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"The reconciliation that has been undertaken today will be worthless if investigations into the coup do not reveal the truth behind the staging."
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(Attributed to him by his daughter, Adi Koila Nailatikau in a Senate speech, 22 October 2004)

 

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"I would never be involved in an illegal activity. I believe I was related to the coup because I was criticising the Chaudry Government. When Chaudry became Prime Minister he was very unfair to my companies, infrastructure wise, and I was taking him to court and to the media. In the midst of this the coup happened. Mr Qarase, who became the Prime Minister, was previously Assistant Chairman of one of my companies where I was the Chairman. These were the reasons that have caused the rumours. Yes, I did not like the Chaudry government but no, I was not related to the coup plot." (on rumours that he had helped to finance the coup d'état fronted by George Speight in May 2000)

 

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