A o tulimati ai nei le taimi e folasia ai i le Palemene o Niu Sila se tulafono taufaaofi a se sui faipule o le vaega faaupufai o le Green, ua faailoa e le taitai o le Itu Agai o le Palemene o Samoa, Susuga Tuilaepa L Sailele Malielegaoi lona lagolagoina o lea tulafono taufaaofi o loo autu i le toe finauina o le faaiuga a le faamasinoga maualuga a Peretania o le tausaga e 1982, na avea ai tagatanuu uma o Samoa na soifua mai i le tausaga e 1949 ma sitiseni poo tagatanuu o Niu Sila.
I se pepa o faamatalaga tusitusia mo le Faatonu (Letter to the Editor) mai le susuga Tuilaepa o loo ia toe faamanatu mai ai le sao tāua o le Malo o Niu Sila i le 48 tausaga o ana pulega faakolone i Samoa, sa aoaoina ai o tatou tagata i le tāua o pulega e faavae i tulafono poo le Rule of Law.
O se aoaoga tāua tele e pei ona faailoa e le taitai o le Itu Agai o lea e tatau ia i latou na amatamea i le fausia o tulafono ona faaaloalo ma usitai iai.
O loo faailoa foi e Tuilaepa i lana tusi i le faatonu, taimi o pulega a le Malo o Niu Sila i le tausaga e 1976 a o faamautu ai i Niu Sila mo le ono masina, sa ia molimauina ai pulega a le faigamalo a le alii Palemia o Robert Muldoon, na saili ai o tatou tagata i ta’ifau.
O le aotelega o lea tusi a le taitai o le Itu Agai i le gagana Peretania:
“Samoans have been well educated for 48 years by our former colonial master, the Government of New Zealand. So well educated that we now fully embrace the application of the phrase, “The Rule of Law”.
“Its most important meaning is that those who make the laws must be the first to honour them. Legislation passed by the Parliament of New Zealand in the early 1920s, and again confirmed by the highest Court of Appeal of New Zealand in 1982, stipulated that Samoans born before 1949 are New Zealand citizens. The National Government of Prime Minister Robert Muldoon and the New Zealand Parliament, however, negated the impact of the law and the appeal decision by creating a Protocol allowing 1100 Samoans to emigrate to New Zealand for citizenship per annum under certain conditions which in the end proved impossible to meet”.
“Indeed, even brief visits today by our people are made extremely difficult and very expensive for many. The private member’s bill by one of the Green Party MPs to reopen the question of the protocol and end the injustice done to the Samoan people is a great initiative that all Samoans in Samoa are grateful for. I was in New Zealand for 6 months in 1976 and witnessed the Muldoon Government’s use of dogs to arrest Samoans and other Pacific Islanders and send them back to their islands”.
“This harsh treatment of our people led to the Privy Council’s Appeal decision and the protocol being the subject of the proposed bill before the Parliament of New Zealand”.
Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi
Leader of HRPP
