United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon seeking a second term in office has come under heavy criticism by the outgoing Head of the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), Inga-Britt Ahlenius of Sweden.
According to the Washington Post, in her end-of-assignment report, she states under Ban's watch ‘there is no transparency, there is (a) lack of accountability’, and accuses him of poor leadership. She adds that the world body was "falling apart" and becoming irrelevant.
"I regret to say that the (U.N.) Secretariat now is in a process of decay. It is not only falling apart ... It is drifting into irrelevance," she wrote.
According to the Washington Post, Ahlenius further said Ban Ki Moon had undermined the independence of OIOS, which investigates suspected wrongdoing at the United Nations, by preventing her from making the U.S. head of the disbanded U.N. Procurement Task Force head of OIOS investigations.
Last year, Norway 's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Mona Juul criticized Ban as absent, passive and helpless in an internal memo that was leaked to a Norwegian newspaper.
Others in the UN including the Secretary General’s Chief-of-Staff, Vijay Nambiar, supported Ban Ki Moon and responded to the Washington Post saying "many pertinent facts were overlooked or misrepresented" in Ahlenius' report. Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky said his boss had improved accountability and transparency at the United Nations as he had promised when he took over from Kofi Annan in January 2007.
U.N. diplomats expect Ban to run again next year for a second term that would begin in January 2012
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