| Tapunuu Niko Lee Hang | |
| Office2: | Minister of Works Transport and Infrastructure |
| Term Start2: | 18 March 2016 |
| Term End2: | 24 May 2021 |
| Primeminister2: | Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi |
| Predecessor2: | Manu'alesagalala Enokati Posala |
| Successor2: | Olo Fiti Vaai |
| Office4: | Minister of Finance |
| Term Start4: | 24 April 2006 |
| Term End4: | 21 March 2011 |
| Predecessor4: | Misa Telefoni Retzlaff |
| Successor4: | Faumuina Tiatia Liuga |
| Constituency Mp14: | Vaimauga No. 3 |
| Parliament14: | Samoa |
| Term Start14: | 9 April 2021 |
| Term End14: | 29 November 2022 |
| Predecessor14: | none (constituency created) |
| Successor14: | TBA |
| Constituency Mp15: | Urban East |
| Parliament15: | Samoa |
| Term Start15: | 4 March 2016 |
| Term End15: | 9 April 2021 |
| Predecessor15: | none (constituency created) |
| Constituency Mp16: | Individual Voters |
| Parliament16: | Samoa |
| Term Start16: | 18 December 2001 |
| Term End16: | 4 March 2016 |
| Predecessor16: | Chan Chui Van Sung |
| Successor16: | none (constituency abolished) |
| Birth Date: | 1953/1954 |
| Death Date: | 29 November 2022 (aged 68) |
| Death Place: | Motoʻotua, Samoa |
| Party: | Human Rights Protection Party |
Tapunuu Niko Lee Hang (1953/1954 – 29 November 2022)[1] was a Samoan politician and Cabinet Minister. He was a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.
Hang was an accountant by profession and a former Public Trustee.[2] He was educated at Waikato University in New Zealand and the University of New England in Australia.[2] He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa as one of two parliamentary representatives reserved for Individual Voters in a by-election in December 2001. In January 2002 he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary to Minister of Justice.[3] In 2004 he was appointed Parliamentary Under Secretary to minister of Revenue. He was re-elected at the 2006 election and appointed Minister of Finance.[4] He was re-elected again in the 2011 election, but replaced as Finance Minister by Faumuina Tiatia Liuga.[5] From 2012 to 2014 Hang opposed plans to replace the individual voter seats with two urban seats.[6] [7]
After serving a term as a backbencher, he was re-appointed to Cabinet following the 2016 election as Minister of Works Transport and Infrastructure.[8] [9] In September 2018 he claimed that the chief executive of the Ministry of Works, Afamasaga Su’a Pou Onesemo, had been fired for poor management.[10] He retracted the claim two days later.[11]
Following the abolition of his urban voters seat he contested the new seat of Vaimauga No. 3 in the 2021 Samoan general election and was re-elected.[12]
Tapunuu died at Tupua Tamasese Meaole National Hospital in Motoʻotua on 29 November 2022, at the age of 68.[1]