Best Decision, Claims the PM

Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka maintains that he made the best decision in not informing anyone about Minister for Education, Aseri Radrodro’s three-month dismissal.

Mr Rabuka said everyone was kept in the dark.

“I made the decision which started the journey, and I ended it,” he said on Friday.

“What general will give his battle plans to his enemy?

“I don’t believe that his will be any reaction in Cabinet, and we continue as normal. There may be personal dissatisfactions, but I am the leader, and they have all sworn their support to me and I count on that. Together we can make it.”

He said no one pressured him to reinstate Mr Radrodro.

“I don’t need to be pressured because I had this in mind from the beginning. I didn’t tell anyone. I considered everything on my own and I made my own conclusion and carried out the action of the past few days,” Mr Rabuka said.

“They didn’t know that the 22nd (April) was the end of the three-month period and I had done this in my Cabinet before.”

He was referring to his late uncle, Militoni Leweniqila in the then Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua (SDL) party and General Voters Party (GCP) Cabinet.

“This was my own uncle, who was in my Cabinet as the Minister for Agriculture. I also made him to step down and then brought him back. So, it is a part of leadership in a discipline situation where you abide by the codes written or not of actions and conducts.”

He assured the public that he was the decision maker and not his Cabinet.

“Decision of any Cabinet minister is not taken by Cabinet. It is taken by the head of Cabinet which is the Prime Minister, and I don’t want them to be equally blamed. I can carry the blame myself and that is part of my job.”

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