Niko Lee Hang

Papalii Niko Lee Hang is a Samoan politician and Cabinet Minister. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.

Papalii Niko Lee Hang
Niko Lee Hang in 2019
Minister of Works Transport and Infrastructure
Assumed office
18 March 2016
Prime MinisterTuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
Minister of Finance
In office
2006 – 21 March 2011
Succeeded byFaumuina Tiatia Liuga
Member of the Samoa Parliament
for Urban East
Assumed office
4 March 2016
Preceded bynone (constituency created)
Member of the Samoa Parliament
for Individual Voters
In office
18 December 2001 – 4 March 2016
Preceded byChan Chui Van Sung
Succeeded bynone (constituency abolished)
Personal details
Political partyHuman Rights Protection Party

Hang is an accountant by profession and a former Public Trustee. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa as one of two parliamentary representatives reserved for Individual Voters in a by-election in December 2001. In January 2002 he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary to Minister of Justice.[1] In 2004 he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary to minister of Revenue. He was re-elected at the 2006 election and appointed Minister of Finance. He was re-elected again in the 2011 election, but replaced as Finance Minister by Faumuina Tiatia Liuga.[2] From 2012 to 2014 Hang opposed plans to replace the individual voter seats with two urban seats.[3][4]

After serving a term as a backbencher, he was re-appointed to Cabinet following the 2016 election as Minister of Works Transport and Infrastructure.[5][6]

He is married to Doris Ruth Lee Hang and they have four children.[7]

References
  1. "LEE HANG Niko". Parliament of Samoa. Archived from the original on 24 August 2007.
  2. "Former opposition leader in Samoa joins new ruling party cabinet". RNZ. 21 March 2011. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  3. "Two Samoan MPs strongly opposed to plans to replace their individual voters' seats". RNZ. 9 February 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  4. "Samoa MPs Express Opposition To Constitutional Changes". Pacific Islands Report. 25 June 2014. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  5. "Many New Faces in Samoa Cabinet". Talanei. 22 March 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  6. "Former Samoa deputy PM left out of cabinet". RNZ. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
  7. "Minister of Works, Transport and Infrastructure". Retrieved 2020-09-12.


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