The former Haʻapai MP Viliami Pousima Afeaki has died today March 22 (US Time) at the age of 65 in McKay-Dee Hospital Ogden, Utah in the United States.
His daughter Victorina (Dorina) Afeaki Kioa has confirmed this to Kaniva News.
Afeaki was MP for Haʻapai from 1987 until 1993.
He was beaten in the general election by ʻUliti Uata.
His daughter Telesia Afeaki Tonga wrote on Facebook and said:
“My father Viliami Pousima Afeaki has left this mortality to prepare a place for his faithful eternal companion Henilieta Wolfgramm Afeaki, his loving children and wonderful grandchildren”.
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