pn925. Getting Rid of Seini Puamau

Today, Acting Chief Justice Salesi Temo said he is exploring four options to remove Magistrate Seini Puamau for not ordering jail sentences on former PM Voqere Bainimarama and former police chief Sitiveni Qiliho. See post pn923.

They are: 

1. Activate contempt of court action against her;

2. Refer her to the police for allegedly disobeying a lawful order;

3. Recommend to the President that she be removed from the bench;

4. Ask her to resign.

So  .... in addition to hounding Bainimarama on a dubious charge, he is now hounding someone who was trying to uphold the law and do justice. God bless Fiji! Civil liberties may have improved under the new government but justice and upholding the law certainly has not.

-- ACW