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Put it this way, Henry Puna per person, if for Rarotonga, the spineless Public Service to Rarotonga for the Maeva Nui four walls. $1,000 is spent per capita, there Commissioner Russell Thomas to 50 celebrations. While Drollet collects $1,200 of is $19,000 a person spent on suspend then sack the arrogant The government will refuse taxpayer’s money a week doing Manihiki. Australian. Neneva Neves can to disclose the exact arrival absolutely nothing constructive Now watch the Financial count himself very fortunate if he and departure numbers as well to advance the position of the Secretary Richard Neves scurry can leave the Cook Islands without as the break down for each Opposition and the $87,000 a into his cone of silence because year pretender Heather stares he knows this figure is less than blankly into a mental wasteland, the factual but to dispute this Puna is manipulating the Cook Islands Party are statement with accuracy he will engaged in campaign readiness only confirm the Prime Minister’s activities. More preoccupied Manihiki and its people are the the electoral roll in his with collecting their tax funded recipients of Donor funds and salaries each week than doing Rarotonga tax payer’s benefits Manihiki electorate and what the tax payers are paying hugely disproportional to their them to do, their time is spent population. the indicators of how this doing personal and frivolous What Henry Puna spends from Democratic Party tasks. the Cook Islands Budget to buy The politically impotent tag votes and keep his seat is the is being engineered... team Heather and Drollet can’t equivalent of his side kick Mark cast stones at the government Brown spending $14 million in because they are not without sin, Takuvaine to hang on to his seat. serving a term of imprisonment. northern group island because both are just as accountable as The solar power installation in This time Neves has bowled his it again exposes the preparation the corrupted Puna and Brown. Manihiki on a household basis last underarm ball. strategy of the Cook Islands Party The tax payers are not funding cost $87,000 each. Despite his fervent denials in readiness for a snap Election. the Opposition Office for the paid Shocked? Brace yourself for Puna is preparing himself for In the mean time the capacity staff to do Demo Party work which more; we’re only scratching the an early election most likely in deluded Leader of the Opposition is a big difference from doing the surface of the CIP corruption late November this year. The William Smiley Heather is work of opposing Government. ice berg. The economically first indication he had a secret huddled up in his office cotton Fundraising isn’t Opposition incompetent Neves is in deep agenda was when some weeks wooled by his CEO the control work, which is Demo Party work trouble, now standing in political ago the Herald publicised about freak Eddie Drollet oblivious and it’s about time the Public faeces up to his neck, facts are thirty more passengers would be to the political manoeuvring Expenditure Review Committee coming to light that will force going to Manihiki than had come smouldering away outside their Continued next page PB Cook islands Herald 26 August 2015 Political Comment 3 (PERC) stopped turning a blind some funding? The Manihiki travellers to the outer islands? justified by Neves as being above eye and stepped in and put a stop passengers on that flight were For every person given free board? Neves can wriggle all he to Drollet’s misuse and abuse of identifiable by their uniform. travel to Manihiki to bolster the likes with his slippery tongue and public funds. No expense has been spared electoral roll in Puna’s favour that his sleight of hand fiscal tricks The wimpish PERC have got to ensure accommodation is an act of bribery. A staggering but no rabbits will be coming to be proactive as per their Act and placate Puna’s political $1.3 million had been budgeted forth this time. and be interventional when the entourage while they have been for outer island transporting to We put it to Henry Puna to abuse of Public Expenditure is staying on Rarotonga. Their and from Rarotonga. stop expecting the Rarotonga so obvious and in the Public’s decision to travel on to Manihiki Puna’s overseas entourage tax payer to secretly fund his re interests, the chicken liver to become eligible to vote for are not entitled to free fares to election campaign. Have regard excuse of waiting for a complaint Puna is not a spur of the moment Manihiki, so how much are each for the law you expect others to is not acceptable, simply put, decision, it was premeditated. passenger plus their cargo being observe, stop being a hypocrite. refuse to be a highly paid Puna has unlawfully paid ten charged for their one way trip? Stop your habitual retreating political puppet and earn the Manihikians shopping money Taio shipping charges $750 one into the twilight zone of silence respect and trust of the public from an unconfirmed source of way to the Northern group for when ever questions of public by doing your job without fear or public funds against the Court’s cabin passengers and $600 for interest are put to you. favour. The PERC Act is very clear ruling in pretence the money was deck passengers. You claimed your CIP on the responsibility of PERC for compensation for the solar Three months convalescing in government had no secrets, appointees so demonstrate power project’s use of private Manihiki? Who is going to cover nothing will be secret, a full some integrity, do the job or land. This was done within two the cost of their waiting time? disclosure government. Mr move on. hours of the high Court ruling on Will any of them be staying in one Prime Minister, you are not Like the Audit Office, PERC Friday 14 August 2015. of the PM’s private residences? above the Law, as a lawyer projects no deterrent features After a complaint was lodged Who is going to pay their return by profession you know that, or fear motivation signals which to the Police by a Manihiki fares overseas once they have enough is enough, walk the has resulted in the cavalier landowner, the Prime Minister’s served Puna’s purposes? Will the talk or go back to the polls to and lax attitude politicians and Office response was these Rarotonga tax payer again fork get a mandate to continue your officials have towards public payments are a loan which out more illegitimate payments modus operandi. - George Pitt expenditure. conveniently absolved the Police Enough words wasted on from pursuing the matter. Yet institutional watch dog cowards since when has the government and the tax funded self serving become a lending institution SWITCH ON WITH pretenders bunked in the for private individuals? What Opposition Office. process is in place for such Te Aponga Uira Detecting Puna’s intentions financial transactions to take has heightened with clarity he place and who qualifies to apply? is dishonest, hypocritical with a How is it the PM is allowed to Paying bills by nasty streak of self importance spend public monies as it were which he has no regard for how his own? he embellishes it at the financial The reality is the PM’s direct credit and emotional expense of others. supporters wanted shopping Puna is manipulating the money and he complied. Also a electoral roll in his Manihiki question that needs answered electorate and the indicators of by the Cook Islands Investment how this is being engineered at Corporation is why wasn’t a the expense of public funds is portion of the 10 acres of Crown low life and despicable. Land in Manihiki used to host the Puna has an entourage of solar installation. about 30 devotees recruited by How much land does the Auckland Consul Rosy Blake; they Crown own in Manihiki, what have accompanied the returning is the location of the private group who came to participate land used in comparison to Customers who pay their power bills via direct in the MN50 celebrations.