| UN
Corruption
Includes UNODC
Ghada Waly
Wasting Funds
Like Big Boss
Guterres,
Censor
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, Nov 6 –
How corrupt is
today's United Nations? Well,
when Inner City Press started
questioning SG Antonio
Guterres' role, it was roughed
up and banned. Now this, to
Inner City Press, about UNODC:
UNODC is in
turmoil. Its Under Secretary
General, the Egyptian Ghada
Waly, is under investigation
by the UN Office of Internal
Oversight Services. She is
being investigated on two
accounts: harassment of staff
and illicit use of UN
financial resources - which
come from taxpayers around the
world - to fund frequent, long
and not always justified trips
to her home country, where
most of her family continue to
live. This situation has
made even worse the already
tense and negative atmosphere
at UNODC, where two senior
managers, and maybe also other
staff, have taken long medical
leave due to burn-out and
psycho-physical stress, as a
consequence of the UNODC boss'
behavior. The Under
Secretary General, after
joining UNODC in early 2020,
has upset and alienated many
staff with her aggressive and
disrespectful attitude, which
has brought junior staff to
tears and subjected others to
humiliating behaviors.
Internal sources say that one
staff even ended up retiring
for medical reasons, with
disability benefits, because
of the stress accumulated
after working with her.
The 4 year mandate of Ghada
Waly is up for renewal in a
few months. She will be in New
York in the week of 6 November
to seek an extension of of her
appointment for another four
years. Many people in the
UNODC office are praying that
this will not happen. Many
diplomats in Vienna are also
hoping she will not be
extended by the Secretary
General, as they have more and
more doubts about her
competence, credibility, and
now also her integrity. And
they do not forget that she
was previously a minister in
her country, in a government
with zero democratic
credentials. This is another
source of embarrassment: UNODC
is expected to be the big
champion of the rule of law
inside the United Nations
system..
Inner
City Press
applied to
enter to cover
the UNGA week,
on June 2023.
No response
from Guterres'
Stephane
Dujarric nor
Melissa
Fleming, nor
now to a
letter from a
pro bono law
firm. Dujarric
lies and says
it's because
of danger,
while not even
responding to
written
questions like
the above.
That's how
corrupt
today's UN is.
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