Frank Bainimarama: Quotes about laws

Frank Bainimarama is Prime Minister of Fiji. Explore interesting quotes on law.
Frank Bainimarama: 68 quotes0 likes

“The Bill will legitimise the 2000 coup and will weaken the law and order agencies. All the good work of rebuilding Fiji to what it is today will be undone. The freeing of anyone (even if their crimes are politically-motivated) will show to the world that we are a nation that condones law breakers. It also means that we support terrorists as the Police Commissioner has commented.”

Frank Bainimarama

2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

“There are two things that need to be taken away. First the lies and this government which needs to follow the law and imprison those implicated in the coup. The chiefs are being used just like those that have been made to believe that there is $6million in the bank for them. This Bill was pushed by the SDL party, the very same people that supported what happened in 2000 and there are opportunists seating in the council looking to mislead the council.”

Frank Bainimarama

2000, Warning to the Great Council of Chiefs, 9 March 2006

“Why should only a few people be freed and not others when we are all serving under the same law?”

Frank Bainimarama

2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

“Who's promoting the Bill? These are people in the current Government who participated in the 2000 coup. Some have been convicted, others are facing trial, there are still others left whom the long arm of the law should get at.”

Frank Bainimarama

2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

“This Bill is not about crime committed within one group of people but involves many races living in Fiji. Therefore we can not apply one law onto another. We need to protect the whole population; the different faiths; cultures and traditions.”

Frank Bainimarama

2000, Excerpts from an address to Fiji's Great Council of Chiefs, 28 July 2005

“I don't have to be nice to people who are causing great damage to the nation … I refuse to be nice to people who want to overthrow what the military and the security forces have been doing to maintain law and order in this country in the past five years since the illegal overthrow of the Labour Government … I refuse to be nice to people like Jioji Kotobalavu and Qoriniasi Bale. I don't have to be nice to anyone trying to destabilise what the army has built.”

Frank Bainimarama

(30 May 2005).
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