Yesterday morning Andrea Vance said in The Post that politicians and government agencies (including Police) are tiptoeing around allegations of scandalous and illegal misuse of Stats NZ and Health NZ data at the Manurewa marae in the run-up to last year’s election.
Brian Tamaki, not known for his tiptoeing skills, has booted the door down instead, weighing in with what he says is proof of skullduggery. Reproducing a document he says was put together by marae chief executive and Maori Party candidate Takutai Tarsh Kemp and an assistant which contains specific instructions for the data collection during last year’s ‘Winter Wellness Campaign’:
“Return ALL forms to office (in unclosed envelope) Census forms Voting forms Checklist”
Smoking gun? Why must the envelopes be unclosed on return, Ms Kemp?
Furthermore, Mr Tamaki claims Stats NZ, who ostensibly only allow access to census data by ‘accredited researchers’, and then only after anonymising said data, but instead:
Stats NZ management also gave JT wide-ranging access to their internal Stats NZ database so he could access key data, that many Stats NZ staff said they weren’t permitted to even access.
If Mr Tamaki is correct, Stats NZ must immediately disqualify themselves from any further investigation, and the Police need to come down off their tippy-toes and get into these multiple allegations of illegal conduct boots ‘n all.
There’s something rotten in the state of Manurewa.
