He was appointed as the Minister for Justice, Communication & Foreign Affairs,[1] in the cabinet of Kausea Natano following the 2019 Tuvaluan general election.

[2] In May 2016, as the senior magistrate, Kofe determined that former Prime Minister Apisai Ielemia was guilty of corruption and sentenced him to 12-month imprisonment.

[3] In June 2016, Justice Norman Franzi of the High Court of Tuvalu quashed Ielemia's conviction and acquitted him of the abuse of office charges.

The effect of the judgment was that Ielemia's conviction and sentence by the Senior Magistrate was re-instated but remained subject to a rehearing of the appeal by the High Court.

[8][9] On 19 September 2019, Kausea Natano was voted into the office of Prime Minister of Tuvalu by a parliamentary majority consisting of 10 MPs.

The project’s first initiative is values- or culture-based approach to diplomacy based on Tuvaluan values of olaga fakafenua (communal living systems), kaitasi (shared responsibility), and fale-pili (being a good neighbour), in the hope other nations will be motivated to understand their shared responsibility to mitigate climate change and sea level rise.

[16] The following year, in November 2022, he recorded a speech where he outlined that in response to rising sea levels, Tuvalu will replicate itself into the Metaverse, stating that "our land, our ocean, our culture are the most precious assets of our people and to keep them safe from harm, no matter what happens in the physical world, we will move them to the cloud.

The leaders of the Pacific Islands Forum countries published a declaration on 6 August 2021 that recalling that Pacific Islands Forum Members have a long history of support for the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the “Convention”), and which declaration ended with a proclamation: “that our maritime zones, as established and notified to the Secretary-General of the United Nations in accordance with the Convention, and the rights and entitlements that flow from them, shall continue to apply, without reduction, notwithstanding any physical changes connected to climate change-related sea-level rise.”[24][15] Kofe summarised the changes to the Constitution as focussing on key areas: "(1) the climate crisis and recognition of Tuvalu’s statehood; (2) enhancing the stability of governance; (3) judicial reforms; and (4) rights and culture.