| UN
Guterres and Mohammed Empty Statement on
Nigeria As They Ban Inner City Press 841
Days
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Video
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UN GATE, Oct 21 –
Antonio Guterres and Amina J.
Mohammed, the UN Secretary
General who rarely takes
questions and his fast-talking
deputy who had the Press which
asked him about the mass
killings in Cameroon thrown
out of the UN, have together
banned Inner City Press from
entering the UN or its online
briefings for 841 days.
On
October 13 as
every weekday
since,
among with
questions on
Guterres'
covering up of
his links to
UN bribery
firm CEFC
China Energy
and Mohammed's
covering up
her back
dating of
thousands of
CITES
certificates
to send endangered
rosewood
from Nigeria
and Cameroon
to China,
Inner City
Press in writing
asked Guterres
and
Amina J.
Mohammed and
Melissa Fleming,
"On Nigeria
what are the
comments and
actions if any
of SG Guterres
and separately
DSG Amina J.
Mohammed on
that the
governor of
Nigeria's
Rivers state
has banned all
forms of
protests in
the southern
state,
including the
ones against
police
brutality.
Protests
continued in
the country on
Monday even
after Special
Anti-Robbery
Squad, a
notorious
police unit
accused of
unlawful
arrests and
murder, was
officially
disbanded.
Governor
Nyesom Wike
said that
there was now
no need for
the
protests.
"Law
enforcement
agencies are
also directed
to ensure that
the ban is
enforced and
that violators
are brought to
book," his
spokesperson
Paulinus
Nsirim said in
a statement
posted on Twitter."
Days
later,
no answer, nor
to this.
Now
more
than a week
later on
October 21,
through
maskless
spokeesman
Stephane
Dujarric,
this: "The
Secretary-General
is following
recent
developments
in Nigeria and
calls for an
end to
reported
police
brutality and
abuses. He
condemns the
violent
escalation on
20 October in
Lagos which
resulted in
multiple
deaths and
caused many
injuries. He
expresses his
condolences to
the bereaved
families and
wishes a
speedy
recovery to
those injured.
He calls on
the Nigerian
authorities to
investigate
these
incidents and
hold the
perpetrators
accountable.
The
Secretary-General
urges the
security
forces to act
at all times
with maximum
restraint
while calling
on protestors
to demonstrate
peacefully and
to refrain
from
violence.
The
Secretary-General
encourages the
authorities to
swiftly
explore
avenues to
de-escalate
the situation.
He reiterates
the readiness
of the United
Nations to
support
national
efforts
towards
finding a
solution.
Stephane
Dujarric,
Spokesman for
the
Secretary-General
New York, 21
October 2020."
Empty
statement,
totally
corrupt. In
context, it is
pro-Buhari
Mohammed's
attempt to
save face and
see if she can
get another
international
job.
Guterres'
own guards
rough up and
ban the Press,
here.
On September
12,
still-banned
Inner City
Press went to
check out the
UN and Belarus
protest across
from it on
43rd Street,
where it
covered the UN
after Guterres
had it roughed
up. Sept 12
Periscope
here. Guterres
sides with
dictators -
and his
Melissa
Fleming has
not acted on
Inner City
Press'
application a
full week
previous for
access to
briefing to
cover UNGA
Week 2020.
We'll have
more on this.
As
Inner City
Press reported
on August 4 when
Haq and
Melissa
Fleming had it
removed before
it could ask a
question on
Guterres' lame
"policy
brief" on
COVID-19 and
education,
Guterres'
embargoed
video was filmed
July 23. This
shows
guilty
knowledge.
In March
at public expense his wife
Catarina Vaz Pinto was with
him, just as she was in
September 2019 in expensive
seats at the US Open tennis
tournament as Guterres - and
she? - censored the Press.
Catarina Vaz Pinto is no
longer only Lisbon's Minister
of Culture - she is now,
somewhat absurdly, the
"Minister of International
Relations" of the city. In
that role she was in Madrid,
at an event making light of
the spread of Coronavirus
which Guterres is helping
spread, while UN Spokesperson
Stephan Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming refuse all Inner City
Press questions.
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