I would like to urge all in Fiji to allow due process to be carried out, respect everyone’s right to confidentiality and to ensure the inquiry is carried out properly, ensuring that all parties are heard.
Acting Prime Minister and head of the government taskforce looking into the operations of Grace Road in Fiji, Manoa Kamikamica has made this clear as he says people should await the outcome of the inquiry into Grace Road.
Kamikamica also stresses that it is not a witch-hunt as it is a request by the Prime Minister to conduct an inquiry to ensure that Grace Road is in compliance and that no laws were breached in Fiji and Korea.
He says he is also mindful of the investment climate in Fiji and the perception that may start growing that the government is trying to look at every business and do inquiries into them, but that is certainly not the case.
When questioned by fijivillage News on whether the inquiry is looking into how and why the Fiji Development Bank gave a loan to Grace Road and the controversial circumstances surrounding the Grace Road Church with it’s leader convicted and imprisoned for certain charges in South Korea, Kamikamica says this is all part of the inquiry.
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Kamikamica says he has respectfully suggested to everybody to turn the temperature down, let’s have a proper investigation, give Grace Road the opportunity to explain their position, and the government will come to a proper decision.
He says trial by media or trial by social media is not pleasant and we need to be respectful.
Kamikamica says on the balancing side of it, without sounding like he is defending Grace Road, the company has lifted business standards in the country.
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He says the government will follow the rule of law and they will go in accordance with what the facts determine after the inquiry.
