Tui Vuda opens GCC complex

Exactly 134 years since the first meeting of the chiefs of Fiji after Fiji was ceeded to Great Britain, the Turaga na Tui Vuda Ratu Josefa Iloilo today opened the Vale ni Bose of the Fijian Trust Fund this morning in Nasova.

During the opening ceremony, Ratu Iloilo stressed that the new meeting house emphasis the way forward for the administration of indigenous Fijians affairs which was established under the colonial systems.

He said this comes exactly 134 years to the date of the first official post-cession meeting of the chiefs of Fiji which was held at Draiba in September 1875.

Ratu Iloilo recalled the culmination of the Vale ni Bose was in 2001 when the Great Council of Chiefs resolved that the construction of the GCC complex should commence.

Three years later in 2004, the late Tui Tavua Ratu Ovini Bokini officiated the ground breaking ceremony and in 2005 the Marama Roko Tui Dreketi Ro Teimumu Kepa performed the Vakasobuduru of the new complex.

Present at the opening today were business people, government officials, Turaga na Qaranivalu Ratu Inoke Takiveikata, Tui Macuata Ratu Aisea Katonivere and Tui Ba Ratu Sairusi Nagagavoka.