Home Affairs Minister Pio Tikoduadua has instructed all military personnel on ministerial security detail to return to their camps effective immediately.
He said all security requests would be handled by the Fiji Police Force and that “soldiers should just go back and do soldiering work”.
Mr Tikoduadua said military personnel were not bodyguards or to be used for carrying ministers’ shoes or cleaning their cars as it was not their job.
“The only person that is entitled to security is the Prime Minister. “I don’t see why anyone should be running with security around this place until somebody can prove to me that you need personal protection.”
Mr Tikoduadua was briefed by Republic of Fiji Military Forces Commander Major-General Ro Jone Kalouniwai and Police Commissioner Brigadier-General Sitiveni Qiliho at his office yesterday.
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