Simeon Brown

And rightfully so, a lot of people got very upset about that.

$2.75 million was given through a government agency to a program administered by the mongrel mob.

So the Honourable Simeon Brown, when he was still a member of Parliament, not a minister, put together this members' bill because he thought enough is enough.

And I inherited it when he became a minister.

And I thought, yep, this resonates with me a lot.

And so it's in my name I'm shepherding this bill.

I'm mindful that you use the word angry.

And for some reason or many reasons, it does make me very angry.

And if I really sift it to its core, there's a couple of reduced sifting reasons.

And one of them is victims

for me are really always at the forefront of my mind and i think to myself gangs they are the reason why most of our drugs in our new zealand communities are on our shores they're the ones that are bringing them in to a great extent and they're the ones that are selling them and to say that the sellers are going to become the saviors it's just

like a smack in the face, particularly of parents and grandparents, family members that are going through the living hell of their whānau members, their family members being addicted to the drugs that are being sold by gangs to begin with.

I get so angry thinking about it.

It's a slap in the face.

of victims, of family members, and it's sending the complete wrong message.

Yep.

Yes, that's one of the things that he said.

And when you look at that, when it came to the forefront in July of 2021, the $2.75 million that was given through the Ministry of Health, granted to a program called Kahukura, which essentially was administered by the Mangurumong.

But the money...

You know, Hawke's Bay Police seized $2 million in assets, merely two months before then, from the mongrel mob.