- Josaia Waqabaca
Josaia Waqabaca (pronounced|josaja waŋgabaða) is a
Fiji an public figure and former political organizer, who has become apolice informant about theFiji coup of 2000 . Waqabaca was convicted and imprisoned in2001 for plotting to kidnap the Military Commander, CommodoreFrank Bainimarama , in2000 .A former official of the
Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party (NVTLP), Waqabaca claims to have been hired by two businessmen, at the behest of the party, to help bombNadi International Airport and strategic positions inSuva after the People's Coalition had come to power in the general election of1999 , and to have initially participated in, before withdrawing from, the campaign of unrest that led to the coup d'état which deposed the Chaudhry government inMay 2000 . He has supported similar allegations made by coup-convictMaciu Navakasuasua .In an interview with the
Fiji Sun , published on22 December 2005 , Waqabaca said that a religious conversion experience had led him to confess his role in the2000 coup.The
Fiji Sun reported on6 March 2006 that Waqabaca had applied for theFiji Labour Party (FLP) nomination for the Suva City Fijian Communal Constituency for the upcoming parliamentary election, due on 6-13 May 2006 . He described the ethnic politics to which he had once subscribed as "suicidal" and that dialogue with other ethnic leaders was the only way forward. He went on to contest the seat, receiving 675 votes, or 6.84 percent of the 9,865 votes cast. He thus became one of a mere handful of FLP candidates to poll more than five percent in a Fijian communal constituency.The "Fiji Sun" quoted Waqabaca on
16 March as saying that in late February, he had been confronted by Cabinet MinisterTed Young and rebuked for not joining the rulingSoqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua (SDL), and later by the businessmen who had planned the bombing of Nadi airport, who had forced him to sign a denial of his earlier media plans. He had signed the denial only out of fear for his life, he emphasized.See also
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Allegations about the Fiji coup of 2000
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