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Last Tuesday, one of Fiji’s NGO, Citizen’s Constitutional Forum Limited invited 80 selected guest to grace the launching of a ready-made handbook called “Constitution: Making and Reform; Options for the Processes” at Suva’s Holiday Inn, a definite illegal alternative to the acceptable way of reviewing Fiji’s Constitution, which is through parliament.

Ousted Vice President, Joni Madraiwiwi was the chief guest.

Deposed Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase was also present and so was a Fiji Labour Party stalwart, Khrishna Dutt.

Fiji Labour Party leader, Mahen Chaudhry was missing as he is understood to be under some kind of medical trip outside of Fiji.

Certain members of the Diplomatic Corp were also present and so was Aiyaz Khaiyum.

Tyrant Frank Bainimarama was absent and sources say he was in Namosi meeting the disgruntled landowners there who are demanding that Newcrest Mining company leave their land alone.

They say Frank was also distracted by the negative publicity he was getting from his regime’s slow response to the flood that completely destroyed Western towns and farms.

Was Frank’s absence a set-up?

We think so.

We think Frank did not really want to be in the same room as Qarase and Madraiwiwi and he also wanted to gauge from a distance where the key politicians stood in their deceptive initiative to change Fiji’s Constitution using his unaccepatable coup platform to drive it.

After all, it was these same politiking men who slept on their jobs back in 2006 and allowed Frank to have free reign over his coup idea.

Frank gave them more than enough warning but neither Qarase nor Madraiwiwi was a true leader material to make that tough call and to use their powers to immediately arrest and isolate Frank to avoid him from committing treason.

Madraiwiwi is known to have averted Qarase’s request to arrest Frank saying something along the line that he believed Frank is not the kind of person courageous enough to do such a thing.

And how wrong Madraiwiwi was in his pathetic assessment by giving Frank the benefit of the doubt after soo many threats of a coup from Frank himself.

Qarase on the other hand did not take the risk of arresting Frank anyway to ward off the impending coup d’etat.

 Qarase, Madraiwiwi and past President Iloilo, who depended on the advise given to him by Qarase and Madraiwiwi, all failed the people of Fiji and we think they don’t deserve the peoples trust to depend on them ever again as possible national leaders.

We think they’re better off in retirement or carry on with their advisory role in the public/private sector  and not to return as key leaders of Fiji as they will be spectacularly out-voted by the majority of Fiji Islanders who are dying for a true leader who can make tough decisions.

They were given a chance to lead the Fiji peoples but they stuffed them up real good and Fiji Islanders are still stuffed right now because of the lack of good leadership qualities in them.

Anyway, Frank’s absence at Holiday Inn was a trap for Qarase, Madraiwiwi and others present.

Their sheer presence (whether they know it or not) meant they were in agreement with Frank and Aiyaz’s trickery to change Fiji’s 1997 Constitution in a dishonorable manner outside of parliament lending credence to Frank’s coup d’etat of 2006 and the illegalities that followed.

Their presence also sent a message that they no longer have faith or honoured the Appeals Court decision that ruled Frank’s coup as illegal.

It also means that they’ve somehow accepted the purported promulgation of the 1997 Constitution during Easter weekend of 2008.

Simply put, they have all agreed to come under Frank and Aiyaz’s new illegal order by compromising their moral high ground and stooping very low with the likes of Akuila Yabaki to knowingly or unknowingly legitimise Frank’s coup.

And we say, shame on you all!

It’s no secret that Akuila Yabaki’s Citizens’ Constitutional Forum is a professional lobby group sponsored by  the European Union, UK Department for International Development (DFID), Misereor, EED, the Finish Embassy in Canberra, and AusAid.

It is also a money earning initiative (a real job) for a rejected Methodist Church priest in Akuila Yabaki.

One simple question everyone should be asking is – if Akuila Yabaki and his CCF team (and other NGOs for that matter) are soo passionate about implementing an ideal Fiji Constitution, why haven’t they bothered to form a political party and contest a general election where they can advocate their fanciful Constitutional  ideas as their party manifesto at their own cost and not from overseas donors?

We say, put your own money where your big mouth is Akuila Yabaki and CCF and stop fooling the people with your blurbs to justify getting funds from overseas donors to finance you and your brainwashing methodologies.

Stand for election backed by your savings or else, shut up!

We say, resurrect the sleeping 1997 Constitution and make changes to it in the most civilized and legal manner already allowed for within the Constitution i.e by 2/3 votes in parliament.

No one is above the law including Frank, Yabaki, Qarase, Madraiwiwi, Dutt and whoever else was present in Holiday Inn that evening.

It is the role of true leaders to show the people how the law of the land must be respected and upheld at all times, even during conflicts when everything else seem to make it redundant.

The challenge now for true Fiji leaders is to resurrect the 1997 Constitution in a peaceful manner, no matter how long it’ll take, for not Frank nor Aiyaz and their supporters have the power to defend themselves from the peaceful resistance of patience, long-suffering and non-violence.

They are getting caught in their own lies, and they will eventually lead Fiji to bankruptcy.

And so be it, for every Fiji man, woman, youth, child and their dog need to learn that usurping authority illegally through a coup have far-reaching destructive consequences that no one will ever wish for again.

Every Fiji Islander must feel the coup bite in their daily lives to appreciate how wrong and immoral a coup is.

It’s not until everyone suffers during coup famine times for people to learn from the mistakes of a coup,and  only then can a true Constitutional Revival ever take place in Fiji.

We say, let Frank and Co. do their thing because we know and believe what the law says about this things, “everything have a season,” “what goes up must come down.”

Neither Frank nor Aiyaz can guarantee that their tormented worried hearts will continue pumping this time tomorrow.

They don’t have the powers to control life, and not even their own, therefore, they don’t have powers to control your life.

So live freely, live righteously and live truthfully and stay away from wayward law-breaking ambitions of man.