SODELPA Leader Sitiveni Rabuka has spoken about his passion to resume the work on the 1997 constitution as according to him he wants to return Fiji to genuine democracy and constitutional legality and legitimacy.
Rabuka was speaking to 100 law students and faculty of the University of Fiji School of Law.
Rabuka quoted the late Archbishop Petero Mataca who said that “No matter how we come to be in Fiji, or how long we have been here, we are all part of this land.
It is the land of our birth or the land of our adoption, the land to which we belong”.
Rabuka says that we must all embrace this sentiment because it is the truth about our nation, and we must all collectively nurture such thoughts during our daily lives.
He says the late Archbishop Mataca’s sentiments helped to change his perception from the narrow beliefs he held in 1987, to display the kind of national leadership that he felt owed to the people of Fiji when he became Prime Minister in 1992, to review the 1990 constitution and enact the 1997 constitution.
We will have more on Rabuka’s comments later today.
