Nobility MP Lord Fohe could become the second nobility member to join Hon Hu’akavameiliku’s cabinet.
The Prime Minister confirmed this in his response to a reporter during a press conference this afternoon.
The Tonga Broadcasting Commission’s reporter asked Hon Hu’akavameiliku whether it was true Lord Fohe had been approached to replace the deceased Minister for Food and Agriculture Viliami Hingano.
In his response the Prime Minister said in Tongan: ‘Osi ‘ave pe fokotu’u mau kei fakaongoongo pe ki he tu’utu’uni’.
This translates into English as “a proposal had been submitted and we are awaiting the decision’, implying that Lord Fohe was proposed to the king to be appointed as Minister for Food and Agriculture.
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Lord Fohe was a first time MP who was elected to Parliament by the 33 nobility members during last year’s general election.
His election to Parliament came shortly after he was fined $500 by a Magistrate court after pleading guilty to an assault of a man living in his estate. He was discharged without conviction.
As Kaniva News reported previously, the noble of Puke and his former Free Wesleyan church minister had to be allegedly restrained during a dispute over damage to a fence.
Local reports said at the time that that incident stemmed from the church minister being unhappy after a bulldozer destroyed the fence of the church’s ministerial residence.
