January 31, 2023
Mayor Brown must go says Mangere champion
Another Mangere community provider, Buttabean Motivation’s Dave Letele, says the floods exposed Auckland mayor Wayne Brown as being out of his depth.
Mr Letele is calling for the mayor to resign.
He says the lack of response shows the mayor and his council are out of touch or uninterested in south Auckland.
“We’ve just been forgotten about. Mangere was forgotten. Really anywhere poor was forgotten and people who are already doing it tough were left to fend for themselves, clean up for themselves, there’s not bins put in these areas so they can clean up. We’re going into houses, it looks like a war zone,” he says.
Mr Letele says it’s marae and community groups who have had to step up with relief, but they don’t have the sort of resources the council can call on.
The council has now placed bins around streets and deployed staff to collect flood damaged rubbish being cleared from homes.
People are warned that before throwing damaged items away they should photograph them and record any serial numbers for insurance claims.