On
Uganda
Corruption UN
Guterres Empty
Talk After
Supporting
Musevini CEFC
China Energy
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR Bobi
Wine Scope
UN GATE, Jan 15 –
Corruption in Uganda is not
limited to Sam Kutesa as UN
President of the General
Assembly lining up bribes from
CEFC China Energy, which is
also linked to UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres who
bans the Press for it, now 927
days. Even banned, Inner City
Press has daily asked Guterres
and spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa Fleming
about the crackdown on Bobi
Wine. Nothing, no answers. Now
this empty statement:
"In response to
questions on the elections in
Uganda, the Spokesman had the
following to
say:
We are concerned by the
atmosphere in which these
elections took place. We take
note of the post-electoral
developments and urge for
calm, calling on all political
parties to wait for the
official announcement of
results from the Electoral
Commission of Uganda. Any
electoral disputes should be
resolved through legal and
peaceful
means.
New York, 15 January 2021."
Empty.
In a continuing
attempt to (re) gain the
support of Uganda's Museveni
and Sam Kutesa, even after the
guilty verdicts against
Patrick Ho of China Energy
Fund Committee for
bribing at least Kutesa,
and tellingly attempting to
buy the oil company of
Gulbenkian Foundation whose
payments to Guterres he omitted
from his public financial
disclosure covering 2016,
Guterres' UN has been
silent.
When this UNCA
held its past annual meeting
it could barely reach quorum
(Periscope here);
it covered over the glass
doors of the clubhouse the UN
gives it with a sign board.
Disgruntled members forwarded the
"agenda" -- "1) Introduction of the new
2018 UNCA Executive Committee. 2)
Presentation of UNCA sub-committees and
their upcoming agendas. 3) Presentation
of 2017 UNCA & UNCA Awards
financials. 4) UNCA 70th anniversary. 5)
Other matters." We'll have more on this.
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