Rotorua s mayor and two councillors have accused Waiariki MP Rawiri Waititi of misinformation , with one councillor labelling his comments over a sewerage fault a political stunt .
Waiariki MP Rawiri Waititi is accusing Rotorua Council of undertaking a patch up job on a sewerage fault.
Photo: New Zealand Herald / Mark Mitchell
However, Waititi says their comments are a classic deflection technique on the council s part .
Rotorua mayor Steve Chadwick raised the issue of Waititi s comments in a Rotorua Lakes Council Operations and Monitoring Committee meeting on Thursday morning.
In an 11 April Māori Party press release titled Rotorua Council needs to clean its s t up , Waititi said he had attended a community hui in Ngāpuna where locals had spoken of physical and psychological suffering due to a sewerage fault which occurred on 29 March.