| UNFPA Kanem Wasteful Panama
Confab Under Fire Like SG Guterres Corruption
for Portugal
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive Patreon
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UN GATE, June 14
– In the UN system run by
Antonio Guterres, a fish rots
from the head. Before the
COVID-19 pandemic, Guterres
dozens of times flew to his
real home in Lisbon, with UN
Security, without ever
disclosing the costs or even
the trips. Now his
head of UNFPA, the UN
Population Fund, Natalia Kanem
is under fire. Inner City
Press first reported this on
May 7, and a section on May
17. Now this third exclusive.
Kanem wildly
overspent, before Nairobi, as
a confab in her Panama, a
"global meeting of UNFPA, not
a rationale decision, very
expensive as participants have
to travel in business class
(with a minimum of 3 flights
for many). 200 pax in a very
expensive country, home of the
UNFPA Executive Director. How
was this decision was taken?
No cost analysis was made to
select Panama."
It's like
Guterres doling out UN money
to his Portugal, and
hobnobbing with Vitorino of
IOM. It is corrupt.
During the
Nairobi summit of UNFP a $2.5
million contract was awarded
to Media Edge. It flouted
process of managing the
contract and making payments
without commensurate results
as UNFPA Representatives
around the world have to use
their personal credit cards to
pay hotels and transportation
for their ministerial
delegations. With
Media Edge, the Contract
included logistical
organization, hotels booking
and payments; registration of
guests, airport pick up;
protocols and seating
arrangements, which was poorly
managed. Purchase orders was
signed by whom? - Why payments
were made despite poor
accountability.
Son, sister and
personal friends of Executive
Director have participated in
Nairobi at UNFPA costs.
Private parties organized at
Kempinsky with family and
friends with renowned artists
[will they return the
money?] Invoice of the
cocktail organized by media
edge in Nairobi amounted
$200,000. Nairobi was a
Violations of UNFPA internal
control framework
Inner City Press is informed
that in the UN - or really, on
Zoom - African ambassadors
have been discussing this and
the other dissatisfactions
with Guterres. (One would hope
that Guterres and David
Shearer killing Africans in
South Sudan with lax COVID-19
practices they try to cover up
by banning the Press and its
questions will also draw final
action on
Guterres).
Sources
tell Inner City Press the
initial demand to Guterres is
that the investigation/audit
should also focus on the
Nairobi Summit (where a
cocktail party worth of
$200,000 was organized) and
where there is a strong
suspicion of nepotism as the
son and members of the family
of the Executive Director and
many personal friends
participated (at the Summit)
at the cost of
UNFPA.
Guterres is so
corrupt that his spokesman
Stephane Dujarric and his
screener Florencia Soto Nino
block Inner City Press on
WhatsApp, and have now
apparently directed UNTV
(under Melissa Fleming) to not
provide video of his Zoom
"briefings" with sychopants,
state media and retirees.
(This while the IMF, for
example, made Inner City Press
its first questioner at this
briefing on May 7, on
transparency). So we publish
this exclusive, and we will
have more. Watch this
site.
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