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Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through an Oct. 5th executive order, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga directed ASG’s Office of Political Status, Constitutional Review and Federal Relations — referred to by many as the Political Status Office (PSO) — to prepare for the Constitutional Convention...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The Fono Joint Budget Committee will convene in the near future, once a date is firmed up to debate the final fiscal year 2022 budget, and the Fono leaders will await the return to the territory of Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga to meet with them on certain...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Among the passengers on yesterday’s outbound sector repatriation flight back to Honolulu, was Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, who has appointed Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale V. Ale as acting governor.
Lemanu made the appointment in a July 28th memorandum to...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — While supportive of federal conservation efforts, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga says he does not support additional federal regulation for coral critical habitat that are already protected under American Samoa law.
“American Samoa is already highly-federally...
This photo posted Tuesday to the ASG Facebook page shows Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga (right) serving lunch to students at a school. Information with the photo states that the governor visited various schools to inspect different access roads to prepare for and respond to the...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga delivered his first Flag Day address last Friday as chief executive during the scaled back one-day 2021 Flag Day ceremony at Malaeoletalu in Fagatogo, on a cool morning this past Friday, under the theme, “Triangle of Service:...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga and Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo V. Ale have “made their full commitment to serving the people of Manu’a” and the commitment was made during their trip late last month to the island group along with several cabinet members according...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga has vetoed a Senate bill approved by the Fono during the First Session of 37th Legislature that increases the contribution rate for both government and employee to the ASG Employees Retirement Fund (ASGERF).
The governor’s veto...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Through a Mar. 29th memorandum, Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga is allowing all government entities to procure telecommunication services from any organization so long as laws are followed.
Lemanu’s memo titled ‘Procurement of Telecommunication Services’...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, in a letter to other territorial governors is seeking their support for American Samoa’s stance on self-determination, which — according to opponents of the suit — is currently threatened by the US citizenship federal lawsuit,...






![Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale, Fono leaders and Chief Justice Micheal Kruse and VIPs stood on stage at the Fagatogo Pavilion during the national anthems of the United States and American Samoa at last Friday’s 2021 Flag Day ceremony. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga, Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Ale, Fono leaders and Chief Justice Micheal Kruse and VIPs](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/vips_flag_day_2021p0577.jpg?itok=nF6kTdRG)
![Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga last month, deplaning for the ground breaking of the Ofu Runway project. The Governor and First Lady arrived in Ofu, Manu’a on Friday, March 26 with other ASG Cabinet Members as well as the Lt. Governor. Gov. Lemanu is pictured here on the soon-to-be closed Ofu airport runway. [Manu’atele Community Worldwide Facebook page] Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/gov_lemanu_in_ofu_0.jpg?itok=Iu5zHxu2)

![“Departments, offices, agencies, and authorities may procure telecommunications services from any organization so long as they comply with applicable procurement laws and rules,” Lemanu said in the brief memo addressed to his cabinet members. [SN file photo] Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/gov_lemanu_at_desk_0493_13.jpg?itok=n-YGK5J1)
![Lemanu believes that the issue confronting U.S. Nationals in Utah can best be resolved by passage of US House legislation - H.R. 1941 - which “would expedite reclassification of national to citizen to anyone who chooses it.” [SN file photo] Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga,](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/gov_lemanu_standing_3.jpg?itok=VDO9KMmw)