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Mathew Batsiua’s disgraceful behaviour must stop

Justice Minister David Adeang has slammed comments by Opposition MP Mathew Batsiua to New Zealand media last week, which Mr Adeang believes were deliberately intended to block over one million dollars in funding from New Zealand.

 

The Minister said that Mr Batsiua has regularly tried to use overseas media to damage Nauru's reputation and serve his own - and the Opposition's - political purposes.

 

"As Minister Scotty and I were in meetings with New Zealand's foreign minister negotiating the best outcome for Nauru, this disgraceful MP was telling New Zealand radio that our country was in chaos, which was a blatant lie.

 

"He timed those comments so that New Zealand would stop their funding of our legal system, which would have affected every Nauruan."

 

The justice minister said Mr Batsiua directly referred to New Zealand aid and claimed that people there were "aggrieved' - a clear attempt to influence New Zealand to stop their funding.

 

Earlier this month President Baron Waqa called on opposition MPs to stop taking domestic issues to the foreign media.

 

"No member of parliament should be trashing our country in the foreign press just to score a political advantage," the President said.

 

Mr Adeang said Mr Batsiua's comments went even further by attempting to influence other countries to stop supporting Nauru.

 

"Every person in Nauru knows how important cooperation from our neighbours is to our nation, which makes this attempt to hurt everyday Nauruans by depriving them of assistance funding, even more scandalous.

 

"Mr Batsiua must stop denigrating our country overseas and he must apologise to Nauruans.

 

"While the Government is reforming Nauru, making the necessary changes and cleaning up the cronyism and corruption of the past, the Opposition will stop at nothing to derail those efforts," Mr Adeang said.