[1] While later serving as Ombudsman he completed a Bachelor of Laws at the University of the South Pacific.
[1] He worked as a civil servant, serving as Secretary to the Samoan Government, chief executive of the Department of Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs & Cabinet, and Commissioner to the South Pacific Commission.
In 1998 he chaired a commission of inquiry into the leaking of Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana's police record,[6] in which he ordered the media not to report on proceedings.
[11] In 2008 he chaired a commission of inquiry into the smuggling of weapons from American Samoa aboard the police patrol boat Nafanua.
[17] The inquiry reported back in 2018, recommending the creation of a Family Violence Prevention Office.