Efeso Collins says Auckland needs to be a unified city where people understand each other. This desire helped shape his decision to run for mayor of the la
The police bomb squad (file photo).
Photo: RNZ God, not my girls is the thought Fa anana Efeso Collins said immediately ran through mind as he led a bomb squad through his home after being told an anonymous death threat had been made against him and his family.
The South Auckland councillor made the revelation at a church conference at Auckland s Spark Arena on Saturday.
He told the hundreds gathered, while speaking on the topic of social justice, that when he was asked by police to come to the station he at first had no idea what to expect. I went into this interview room and they told me: We ve received a death threat, and it s in the form of a bomb threat against you and your family . They told me it s been elevated to the point they would like to send the bomb squad to your offices and to your house.