Fepuleai Seminary Iakopo is a former
Samoa
Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania, in the South Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main islands (Savai'i and Upolu), two smaller, inhabited ...
n politician. He was a member of the
Legislative Assembly of Samoa
The Legislative Assembly (), also known as the Parliament of Samoa (), is the national legislature of Samoa, seated at Apia, where the country's central administration is situated. Samoan Parliament is composed of two parts: the O le Ao o le M ...
from 1982 to 1988.
Fepuleai was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in a by-election in 1982. He gave his first speech on 28 February and 1 March 1983. He lost his seat at the
1988 election. He later moved to
New Zealand
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, where he ran three companies providing labour to fruit and vegetable growers.
In 1991 he was made a
Justice of the peace. He was bankrupted between 1997 and 2000.
[ In 2009 he was convicted of 46 counts of GST and income tax evasion involving more than $800,000 of unpaid tax, and sentenced to two year's home detention.][
In 2003 he organised a petition and protest march to parliament against the ''Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982'', which had stripped Samoans of New Zealand citizenship.]Teanau Tuiono
Teanau Tuiono (born 25 December 1972) is a New Zealand politician. In 2020 he became a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives as a representative of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Early life and career
Tuiono was born on ...
's member's bill to repeal the Act.[
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References
Living people
Samoan expatriates in New Zealand
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa
New Zealand justices of the peace
New Zealand criminals
Year of birth missing (living people)
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