Toomata Alapati Poese
Minister of Education
In office
24 April 2006 – 21 March 2011
Prime MinisterTuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
Preceded byFiame Naomi Mataʻafa
Succeeded byMagele Mauiliu Magele
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
In office
2005–2006
Member of the Samoa Parliament
for Salega
In office
1999 – 4 March 2011
Succeeded byNone (Constituency split)
Personal details
Died20 April 2014
Political partyHuman Rights Protection Party

Toomata Alapati Poese (~1950 - 20 April 2014)[1][2] was a Samoan politician and Cabinet Minister. He was a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.

Toomata was educated at the University of Hawaiʻi and worked as a lecturer at the School of Agriculture at the University of the South Pacific.[1] He was first elected to the legislative Assembly of Samoa in a by-election in 1999.[1] He was re-elected in the 2001 election and in 2005 was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.[3]

He was re-elected at the 2006 election and appointed Minister of Education.[4] In November 2009 he broke a leg in a car accident.[5] He subsequently pleaded guilty to two charges of careless driving,[6] and was fined US$150.[7]

He lost his seat in the 2011 election.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Samoa Loses Two Beloved Public Servants". Pacific Islands Report. 25 April 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  2. ↑ "Samoa's former Minister of Education passes away". Samoa News. 24 April 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  3. ↑ "TOOMATA Alapati Toomata". Parliament of Samoa. Archived from the original on 11 July 2007.
  4. ↑ "Five new faces in new Samoa cabinet". RNZ. 24 April 2006. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  5. ↑ "Call on Samoa PM to probe ministers' car accidents". RNZ. 13 November 2009. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "Samoa education minister pleads guilty to careless driving". RNZ. 4 March 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  7. ↑ "Samoa education minister fined for careless driving". RNZ. 19 April 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2021.
  8. ↑ "Samoa's ruling party retains power with reduced majority". RNZ. 6 March 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2021.


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