Comments on: New revelation in Tokelau chopper furore in air transport ‘big picture’

By: NZ

NZ — Sun, 30 Apr 2017 03:58:25 +0000

now any one who hasn’t visited Tokelau wouldn’t understand the complexities involved. And may come to the conclusion, New Zealand is the overbearing Colonial power.

The problem lies inside Tokelau. Its Unclear who actually runs Tokelau. Each atoll operates as its own autonomous state Fakafo, Nukununo, Atafo. Then the public service in Apia tries to run the whole country as acting government or whether one of the atolls tries to run the public service. ?
And any one of the four bodies could have been responsable for purchasing the helicopters. With out any one knowing who was supposed to report to who and who is responsible .

A closer working relationship with the administrator could only be a good thing and the sooner Tokelau finds an inner political unity between the three atolls the better.

By: Isopo Samu

Isopo Samu — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 10:53:07 +0000

It would not surprise me if McCully and the NZ administrator orchestrated the whole thing and it only came to light because someone questioned the purchase of the helicopters.
That someone could be the people of Tokelau who were not aware that the purchase had already taken place. This may be the reason that they were surprised at the purchase.
The administrator’s role in the purchase needs to be scrutinised, as well as anyone else that was involved in the deal and stood to gain financially from the purchase to the supply of services to get this going.
Something stinks about this and blaming the islanders is easy for most people to accept. It is a ploy used by politicians with no integrity. McCully has done nothing to earn my respect as a politician.
The National governments have only ever paid lip service to Tokelau.
They have a history of selling out Tokelau – instead of supporting Tokelau in their bid to have Swains island returned from under USA rule in 1981. USA applied pressure and asked the then National government for support. NZ supported the US and made Tokelau withdraw their petition to the United Nations. Here I was thinking NZ had Tokelau’s best interests at heart.

By: Caliber

Caliber — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:48:39 +0000

good read