OHA LIES!

• OHA�s Mismanagement and Poor Judgment Continues

  On behalf of Administrator Clyde Namu‘o, Deputy Administrator of Beneficiary, Advocacy, and Empowerment Mona Bernardino announced on Monday, March 3, 2008 via email to OHA staff that she has been appointed the person in charge of the Grants Department, once known as Planning, Research, Evaluation, and Grants (PREG).
  
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  Posted: March 05, 2008, 1:50pm EST
  

• OHA Pressures Grantees

  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) has been leveraging grantees to support the Ceded Land Settlement (HB2701 and SB2733) via multiple emails and phone calls directly to non-profits who are receiving grants from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. OHA staff has been working the phone lines and sending out multiple [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2008, 2:11pm EST
  

• OHA to Use Government Property & Trust Funds to Lobby Public Support

  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Administrator Clyde Namu‘o is currently meeting with all OHA employees and requesting that OHA employees consider working overtime to lobby the public to support the Ceded Land Settlement and push OHA’s agenda forward, according to OHA sources.
  
  Namu‘o began meeting with OHA staff on [...]
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  Posted: January 29, 2008, 4:52am EST
  

• OHA Ceded Land Settlement Misleading & Manipulative

  OHA Chairperson Haunani Apoliona and Administrator Clyde Namu‘o fully intended on excluding Native Hawaiian senators and beneficiaries in any discussions or informational sessions pertaining to the Ceded Land Settlement, prior to OHA’s press conference on Friday, the 18th of January. At 8:41 am on the morning of the press conference, [...]
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  Posted: January 29, 2008, 1:32am EST
  

• OHA Seeks To Settle

  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees meeting will be held today. Sources close to OHA Administrator Clyde Namu‘o have revealed that the Board of Trustees will be approving a negotiated settlement between OHA and the Executive Branch regarding the income and proceeds from the Public Land Trust (the [...]
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  Posted: January 17, 2008, 1:21am EST
  

• The True State Of OHA

  On December 17, 2007, Chairperson of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Haunani Apoliona delivered a speech titled, “State of OHA and the Native Hawaiian Community” that was filled with fear igniting language and misleading statements intending to divert Hawaiian beneficiaries from the true realities of OHA.
  
  The “True State [...]
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  Posted: January 10, 2008, 12:55pm EST
  

• Friendship At OHA Leads To Questionable Hire

  Mona Bernardino, current OHA Deputy Administrator of Beneficiary, Advocacy, and Empowerment, attended high school at Kamehameha Schools with Keith “Kalani” Akana. Kalani Akana, a former kumu hula and Waiau Elementary teacher has served time in federal prison for possession of child pornography and is currently serving time on weekends for [...]
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  Posted: January 06, 2008, 12:29pm EST
  

• Trustee Akana Speaks the Truth, OHA Retaliates

  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees meeting is scheduled for Thursday, January 2, 2008 with an agenda item to remove Trustee Rowena Akana as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Asset and Resource Management.
  
  Winona Rubin, Chief of Staff to OHA Chair Hauanani Apoliona submitted an [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 2:10am EST
  

• Personal Commitments Over Commitment to Beneficiaries

  Nepotism extends beyond "bloodline" relations at OHA; it also includes those family members who are considered extended family members, otherwise known as "calabash 'ohana." A great example of "calabash 'ohana" at OHA is the relationship between Mona Bernardino and Haunani Apoliona. Apoliona made the relationship with Mona Bernardino apparent in [...]
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  Posted: January 03, 2008, 1:24am EST
  

• Apoliona Sisters: All In The Family (Part I)

  
  Haunani Apoliona’s sister Aulani Apoliona was a legislative aid in 2003 who has catapulted to a lead advocate position in the Hawaiian Governance Department. In her current position, Aulani Apoliona has been given several special privileges beyond any other staff member at OHA. She has [...]
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  Posted: December 30, 2007, 5:10pm EST
  

• Response To Clyde Namu`o

  The following letter is in response to the printed message in the December 2007 issue of Ka Wai Ola submitted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Administrator Clyde Namu'o on page 19.
  
  Nothing to Hide: Initiate an Independent Public Forensic Audit
  (11/29/07)
  
  Honesty "is the human quality of [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2007, 1:41pm EST
  

• Apoliona, Namu`o and Bernardino Control OHA

  As of the 8th of November 2007 OHA now operates in greater secrecy with the passage of "amendments of OHA Bylaws Article VI, by adding a new section "C" and to approve the creation of conforming OHA Executive Policies,” which took place at the Board of Trustees Meeting on Lana'i [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2007, 8:03am EST
  

• OHA Chair and Administrator Seek to Hide Information

  On Thursday, November 1, 2007 during the OHA Board of Trustee meeting OHA Chair Apoliona and Administrator Namu'o pushed an amendment pertaining to the OHA Bylaws Article VI forward that will "gag, suppress, and restrict" OHA Trustees from being transparent and held accountable to respond to beneficiary inquiries.
  
  Apoliona [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2007, 6:02am EST