On
Cameroon Inner City Press Asked
UN Guterres About Mbella 14
Hours Later B.S.
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT NYP
UN GATE, Sept 24
–After
Paul Biya who
has ruled
Cameroon for 37
years on
January 28 had
his opponent
Maurice Kamto
arrested,
Inner City
Press again asked UN
Secretary
General Antonio
Guterres and
his spokesmen for
their comment
and action, if
any. This came
after Guterres
had Inner City
Press roughed
up on 3
July 2018
after it
interviewed Biya's
Ambassador
about the two
men's Budget
Committee
deals and banned
from the UN
since -
Guterres even tried
to get Inner
City Press
banned from
the Park East
Synagogue,
here, which
was denied /
dodged by his
French spokesman
Stephane
Dujarric, who put
up then took
down a podcast
in which he
brags about
his "mutually
assured
destruction"
relationship
with
journalists, here.
On
September 18
and again on September
23
Inner City
Press submitted to
Guterres,
Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa
Fleming, among
others,
questions
about Guterres'
and the UN's
failures on
Cameroon, see
below. None
were answered;
Guterres has
banned Inner
City Press
from the UN
for 448 days
amid these
questions. But
there's a
protest at the
UN gate, and
others
in Nigeria and
Canada. And
Guterres has
no comments on
these. He is
corrupt.
Inner
City Press asked:
"September
23-1: On
Cameroon, what
are the
comments and
actions if any
of the SG and
DSG Amina J.
Mohammed on
the continued
detention of
opposition
leaders, and
the protest(s)
scheduled for
the front of
the UN? Given
that Guterres
is meeting
with the
Foreign
Minister this
evening,
please confirm
this means
that Biya is
not coming and
summarize any
reasoning
provided for
it." No
answer.
And by 10
am, even
with video
out of the
pathetic grip
and grin from
which Inner
City Press was
banned by
Guterres,
still no read
out by his
Stephane
Dujarric and
Melissa
Fleming. This is
the public's
money at work,
being used to
cover up for a
mass killing
regime and to
ban and
censor the Press
that asks
about it.
After
10 am, more
than 14 hours
after the
meeting, the
UN put this
out, while
still not
answer the
Press'
question about
the protests
much less
about the
golden statue
and Budget Committee
favors
Guterres
solicited and
received:
"The
Secretary-General
met on 23
September with
H.E. Mr.
Lejeune Mbella
Mbella,
Minister of
External
Relations of
the Republic
of Cameroon.
They discussed
the latest
developments
in the
country, as
well as
regional
issues.
The
Secretary-General
reiterated the
urgency to
advance the
national
dialogue to
address the
crisis in the
North-West and
South-West
regions.
New York, 23
September 2019." We
call B.S. -
watch this
site.
"September
18-1: On
Cameroon, what
is the SG's
belated
comment and
action if any
after the
golden statue
and Fifth
(Budget)
Committee
deals with
Tommo Monthe
on that in a
memorandum
issued by
Kamto and Co
from the
Yaounde
Central
Prison, the
Cameroon
Renaissance
Movement party
says it will
not
participate in
the Major
National
Dialogue if
some
conditions are
not meted out,
amongst which
the release of
its President,
leaders,
allies and
sympathisers.
“The CRM
cannot take
part in this
Major National
Dialogue
without the
prior release
of its
National
President,
Professor
Maurice Kamto,
leaders of the
political
party and
allied
organisations,
as well as
militants and
sympathisers
of the CRM
arbitrarily
arrested and
illegally
detained."
No
answer at all,
even as
Guterres held
a pathetic
"press" conference
at which
Cameroon was not
mentioned
once. He and his
enablers are
corrupt.
Inner
City Press as
of September
24
is being
banned by
Guterres and
Melissa
Fleming from
covering the
UN General
Assembly, presided
over by
Nigeria's
ambassador Tijjani
Muhammed-Bande.
We'll have
more on this.
Inner
City Press live
tweeted
the shameful
May UNSC
session and uploaded
Guterres' envoy
Francois
Fall's
failing
statement here.
More
here.
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