Neomai is the wife of Prime Minister Akilisi Pohiva.
Her funeral service was held at the Free Wesleyan church in Sopu, where she worshipped.
She was laid to rest at Telekava 1 community cemetery in Kolomotu’a,
Kaniva News reports the Prime Minister’s 70-year-old wife, “died peacefully” after a long battle with cancer.
Following the news of her death, thousands took to Facebook to show their respects for the woman most regarded as the “mother of democrats” in Tonga.
