April 08, 2020
Drug runners defy lockdown restrictions
Don’t mess with the drug runners.
That’s the advice Hone Harawira is giving his checkpoint workers in the far north.
The former MP says tourists are still coming north, some of them off yachts, and the checkpoints try to send them back to Whangarei or Auckland to observe the lockdown.
He says every day now feels like Sunday in Kaitaia as locals stop moving around, but there is one exception.
"Drug runners are still moving. We can stop whānau. We can stop tourists. We can stop locals travelling around too much, but I'm telling people don't try to intercept the fried breads. Wave them on and just take their details, don't try to be a police force. That's a very dangerous affair and it is going to get worse," he says.
Hone Harawira says people need to get through the lockdown by slowing down rather than sparking up.
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