Namotomoto Installs New Chief

Taukei Tukani Viliame Vikoso

Report by: Chrsitopher Chand

FBC News

A new chief has been installed for Namotomoto village in Nadi following a traditional ceremony this morning.

Viliame Vikoso has been appointed as the new Taukei Tukani a chiefly title passed on to him after his elder brother’s death earlier this year.

Village spokesman Iliesa Samusamuvodre says it’s a special day for the village completing their traditional structure and a process their ancestors have followed for many generations.

“He has a very special role to play, a lot of responsibilities his role is to guide and direct the villagers in their social development, education and things concerning the vanua.”

The 52 year old was next in line and will now take on the role as their new chief.

Samusamuvodre says as landowners they need a strong leader with the number of developments taking shape in Nadi.

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Who is Bainimarama and Khaiyum Fooling with their Secretly Developed Constitution?

by Sai Lealea


Having to end today with the news of the Fiji military regime finally unveiling its final version of its Constitution for Fiji can only be described as a real painful experience, yet totally unexpected.

The grin of a corrupt legal wizard thinking he has all escape routes plugged!

Painful when the occasion is being overseen by Khaiyum who, like a half castrated tom cat, put on his cheeky grin while holding on to his copy of the document, reflecting his satisfaction in thinking, he has yet again tricked the people of Fiji with his amateurish legal wizardry. Unexpected though, in that we all know the real motives behind the design and content of the document. Such a key document, when treated and developed in such cavalier and amateurish manner by its sponsors, deserve only to be rejected outright and thrown into a waist bin as fuel to fire nationwide derision, ridicule and contempt.

It is no wonder, political parties and organisations with much more brains and experience of constitution-making boycotted the unveiling for good reasons.

2013 Bainimarama Constitution-English.

 
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2013 Bainimarama Constitution-iTaukei
 
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The document has no mandate from the people other than the regime itself. As such, its contents are designed among other things, to:
1. protect the regime and its members from facing trial for their treasonous crime.
2. prolong the rule of the current illegal regime.
3. elevate and empower the military with ongoing power to interfere in politics.
4. entrench the immunity provision on the regime and its members.
5. consolidate real power in a few key positions controlled by the PM and AG - we know who are the people earmarking themselves for these!

For people judging this document, assess it from the perspectives of those who:
1. threw out the Ghai draft since it was a widely consulted-on document.
2. need the military on their side to ensure their hold on power.
3. have most to lose if the Ghai version is adopted and not the version unveiled today.
4. stand to gain from an open ended immunity coverage, even those illegal acts yet to be committed.

Any assessment along the above line will reveal that the current document is no more than a ticket for the current regime to rule in perpetuity and without any check against their policies and programmes. It is precisely for those reasons that it must be rejected outright by the people of Fiji.

The people and nation of Fiji deserve better than the feeble and treasonous attempt by an illegal regime to profit from their takeover of a democratically elected government that had the mandate of the people of Fiji. To now attempt to entrench their rule by a document that has no mandate from the people, concentrates power in the hands of a few, authorises future coups via a pliant military, is treating the people as dumb with no legal authority or moral soul. 


All the people of Fiji and those who love Fiji should do the right thing and throw the unveiled constitution of the current illegal regime into the bin and light it in a bonfire to truly reflect what we all think of it.

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Tui Bua Laid to Rest

 Fiji Times News

THE Marama na Tui Bua, Adi Ana Lalanabaravi (left) was laid to rest on Friday at the chiefly village of Bua with more than 1000 people to bid her farewell.

Chiefs, senior government officials, government ministers, business people and the vanua of Bua gathered at Bua lomanikoro to pay their last respects.

Adi Ana passed away in Suva on October 28 after a short illness.

Tui Wainunu Ratu Orisi Baleitavea, who delivered an eulogy on behalf of the vanua, described the gathering as an emotional time for the people of Bua.

"The whole of Bua came to farewell our chief who was like our mother in the vanua," he said. "She has always encouraged us to work together and love one another no matter what the situation was. "In her eight years of leadership, she always reminded the chiefs of their role to serve the people of Bua. "We will have to continue with that heartbeat of our chief's because she believed so much in serving the people of Cakaunitabua."

Ratu Orisi said the villagers from the nine districts hired trucks despite the high costs as they wanted to be part of the last chiefly ceremony done to their Marama na Tui Bua.