NRBF Board Member pleads guilty for assault [1]
Monday, May 7, 2012 - 19:25. Updated on Monday, September 9, 2013 - 18:40.
Mosese Manuofetoa was fined $150 after pleading guilty to one charge of assault, at the Nuku'alofa Magistrate's Court, before Magistrate Masao Paasi, on Friday, May 4.
The court was told that Mosese smacked the nose of the complainant, Mr Barwiz Bahbahni, a foreign national, during a quarrel at Vaololoa in March this year.
The magistrate ordered Mosese to pay $100 to the court, and a $50 compensation to the complainant.
The court was told that the complainant and his wife occupied a residence of the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga at their Vaololoa school compound, because Mrs Barwiz Bahbahni, a Tongan, was a teacher at the Tupou High School, Vaololoa.
However, at the time of the incident she had left Tupou High School and was teaching at Lavengamalie College, but they continued to occupy the property despite orders by the Tupou High School administration for them to vacate the property. Mosese worked for the Free Wesleyan Church Education Department.
On the morning of 6 March 2012 the complainant was leaving the Vaololoa property when he was stopped by Mosese. They got into a quarrel and Mosese smacked Barwiz on the nose.
Mosese is one of the six elected directors of the board of the newly established National Retirement Benefits Fund Inc.