By Mataeliga Pio Sioa
If Tuilaepa could get Speaker Masepa’u to jump up his chair, angrily looking to punch his lights out, then in a boxing analogy, the opposition leader must be getting through the Government defences easily.
The snap call for a motion to hook him out of the House immediately, adds convincingly to the boxing analogy that Tuilaepa is indeed shredding the state defences.
If so, then he must be doing so at will.
The ’jump off his chair’ history making action taken by Speaker Masepa’u, like a raging bull frothing at the horns, says a lot.
Remember this is not the first time Tuilaepa got PM Fiame and Co. to upper cut him out of the House.
If the opposition leader can step in and seemingly dazzle at will the ruling party’s supposedly solid composure, what does that say about our political masters leadership qualities or lack thereof?
More worriedly, why is it so easy for Tuilaepa to get under the skin of PM Fiame and her ‘people’?
If this is a local perspective that emerges easily from the volcanic eruption in Parliament last week, imagine what the avidly watching international community maybe speculating about.
Would they have true cause to worry, if Government continues to follow this angry, unstable pathway against the expected goading by their political arch rival?
Samoa is one of the founding influences in the Blue Pacific states region.
Is it possible for the prolonged political woes corrupting its stability, of leaking in some ways into the cohesion of the region’s harmonious unity?
Anything is possible even when it seemed remote.
Tuilaepa did enjoy a good laugh at being knocked down for a 24 hour count inside the Round House ring.
True it may not be the first time but…..everytime that happens, it is like having the referee stand him up in the ring to raise his hand in victory.
Is it because he believes the knock out punches thrown at him by Speaker Masepa’u and MAF Minister La’auli landed back into their faces?
On a serious note, is this the kind of volatile leadership we should continue to entrust our future welbeing to?
The basic rule of good will and shared harmony is to laugh WITH and not laugh AT.
While Speaker Masepa’u and Minister La’auli were getting their fists cocked, Tuilaepa simply stood back and laughed AT them.
Can you see where ‘cocked fists’ and ‘Laughed AT’ feature in the formula for HARMONY?
Please show and tell when you do see it.