Honour Noa Nadruku
The annual Coral Coast Sevens 2018 was no doubt a success. It was a tournament that was well organised and a lot of talented players were identified.
We will soon have the 2019 tournament and we hear former Springbok Bryan Habana has been invited.
Don’t you think it’s also time to honour Noa Nadruku?
The highlight prior to the tournament was the unveiling of the commemorative plaque on the world’s only rugby walk of fame, which is very special and unique In 2018 we welcomed D.J. Forbes, the most capped sevens player, as our ambassador.
Previous ambassadors were David Campese, Waisale Serevi, Jonah Lomu, Ben Gollings, Viliama Satala, Karl Tenana and Lote Tuqiri.
We have no doubt forgotten somebody special and the irony is that he is a son of Nadroga.
Noa Nadruku has to be recognised. What he did for Fiji on the field was unbelievable.
He was part of the Fiji team that won three years in a row in Hong Kong. Na- druku terrorised everyone on the field with his sidestep and tackling prowess.
I hope that the organisers of the Coral Coast Sevens will honour this Namatakula man who currently lives in Australia. Let’s honour our local heroes as well.
It is reported that church ministers of the Christian faith in Samoa have appeared in their respective district courts to answer charges for failing to lodge their income tax returns, do we have the same laws for our talatala, pastors or reverends, fathers, priests and archbishops.
It is a great and fair practice where you give to Caesar what rightly belongs to Caesar as is biblical, our government is missing out on a lot of income derived by the church in the guise of tithings where the church heads and their high-ranking officials derive a mammoth amount of dollars to safeguard and maintain their lavish lifestyle.
The majority of them own buildings which are rented out to Fijians where they derive incomes comfortable for themselves, they own luxury vehicles and fly in and out of the country when it suits their agendas, they all benefit equally from our governments many incentives and userfriendly policies, so why not.
Their church members live in poverty, but do they care?
They are mostly blinded by greed and cannot see or respect the silent sufferings of their congregation who will fork out monies for any church functions in return for their brainstormed blessings to which they still wait for.
I am not sure if that taxed income for all our religious faiths is a law in Fiji, but I would like to urge our FijiFirst government to please enact the law in Parliament so that we are all on equal playing field as Fijians.
I just find it unjust that we workers are already taxed from our incomes where we are again taxed through our tithings to the church.
Me soli vei Sisa na ka ga e dodonu me soli ki vua (Give Caesar what is Caesar’s).
I find it totally negative and is against the spirit of our 2013 Constitution or where is the equal share distribution policy? They should not be allowed to hide under the guise of religion when we all see its physical evidence in front of us.