August 27, 2015
Board in the dark about cause of crisis
A spokesperson for Te Aupouri Maori Trust Board says the far north service provider is still trying to identify where it all went wrong.
On Tuesday the board, which is a separate entity to the runanga which manages the tribe’s treaty settlement, pulled the plug on most of its operations and social service delivery programmes.
The same day ownership of Kiwidotcom, a social work training business, went back to a company owned by someone who sold it to the board two years ago.
Trustee Henare Ihaka told Radio Waatea host Dale Husband there was no fraud or misappropriation involved, but the board needs to conduct a full financial audit so it can understand the position it got into.
"The Aupouri Maori Trust Board has a range of operations that are complexly intertwined so what so we are trying to do is simply identify what has happened and at this stage that picture isn’t clear to us," he says.
Henare Ihaka says most of the programmes were done for the Ministry for Social Development, and the board is working with the ministry to move programmes and staff to other providers.
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