Disunited

The senior officer corps of the RFMF is in disarray.

The latest news saying that Nasir Ali said that ‘Full Chow’ and ‘Marc Antonio’ were planning a counter coup against Bainimarama is a reality.

Teleni has long resented Bainimarama because he has always been the senior Naval officer. He has always been overshadowed by him and constantly told what to do.

His ’secondment’ to the Fiji Police Force is no surprise. Bainimarama has always suspected Teleni as a bit of a sneak. Again one of our many sources has noted Teleni saying behind Bainimarama’s back, “I have no idea why we did this coup, I’m not sure where the whole corruption thing came from”. This particular utterance has been noted by a lot of people and we have had emails regarding this. Teleni also resents Chaudhry because of his unbelievable sway and control over Bainimarama. He is privately seething over this fact and Chaudhry is one his major adversaries.

Fancy that. The Commander of RFMF and senior naval officer being directed by some ‘two-bit kaidia’.

But putting troops that are armed to the teeth under Teleni’s command would be bad for business in the eyes of Bainimarama. What we at TWF suspect is that Teleni was seconded deliberately to Fiji Police Force in order to keep him happy and so that no armed troops would be put under his command. It ensures that Bainimarama (and proxy enabler Chaudhry) keeps all the arms under his command and that Teleni has little or no power to conduct any ‘counter revolutionary’ activity. Teleni gets a nice salary double up and keeps him at bay for now.

Teleni isn’t the only one. The appointment of senior military officers to foreign diplomatic positions is another kind of weird. I don’t know exactly what the deal is but Bainimarama like all dictators is extremely paranoid. Even his most loyal troops, he holds with the highest suspicion.

The above I believe is true. Look at Hitler and Stalin. Don’t trust them. Purge them.

Or in the case of Fiji, send them overseas where they can’t do much.

Bomb threat…

Ex Fiji Tourist has his information right on the money about the bomb threat at the Holiday Inn.

It has the fingerprints of ‘dirty’ Driti all over it. But our sources from the inside say this was a combined and orchestrated maneuver from all the top brass. The word is that Aziz, Qiliho and Bainimarama as well had planned this once the word about the conference went out. Bainmarama had noted that several members of the NCBBF were participating in this conference alongside those who had vehemently opposed it. So he directed his top brass to dedicate themselves to a plan to stop the conference and put an end to it. It was to save face by the public not seeing those members publicly debate the issues.

Chaudhry had also had his finger in the pie. Our sources also tell us that Chaudhry was at pains to see the conference go ahead. Once again members of NCBBF participating and going against delays in the elections had made his blood boil. The very idea of elections in 2009 has been discussed much among himself, his son and his FLP collegaues. His conversations to his closest peers confirmed this. So he directed Bainimarama to put in the big one and find some way of stopping the conference.

Now whether Driti and co called it in because they wished to derail Bainimarama is something that is hard to piece together. But Bainimarama definately had a hand in asking for what could be done. The means to do break up the conference was not of Bainimarama’s doing.

It was either that or the police would have broken up the conference by force. Not wanting to anger the international community anymore, Driti had setup the plan to call in the bomb threat. It was quick, painless and hard to detect. But our inside sources don’t really have to do much. The senior military brass and interim government seem to mumble these things out loud to whoever they want. Through that people keep telling others and wham, you have your scoop.

But believe me, this is the RFMF at their ‘best’ surprisingly. The level of violence they are capable of is beyond belief.