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Staff Protested Ndiaye At OIOS
Now She Ignores Complaint On
Swanson Who Covers Up Guterres
Censorship
By Matthew
Russell Lee, CJR PFT CEFC
Video
UN GATE, Jan 29 –
Antonio Guterres is killing
the UN, including with his
failure in Cameroon and
elsewhere and his lawless
censorship of Press, now at
575 days. 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."
Seventeen
months and three weeks later -
nothing. The UN is entirely
corrupt.
Now still
banned Inner City Press
publishes this which was sent
to Mendoza's successor in
October 2019: "Dear Ms.
N'Diaye, On 22 August
2018, following the findings
of fact in UNDT judgement
Nouinou (UNDT/2018/070) I
submitted a third party
complaint to the
Secretary-General against Mr.
Swanson and others for
withholding evidence from the
Tribunal, specifically by
their failure to comply with
UNDT Order No. 33 (NY/2017).
I have never
disclosed the names of the
staff members who asked me to
submit that complaint and have
no intention of doing so, but
the Nouinou judgement is
public. Anyone reading the
judgement can therefore draw
the reasonable conclusion that
Mr. Swanson may have lied to
the Tribunal about the
explanations for the abolition
of Ms. Nouinou's post and that
the documents required by the
Tribunal were not provided in
order to conceal his
mendacity. Quite apart from
the aggravating factor of Mr.
Swanson holding an acutely
sensitive position in the
Organisation, the failure to
comply with UNDT Order No. 33
(NY/2017) was aggravated by
your predecessor, Ms. Mendoza,
also being complicit in Mr.
Swanson's unethical and
unprincipled treatment of Ms.
Nouinou.
For that reason,
reporting Mr. Swanson's
misconduct to her was patently
not an option and ASG David
Kanja (who has demonstrated a
consistent unwillingness to
make any decision) has
repeatedly failed to act on
other complaints against
him. Withholding
evidence from the Tribunal
cannot be dismissed as a
trivial matter – even if OIOS
is accustomed to doing so as a
matter of course. It is,
however, a matter of concern
to the judges of the Tribunal,
as is evidenced in the Annual
Report of the Internal Justice
Council (A/74/169) dated 15
July 2019, and it is something
that must be addressed. In
Nouinou, the facts are made
worse because the Tribunal had
issued a specific Order, for
delivery of information that
is available to the General
Assembly - and the Respondent
still failed to produce it.
Nevertheless, the
Secretary-General failed to
respond to this complaint
within a reasonable period...
I do not
believe it is acceptable for
any UN official, far less one
in a such a sensitive post as
Investigation Director, not to
comply with an order of the
Tribunal, nor do I believe
this to be illustrative of
upholding the highest
standards of efficiency,
competence and integrity as
required under Staff
Regulation 1.2(b)). To the
best of my knowledge and
belief therefore, absolutely
no effort has been made to
address this issue. The matter
therefore falls to you, as the
“responsible official” under
ST/AI/2017/1 para 2.1(iv) to
take the necessary action.
Please note that I am not a
Staff Member and the complaint
I agreed to submit on 22
August 2018 was based entirely
on information in the public
domain. I am therefore
under no obligation to hold
any of this confidential in
any way, and am quite willing
to share it with the press."
Consider it done. We'll have
more on this.
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