A Nauru opposition MP says claims by the island's home affairs minister that cronyism has hampered the judicial sector and this is why key officials have been removed, is ridiculous.
Last month the resident magistrate was deported and the Australian-based chief justice denied a visa.
The minister, Charmaine Scotty, says the senior expatriates at the top of the Nauru bureaucracy tended to look after themselves and the government wants a fairer system.
But MP Roland Kun says the cronyism claims have no basis.
He says the chief justice was appointed through a due process and if Ms Scotty is going to make claims of cronyism she has to provide evidence.
"We have challenged them to do exactly that in Parliament, in the last parliament sitting but they have continued to fail to do so. They are coming up with all sorts of things because they just don't have any explanation for their lack of regard for the rule of law in Nauru."
Nauru MP Roland Kun
