Opposition Leader Sitiveni Rabuka will travel to New Zealand today after he got the clearance letter late from the Suva Court to allow him to travel overseas.
Rabuka was stopped from catching the Fiji Airways flight from Nadi yesterday morning after the Immigration Department said that he needed a clearance letter from the court.
A lawyer who represented Rabuka in the FICAC case, Lynda Tabuya says that the court had released Rabuka’s passport on Monday however he did not receive the accompanying letter stating that he has been cleared.
The Immigration Department needed to sight the clearance letter to allow Rabuka to travel.
Tabuya says Rabuka got the letter and tried to get the Air New Zealand flight yesterday afternoon however he could not make it on time.
Rabuka is going to attend the funeral of the late former Commander of Fiji and New Zealand, Brigadier Ian Thorpe.
He told Fijivillage he is trying to get connecting flights to arrive in time for the funeral in Rotorua today.
