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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-2017/
- Published: 2019-07-29T18:30:33.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-31T01:43:00.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

> \[…\] After previously saying the government would not intervene, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern [vowed on Friday](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/395318/ihumatao-protests-no-building-while-a-solution-is-sought-pm?ref=goodoil.news) that no building would take place at Ihumatao while a solution was being sought.  
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> A senior member of the iwi, **Mr Rankin** said he would lodge a complaint with police that the Prime Minister used her position to interfere in a legal transaction and as a consequence would deprive the iwi of dozens of homes which Fletchers had contracted to provide to the mana whenua.  
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> “I don’t take this action lightly,” he said, “but **the Prime Minister has directly interfered in a legally valid arrangement, and at great cost to the iwi”.**  
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> **“First, she destroyed KiwiBuild, and now she is destroying Iwi build.** Fletchers have agreed to provide 40 houses to our people, which is exactly 40 more houses than the Labour government has managed to provide to us.”  
> Mr Rankin admitted the complaint would make him unpopular, but said there was a bigger issue at stake.  
> “Ms Ardern has breached the kawa of our hapu, and **her actions will leave some of our old people without houses. This is intolerable,** and also breaches the law.”  
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> [newsie.co.nz/news/157823-ihumtao-senior-iwi-member-rankin-to-complain-over-pm-jacinda-ardern-interference](https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/157823-ihumtao-senior-iwi-member-rankin-to-complain-over-pm-jacinda-ardern-interference.html?ref=goodoil.news)