Tuilaepa rejects Commission of Inquiry into Measles Outbreak.

Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi

The Prime Minister of Samoa Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailalel Malieliegaoi. Source: Paul Kane/Getty Images.

Samoa's prime minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi has rejected calls from members of the Tautua Party for a Commission of Inquiry into the measles outbreak that raged through the country killing more than 80 Samoan citizens.


In a grab taken from his answer to a question on Tautua's proposal, Tuilaepa says... 'Unless they're Samoans who don't want to be Samoans, those who get easily swayed by what papalagi (white people) say and then blindly follow suit..'


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