Rotorua mayor, councillors label Rawiri Waititi comments on sewerage fault 'misinformation' 6 May, 2021 03:29 AM 5 minutes to read Waiariki MP Rawiri Waititi. Photo / Mark Mitchell 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". 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 April 11 Māori Party press release titled "Rotorua Council needs to clean its s**t up", Waititi said he'd attended a community hui in Ngāpuna where locals had spoken of "physical and psychological suffering" due to a sewerage fault which occurred on March 29.