By Mataeliga Pio Sioa
Pray Tuilaepa will be able to set his HRPP sails to ride out the political fury of Cyclone FAST.
He has to for the sake of saving this land we love and boast of as ‘Founded On God.’
The raging winds of power is being fanned by blind revenge to politically dismember a legacy of national good that credits the Tuilaepa name.
The horrors of the 2 year suspension handed down on him and Lealailepule speak volumes of the retaliatory mindset of PM Fiame and FAST.
All the talk in Parliament yesterday of setting a righteous pathway for those who stray from the law to follow in the future rang hollow.
It was so hollow it wafted out like thick BS – Big Smoke, to hide the real intentions to tear Tuilaepa and his imposing leadership they cannot compare against and has shown no sign of matching.
The biggest tragedy of our ‘Tuesday Trauma’ is the missed chance for political reconciliation.
The opportunity was handed down on a golden platter.
All Fiame had to do was blast away all her angry hang-ups first at Tuilaepa for forcing them to be sworn outside Parliament House and whatever wrong he stands accused of.
When all that is done get rid of the 2 year suspension in true reconciliatory spirit and open out her arms to offer Tuilaepa a loving ‘kiss and make up’ hug.
The country will be in tears. Why not?
After two years of bitter and divisive politics a new chapter of peace and harmony finally opens. Sadly, the opportunity went begging.
All we are left with now is a political divide that has widened further to beat a lot of hearts faster – not just Samoans.
Where our unity as a country now stands in the aftermath is scary.
Our politics are frighteningly volatile.
The national economy is crumbling with reports that our GDB has dropped by 10 per cent – the lowest ever.
To hide behind the excuse the “… whole world is facing the same high cost of living”, is pathetically mental.
The world does not put food on the table, pump free gas into your empty car tank or put ‘alofa’ money into the ‘faifeau’s’ pocket.
All that, God will guide and protect us ‘run of the mouth’ from the Govt. MPs to justify the suspension of Tuilaepa and Lealailepule is sickening.
God in His infinite wisdom and tolerance would probably go, ‘Yeah, Yeah, Yeah’, while switching off….but will wonder if His Servants are doing enough to help fix the problem, they played a big part creating.
This Parliament suspension is going to give us big problems we don’t need right not.
Fiame and her Government needs all the help they can get to govern well. Right now, that is not happening.
Nothing promising has come out so far in their development policies. To claim they have only been in office for under two years is not good enough. Stop it!
What they want is the experience of leadership with proven success to show them the ropes of good governance we have enjoyed under Tuilaepa.
You don’t get that by suspending the very person who can help. One who has been there done it to the applause of a nation of grateful Samoans.
It is not just inside Samoa they have to look at. Our development depends heavily on the support of the international donor communities.
Those donors are watching very closely the hostile political environment coming out of Samoa. Nervous fingers do not write well.
Donor fingers are going to get a bad run of the shakes when it comes to writing up million dollar assistances to developing countries slipping quickly back into ‘least developed status’.
Samoa became a glowing model to other third world countries when it built its economy up from a least developed nation to a developing one.
To see it slip down again is not going to excite the helping hands of our donor community.
A dishonorable legacy for any Government after taking over the country in a healthy state of national progress is to undo all the hard work the others left behind.
Fiame and her FAST Government is far from showing any real signs yet of matching and overtaking the success left behind by the man they have just tried to silence for two years.
What we need now is a skipper with the experience, vision, wisdom and the nerves of steel to sail Samoa through this ship sinking political cyclone weather.
In whatever direction you have set your suspended sails Tuilaepa along with Lealailepule, steer well.
For all our sake.