Sinking Waka

We all have heard about the financial strife the Ngati Tama iwi is in and how their "Treaty settlement" money has all but evaporated.

The now ex Ngati Tama Chief Executive, Greg White has accepted responsibility, as I suppose he must.

He is apparently currently "overseas" - whereabouts undisclosed.

"Our waka has hit some bad weather and ended up on the rocks

He said in a written statement read on TV One's Marae Investigate program last night.

Maori commentator Willie Jackson said

it was good that Greg White admitted he made mistakes but the tribe now had to recover and set a new course.

He said the tribe's main mistake was taking a "pitiful settlement" and in doing so undermining the future of most of Taranaki iwi.

He said Government support should ensure a high-level iwi plan was in place.

Eh? The tribes mistake wasn't in their choice of Chief executive, nor in their exercise of oversight in what he was doing but that they didn't get more money from the long suffering taxpayer for him to loose?

An extremely odd way of looking at things.

Source: 'Waka on the rocks' - Iwi head