| As UN in South
Sudan Wasted $300K on
Empty Plane to Nepal Now
Critique of OIOS &
UNDT
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE
/ Juba, June 30 – How corrupt
is today's UN under Antonio
Guterres? Consider South
Sudan, where UN personnel
stand accused of child rape on
which UN spokespeople Stephane
Dujarric and Melissa Fleming
have refused all Press
questions.
Now while
the US Mission to the UN
pretends to a public that
doesn't know (and mostly
doesn't care) that it is
saving money while Mike Waltz
brags about renting the UN
roof then delays on a FOIA how
much it cost, it has done
nothing to stop the waste, and
Guterres' ban on the Press
which exposes it. Inner City
Press exclusively published
the items below, and directly
raised it to USUN, Mike Waltz
and Jeff Bartos - nothing.
Now this:
The gap between what the United Nations
preaches to the world and what it practises
within its own walls is not a minor
inconsistency — it is an institutional
crisis. Judgment No. UNDT/2024/055
(Bangambila v. Secretary-General, 4 September
2024) stands as a documented illustration of
this failure. The United Nations Dispute
Tribunal found that an investigation conducted
by the Office of Internal Oversight Services
(OIOS) was factually incorrect and not
impartial. The Tribunal rescinded the
termination of a single mother and UN staff
member who had served the Organization for 13
years — finding that she had disclosed exactly
what was required of her, told the truth, and
lost her job nonetheless. The Tribunal further
found that counsel advising the
Secretary-General provided "patently incorrect
legal advice" and directed that a copy of the
judgment be served on the
Under-Secretary-General for OIOS and the
Under-Secretary-General for Management.
This is not an isolated case. It is
symptomatic of an accountability deficit
within the United Nations Secretariat that
UN80 must directly address. If the
Organization cannot be trusted to fairly
investigate and discipline its own staff, it
cannot credibly promote justice and rule of
law globally.
We call upon Member States to ensure that UN80
explicitly includes: ▪ A comprehensive,
independent review of OIOS investigative
standards, quality assurance, and impartiality
safeguards — with binding reforms where
failures are identified. ▪ Mandatory
accountability for senior officials and legal
counsel whose conduct in disciplinary
proceedings is found by Tribunals to be
incorrect, duplicitous, or contrary to the
duty to assist the administration of
justice. ▪ Systematic institutional
learning from UNDT and UNAT judgments, with
transparent reporting to the General Assembly
on how identified failures are remedied.
▪ Strengthened protections for staff whose
cases expose systemic due process failures —
including single parents, national staff, and
those in peacekeeping missions — who are most
vulnerable to institutional pressure. ▪
Explicit commitments to reform the Umoja
dependency system and HR processes identified
in UNDT/2024/055 as having failed at every
level of scrutiny.
Institutional credibility cannot be achieved
through administrative restructuring alone.
Trust is earned when oversight mechanisms
operate fairly, objectively, and consistently
— and when failures are acknowledged and
corrected, not obscured. Anything less
is not reform — it is rebranding."
Previously:
Dear Matthew
Russell Lee,
Last week,
UMMISS Leadership failed to
properly inform the Host
Government about the Rotation
of the Nepalese Contingent, as
a result, UNMISS has again,
just lost over $300,000 as the
chartered flight which arrived
in Juba to fly out the
contingent, was sent back
empty because, the Host
Government was not properly
informed.
What as
USUN done? Nothing. Instead,
as on the UNMISS resolution,
Jeff Bartos unleashed a ten
tweet series on the Committee
on Information - without
mentioning that Under
Secretary General Melissa
Fleming, which the Committee
oversees, bans the Press and
has refused even to answer two
letters from two US law firms,
pro bono, seeking a dialogue
to end the ban on Inner City
Press. USUN has gone native,
putting style (of resolutions)
over substance (ending waste,
fraud and censorship).
Back on
November 6, 2025, in what
seems like a pre-approved list
shared by the UNMISS-SMG by
mistake - and now given no
answers published by Inner
City Press on its
DocumentCloud here
- details some offices with
specific names of
International staff, to be
considered for cuts.
It has
happened at MINUSCA in Central
African Republic too - and no
answers from UN.
Guterres,
they say, should end
censorship. Application was
made on June 19, 2025, here.
Still as of October 7 no
answer at all from Melissa
Fleming or Stephane Dujarric.
Totally corrupt. Watch this
site.
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