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Removing Fiji’s President from office was also in the plan to assassinate Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama, a new State witness revealed today.
Soldier Luke Toa told the High Court trial underway in Suva the ploy was relayed to them by former Counter Revolutionary Warfare soldier Barbados Mills in a meeting held in Sabeto, Nadi in 2007.
“Mills said the Commander was to be killed and the President changed,” Toa told Justice Paul Madigan and the five local assessors presiding over the case.
Toa said they were also told that all Indo-Fijians were to be “sent away” and replaced by Australian entrepreneurs who would set up new businesses in Fiji.
“Mills then told us that whoever leaked out the information would be killed.”
The defendants, Toa said, also planned to take over the 3FIR Military Armory in Narere.
Toa then told of a second meeting at the Fijian Teachers Association hall in Suva where Mills revealed the weapons to be used in the takeover to include AK47s and M16s.
The case is now in its third week.
