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Acting FICAC Commissioner says she can't comment on FSC CEO Vakalalabure because it's a current investigation

Acting FICAC Commissioner says she can't comment on FSC CEO Vakalalabure because it's a current investigation

By Alipate Narawa
01/01/2026
When asked if she would like to comment on public commentaries that the reason the investigation into Fiji Sports Council CEO, Gibert Vakalalabure is taking long is because he is her brother in law, Acting FICAC Commissioner, Lavi Rokoika says it is a current investigation.

Rokoika stated this to the media at the FICAC office saying she cannot comment on a current investigation. 

Insert: Rokoika on systems Dec 31
She says they disclose, and then they recuse.

When asked about Permanent Secretary for Fisheries, Atelaite Rokosuka who was involved in the wind turbine project with Vakalalabure who was found guilty by the Public Service Disciplinary Tribunal and reprimanded publicly but resumed office on the 19th of this month, Rokoika says she is unable to comment on files that they have and files that they do not, and investigations that they will be conducting or have conducted.

She says they wrk on complaints that is given to them, and from then on, the process will then go through within the system of the organization.

The Acting Commissioner says in terms of that particular file, it will be inappropriate for her to talk about files within the commission.

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