CEO resignation not enough: blame also lies with Bob Simcock
MEDIA RELEASE
CEO resignation not enough
– blame also lies with Bob Simcock
5 October
2017
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Taxpayers’ Union is calling on Waikato DHB Chairman Bob Simcock to follow his disgraced Chief Executive Dr Nigel Murray and resign following the latter’s unauthorised expenses and international travel.
Jordan Williams, the Taxpayers’ Union’s Executive Director, responding to the news of Dr Murray’s resignation said:
“Bob Simcock was warned about Dr Murray
before he was appointed in 2014. Even a quick google search
shows a similar pattern of behaviour at his previous
position in Canada.” “Hiring a CEO with a history of
dodgy spending is one thing, but not closely monitoring him
and having the controls in place to prevent the behaviour
repeating is incompetent. That blame lies squarely at the
feet of the DHB and
Chairman."
ENDS