Fepuleai Semi
Samoan ex-politician
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Fepuleai Seminary Iakopo is a former Samoan politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa from 1982 to 1988.[1]
Fepuleai Semi | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Samoa Parliament for Salega | |
| In office 11 March 1982 – 26 February 1988 | |
| Preceded by | Leilua Manuao |
| Succeeded by | Leilua Manuao |
Fepuleai was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in a by-election in 1982. He gave his first speech on 28 February and 1 March 1983.[2] He lost his seat at the 1988 election. He later moved to New Zealand, where he ran three companies providing labour to fruit and vegetable growers.[3] In 1991 he was made a Justice of the peace.[4] He was bankrupted between 1997 and 2000.[3] In 2009 he was convicted of 46 counts of GST and income tax evasion involving more than $800,000 of unpaid tax, and sentenced to two year's home detention.[3]
In 2003 he organised a petition and protest march to parliament against the Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982, which had stripped Samoans of New Zealand citizenship.[5] In August 2022 he supported New Zealand Green Party MP Teanau Tuiono's member's bill to repeal the Act.[1]
