The Office of the President is yet to comment on allegations made by a couple who also uploaded a video of some officials in the President’s entourage intimidating them on Queens Highway in Navua on Sunday.
Fijivillage has sent questions to the President’s Office after the couple filed the complaint with Police and the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission.
Police have confirmed that they will investigate the case where a couple alleges that they were intimidated by some government officials, a man in civilian clothes and police officers in Navua on Sunday.
The couple has lodged a police report and had posted the video of the incident on facebook.
The couple told Fijivillage that they have been traumatized after the incident.
The wife who is 38 weeks pregnant alleges that while they were driving to Navua Hospital for a routine check up, she had some abdominal pains. She alleges that her husband was driving at the right speed limit fighting the wrath of the rain to make it to hospital, upon which they heard a siren from the back.
She says they gave them way but they kept tooting their horn as they could not give any more space.
The woman claims that the officials passed them on a double line and allegedly swore at her husband.
She says her husband yelled out for them not to swear. The officials then stopped in front of the couple’s vehicle and walked towards their car and started banging on their car.
In the video there was a man in a black suit, a man in civilian clothes and two police officers.
She says they started pointing at them and others surrounded their car. They were then asking her husband to get out of the car and saying whether he had seen their vehicle lights. The woman says the man went to her husband’s side and started demanding for his license and when her husband asked him, why is he asking for his license, as he did not show any ID proof, nor was he in police uniform, he said he will book him for obstruction on a busy road.
She says the man kept pointing at her husband and was trying to intimidate him.
The woman also claims that she was later pulled out of the car.
The couple say they lodged the police report as they are worried for their family’s safety.
Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Commission Director, Ashwin Raj contacted the woman yesterday morning and he has confirmed that the couple filed a complaint yesterday afternoon.
Raj says the commission has interviewed the complainants and will independently investigate the matter.
