“Absolutely emotional” is how a former National MP describes the moment when a bill that may restore citizenship for some Samoans passed its first reading.
Anae Arthur Anae is now urging the Samoan and wider community to make submissions for the Restoring Citizenship Removed by Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982 bill.
The bill aims to repeal the Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act 1982 which removed the right for Western Samoans born between 1924 and 1948 and their descendants to become NZ citizens.
Anae says, “my only words to all of them…
