Please listen and protect the whistleblowers.
That is the message to the people of Fiji from Charlie Charters' wife, Vanessa Charters outside the FICAC office last night.
Charlie remains in FICAC custody and will be questioned again this morning.
His wife says she keeps getting messages from people telling her to be strong.
Vanessa Charters says this is not a time to be strong.
She says the problem with people is when they are trying to be strong, they don't listen, and they stop listening.
She says this is a time when we need to be vulnerable and be comfortable with being vulnerable, and if you are FICAC or Fiji, or any sort of organization, if you have a whistleblower who is telling you that something is deeply, deeply wrong, you must listen.
She says in life, if there's some little voice in your head that says, don't do that, it's not right, you have to listen, and in listening, you have to be comfortable with being vulnerable.
Charters says when we are vulnerable and we understand what it is that we are either doing wrong or we need to change, then in that state of vulnerability, we can grow, and we can get better.
