In
South Sudan As
$100000 Wasted
by Shearer on
Buried Review
UNMISS Churns
Out PoC Stats
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, CJR PFT
UNITED NATIONS
GATE, December 17 – When youth
leaders from South Sudan and
DR Congo took questions on 26
October 2018, it was across
the street from the UN and
Inner City Press went to ask
and live-stream. Video here.
It asked about the performance
of the UN Mission UNMISS.
Inner City Press asked the
spokesmen for UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres in
writing, "South Sudan's Susan
Kyunon Sebit William
told Inner City Press that
UNMISS does not sufficiently
protect civilians,
particularly women, citing
Terrain Hotel etc. What IS the
UN doing? What did it learn?"
Apparently nothing - these was
no answer, more than six weeks
later. How badly run is this
UNMISS mission? Today, as
Guterres after Inner City
Press questions to him about
UN corruption he encourages banned
Inner City Press from a "UN
Human Rights" event on
December 10, we have another
story from within the UN
Mission in South Sudan. This
comes as Guterres and his
spokesmen, rather than answer
questions about UN corruption
from staff and Inner City
Press instead rough up and ban
the Press and refused all
questions about the UN's use
of money. Today we exclusively
publish below on this waste
and cover up, document here
for download on Patreon, here
on Scribd, as instead of the
document it spending public
money on UNMISS puts out this:
"UNMISS “Protection of
Civilians” (PoC) Sites
As of 13 December 2018, a
total of number of civilians
seeking safety in six
Protection of Civilians (PoC)
sites located on UNMISS bases
is 194,916 including 114,469
in Bentiu, 29,190 in Malakal,
32,113 in Juba UN House, 2,284
in Bor, and 116 in UNMISS base
and 16,744 in the area
adjacent to UNMISS in Wau “.
Region
Location
Number of Civilians Seeking
Protection
Central Equatoria
UN House PoC I & III
32,113
Unity
Bentiu
114,469
Upper Nile
Malakal
29,190
Jonglei
Bor
2,284
Western Bahr el Ghazal
Wau
116
AA
16,744
TOTAL
194,916
Source: The figures reported
are based on Biometric
Registration conducted by IOM
in Bor (November 2018), UN
House (October 2018), and the
headcounts conducted in Wau
PoC1 and Wau Adjacent Area
(November 2018), Bentiu
(November 2018) and Malakal by
DRC (October 2018)." And
here now a real story from
within UNMISS, from sources
who hate to see what SRSG
Shearer and Guterres are doing
to the UN: "Mr. Lee: You have
written several articles about
corrupt hiring practices at
UNMISS under the leadership of
SRSG David Shearer. In
the midst of your reporting,
SRSG Shearer launched what he
called an “independent”
civilian staffing
review. The results of
this review have not been
released, even though the
review was completed over a
month ago.
The terms of reference for the
review are attached. The
review was led by a former ASG
supported by two senior staff
(D1 and P5), and cost the
mission approximately $100,000
in direct expenses, plus weeks
of staff time.
Description
Estimated cost
Non-staff member senior
consultant (former ASG)
$30,000
Two round trip business class
tickets from NY to Juba
($7,000 x 2)
$14,000
DSA with accommodation for two
consultants (30 days x $120
per day x 2)
$7,200
Special flights within mission
(8 flights with same day
return x $6,000)
$48,000
TOTAL estimated cost
$99,200
A final copy of the report was
submitted privately to SRSG
Shearer when the review team
completed its month-long
mission at the end of October
2018. No copy of the report
has been distributed within
the mission. Nor has copy even
been shared with the senior
management team, including the
DSRSG and Chief of Staff—whose
areas of work were included in
the review.
This lack of transparency
surrounding the review team’s
report is particularly
concerning given that its
results were intended to
factor into the mission’s
broader strategic planning
efforts. Yet, these broader
strategic planning efforts
have been proceeding without
benefit of the very costly
staffing review.
It appears that SRSG Shearer
disagrees with some of the
report’s key findings and
recommendations. The findings
and recommendations apparently
do not comport with the SRSG’s
preconceived views of how
civilian staffing should be
restructured. As your recent
reporting demonstrated, one of
the SRSG’s primary goals is to
put more of his “favorites”
into senior positions,
regardless of UN hiring rules,
and consolidate more power
within his own front office.
By confidentially sharing this
information with you, I hope
to bring more transparency and
accountability to how
decisions are being made at
what is now the UN’s largest
peacekeeping operation." And
here is the document, for now,
showing the team of long time
UN insiders going all the way
back to the UN's (failed)
mission a Referendum still not
held in Western Sahara:
"Composition 14. The Review
team will comprise of the
following members:
a. Dr. Wolfgang Weisbrod Weber
(Team Leader, external expert)
b. Ms. Elizabeth Lercara
Chester c. Mr. Anees Ahmed
15. The team will be supported
by UNMISS Strategic Planning
Unit and Best Practice Unit
(Point of Contact, Mr. Naoki
Ishikawa).
