RABUKA wanted Fiji to go down the Tanzanian route, from whence sailed Chief Lutunasobasoba and his subjects to Feejee
LET'S ROB OUR NATIONAL BANK: The 1987 Rabuka Coups opened the bank's vaults for the CHIEFS and the THIEVES to rob the NBF
"Rabuka had appointed Visanti Makrava in December 1987, at the point of a gun. Makrava entered the NBF headquarters in Suva with a group of soldiers saying he had been appointed by the Brigadier, as Rabuka was then. At the time Makrava was manager of the NBF's Samabula branch where the army did its banking...The other link Rabuka had with the bank was through his friend and former army commander, Paul Manueli, who had become NBF chairman in January 1988. He was to stay in that position until June 1992 when he left to become Rabuka's Minister of Finance...Makrava certainly did Rabuka no favours when he was reported to have said,
"If I open my mouth, half the Government goes, including the leader."
