Controversies
On 28 June 2005, Bune joined his party's eight representatives in the Senate in angrily denying rumours published in a newspaper that a Labour Senator had visited imprisoned Senator Ratu Inoke Takiveikata and promised that a future Labour government would free him if he resigned from the United Fiji Party. Bune called the report "gutter-level journalism", pointing out that the article provided no names and quoted anonymous sources. "It is an obvious artifice," Bune said. Takiveikata is serving a life sentence for his role in assisting an army mutiny at Suva's Queen Elizabeth Barracks on 2 November 2000, an attempt by hardline Fijian nationalists to seize control of the army, then the country. Four loyal soldiers were killed in the mutiny, and after their capture, four of the rebels were beaten to death by loyalists.
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