May 5, 2008

By Michael Field

Anybody who has ever met 56-year-old Bernadette Lavenia Rounds Ganilau knows her talk as about as big as her dress style. Loud.

The manly woman who signed up as a cabinet minister with Voreqe Bainimarama - she was quite unable to win any job democratically - is now revealing the real plot behind the December 2006 coup.

Strangly she does it very loudly in Suva coffee shops. Where simply everybody gets to hear.

Her story is not so unusual; its just that she is saying it.

The aged soul pronounced, for all to hear, that Mahendra Chaudhry is actually the mastermind behind the 2006 coup.

She says the poor Commodore really knows very little, and was roped in by Chaudhry to mount the coup.

All this is hardly surprising; the smart money has been on it for a while.
Corruption however knows no bounds. One can recall that BLRG was Voreqe's Tourism Minister - although she was banned from the relevant tourism markets, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

So she went to Dubai, paid for by the hard pressed Fijian tax payer.

Something happened, and she now virtually lives there, making money in some other fashion. Voreqe, on Chaudhry's  say-so, fired her last year.

Bainimarama has recently been in Dubai; but BLRG says she refused to attend any function he was at. She even claims she called him a coward - to his face. 

If this is the level of discourse going on with people like her, Fiji is in even worse trouble.

Copyright: Michael Field