07/04/2025
By DR.Liva Seiuli
American Samoa
07 April 2025
🔥 LIVA UNFILTERED – "THE ALTAR OF BETRAYAL" 🔥
Let’s just pause a little and carefully let the sauce move into the tissue spaces of the meat of our story before we move any further ahead of ourselves. Because the meat has to be simmered properly—to introduce heat evenly—while we turn it from side to side.
Our story starts with anonymous church members of Pastor Willie Papu’s church, and they have been following my articles—especially the ones I had written about the weaponization of religion by the FAST roadshows, and how it preyed on the one thing all Samoans hold dear: God Almighty. And the Samoan would literally give everything to the church—because that is where the blessings are believed to come from. Imagine someone having that much power to influence, and having a friend like Uili Papu who is able to sway his herd at will. The sacrifices.
Before I knew it, my articles had added more weight to what the members had already quietly doubted—but were too naïve, too bound by generations of loyalty, to turn their backs on a church their parents, and their parents' parents, had served faithfully. The story was this: La’auli had requested financial support to build headquarters for the FAST Party. This was before the big collapse—before the factions, the cracks, and the eventual rot that split FAST into the mess it is today.
The members of the church had to sell jam in buns and fa’apapa till late just to make their $10K per makafale every month. That’s not fundraising—that’s modern-day spiritual extortion. It was hard work. Brutal. The congregation didn’t understand why their leader, Uili Papu, was so obsessed with fundraising for this man La’auli. But they didn’t ask. They followed. Like good, obedient Christians—conditioned to never question a shepherd, even when the flock is being led to the slaughter.
One anonymous member told me it all began when a woman named Sina started coming to their church. That’s when the engine kicked into high gear. I asked, "Who is this Sina?" But nothing turned up—until a photo landed in my inbox. And that photo cracked the silence wide open.
Her name wasn’t just Sina. She was Sina Hunt. I had seen her before. I typed that name into the search bar, and suddenly the internet caught fire. The links between her and Pastor Papu lit up like a Christmas tree from hell: the OneCoin crypto scam, church money gone missing, a daughter in prison for stealing funds meant for the ministry.
And it didn’t stop there. One photo—sent to identify her—carried more than just faces. It carried evidence. In it were Sina, Pastor Papu, and La’auli, having a meal at a restaurant on April 10, 2023. And exactly 11 days later, the $13 million SNPF loan was approved for Pastor Papu. Kept quiet. Held on a leash. Until February 2024, when the Samoa Observer cracked it open and fed it to the nation like rotten communion.
Now here we are—2025—and the congregation is tapped out, emotionally and financially. The ongoing pressure to raise $200K for La’auli’s FAST faction has left families drained, marriages strained, and pockets emptied. And for what?
Then the moment that I called it out arrived.
Pastor Papu, in an official ceremony, handed over the $200K to the La’auli FAST faction, while his loan is seven months behind on repayments.
And now—get this.
Pastor Papu is suing the SNPF and the Samoa Observer.
Yes, you read that right.
Not for lying.
Not for defamation based on falsehoods.
But because the truth was exposed.
And Panoa? The ever-smiling chairman who went on national TV to swing at me? He says it's because I disclosed confidential information about the loan.
So let's break this down—
They don’t deny the loan’s seven-month delinquency.
They don’t deny the $200,000 was handed to La’auli.
They don’t deny the people were milked dry with jam and fa’apapa fundraisers.
No. They just don't like that you found out.
They're not worried about the abuse. They're worried about optics.
They’re not fighting to protect the people. They’re fighting to protect their image.
You hypocrites
Suits soaked in perfume, standing in pulpits of corruption, praying with one hand while signing shady deals with the other.
You talk about honor?
You talk about confidentiality?
Extradite me then. do you even know what youre talking about ? criminal and civil dont mix! Because it is a civil matter i can still sip my coffee here in pago or fly over while when i feel like ! my lawyer represents me there ! I dont need to be there!
So Go ahead.
But don’t ask me to give you the names of the whistleblowers—they’re anonymous, and for good reason. These people were raised to fear God, not you. They fear the consequences of telling the truth in a country where truth is treated like contraband.
So here’s the truth again—for the people at the back:
You can sue the newspapers.
You can silence the TV.
But you will not silence me.
And the next time you stand behind a pulpit or sit behind a press conference, remember this—
The people aren’t stupid anymore.
They’re watching.
And they’ve started to turn the page.
