Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - George Speight ya fito ne daga Naivicula, kimanin kilomita goma daga Korovou a lardin Tailevu. Shi ɗan Sam Speight ne (wani lokacin ana kiransa Savenaca Tokainavo), wani manomi mai wadataccen ƙabilar Fiji da asalin Turai. Speight dattijo tsohon soja ne wanda ya yi aiki a cikin nasarar yakin Malayan
Ka yi haƙuri. Daga baya ya yi aiki a matsayin backbencher a cikin gwamnatocin Rabuka a cikin shekarun 1990. A lokacin da dansa ya yi yunkurin juyin mulkinsa a 2000, duk da haka, Sam Speight ya kasance dan adawa na Majalisar, Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei ya rasa iko ga Jam'iyyar Labour ta Indo-Fijian ta Mahendra Chaudhry a zaben 1999.