Keni Dakuidreketi
Keni Dakuidreketi is a Fijian politician, who served as Minister for Youth, Employment Opportunities, and Minister for Sport in the interim Cabinet formed by Laisenia Qarase in the wake of the Fiji coup of 2000. He held office till an elected government took power in September 2001, then went back to running his very successful land valuation business. His friends call him Serea, after the part of Viti Levu that he hails from.
Since the Fiji coup in 2006, Dakuidraketi has been involved in a court battle surrounding his role as an executive in Fiji's Native Land Trust Board (NLTB). Although the trial has had multiple ups and downs and the case was even thrown out by multiple judges over the course of 8 years, the military government of Voreque Bainimarama continued to push for Dakuidraketi's guilt. Finally, on 14 August, 2014, Dakuidraketi was sentenced to a six year prison sentence with parole available only after five years, a harsh and unjust sentence by any standards for the trumped up charges filed. The case reinforced accusations that the Fijian courts are nothing but extensions of the desires of the military leader who overtook Fiji's democratically elected government and over the course of eight years, has stifled the media and created an environment ensuring his own continuing power.
He is married to Lusi Ravuvu (daughter of prominent academic Asesela Ravuvu) and has two children - Litia and Daniel.