As UN in South Sudan Wasted $300K on Empty Plane to Nepal Now Critique of OIOS & UNDT

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 The Tribunal rescinded the termination of a single mother and UN staff member who had served the Organization for 13 years — finding that she had disclosed exactly what was required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:  â–ª A comprehensive, independent review of OIOS investigative standards, quality assurance, and impartiality safeguards — with binding reforms where failures are identified.  â–ª 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.  â–ª Systematic institutional learning from UNDT and UNAT judgments, with transparent reporting to the General Assembly on how identified failures are remedied.  â–ª 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.  â–ª 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. *** 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. 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