| UN
Staff Protest Guterres Tapping
Ndiaye As His Investigator At
OIOS Covers Up Censorship
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT CEFC
Video
UN GATE, Oct 27 –
Antonio Guterres is killing
the UN, including with his
failure in Cameroon and
elsewhere and his lawless
censorship of Press, now at
365 days, a full year. He's
put the UN in the Press
Freedom Tracker, here.
And so on 3 July 2019, this
video. Now his own staff
have protested his scam OIOS
appointment, below.
The
day after being targeted and
roughed up by Guterres' guard
Ronald E. Dobbins and another
unnamed, Inner City Press went
to the NYPD's 17th Precinct
with its torn shirt and
damaged laptop to file a
complaint. At first it was
told, flatly, that the UN is
entirely immune. Then once
they heard the story, the NYPD
took down a complaint. But the
UN including its
"investigator" Ben Swanson of
OIOS, shown here,
have done nothing about it.
Swanson confirmed
receipt, as with Inner City
Press' formal written
complaint about Guterres'
financial failure to disclose
and conflict of interest in
banning Inner City Press, no
action: "From: Ben Swanson
<swanson1@un.org> Date:
Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: Informing OIOS of
"REPORT OF PROHIBITED CONDUCT
(HARASSMENT, ABUSE OF
AUTHORITY) AND ‘FORMAL
COMPLAINT’ SUBMITTED [ABOUT]
SECRETARY GENERAL, MR ANTONIO
GUTERRES, PURSUANT TO
ST/SGB/2008/5" please confirm
receipt and what OIOS does To:
Matthew Lee @ Inner City Press
Cc: FUNCA @ funca.info, Heidi
Mendoza
<mendozah@un.org>,
Michelle Claudio
<claudio@un.org>,
Byung-Kun Min
<min2@un.org>
Dear Mr Lee Thank
you for your email and
attachments the contents of
which have been noted and will
be dealt with in accordance
with our standard
practices.
Ben Swanson l
Director l
Investigations Division l
Office of Internal Oversight
Services l United
Nations Headquarters New York
l Office +1 212 963 0597 |
Mobile +1 917 288 7459."
Fourteen
months and two weeks later -
nothing. The UN is entirely
corrupt.
Now still
banned Inner City Press
publishes this petition to
Guterres about his tellingly
problematic new OIOS partner:
"Mr. Lee, See below
message from concerned UN
staff to SG.
Thanks ----------
Forwarded message ---------
From: Fatou Ndiaye
<fatoundiayeunitednations@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at
8:32 PM Subject: Appointment
of Madame Fatoumata Ndiaye as
USG OIOS To: ag [at] un.org
Cc: <armstronge@un.org>,
<pollardc@un.org>,
<amina.mohammed@un.org>
Dear Secretary-General,
We are a group of very
concerned UN staff members
writing to you on your recent
appointment of Madame
Fatoumata Ndiaye to an Under
Secretary-General post in
charge of internal oversight
and investigation. We
are gravely concerned and
would appeal to your office to
revisit the matter. The
selected candidate is an
individual that should be
exposed for her unethical
practices and abuse of
authority over the
years.
Please allow us
to illustrate: During
her time with UNICEF as the
Director of Audit, Madame
Ndiaye was responsible for
instigation of a culture of
fear and authoritarian rule
within the structures under
her oversight. She had a
closed door approach, was very
selective in her management
style and showed bias. Those
who did not support her and
align with her were
discouraged, demotivated, shut
out and encouraged to move on.
Staff in audit repeatedly
reported about an environment
of fear of retaliation that
prevailed. UNICEF lost several
of its best auditors during
her time, interestingly most
of them from donor
countries. Madame Ndiaye
is known for her racial and
geographic discrimination and
bias, supporting those who are
West African (preferably from
Senegal) and
Francophone. She has
also abused the resources
entrusted to her. She has been
known to have travelled, in
all her functions but more
specifically in her UNICEF
roles mostly to West Africa,
leaving other parts of the
world to feel like
second-class citizens not
worthy of her attention. Many
of her travels were combined
with personal time off in West
Africa. She bent the
rules for sisters and brothers
from her home country. For a
very long time, UNICEF did not
allow nationals of a country
to have international posts in
their own country. Madame
Ndiaye changed that with
allowing at least two
Senegalese women (one of them
was a Human Resources person
close to her who is now a P4
Executive Manager in Dakar) to
serve as international staff
in their home country and
obtain lucrative international
positions. This was kept quiet
in case it would create
expectations in other
countries with staff. It
created sensitivities as there
were different opinions even
in DHR (the division of human
resources that reported
directly to her) on how to
handle the anomaly and turn it
into policy. We think this
practice is still not a clear
policy that is known and
applied elsewhere.
Another example is when Madame
Ndiaye bent the rules for
another Senegalese whom she
courted for a D1 position in
her team, selected him to NY
on a special assignment
without due process and
totally lacking transparency
(she already had committed the
assignment to him when it was
advertised only for a week, we
are told) and then tried to
assign him on the assignment
full time. This is a staff
member whose own behavior begs
questioning. Her bias
and maneuvering other
Senegalese into positions
throughout her career should
be investigated and shows a
pattern of nepotism,
discrimination and abuse of
authority. It is
noteworthy that the Morgan
Lewis report on sexual
harassment and abuse
illustrated categorically how
badly investigations were done
under Ms. Ndiaye’s watch. The
report conveyed that all the
cases of sexual harassment
investigated during her
directorship should be
reopened. It is
shocking that an individual
with such practices and
behavior can qualify to be
promoted to an Under
Secretary-General in any
function and in an area as
serious as internal oversight
and investigations where she
has clearly failed." But it's
the UN of Guterres: more
corrupt all the time.
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