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Qarase Denies Calling Chaudary Clever
“I was misunderstood”

The deposed Prime Minister, Laisenia Qarase has denied calling the interim Finance Minister, Mahendra Chaudary, ‘Clever'.

Speaking to a local reporter from his Mavana home, Mr. Qarase said that he was just making an inquiry into possible names that he could have called Mahendra Chaudary.

”I think there has been some misunderstanding. I was just making an inquiry on my own initiative and what I had was an entire 20 pages list of names that I could call Chaudary. I had lots of options on the list but believe me the word ‘clever' was not one of it," Mr. Qarase explained

Mr. Qarase also said that he still believes that he is the legitimate holder of the ‘clever' title.

However, the claim by Mr. Qarase of not calling Mahendra Chaudary ‘clever' was totally dismissed by the RFMF. In a statement released a short while ago, the RFMF stated that Laisenia Qarase called Chaudary clever on three occasions.

“We have all the reasons to believe that Laisenia Qarase opted to use the word “clever' as a reference to Mahendra Chaudary on multiple occasions and the entire population of Fiji should know how low can this Qarase guy stoop by saying what he said,” the unsigned statement read.

When questioned by reporters before he left for Labasa to survey the flood damage, Mr. Chaudary giggled and responded, “Well if he did call me ‘clever' then we should take joy in the fact that Qarase has finally started to speak truthfully.”

Meanwhile, the Methodist Church of Fiji after releasing the unsigned 20-point statement released a revised doctrine stating that apart from being accountable before God they are also accountable before RFMF.

In other news, the Minister for Public Services, Poseci Bune has asked the public sector union representatives to stop thinking of their pockets only and consider the plight of the entire trousers.