Astounding contradictions

The contradiction coming from the two main opposition parties in the lead up to the coming election is astounding.

For example;

1. Rabuka claims that he will protect iTaukei interests if elected to power. But he is still dodging questions on his Land Plan of September of 2006 where he proposed to convert all iTaukei land to crown leaving us iTaukei with no land. That is more a direct threat than the “Sunset Clause” Niko Nawaikula has been preaching about.

2. Today they both claim that iTaukei land is under threat. But the only time after independence when iTaukei land was converted into freehold and loss forever was when their party president was Minister for Lands. When Bainimarama took over in 2006, we iTaukei own 87.3 per cent of our land mass. Today we own more than 91 per cent.

3. Rabuka claims that he will bring economic progress. But this is the same Rabuka under whose government our only National Bank went bankrupt and our Receiver’s Office received the highest number of bankruptcies ever.

4. Rabuka states that he wants Christian principles to be enshrined in our reviewed constitution. But when he won his case in the Suva Magistrates Court two weeks ago, an Israeli Jewish flag was waved before him. More than 90 per cent of Jews in the world do not believe that Jesus is the son of God nor is He the Messiah.

They do not even believe that he qualifies to be a prophet. In simple terms, Jews believe that Jesus is a fake. Do Rabuka and his supporters also believe this?

5. Rabuka stated that he will bring back the Great Council of Chiefs pretending to have respect for this once noble institution. But when he was its chairman, he locked out some chiefs who disagreed with his political ideology from the GCC meetings. He once went out and played golf while the GCC waited for their meeting.

6. Rabuka states that SODELPA represents the interest of “all ethnic groups” in Fiji. But of their 51 candidates, only three are Indo-Fijians and they made two of them to appear on their campaign billboard to mislead people to think that their candidates are evenly distributed on ethnic lines.

7. Biman criticises Bainimarama’s takeover of 2006. Yet he made one of Bainimarama’s right-hand men in that takeover to be his party president and election candidate this year.

8. Biman strongly claims that his party will not go into coalition with any party. But in Rabuka’s interview he stated, “As far as post-election is concerned, we don’t want to talk about that and jeopardise NFP’s relationship with their supporters”.

This can only suggest that both parties are lying to their supporters.

9. Biman boasted NFP will fight for the rights of all citizens. But when Indo-Fijians were called “kaisi” (low-grade people) in Parliament, he remained silent. When Muslims were abused, he remained silent. The Irish philosopher Edmund Burke once said, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”.