Budget
17. The cost for the visit
will be covered by UNMISS." So
where is the product of this
public spending? Who will be
held accountable, including
for Guterres' censorship of
Press? Should be Guterres.
Watch this site. On December
10 Inner City Press reported
here about a UN official Inner
City Press has long been told
and reported
about
(from 2007
in Liberia to 2016
with Ladsous), Stephani
Scheer (said to be 'Cindy', in
the book about the Oil for
Food scandal "Backstabbing for
Beginners"). Because Guterres'
decayed UN has reached the
point where it physically
ousts those who ask Guterres
about (his) corruption and
then refuses to response to
written questions on such
matters, here it is, as sent
to Inner City Press, Guterres'
USG Jan Beagle and other email
address on which we will have
more: "Hello Matthew, I sent
this to you and UN official in
the same address. Staff are
crying here because the lady
dismantled the section
after being exposed to get
unnecessary benefits with
retired former boyfriend of UN
Staff member (Christopher
Fathers). She is only
remaining two weeks to retire
but revenged the staff. You
know She is an American but
going to live in South Africa
hiding USA taxation of her
huge amount she got from the
missions including Oil for
food program in Iraq. [See
above, and Backstabbing for
Beginners. More from UNMISS
staff:] The mother of
corruption in UNMISS is on the
farewell this month. She
has been considered the most
influential and monster
woman messing up the whole
system. She had a plan
to get million dollars in the
name of restructuring with her
former boy friend Christopher
but failed after being
exposed. Now she has
decided to abolish the GSS
office at the last minute and
fired those innocent staff
members at her
retirement (see the
attachment). The current SRSG
does not have the knowledge on
the administrative
reconfiguration of different
functions. The mother of
corruption has considered him
as a small boy and did not
share him any plan on
reforming the staff structure.
He only spent playing music
and guitars with his fans
while staff are severely
affected and being suffered
due to
maladministration . Majority
staff have lost respect for
the current SRSG [David
Shearer] and his team. He is
not proactive in identifying
and preventing potential
staff problems. The
Secretary General of
whistle-blower policy
has officially been
annulled in UNMISS. No
guarantee for whistle-blowers
in the UNITED NATIONS! Thank
you Inner City for
becoming our voice!" No
problem. Here's from the 7
December 2018 memo (Scribd;
download on Patreon)
from Scheer, as Director of
Mission Support of UNMISS:
"With the dissolution of GSS
[some] staff could not be
accommodated under the new
functions as their
qualifications and experience
do not satisfy the
requirement" -- unless they
are cronies of Guterres, or
Shearer, or Scheer. We'll have
more on this. None of this
stopped the UN's hypocritical
and often absentee Secretary
General Antonio Guterres from
on December 3 while off on
another junket issuing this: "
The Secretary-General strongly
condemns the brutal sexual
attacks perpetrated against
women and girls in the last
ten days in the Unity region
of South Sudan. These horrific
acts are a distressing
reminder of how, despite
recent recommitments by South
Sudan’s leaders to a cessation
of hostilities and a
revitalized peace agreement,
the security situation for
civilians remains dire,
especially for women and
children.
Rape and other forms of sexual
violence have been a
consistent feature of the
conflict in South Sudan, used
both as a tactic of war and a
driver of forced displacement.
The Secretary-General
underlines that such predatory
behavior against the most
vulnerable is unacceptable.
The Secretary-General urges
the leaders of all the parties
to the conflict – and future
leaders in the Transitional
Government of National Unity –
to ensure the safety of
civilians and address impunity
for these crimes through
investigation and prosecution
of perpetrators, including
through the operationalization
of the Hybrid Court, as an
immediate priority.
The Secretary-General
underlines that the only
viable solution for the
security and prosperity of the
people of South Sudan is the
immediate cessation of
hostilities and the full
implementation of the
Revitalized Agreement on the
Resolution of the Conflict in
South Sudan. The United
Nations stands ready to
support all national, regional
and international efforts to
that effect.
Stephane Dujarric, Spokesman
for the Secretary-General
New York, 3 December 2018."
