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SUPP: Herald 16 September 2015 news 2 Lies, lies and more Schoonergate cover ups exposed Mike Henry claims money reimbursed to government he emerging facts related Puna’s manipulation of the law to the Schoonergate imposing checks and balancing Tscandal has revealed scales of the Country provide him the depth of corruption the CIP with a badge of immunity that government has embellished. The he abuses with an arrogance of pretence and palatable excuses an untouchable, even the Chief have failed to evoke redemptive Justice Tom Weston is on record behaviour which has left a heralding Puna as being beyond disbelieving public simmering corruption. with repressed hostility. Lies and Puna is a Prime Minister more lies have constricted the in name but an autocratic government’s wriggle foot print. President in practise because he The secrecy shrouded Cook is allowed to be, his fear filled Islands Party government peers and subordinates offer no has become a laboratory for resistance but blind obedience corruption unprecedented in to the corrupt leader of a corrupt the history of Cook Islands self CIP government. Money and governance. The Prime Minister position are preferred to personal has led a revolution values and integrity, condoning of persistently challenging the compromise sees no wrong with constraints and boundaries of our the avalanche of corruption that replica of Westminster democracy is gradually being normalised and that has evolved into a President socially integrated. structured administration. Added to Puna’s aura of Unchallenged despite the secrecy and invincibility is the regularity of his blatant flouting complete failure of the weak of the laws and the principles of Democratic Party Opposition good governance Puna Prime spinelessly led by politically Minister has gradually evolved impotent William Heather and into Puna President and an the convicted fraudster Eddy autocratic one at that. In practise Drollet. Neither of them inspires the modus operandi of the Puna the masses they could administer administration is anything but a Mike Henry a credible government. Had it not democracy. the cabinet, he and his loyal to pass a Bill before the House, a been for a fearless media doing Puna has ripped the heart out devotee Mark Brown assisted by complaint to the Police returned the existing purpose of the tax of our democracy by virtually a third Minister the unelected an acknowledgement the funded Opposition the reality relegating Parliament to the too appointee Richard Neves make CIP Government’s taxing was of the depth of corruption the hard basket of inconvenience. up a tripartite unaccountable unlawful. Country is submerged in would Once the active forum for the to only themselves. Puna has It took six months for Crown Law be an unfocused blur. voice of the people through elevated himself above the law and the Police to conspire then The reality is Heather and Drollet their elected representatives, and out of reach of our lame duck advise the complainant there was are an asset and not a liability to silence is the CIP government’s watchdog institutions. When ins