Faimalotoa Kika Stowers | |
Office3: | Minister of Health |
Primeminister3: | Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi |
Term Start3: | 27 April 2019 |
Term End3: | 24 May 2021 |
Predecessor3: | Tuitama Talalelei Tuitama |
Successor3: | Valasi Toogamaga Tafito |
Office4: | Minister for Women, Community & Social Development |
Term Start4: | 18 March 2016 |
Term End4: | 27 April 2019 |
Predecessor4: | Tolofuaivalelei Falemoe Leiʻataua |
Successor4: | Tuitama Talalelei Tuitama |
Constituency Mp10: | Gagaifomauga No. 1 |
Parliament5: | Samoa |
Term Start10: | 15 August 2014 |
Predecessor10: | Tuilo'a Anitele'a Tuilo'a |
Party: | Human Rights Protection Party |
Faimalotoa Kika Iemaima Stowers Ah Kau is a Samoan politician and former Cabinet Minister. She is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.
Stowers was educated at St. Mary’s College in Vaimoso,[1] before becoming a broadcaster for Radio 2AP, where she worked from 1968 to 2003 and rose to become Director of Broadcasting.[2] She was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in a by-election in 2014.[3] She was re-elected in the 2016 Samoan general election and appointed to Cabinet as Minister for Women Affairs and Social Development.[1] [4] In November 2017 she allegedly assaulted another member of her family, and prosecution was contemplated.[5] [6]
In April 2019 she was replaced as Minister of Women, Community and Social Development by Tuitama Talalelei Tuitama in a cabinet reshuffle, taking up Tuitama's portfolio of Health.[7] As Minister of Health she led the response to the 2019 Samoa measles outbreak[8] and to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stowers was re-elected in the April 2021 election.[9]