Samoa’s Prime Minister, Tuilaepa Sailele, has
rejected a reporter’s request for an English version of a
media statement, saying it wasn’t his duty to do
translations.
A local television reporter asked the Prime
Minister to repeat what he had said for the benefit of that
station’s English-speaking audience.
Tuilaepa stopped
giving media conferences in English in the early 90s when he
noticed that all except one of the reporters present were
Samoans fluent in the language.
He was then the Deputy
Prime Minister and Minister of
Finance.
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