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Issue No: 812; 31 May 2001
The Cakaudrove Provincial Council is in the red, says a rebel. Speight terrorist Rakuita Vakalalabure is quoted by the Fiji
Times as saying "We are defaulting payments to various financiers". Rabuka had won this seat in the 1999 election but resigned within a month to take up the Chairmanship of the Great Council of Chiefs. Rabuka was later dropped from the Chairmanship. He was this month appointed by the Cakaudrove Provincial Council as its Chairman. Vakalalabure had won this seat in a by-election. He later
joined the terrorists and was sworn in as their Home Affairs Minister. He is a
Bond University law graduate. He has still not been charged by the police for
treason. It is believed that the failure of the police to charge him emerge from
the fact that he is a son of a radical chief Ratu Tevita Vakalalabure.
Vakalalabure senior was heavily defaulting his loan repayments in the 1990's
when the Fiji Development Bank allowed him a repayment regime which will take
him over 70 years to repay the debt. Laisenia Qarase was the Managing Director
of the FDB for many years. |
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