Sala Fata Pinati

Sala Fata Pinati
Minister of Tourism
In office
30 June 2016 – 24 May 2021
Prime MinisterTuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
Preceded byLautafi Fio Selafi Purcell
Succeeded byFiamē Naomi Mataʻafa
Minister of Police
In office
21 March 2011 – 25 November 2016
Preceded byToleafoa Apulu Faafisi
Succeeded byTuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
Minister of Prisons
In office
21 March 2011 – 30 June 2016
Preceded byToleafoa Apulu Faafisi
Succeeded byTialavea Tionisio Hunt
Member of the Samoa Parliament
for Sagaga No. 3
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 April 2021
Preceded byNone (seat created)
Member of the Samoa Parliament
for Gagaemauga No. 1
In office
31 March 2006 – 9 April 2021
Preceded byTuala Ainiu Iusitino
Succeeded byTuala Iosefo Ponifasio
Personal details
Political partyHuman Rights Protection Party

Sala Fata Pinati is a Samoan politician and former Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.

Career

Pinati was previously a member of the board of the Development Bank of Samoa.[1] He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa at the 2006 Samoan general election, and appointed Associate Minister of Agriculture.[1] In 2007, he became Associate Minister of Education, and then from 2008 - 2010 he served as Associate Minister of Finance.[1] Following the 2011 election he was prosecuted for bribery, but the charge was later dropped.[2] In March 2011 he was appointed to Cabinet as Minister of Police and Prisons.[3] During this term he separated management of prisons from the police, establishing an independent Samoa Prisons and Corrections Services.[4]

He was re-elected at the 2016 election,[5] and retained his position as Minister of Police and Prisons.[6][7] Following the election, he was again prosecuted for bribery,[8] but the charge was again withdrawn.[9] A Cabinet reshuffle in June 2016 saw him lose his Prisons portfolio to Tialavea Tionisio Hunt, instead becoming Minister of Tourism and the Public Trust Office.[10] A further reshuffle in November 2016 saw him lose his Police portfolio to Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi and pick up responsibility for the Audit Office and Bureau of Statistics.[11]

He ran in the newly created Sagaga No. 3 electorate at the 2021 election and was elected.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Honourable Sala Fata Pinati". Government of Samoa. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Bribery claim against Samoa police minister dropped". RNZ. 12 May 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Former opposition leader in Samoa joins new ruling party cabinet". RNZ. 21 March 2011. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  4. ^ "Samoa plans to separate police and prison functions". RNZ. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  5. ^ Diedre Fanene (7 March 2016). "Doing what needs to be done". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  6. ^ "Many New Faces in Samoa Cabinet". Talanei. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  7. ^ "Former Samoa deputy PM left out of cabinet". RNZ. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Several face election bribery charges in Samoa". RNZ. 13 April 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Charges against Samoa cabinet minister dropped". RNZ. 12 July 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  10. ^ "Samoa PM reshuffles his cabinet". RNZ. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  11. ^ "Samoa PM takes over police portfolio". RNZ. 25 November 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2020.


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