tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745785272753572871.post6952554611355649888..comments2023-11-01T04:14:15.636+12:00Comments on Intelligentsiya: Speaking truth to powerChiefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01291952121795963341noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745785272753572871.post-35555844548421340382007-06-13T10:22:00.000+12:002007-06-13T10:22:00.000+12:00A National Day For Prayer. Say a prayer for Fiji t...A National Day For Prayer. Say a prayer for Fiji tomorrow citizens.Thursday, June 14. I will be at Sukuna Park @ 1: p.m wearing black. Before you break for lunch, wherever you are say a prayer for all the suffering and hardship people are going through today, those without jobs, those without food and children who cannot go to school. Those who have lost loved ones, lets pray for them. Sa cakacaka tiko na vu ni ca e Viti. Meda masulaki na noda Viti lomani. Kemuni na noda mai vavalagi, please say a prayer at the appointed hour. If you can go without food on that day and break after your prayers, believe that there is power in prayer, then let God do the talking after that. Pass this message around.<BR/>God Bless Fiji. <BR/>Tui.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745785272753572871.post-31564411718332484312007-06-10T13:19:00.000+12:002007-06-10T13:19:00.000+12:00Interim AG calls on Justice Ward to resign Sunday ...Interim AG calls on Justice Ward to resign <BR/><BR/>Sunday June 10, 2007 <BR/> <BR/>Interim Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum <BR/><BR/>Fiji’s Interim Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum has called on the President of the Fiji Court of Appeal Justice Gordon Ward to resign. <BR/><BR/>In a statement Sayed-Khaiyum claims Justice Ward supported (lawyer) Graham Leung and wrote a letter to LAWASIA questioning as to why its president Mah Weng Kwai had taken the post of commissioner on at the Fiji Independent Commission Against Corruption. <BR/><BR/>Sayed-Khaiyum said Justice Ward should immediately hand in his resignation and save "our judiciary and our nation at large from the onslaught waged by those such as him, Leung and other of their ilk." <BR/><BR/>He added it is a grave concern and Justice Ward has completely compromised his position, that of an independent judge. <BR/><BR/>"All these matters are before the courts and a senior judge making such pronouncements indicates that he is not independent, is partisan and clearly unfit to hear any such matters or matters that concern the Government, FICAC and indeed other members of the judiciary." <BR/><BR/>Sayed-Khaiyum added that his pronouncements as a senior judge will in all likelihood have an impact on the legal interpretations and actions of judges of the High Court and the Magistracy. <BR/><BR/>"It places our judiciary as a whole in an invidious position. <BR/><BR/>"Such actions of senior members of the judiciary as demonstrated through the 2000 experience invariably tend to cause a major damage to the independence of the judiciary," he said. <BR/><BR/>The Interim AG added that it is also of grave concern that he (Justice Ward) has brought the July session of the Fiji Court of Appeal forward given, "what can only be now termed as his very public political and legal leanings, in particular when two of the appeal matters which were to be heard in July session involve the Acting Chief Justice and a former Prime Minister and Commander of the RFMF." <BR/><BR/>According to Sayed-Khaiyum, on May 30 Justice Ward wrote to LAWASIA on the letter head of the Court of Appeal questioning as to why Mah had taken the position. <BR/><BR/>"In his letter amongst other things he stated that the events of December 5 was a ‘coup’, that our ‘President has no power to make laws’ and consequently made judgments about FICAC," he said. <BR/><BR/>Mah has confirmed that he will tender his resignation as commissioner of FICAC to the President Ratu Josefa Iloilo tomorrow. <BR/><BR/>Justice Ward and Leung are unavailable for comments<BR/><BR/>FijiliveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com