Monday, 22 September 2014, 12:34 pm Press Release: Andrew Williams
MP’s Stolen Items
Recovered
Following a complaint to Parliamentary
Services today [September 19], items which had been
stolen from NZ First MP Andrew Williams’ Wellington
parliamentary office have been recovered and
returned.
“I am greatly disappointed and disturbed to
learn that some of the items were recovered from Deputy
Leader Tracey Martin’s office. No MP has any right to
enter another MP’s office and help themselves to valuable
items. These items were assets for which I was responsible
to Parliamentary Services during my term of
Parliament.”
“This was not a ‘humbug complaint’ as
New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters is quoted as saying
today. Parliamentary Services have taken this matter very
seriously, as has the NZ First Chief of Staff, as this
unprincipled behaviour is unacceptable within the
Parliamentary precinct. It amounts to theft and Tracey
Martin and others involved should be taken to task for their
actions.”
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