LITTLE KNOWLEDGE : Opposition MP Lealailepule Rimoni Aiafi reaction to MOF Statement of correction.
By Staff Writer
National loan repayment debt claims by the FAST faction under the party chairman is shrugged off as shameful by MP Lealailepule Rimoni Aiafi.
The Faleata MP and Opposition, Human Rights Protection Party General Secretary reaction, follows a Ministry of Finance public statement of correction.
“It’s an embarrassment,” MP Lealailepule reacted to the contradictory claims by the Chairman led FAST faction.
“This is what happens when you have a former Minister of Finance booted from her portfolio, before she could fully understand enough to comment.”
MP Lealailepule pointed to the reported involvement of FAST MP Mulipola Anarosa, whose conflicting national repayment claims sparked the MOF reaction.
The former Finance Minister was removed from office after the controversial Hong Hong Stock Exchange Market she was directly involved in.
The MOF ‘Public Debt’ correction statement, sets out the ‘mandate of prudent debt management to address the misinformation being publicly shared.’
It went over loan repayment schedules, major creditors and a promising debt servicing performance as far back as 2017 up to 2024/2025.
“The MOF statement underlined a steady flow of progress based on financial policies started by the HRPP Government and still largely in place,” MP Lealailepule added.
“When the FAST Government took over, Samoa’s finances were in a good, healthy position and it’s unfortunate the sacked Minister of Finance was poorly informed.”
The full statement of the MOF updated national debt was uploaded earlier in our Newsline Samoa Online page.
