The Minister of Education, Seuula Ioane Tua'au has confirmed that the Ministry of Education has declined a proposal from the school committee and member of parliament for Sagaga No.2, Maulolo Tavita Amosa to terminate the principal of Sagaga College.

In an interview with the Samoa Observer, Seuula stressed that there were no grounds to sack the school principal over the stated reasons by the MP and the committee.

"This happened during the Members of Parliament's Conference where I met with the MP for Sagaga last year following a letter that was given to the ministry stating the request to terminate the principal for Sagaga College," he explained.

"However, after thorough investigations by our lawyer, there were no valid grounds to sack the principal. That's when the ministry wrote back to inform them about our decision but they haven't responded.

"But what happened was that with the disputes with the land,  the school principal was looking at needs of the school that needed to be satisfied at that time."

Attempts to get a comment from the school principal on Tuesday were not successful as she was informed to refer all matters to the Chief Executive Officer (C.E.O.) of the Ministry, Aeau Chris Hazelman.

Meanwhile, Maulolo was also queried about why they tried to sack the principal through the letter and he said she disobeyed the committee's instruction not to build the canteen where it's currently being built due to land disputes.

"It was because the principal was disobedient with the committee's instructions not to build the canteen where it's now because we're waiting for the appealing cases on land disputes because we are careful with those things but the school principal went ahead and did it after it was agreed by Fata Ryan who tried to remove the school," he said.

"This school was built and funded by Afega and this is the only school in Afega. Of the 23 colleges, it is built by the village.

"The village is still trying to come to terms with the fact that we're struggling with the payments and that's why we were hurt and wrote to the ministry."