Dear Editor,

During the so-called 2021 Samoa "constitutional crisis," a senior Faatuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi Party advisor famously said that the "math" on the Constitutional 10 per cent provision for women's representation didn't add up.

It was the same math that decided the Samoa Airways aircraft lease agreement wasn't profitable.

The same math was probably used to calculate the cost-benefit analysis of the $255 million district projects.

That is the problem when advisors who have never managed an economy or balanced a national budget pretend to be "math experts."

Let us give Cabinet advisors a simple math problem to consider.

What percentage of cabinet ministers are in the country dealing with 100 per cent of the nation's problems?

The answer is 26 per cent.

Think about it.

Four Cabinet Ministers are trying to manage the electricity shutdowns, a drug epidemic, land disputes, out of control crime, flooded airports, a coastal environmental disaster, and heaven knows whatever else is brewing in the shadows.

While the rest are dancing and singing their way across the United States and the world.

A bus running at 26 per cent engine capacity will never reach its destination.

The oil will clog up, fuel will run out, tyres will go flat, and the poor Samoan passengers will have to get out and push!

At this rate, we will never catch up to our problems. That is the real math.  God help Samoa.

Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi

Leader of HRPP