| On Coronavirus To Kenya IMF Hands
$739M While WB COVID Aid Spent on Tea and
Snacks
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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UN GATE, May 6 –
Before
the
International
Monetary
Fund's
February 13
embargoed briefing,
Inner City
Press asked
the IMF to
confirm or
deny something
in the
crypto-currency
media,
that "IMF
ADVISES
EASTERN
CARIBBEAN
STATES TO
TRIAL DIGITAL
CURRENCY." See
below.
Now on May
6 amid the Coronavirus crisis
on Kenya,
the IMF
has
announced,
"The Executive Board of the
International Monetary Fund
(IMF) today approved the
disbursement of SDR542.8
million (100 percent of quota,
about US$739 million) to be
drawn under the Rapid Credit
Facility (RCF). This will help
to meet Kenya’s urgent balance
of payments need stemming from
the outbreak of the COVID-19
pandemic. The impact of
COVID-19 on the Kenyan economy
will be severe. It will act
through both global and
domestic channels, and
downside risks remain large.
While the authorities have
taken decisive action to
respond to the pandemic’s
health and economic impacts,
the sudden shock has left
Kenya with significant fiscal
and external financing needs.
Authorities have committed to
resume their fiscal
consolidation plans once the
crisis abates to reduce debt
vulnerabilities. The RCF
will help the authorities to
address those needs. It will
allow them to maintain an
adequate level of
international reserves and
help provide the budget
financing needed to respond to
the pandemic. The IMF is
in close contact with the
Kenyan authorities and stands
ready to provide policy advice
and further support, as
needed.
While on COVID-19 UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres and
his spokesman Stephane
Dujarric refuse to answer the
Press and public on UNMISS
spreading Coronavirus in South
Sudan, Dujarric on May 1
bragged about the UN in
Kenya. He specifically
named the UN resident
coordinator there, Siddharth
Chatterhee, the son in law of
his previous boss Ban Ki-moon.
But Sid has been silent on
this, from The Star: "A
document tabled before the
Health Committee of the
National Assembly chaired by
Murang’a Woman Representative
Sabina Chege indicates [how
World Bank Covid funding was
used.] The PS told the House
team another Sh4 million was
used to buy tea and snacks for
various teams out of the
Sh10.1 million budget." Tea
and snacks. Meanwhile Sid
promotes himself, classic UN.
From
February 2020, before COVID-19
was much known in the US but
long after the cases in
December 2019 in China, as
Kenya and Djibouti joust for a
seat on the UN Security
Council, the corruption of the
UN Secretariat under Antonio
Guterres is airbrushed out, as
Inner City Press which covers
it remains banned
from even entering the UN, now
for 579 days.
The UN's presence in Kenya is
headed, through a process of
nepotism long defended and
covered up by UN Spokesman
Stephane Dujarric, by former
UNSG Ban Ki-moon's son in law
Sid
Chatterjee.
Now Sid
has been filmed cravenly
dancing with Uhuru Kenyatta at
the UB40 concert in Nairobi.
Guterres' UN gets down with
anyone in power, whether Paul
Biya in Cameroon, Xi in China,
etc.. One of the videos of
Sid's inappropriate moves - he
also campaigned to try to get
Kenyan government official
Amina Mohammed an AU post -
has already been taken down,
from the Twitter account of
Nelson Havi, "Advocate of the
High Court of Kenya.
Candidate, LSK President
2020-2022."
But video
of Sid's Kenyatta moves is
still online here,
with the reply
"Not a bad thing,but not good
when we have Chinese debts,
locusts, poor roads
infrastructure, corruption at
its best, confusion,
disobeying court orders and
division brought by the
breaking bridges initiative."
But that's
not what Sid and Guterres' UN
cares about - they only care
about ingratiating themselves
to those in power so they can
keep traveling around the
world on the public's dime,
promoting themselves and
banning the Press that asks
questions about it. We'll have
more on that - and this:
Guterres covers up from his
own direct blood, son Pedro
Guimarães e Melo De Oliveira
Guterres who uses his and the
UN's name to make money
throughout the Lusophone
world.
So too is Guterres' negligent
blind eye to Rosalyn Akombe,
playing Kenya politics while
paid by the UN. Monica Juma,
of course, turned down the UN
for the top UN political job
now held by Rosemary DiCarlo,
complicit in Guterres'
censorship of Press. The UN
Organization is rotting, more
and more corrupt each day. Why
would the people of either
country want a
seat? But as we
know, today's UN is not at all
about "we the people," but
only about Fat Tony making
money and a second term,
abetted by captured
correspondents.
Inner City Press
will be covering the African
Union process in February, and
the vote in June 2020, even if
disgusting UNSG Guterres and
his Melissa Fleming continue
banning the Press to try to
cover up their corruption.
Watch this site.
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