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Jiko Fatafehi Luveni was born on 20th November, 1945, married with five children.

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The late Doctor Jiko Luveni, Fiji's first female Speaker of Parliament has been laid to rest at Lovonilase Cementery....

Jiko Luveni

Fijian politician

Jiko Fatafehi Luveni (c. 1946 – 22 December 2018) was a Fijian politician and Speaker of the Parliament of Fiji.

She was a member of the FijiFirst party before resigning her party membership in order to take up the position of Speaker. This was because the Fijian Speaker is not a Member of Parliament and cannot be a member of a political party pursuant to section 77(1)(a) and section 77(7)(b)(ii) of the Fijian Constitution.^[1]

Early life

The daughter of a former shopkeeper turned shipping magnate, Luveni came from the village of Nukuni on the island of Ono-i-Lau, in the Lauarchipelago.

She was educated at Lautoka Fijian School and then at Nabua Secondary School in Suva, before enrolling in Adi Cakobau School in Sawani.^[2] She graduated from the Fiji School of Dentistry in 1967, the first Fijian woman to do so.^[2]^[3] After graduation, she worked for twenty years for the Ministry of Health, before wo