National Federation Party Leader, Professor Biman Prasad says Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum and all his Ministers are stoking fear using the 1987 coup but people are able to see through this.

He says people are not stupid and they understand the mess we are in this country as a result of bad governance and the two-men leadership.

Prasad says Sayed-Khaiyum and the Government’s tricks are not going to work.

He adds they need to fix the mess that has been created by Sayed-Khaiyum and Voreqe Bainimarama.

Prasad says the People’s Alliance and NFP are looking ahead and they need to work together to fix this country.

The party leader further says nobody discounts the fact that the coup happened in 1987 and nobody is defending the coup and the atrocities that were committed.

He says Sayed-Khaiyum fails to mention that his Prime Minister was the Army Commander in 2000 and did the coup in 2006 as the Commander, and questions whether Sayed-Khaiyum is trying to say that 2006 was a good coup.

Prasad further says Sayed-Khaiyum and his government are using Girmit as an occasion to just talk about the 1987 coup but everyone knows this.

It is an enormous insult to those affected by the 1987 coup - AG

09/05/2022

Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says it is an enormous insult to people seriously affected by the 1987 coup to hear Sitiveni Rabuka say that they are grateful to those that received those that left Fiji after 1987 and gave them better opportunities.

Sayed-Khaiyum says people suffered a lot and it is a further insult to those affected as the National Federation Party Leader, Professor Biman Prasad is saying nothing about it.

The Attorney General says he witnessed people leaving in desperation due to the direct result of the 1987 coup, and he also says the rationale and motivation in the 1987 and 2000 coups was completely different to the 2006 coup.

Rabuka had earlier said that they are grateful that Fiji had played a huge part in preparing those that left Fiji for greener pastures.

He says notably none returned to India and some have since returned to Fiji, more successful than when they left.

Rabuka says the indentured labourers programme for Fiji and other parts of the world was painful for those taken to the receiving countries but beneficial for all for the opportunities the displaced workers had in their new environment and the receiving States for the injected labour force to support their early colonial industries.