Law will take its course despite traditional apology

Assistant Commissioner of Police Operations Livai Driu says though the two schools involved in the stoning incident on Friday afternoon have traditionally reconciled, the law will still take its course.

This is in the case of Ratu Kadavulevu School students allegedly stoning a bus carrying Lelean Memorial School students who were returning from the Eastern Zone rugby competitions at the Dawasamu Secondary School grounds on Friday afternoon.

A year-11 student sustained injuries as a result of the stoning incident and was treated at the Korovou Hospital and released. There were damages on the bus as well.

“In regards to that case from RKS, although they have done their own reconciliation between the schools, but for the investigation it’s ongoing now and we have few students who were taken into Korovou and we will charge them,” ACP Driu said.

“The law will take its course, at the moment we just had one that was taken in and probably we will get more but the investigation is still ongoing now,” he said.

With more games from the Fiji Secondary School Rugby competition expected in the coming weeks, school students and teachers have been warned to not take the law into their own hands.

“They must all respect the law, no one is above the law.”

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