Tapunuu Niko Lee Hang

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Tapunuu Niko Lee Hang
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Niko Lee Hang in 2019
Minister of Works Transport and Infrastructure
In office
18 March 2016 – 24 May 2021
Prime MinisterTuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
Preceded byFaamoetauloa Ulaitino Faale Tumaalii
Succeeded byOlo Fiti Vaai
Minister of Finance
In office
24 April 2006 – 21 March 2011
Preceded byMisa Telefoni Retzlaff
Succeeded byFaumuina Tiatia Liuga
Member of the Samoa Parliament
for Vaimauga No. 3
Assumed office
9 April 2021
Preceded bynone (constituency created)
Member of the Samoa Parliament
for Urban East
In office
4 March 2016 – 9 April 2021
Preceded bynone (constituency created)
Member of the Samoa Parliament
for Individual Voters
In office
18 December 2001 – 4 March 2016
Preceded by
Succeeded bynone (constituency abolished)
Personal details
Political partyHuman Rights Protection Party

Tapunuu Niko Lee Hang (born ~1954)[1] is a Samoan politician and former Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.

Hang is an accountant by profession and a former Public Trustee.[1] He was educated at Waikato University in New Zealand and the University of New England in Australia.[1] He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa as one of two parliamentary representatives reserved for Individual Voters in a by-election in December 2001. In January 2002 he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary to Minister of Justice.[2] In 2004 he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary to minister of Revenue. He was re-elected at the 2006 election and appointed Minister of Finance.[3] He was re-elected again in the 2011 election, but replaced as Finance Minister by Faumuina Tiatia Liuga.[4] From 2012 to 2014 Hang opposed plans to replace the individual voter seats with two urban seats.[5][6]

After serving a term as a backbencher, he was re-appointed to Cabinet following the 2016 election as Minister of Works Transport and Infrastructure.[7][8] In September 2018 he claimed that the chief executive of the Ministry of Works, Afamasaga Su’a Pou Onesemo, had been fired for poor management.[9] He retracted the claim two days later.[10]

Following the abolition of his urban voters seat he contested the new seat of Vaimauga No. 3 in the 2021 Samoan general election and was re-elected.[11]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Lanuola Tusani Tupufia (10 April 2016). "Minister vows for truth and justice". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  2. ^ "LEE HANG Niko". Parliament of Samoa. Archived from the original on 24 August 2007.
  3. ^ "Five new faces in new Samoa cabinet". RNZ. 24 April 2006. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  4. ^ "Former opposition leader in Samoa joins new ruling party cabinet". RNZ. 21 March 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  5. ^ "Two Samoan MPs strongly opposed to plans to replace their individual voters' seats". RNZ. 9 February 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  6. ^ "Samoa MPs Express Opposition To Constitutional Changes". Pacific Islands Report. 25 June 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  7. ^ "Many New Faces in Samoa Cabinet". Talanei. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  8. ^ "Former Samoa deputy PM left out of cabinet". RNZ. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  9. ^ Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu (19 September 2018). "P.S.C. terminates services of Public Works C.E.O." Samoa Observer. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  10. ^ Joyetter Feagaimaali’i-Luamanu (21 September 2018). ""I was wrong," Minister admits error in reading of Public Works C.E.O. decision". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  11. ^ Lanuola Tusani Tupufia - Ah Tong (20 April 2021). "Vaimauga candidate considers petition". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 7 June 2021.


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