has infuriated many native Fijians whom we are told have translated the blog post in the Fijian vernacular and have distributed it to their co-native Fijians. Many of them say that this call by Khaiyum is inciting a “holy war” between Muslims and Methodists in Fiji, which if not nipped on the bud, can eventually snowball into a disastraous racial war between Indians and Fijians.
It is sad though to see that such a comment has come from Aiyaz Khaiyum, a key adviser to Frank, which to many means that Fiji has slipped further down into the militant banana republic dark hole.