Post by Kiwi Frontline on May 16, 2019 17:11:52 GMT 12
GANGS, P AND STATE PĒPI UPLIFTS A PERVERSE CYCLE
Ngāti Kahungunu chair Ngahiwi Tomoana says a mass gang initiation ceremony on Te Mata Peak and Oranga Tamariki attempting to snatch a baby from Hawkes Bay Hospital are two sides of the same story.
"Two, three generations later the mokopuna of the original gang leaders are running the current gangs, peddling P to our mothers, our poorest communities, who are then having their babies uplifted. It's a perverse connection to our whakapapa but it's state-led and we're finding an iwi Māori response in this time," Mr Tomoana says.......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MjE3Mjc=/Gangs,-P-and-state-p%C4%93pi-uplifts-a-perverse-cycle
Ngāti Kahungunu chair Ngahiwi Tomoana says a mass gang initiation ceremony on Te Mata Peak and Oranga Tamariki attempting to snatch a baby from Hawkes Bay Hospital are two sides of the same story.
"Two, three generations later the mokopuna of the original gang leaders are running the current gangs, peddling P to our mothers, our poorest communities, who are then having their babies uplifted. It's a perverse connection to our whakapapa but it's state-led and we're finding an iwi Māori response in this time," Mr Tomoana says.......
www.waateanews.com/waateanews/x_story_id/MjE3Mjc=/Gangs,-P-and-state-p%C4%93pi-uplifts-a-perverse-cycle