He was dismissed from the post after only four days after RFMF Commander Frank Bainimarama accused him of planning a mutiny.
[3] He was educated at the Marist Brothers High School in Suva and De La Salle College, Māngere East, before attending Auckland University of Technology, where he studied civil engineering.
[16] In September 2006 Fiji's Public Service Commission shortlisted him for a job as Commissioner of Corrections, causing tensions with the military.
[21] In November 2007 he was arrested alongside his brother -in-law Ratu Inoke Takiveikata and businessman Ballu Khan and accused of being part of a plot to assassinate Bainimarama.
[3] In November 2008, when granting a permanent stay of proceedings against Khan, the High Court of Fiji raised doubts about the evidence against Baledrokadroka.
[30] In 2012, in the leadup to the general elections scheduled for 2014, the first since the 2006 coup, he expressed scepticism about whether the Military would allow the vote to be free and fair.
"The path in this progress towards democracy has been fraught with allegations of continuing military oversight and interference in the constitution-making process," he wrote in an Australian National University journal.
"And it is possible that the new Constitution, once it has been finalised by Bainimarama’s handpicked Constituent Assembly, might become a setback to democracy by spawning a military backed one-party state.
In April 2023 he was appointed by Fiji's newly-elected coalition government to head a review into restoring the Great Council of Chiefs.