| UN Wastes
Money as Guterres Bans
Inner City Press UNICEF
Whistleblower Voice Here
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE,
Feb 3 – How corrupt and
decrepit has the UN system
become under Antonio Guterres,
in this case due to Guterres?
Inner City Press
is today publishing below yet
another letter to it from UN
staff. First:
Dear Mr Lee,
Guterres’s UN is corrupt,
irrelevant and incompetent.
UN80 will end up with many of
us fired while those
responsible and their petty
bureaucrats will stay. The
reform of the UN cannot be led
by those who brought the UN to
irrelevance and bankruptcy.
The UN secretariat has
announced 20% cuts and many
contracts have not not been
extended. Yet, all the cuts
are made at junior P2 and P3
level. Why are the over 60
year-old P5s, D1s, D2s, ASGs
and USG not taking retirement
and leave space to young staff
that can regenerate an old,
obsolete, patriarchal and
elitist organization?
They should lead
by example, take their
pensions and leave. Instead,
they stay taking fat salaries
and preaching about the value
of youth, while the UN
bureaucrats age in luxury in
New York and Geneva and young
staff get fired. That’s UN
hypocrisy. What about
duplication and triplicacion
and mandates and cost?
If UNICEF is the
dedicated agency for children
what are the added value of
Virginia Gamba and Najat
Maalla other than wasting
funds?
Now on February
3: We are writing to you about
Madame Hannan Sulieman, UNICEF
Deputy Executive Director for
Management Affairs. Madame
Sulieman has wasted millions
of UNICEF funding because of
poor management. Madame
Sulieman appointed Mister
Bandjougou from Ivory Coast as
Director of Human Resources
(D2). While many highly
qualified and competent senior
UNICEF staff, already at the
D1 or D2 level, applied for
this position, Madame Sulieman
ignored them all and chose
Mister Bandjougou, who was
Chief of Human Resources (P5).
Why was Mister Bandjougou
promoted from a P5 to D2?
Madame Sulieman wanted a
yes-man. Madame Sulieman
and Mister Bandjougou have
created a human resources work
environment where critical
thinking is not allowed, and
where new ideas, alternative
views, and criticism are not
tolerated. Intelligent,
competent, and qualified staff
are seen as a threat and
forced out. Because of this,
UNICEF has lost many of its
best and most competent HR
staff. Staff who are critical
are sidelined, overlooked for
promotion, given negative
evaluations, or even have
their posts abolished. Madame
Sulieman is vindictive and
retaliation is the rule.
Today, with the funding cuts,
there is favoritism, bills are
settled, and merit,
competence, and qualifications
are irrelevant when Madame
Sulieman and Mister Bandjougou
decide who can stay in UNICEF
and who is separated.
Mister Bandjougou
is responsible for a failed
and expensive rotation policy.
UNICEF introduced a system
requiring staff to move
between duty stations. But the
system did not work: it is
expensive, it applied only to
some staff members, it created
distraction, conflict and
competition, and it prevented
the right person from being in
the right job. In addition,
there was favoritism. While
all staff were supposed to
rotate, Mister Bandgougou made
exceptions for his friends.
For example, Mister Bandjougou
promoted Boris Zinsou, who had
already been in New York for
ten years, as the new Chief.
Why was the rotation policy
not applied to Mister Zinsou
and why was he promoted? He
has never worked in
humanitarian duty stations and
he is known to be slow and not
work hard. He has been vocal
about only wanting to be based
in the USA or Europe because
of the financial benefits in
these countries.
Inner City Press
applied to re-enter on June
19, 2025 here.
Nothing for six months, then a
denial without any reasons
given. We've asked MALU:
nothing.
Guterres had the
critical Press roughed
up and thrown out. There
has been no due process since,
not even a response to Guterres'
Melissa Fleming to a pro bono inquiry
for Inner City Press from the
law firm Quinn Emanuel. We'll
have more on this.
***
Your
support means a lot. As little as $5 a month
helps keep us going and grants you access to
exclusive bonus material on our Patreon
page. Click
here to become a patron.
Feedback:
Editorial [at] innercitypress.com
SDNY Press Room
500 Pearl Street, NY NY 10007 USA
Mail: Box 130222, Chinatown Station,
NY NY 10013
Reporter's mobile (and weekends):
718-716-3540
Other, earlier Inner City Press are
listed here,
and some are available in the ProQuest
service, and now on Lexis-Nexis.
Copyright 2006-2025 Inner City
Press, Inc. To request reprint or other
permission, e-contact Editorial [at]
innercitypress.com
|
,
