Kofi
Annan Bring Back to UN Alan
Doss, Stole Staffer's Job For
His Daughter, Biter
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Photos
UNITED NATIONS,
October 13 – When former UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan
came to the UN Security
Council stakeout on October 13
about Myanmar,
most there were focused on
trying to catch the eye or
favor of Stephane Dujarric,
the holdover spokesman for
Annan, Ban Ki-moon and now
Antonio Guterres, to get a
question. But next to Annan
was a person who left the UN
amid a nepotism scandal
complete with a UN Office of
Internal Oversight Services
investigative report Doss was
given two chances to report.
As Inner City Press exposed,
Doss arranged to have a UN
Development Program staff
member fired so that Doss'
daughter to take the job. When
the staff member became aware
- the email was sent to him -
he rebelled, was tear gassed,
and bit a UN Security officer.
He was prosecuted. Doss never
apologized, but left the UN
well known for nepotism, in
Cote d'Ivoire and the Congo
too. Flash forward to 2011
when Annan tried to put Doss
back on the UN payroll for the
Syria envoy team Annan briefly
led. Inner City Press inquired
into it, and suddenly Doss was
no longer on that team. But he
is still with the Kofi Annan
Foundation, and was in the UN
with a badge on Friday. Inner
City Press took a photograph,
and sought to find and
interview him in the UN lobby.
But he had left. From the
Inner City Press archives:
"Doss asking the UN
Development Program in writing
to show him 'leeway' and give
a job to his daughter in
contravention of UN rules.
Doss, before simply refusing
to answer questions from the
Press, said that his e-mail
was taken out of context,
despite Inner City Press'
publication of the entire
e-mail.
Since then, whistleblowers
from each of Doss' stops in
Africa have come forward
saying that Doss was always a
rule breaker, a "King of the
Congo" as he has been dubbed,
even in Cote d'Ivoire and
Liberia. Some Inner City Press
has already published -- Doss
dubbing his Liberian cook an
"engineer" to bring him to the
Congo at a higher UN pay rate,
Doss' guard shooting his gun
inside a MONUC plane filled
with Security Council members
and getting further promoted
by Doss. But from Kinshasa
comes news of Doss' use of UN
money to repair his housing,
in addition to space in the
Grand Hotel Kinshasa. Well
informed Kinshasa sources say
Doss commandeered UN air
assets to fly his wife around,
including out of the DR Congo
and otherwise abused his DSA
travel allowance from the UN.
In a telling example of
substantive contempt for the
rule of law and truth,
reporters tell of approaching
Doss with documentary proof
that indicted war criminal
Bosco Ntaganda was involved in
the leadership structure of
FARDC army units Doss' MONUC
was working with." As we found
with Ban
Ki-moon, the corrupt
ones never really leave
though. And the press which
inquires and tried to subject
the UN to scrutiny and
accountability gets evicted
without hearing or appeal,
then held out still in
restriction another elitist
Brit. We'll have more on this.
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