by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
UN GATE, Jan 1 – How corrupt is today's UN under Antonio Guterres? Today's follow up, the first but certainly not last of this new month and year, is yet again on his mission in Colombia, about which his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming refuse all Press questions. Inner City Press has asked them, and others, about the newest sex abuse case against the UN there. Now this, from a UN whistleblower sent to Inner City Press:
There is another scandal to report, which is the newly appointed CMS/DMS for Colombia, Mr Yang Wang. In the same email, as well as in articles published by Inner City Press, it has been reported that Chief HR Mar Brusola manipulated the recruitment process by eliminating all qualified candidates in order to make the selection of Mr Wang easy. Due to his limited knowledge, experience and English understanding , Mr Wang has never passed any UN exam . After serving as Military Observer in Liberia in 1994 and Iraq in 1999, he was imposed by his government to UNMIL in 2004 as Administrative Officer.
He was downsized in 2016 but thanks to his Chinese connections and support, he was saved and moved to UNSOM where he worked for the SRSG, who was not impressed by his work, as he was only good at taking ID pictures for all staff and he still does. The SRSG in order to get rid of him, abolished his post, never a post was ever abolished in Somalia as they always needed more posts. Nevertheless, he was saved again without any roster membership or passing any test or interview, and moved to the mission in Colombia to be the P5 Chief Operational Resource Management, a position for which he did not have any experience.
While working in that position for 6 years and not producing anything for UNVMC, he tried to get into the roster for his own position but failed every time .
Although he has no managerial skills or professionalism, despite committing fraud in his application by declaring his fluency in Spanish and passing an exam in a language he doesn't know, he was selected as CMS D1 for which he has clearly proven he is incapable. OIOS and OHRM do not want to undergo any investigations despite requests from Colleagues.
The fact that he is not fluent in Spanish and could never answer the written answer in the exam could be easily verified. But this is how the corrupt UN works. Why have member states lost faith in the UN? It is because DOS USG Khare and SRSGs continue to choose for their own personal benefits and returns, unprofessional and incapable CMSs and DMSs who do not uphold the UN's core values . And meanwhile the staff under such unfit and unhealthy management, suffer.
We count on Inner City Press as the UN system has proven to do nothing against the corrupt officers
We'll have more on all this. Keep the info coming.
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