The Interim Prime Minister and Army Commander Frank Bainimarama should come forward and give details on the necessities under which he carried the takeover on December 5th, 2006.

While making submissions for ousted Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase and others against the interim government, QC Nye Perram said that Commodore Bainimarama is the only person who knows everything behind the real reasons for removal of a democratically elected government.

Perram said Laisenia Qarase came forward and was also subject to not so respectful cross examination by QC Gerad McCoy and the Commander should also come forward and give his side of the story.

The QC stressed that Commodore Bainimarama could singularly reveal why December 5th was necessary. He also said that certain contradicting evidence has been put forward on behalf of the Commander and if he were to take the stand it would be a cross examiner's dream.

Perram said the Commander had explained after the events of 2000 stating what was the necessity of his actions, however, this time around he refuses to come forward.

He said the Commander also saw it fit to the tell the nation the status and stand of the President in an address on December 5th, 2006 but he sends his people to court to argue executive privileges not to reveal certain information.

The SDL Lawyer also said that the defendants submissions of the Great Council of Chiefs recommendations on December 22th, 2006 cannot be accepted. He said the defense failed to note the fact that the GCC recognized that it was ONLY due to the actions of the military that the SDL government had been rendered incapable and ineffective.

Perram said saying the SDL government was dysfunctional cannot be justified as the defendants were the cause of the dysfunction when Qarase was removed from Office and confined against his will on Vanuabalavu.

He said the GCC statement is inept and incapable of providing plausible arguments on the necessity which led to the events of December 2006.

Perrem continues his submissions on the evidence provided in court earlier by Defense that most of the ousted SDL ministers had applied for and are on pensions as former Cabinet ministers and on the evidence that Qarase had asked for foreign intervention on or about December 5th, 2006.

Following that Fiji Human Rights Commission Director Dr. Shaista Shameem, who is acting as an amicus or friend to the court will make submissions.