Tonga PM needs to step up and end turmoil - Malakai Koloamatangi Featured
Massey University's Dr Malakai Koloamatangi Photo: Massey University
5 March, 2018. An academic has said the disorder in the Tonga government is due to a lack of leadership.
In the past week, the Tonga Cabinet has lost one Minister to resignation, another who threatened to resign claiming his Cabinet colleagues were not supporting him, and a third is facing serious criminal charges.
This comes as Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva recovers from ill-health, while his deputy Semisi Sika is out of the country, accompanying the King on a trip to China.
The director of the Pasifika Centre at New Zealand's Massey University, Malakai Koloamatangi, said what is happening is symptomatic of a lack of leadership.
"So there is no clear sign of authority, if you like, in the government in Tonga," he said.
"And you have the politicking going on behind the scenes and it is not a good look, certainly from outside Tonga it looks very bad. Leadership is needed at this time obviously."
-RNZI
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This significant article on the interview of Associate Professor Dr Malakai Koloamatangi (Mafua-'ae-Lulutai) calling for the dire need for "Tonga MP to step up and end turmoil" must be read together with the informative editorial review and view by the Editor of the current state of political leadership in Tonga ("Vaivai 'a e tu'unga fakataki he fonua") and both be also read together with Mark Hanson's interesting comment on the two Lavulavus under the serious crimes of fraud they have recently been charged for ("'E toe ha 'Akosita mo 'Etuate Lavulavu he Fakamaau'anga 'aho 26 Ma'asi").
Should the good call by Associate Professor Dr Koloamatangi be changed from "Tonga PM needs to step up and end turmoil" to "Tonga PM (and all his Cabinet Ministers) need(s) to STEP DOWN and end the turmoil for him (them) personally (collectively) and more importantly for the whole of the innocent people" (tukukehe 'ae kakai na'a nau fili 'a e kau TEMO moe PTOA) in view of the fact that he completely lacks (or has "weakness of," to use the editorial view and review) the physical, mental and spiritual capacity and capability to lead the country (or, worst still, be even considered a leader)? That is, "he 'oku (nau) sino vaivai, 'atamai vaivai mo laumalie vaivai!"
What about his entire Cabinet Ministers, do they all, like the PM (like the Ministers), have "sino vaivai, 'atamai vaivai, and laumalie vaivai," to lead or even be considered leaders? 'O hange pe ko e ke i mafaifai mo fematematei 'a e ongo Lavulavu hono fai 'a e siokita, ta'e'ofa, ta'emingao, ta'emanonga mo e ta'eoli (neongo kuo a'u ki he Tu'i 'o Tonga mo e Tu'i 'o Langi) he'ena feinga ke taetae 'ae me'a kotoa pe 'oku na fou mo faingamalie ke fai he funga 'o e hokohoko kaka, matafefeka mo e pau'u lotu ka e fefe 'ala si'i kakai 'o e fonua? -
OF COURSE DR. KOLOAMATANGI FINALLY ADMITS PM 'AKILISI POHIVA'S LACK OF LEADERSHIP IN DEMOCRATIC FASHION IS NOT ACCIDENTAL...Something many of us in Tonga have known succinctly for years like Cyclone Gita warnings before it arrived...DEVASTATION!
Many of us applauded Dr. Koloamatangi's excellent seminar on democracy last year, but he sounds more wishful thinking that the present crop of "democratic" actors are capable of leading the country in the modern age. Now this group of "democratic leaders" are showing signs as the notorious "Gang of robbers who keep shooting themselves on the foot before they could make their getaway." Yes, they are a gang of robbers through corruption, incompetent, and downright dishonesty.
Yes, incompetency is dishonest because one is a fraud to pretend that he/she is qualified for the job. The Greeks knew them as "sophism" which rhymes with "sophistication, sophisticated, and pretending" etc. -
The leadership and authority in Tonga at this time are with 'akilisi's children and close allies - osi, 'oi, teni, veni, tala and lila-uata-kala-elu. 'Aki has lost his marbles and his 'alu-momoiki and highly deficient short-term memory are signs of the final days. It's time to go home with whatever little dignity you still have.