Rabuka In India

The People’s Alliance (PA) leader Sitiveni Rabuka flew out of the country yesterday for an ur­gent engagement in India.

Reliable sources claim he also made the tour for a pos­sible medical examination, but PA general secretary Sa­kiasi Ditoka, did not provide any specifics for the visit.

“Mr Rabuka had flown out to India for an overseas en­gagement that he had been invited to,” he said.

Mr Ditoka however, could not no give details nor provide in­formation on the nature of the pro­posed meetings.

He only said that Mr Rabuka was scheduled to return to Fiji next week.

Mr Rabuka was initially booked on a flight to Sydney, Australia.

This was changed and he depart­ed for Brisbane instead and was scheduled to transit Singapore to travel to Delhi.

He is scheduled to return on May 17.

In 2006, Mr Rabuka was an ar­thritic knee patient at the Welcare Hospital in India.

He had also carried out his post­graduate studies at the Indian Defence Services Staff College in 1979.

After his coup of 1987, he expelled the then Indian High Commission­er to Fiji, T P Sreenivasan and had shut down the Indian High Com­missioner in Suva.