The UN under Antonio Guterres
has further covered up rapes
in CAR by its own
"peacekeepers" from Cameroon,
refusing to answer questions
in a censorship pattern well
known to each of the officials
who on December issued this
fwiw statement: "UN Special
Representatives on Sexual
Violence in Conflict, Pramila
Patten, for Children and Armed
Conflict, Virginia Gamba, and
the Special Advisor on the
Prevention of Genocide, Adama
Dieng strongly condemn reports
of 150 women and girls
brutally raped during a
ten-day period (19-29
November) while making their
way to collect food for their
families near Bentiu, South
Sudan. The violations took
place in a
Government-controlled area,
reportedly carried out by
young men in civilian clothing
or military uniforms.
We reiterate the messages of
the Secretary-General’s
Special Representative for
South Sudan, David Shearer and
call on the Government of
South Sudan to urgently
denounce these abhorrent acts,
swiftly launch investigations
and ensure that perpetrators
are prosecuted and held
accountable.
Accountability is critical to
obtain lasting peace and
reconciliation among the
communities in South Sudan we
therefore call on the
Government to take all
appropriate measures to end
the chronic impunity
prevailing in the country. We
also call on the Government to
uphold its primary
responsibility for protecting
and ensuring the safety of its
population, irrespective of
their ethnic or political
affiliation. We further
urge the Government to ensure
that all victims receive
essential medical,
psychosocial and legal support
necessary for their recovery.
It is very disturbing that
sexual violence remains
rampant in the country. This
year, in particular, has been
marked by an alarming increase
in the number of rape cases
perpetrated on vulnerable
women and girls, despite the
signing of the Revitalized
Peace Agreement in September
2018." But why have they
allowed Guterres censorship on
the very issue of sexual
abuse? We'll have more on
this. Today's UN bans
Press. When "the Role of
Conventional Arms in
Preventing Conflicts" was
debated across First Avenue
frm the UN on October 25,
Inner City Press went, to ask
a question. Video here.
It asked UN Peacekeeping
official Thomas Kontogeorgos
what the UN has done about its
negligent loss of weapons and
ammunition - which Inner City
Press asked about IN the UN
before being banned as cover
up by SG Antonio Guterres and
his USG Alison Smale. Kontogeorgos
to his credit
answered, only
somewhat
evasively,
that DPKO
"provided
inputs" to the
Small
Arms Survey,
and now UNPOL
passes
information to
INTERPOL (the
disappearance
of whose head
Guterres has
said nothing
about, despite
written
questions from
Inner City
Press.). At
the end of the
IPI program,
Youssef
Mahmoud spoke
about the
elephant(s) in
the room,
selling arms.
Afterward Dr.
Mihaela
Racovita
of SAS told
Inner City
Press they are
trying to make
further
inroads with
DPKO, for
example with
the mission in
Mali. We hope
to have more
on this - the
lawless ban by
Guterres and
Smale, for
reporting on
UN corruption,
is not
helpful. But
we will not
stop. Back
on September 5, hours after in
the UN Security Council
chamber UK Ambassador Karen
Pierce said
she supported the morning's
meeting about Nicaragua due to
refugee flows, across the
street from the UN Inner City
Press asked her why this logic
didn't apply to the confict in
the former British Southern
Cameroons and the flight of
Anglophones from state
violence into Nigeria.
Periscope video here.
Pierce replied that a country
is less likely to end up on
the Security Council's agenda
if it is taking some positive
steps. But given 36 year
Cameroonian head of state Paul
Biya's torching of villages,
what are his positive steps? A
sceptic might point to the
natural gas deal he signed
with UK-based New Age, which
UK Minister Liam Fox
bragged around as showing UK
companies can still get deals
after Brexit.
Also
on the panel on the "Culture
of Peace," moderated by Kevin
Rudd, was Secretary
General Antonio Guterres' head
of policy planning Fabrizio
Hochschild. When Inner City
Press began a question to
Hochschild, who had spoken
with gruesome examples from
Colombia of the need for
opposing sides to humanize
each other though
“dignification,” Rudd cut it
off.
Stepping off the
crowded elevator at ground
level Inner City Press
endeavored to ask Hochschild
the questions, both Cameroon
and whether Guterres and his opaque
Global Communicator Alison Smale,
purporting to ban Inner City
Press from the UN for life
without once speaking with it,
should engaged in some
dignification. He declined to
answer -- declined to dignify
the question, so to speak --
then said “Ask Steph.”
It was a
reference to Guterres'
spokesman Stephane Dujarric,
who Smale has twice written
would answer Inner City Press'
question but who has refused
to for a full week.
This as
Inner City Press, already
banned from the UN for 64 days
amid its questions on
Guterres' inaction on Cameroon
with the country's ambassador
Tommo Monthe heading the UN
Budget Committee, has an
application pending to cover
the UN General Assembly as it
has for the past 11 years.
Dignification, indeed. We'll
have more on this.
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