Exclusive coverage “The governor thinks of himself as the governor himself” – testimony of a former prefectural employee who was close to the deceased former executive． What is the reality of the search for an accuser in the power harassment allegations？
[Exclusive coverage] “The governor thinks of himself as the governor himself” – Testimony of a former prefectural employee who was close to the deceased former executive. The reality of the “search for an accuser” surrounding the power harassment allegations against Governor Saito.
※8/8 (Thu) 16:26
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In March of this year, an accusation was made about the power harassment allegations against Hyogo Governor Saito Motohiko. The former prefectural official who made the accusation was given a three-month suspension as disciplinary punishment and died in July. Was the prefecture’s response to the accusers appropriate? MBS conducted an exclusive interview with a former prefectural employee who knew Governor Saito and the deceased former executive. In March of this year, the governor’s power harassment exceeded the limits of an employee… and the governor was accused of this. (Governor Saito Motohiko, Hyogo Prefecture, March 27) “Just because you are dissatisfied, creating a document containing a hundred lies and distributing it during working hours is a disqualification for a public servant.” Governor Saito Motohiko of Hyogo Prefecture flatly denied the allegations against him, going so far as to call them a hundred lies. The strong criticism was aimed at a former prefectural official (60) who had distributed a document accusing the governor of fraud to some media outlets and others two weeks before the press conference. The former executive was serving as director of the prefecture’s Nishi Harima Prefectural Government Bureau at the time, and the accusation was made anonymously. [From the accusation written by a former senior official] “The governor’s power harassment has exceeded the limits of the employees, and we can hear screams from all over.” “For example, when he was on a business trip to a facility, the entrance was closed to cars, so he was made to get off his official car about 20 meters before the entrance, and he started yelling at the employees and people involved who greeted him, and then didn’t say a word to them after that.” Following the distribution of the document, the prefecture began an internal investigation in late March. The accusation was supposed to have been made “anonymously”… In May, the former executive was identified as the accuser. In May, the former executive was identified as the accuser, and the document was given a three-month suspension as disciplinary punishment, with the document’s “core parts not being true.” However, one month before the disciplinary action was taken, it was discovered that the director of the prefecture’s industrial and labor department had received a luxury coffee maker from the company named in the document, making it clear that the document contained some facts. Continue reading below.
He drove both of them to their deaths and now at a press conference he makes excuses in his favor, as if dead men tell no tales. What are we being shown?
If you’re talking about a former prefectural official who was close to the deceased former executive, it’s only natural that he wouldn’t speak well of the governor.
>>29 He’s a former local government bureaucrat in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, but he never served as a section chief at the ministry, so he became the head of the prefecture before he had the ability to lead employees, so it feels like he’s just acting because he’s important. It feels like he achieved his goal of becoming governor too early, before he was a person.
> The accusation was supposed to have been made “anonymously”… In May, a former executive was identified as the accuser. It is abnormal to be so desperate to find the culprit. Anyway, how was it possible to identify it?
A former government official is saying something. Isn’t the governor also a former bureaucrat? Civil servants are a bunch of incompetents. They’re nothing but a nuisance that devours tax money.
Saito is also surrounded by enemies, but it seems like there aren’t many people who agree with the former director. Even if the power harassment is true, in the current situation, I think there should be more of a groundswell of support and a movement to aim for a recall. I think both of them are strange people.
>>56 No one can say anything because it’s a dictatorship that would make even the North Korean generals pale in comparison. Everyone has to live and have a family.
>>56 A recall requires collecting signatures and then voting, so the hurdles are high. Even among those who are interested in politics, most would probably just think that they won’t vote in the next election.
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