Commodore Bainimarama told a local radio station they want to come up with reforms and changes to make Fiji a better place to live in.
“That’s what people should understand especially the government of New Zealand and Australia,” he said.
He added that his government would face opposition to the reforms especially locally.
“We will have opposition to the reforms but especially coming from within the country from those who have been in government for a while and have not made changes,” he said.
Meanwhile, Fiji’s Solicitor-General Christopher Pryde has hit out at criticism from the New Zealand Law Society, following his reappointment by Fiji’s President Ratu Josefa Iloilo.
A statement from the Attorney General’s Office said a letter from the President advised Pryde tha the had been appointed solicitor-general under the State Services Decree 2009.
In a statement soon afterward, the former New Zealand lawyer said people could bury their heads in the sand and wish that things were otherwise but the fact remained that the president had abrogated the 1997 Constitution.
Pryde said New Zealand Law Society president John Marshall QC’s comments that lawyers should not accept office with the Fiji government were paradoxical.
“It is precisely at this time that Fiji needs good, competent lawyers to assist it and I am pleased that all the New Zealand lawyers working in the various ministries and departments in Fiji, including in my office, have committed themselves to staying on and seeing the country through this difficult period,” he said.
“The reappointment of people, including lawyers, to government positions and judges to the judiciary is an important part of that process without which, the road will be longer and rockier.”
