October 20, 2016
No rangatiratanga while drugs scourge north
Former MP Shane Jones is calling on Maori leaders in the north to take action over the methamphetamine crisis scourging their communities.
The Kerikeri resident is alarmed at a wave of killings and violent incidents this year connected with the drug.
He says the police can't fight P on their own, and the community is part of the solution.
Too many Maori in the north seem to be ignoring the major problem in front of them.
"If I hear another appointed Maori leader bitch on about fantastical notions of sovereignty while our own young people are disappearing further into the orifice of P and associated violence, we've got to get our priorities right in the north, and our priorities are driving an agenda that stigmatises P and also stands up against that level of what I fear is narco-violence in the north," Mr Jones says.
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