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SAMOA’S LONG STANDING PM DECLARED ‘PERSON OF THE DECADE’
By Savea Sano Malifa and Mata’afa Keni Lesa APIA, Samoa (Samoa Observer, Jan. 3, 2012) - One thing you have to understand right from the start about Samoa Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi is that he believes he’s always right, never wrong. So that as far as he’s concerned anyone who questions him is either insanely wrong or an unforgivable idiot.
He feels this way because he believes he is chosen to do anything he thinks is right to move Samoa forward economically, never mind what anyone else thinks.
And that’s Tuilaepa, 66, Lepa-born and raised, happily married to Gillian Meredith, sired eight children, 12 grandchildren, devoutly religious, sometimes obnoxiously arrogant. However, deep down he’s alright. Below the tough veneer is a great, resourceful man.
Which follows that if today he wants to pass a law to change the way God thinks, that law will be passed without...