One of French Polynesia’s big secrets is the amount of corruption that occurs in this country.
On one of the remote islands, the fellow running the post office suddenly quit his job after a large amount of funds went missing.
The funny thing is is that after he quit his job and suddenly started making improvements to his property which was no secret to anybody on the island.
The OPT employee soon after returned to his job as head of the post office for the small island.
French police now are investigating former President Gaston Flosse for his possible role in corruption with the OPT.
For the uninitiated the capital OPT is the French Polynesia equivalent of the post office.
This is a fact of daily life in French Polynesia, there is so much nepotism that it’s amazing anything actually gets accomplished by anybody in government.
I once witnessed government trucks full of gravel drop off loads of stolen gravel to a residential area.
I know that some watermelon farmers were having issues with their watermelon going missing when they went on the government ship to be taken to market.
Corruption is a fact of life in French Polynesia and until action is taken it will always continue to be this way.