Why is it so hard to question corruption In NZ ?
So after banging my head agaisnt a brick wall for 7 years I start another round with the ombudsmen.
Take it from me don’t ever question anything that looks tin the slightest way corrupt In New Zealand if you do your life will be in tatters. I speak from experience.
It appears to me that every one knows how useless the ombudsmen s office is so councils regularly refuse information.. why should they comply ? This way they can conceal corruption and buy time.
So here I go again
Request for Investigation by Ombudsmen 17/04/2013
I have recently made three requests to Auckland council for official information and one for a breach of privacy
I am being totally ignored.
I made the request via the FYI web site and can be seen on the site http://fyi.org.nz/request/adoption_of_cats_from_concourse#comment-245
http://fyi.org.nz/request/rebranding_of_waitakere_animal_w
and an earlier request http://fyi.org.nz/request/animal_welfare_instituteof_new_z
Having questioned this gross corruption many years ago and seeing new developments and questioning this I have found myself being harassed by the council and my information requests rejected.
Wendy Brandon Counsel for council saw to it that my emails were blocked this included an email which I had sent to the duly elected representatives complaining about her action
This email can be seen http://www.transparency.net.nz/2013/02/15/update-on-wendy-brandon-counsel-for-auckland-council/
While there has been no apparent independent enquiry into the actions of Ms Brandon, the Ceo of council who has been at the centre of this had the privilege of investigating himself see http://www.transparency.net.nz/2013/04/03/doug-mc-kay-investigates-himself-and-responds-to-councillors/
I now find that a block wall has been thrown up in my path and all my LGOIMA requests are being refused while I am being harassed by council.
I first wrote of the harassment in July last year http://www.transparency.net.nz/2012/07/22/harassment-by-auckland-council/
When the council discovered that my neighbour had put a trellis up against my back fence. Rather than tell me, I found myself the subject of a revisit. I found it ironic that the officer was a Waitakere officer who should not have been inspecting in Epsom .. do I smell a rat yes a large one. Especially as this occured at he same time as my company was put in to liquidation when the papers were not served on me
I believe that this was deliberate harassment as it occurred simultaneously as the liquidation of my company though non service of documents.
I now have a debt collectors letter demanding $250 for that inspection when I have never seen an invoice for the inspection and only saw the inspector who re inspected and who had not bothered to tell me that my pool did not comply. I am a failure I don’t have x ray vision or esp. I simply did not know that my neighbours had put up a trellis on the other side of the fence.( which incidentally would not have supported a cat let alone a child )
It has been 7 years since I questioned the use of council facilities by a manager for private pecuniary gain, 7 years of shear HELL .No one cares a dam that people can write legislation for their own business plan and use council facilities to run the operation.. all we care about is concealing corruption.
The ombudsmen’s office has been singularly useless and the office of the auditor general likes wise. It comes as no surprise that both are members of Transparency International ( New Zealand ) and both the office of the auditor general and the ombudsmen appear to be condoning corruption rather than taking action on it.
Now the Mayor has written the matter off as historic and publicly stated that he will not investigate despite the fact that he knows nothing about the matter… see http://www.allaboutauckland.com/video/1907/accusations-of-corruption-within-councils/1
You will need to log in to see the video .
Counsel for council stopped me from reading from my script which is located here Open Forum – 28 Feb 2013 and falsely advises the mayor that there is an injunction that prevents me from speaking about the fictional AWINZ , when there is no such injunction in place.
Ms Brandon has also sent out emails to Councillors in which I was the subject matter and the comments were wrong and defamatory, she is ignoring my requests for a copy of the email .
It is very hard to convince me that New Zealand is the least corrupt and I ask the Ombudsmen to investigate the following.
1. The conflict of interest in the ombudsmen’s office and the office of the auditor general being members of transparency International New Zealand an organisation which has only just after I prompted them listed a set of rules September 2012 Transparency Times
2. The harassment by Auckland council as set out in http://www.transparency.net.nz/2012/07/22/harassment-by-auckland-council/ and the subsequent debt recovery action when no invoice has ever been sent to me.
3. The investigation of Doug Mc Kay into himself with regards to the withholding of emails and also with regards to his lack of action or even acknowledgment of my complaints with regards to Wendy Brandon being documents which will open from the following links
a) 15 feb email complaint email
b) request 1
c) Request 2
d) Request 3
e) Request 4
f) Request 5
g) Request 6
h) Request 7
i) Request 8
j) Evidence 1
k) Evidence 2
l) Evidence 3
m) Evidence 4
n) Evidence 5
o) interpretation 248 crimes act
p) Note 1
q) Note 2
4. The manner in which Brandon appears to control council and has miss instructed the may with regards to any injunctions in place and the effect of them as shown in the video clip http://www.allaboutauckland.com/video/1907/accusations-of-corruption-within-councils/1
5. The lack of provision of information for the LGOIMAS as mentioned from FYI web site
a. http://fyi.org.nz/request/adoption_of_cats_from_concourse#comment-245
b. http://fyi.org.nz/request/rebranding_of_waitakere_animal_w
c. http://fyi.org.nz/request/animal_welfare_instituteof_new_z
6. an investigation by the ombudsmen into the 8 issues out lined in 3 above
Had the office of the Ombudsmen done its job properly in the first place I would not have had to endure all of this it appears that the ombudsmen’s office is doing little to prevent corruption in New Zealand. It has allowed MAF to get away with giving law enforcement authority to a fictional organisation and then allowed it to cover up.It has condoned Waitakere council in not acting when employees use their office for private pecuniary gain.
I find it amusing that your logo is fairness to all. I am a whistle-blower and you have proved to me that whistle-blowers do not even get the support of the ombudsmen in new Zealand.. its all about promoting the perception of us being the least corrupt.
So here goes another round of me banging my head against the proverbial brick wall I wonder how many years you will take this time to write this off.
But we can all rest easy the perception is that there is no corruption its just idiots like me who walk into the trap and have their lives ruined because they think New Zealand has a hard line on corruption when in reality we just sweep it under the carpet.
The truth will come out in the end.
copies of this is going to the international press I am sure with NZ in the news for tax havens they will be interested in seeing how NZ conceals corruption.
Grace Haden