Manasseh Sogavare - the Puppet

  Hon. Braddley Tovosia (55), MP for Guadalcanal Mr. Tovosia is a Member of Parliament from Guadalcanal Province . He is one of the avid supporters of the Mr. Sogavare in his pro-Chinese agenda. In the recent parliament seating last week, he rose to his feet and berated opposition MPs and attacked so-called protesters and rioters - many of them from Malaita province. He told them to leave Guadalcanal, and Honiara. He later clarified his remarks and paid compensation to Malaitan leaders and apologized for his unnecessary outburst in parliament.  There are better ways to approach this issue. He could have addressed those rioters and people who planned to disrupt Honiara during the parliamentary seating through the 'Speaker of Parliament'. Yet, he was directly talking to Opposition MPs who are mainly from Malaita Province.  Like Sogavare, Hon. Tovosia is an aggressive, bully and a sometimes acting as if he was speaking to a bunch of gangsters, and not honourable Members representi

  In his past three terms as a prime minister, he was considered a stubborn leader who would bully his ministers and backbenchers to bend to his will. During his three terms, he lost the majority of MPs, each time he was removed from the office of the PM and replaced by new PMs via secret ballot.  The Question is now is - why is he still in power?  The answer is, Mr. Sogavare is backed by Chinese money. The first trial of his Chinese-back government occurred at the end of 2021 when Parliament met to consider a No-Confidence Motion filed by the Leader of Opposition, Hon. Matthew Wale. After screaming and shouting on the floor of parliament led by Sogavare, the vote was heavily in favor of the Mr. Sogavare. He decisively defeated the NCM giving him time to implement his Chinese-backing agenda. 

  If you put water in a glass container and watched for days, you won't see any change to the water, the clarity, depth and its movement. But if you put a hard object inside that water, it changes everything. It changes the stillness of the water, its depth, and coloring if the object is colored. Your conclusion is, the foreign object changed the nature of the water. In this analogy, your conclusion is simply - the foreign object changed everything.  Sogavare and China Since China entered SI, everything changed and continues to change. The election dates are deferred, foreign Naval ships are being subjected to new standards, reaction to foreign diplomat changed, views on human rights changed, regional security also changed, and new standard for accepting foreign money also changed. So, the new changes and be summed up this way - they come along because of the Chinese government's presence in SI. 

  Mr. Sogavare is the law - he changed the law of the country to suit his own political agenda. Last week, 37 Members of Parliament backed Sogavare to extend parliament term from 4 years to 5 years, simply changing the laws for his personal ambitions, in what pundits beloved was done at the behest of the Chinese government. 

 Welcome,  This blog documents the history of Sogavare and his controversial dealings since entering politics in 1997. Mr. Sogavare is the only prime minister in the history of Solomon Islands to hold the office of Prime Minister in four different terms - 2000, 2006, 2014, and 2019 - to current.  In his first three stints, Sogavare was marred by controversies and eventually voted out of office. He became the most revered and feared politicians in Solomon Islands. He was also the first PM to take on Australia after the election of 2006 - kicking out the Australian Higher Commission to SI, and appointed a sex offender as Attorney General of SI in defiance of protestation of the 'Civil Society' and the regional partners.