Grete Faremo has some physical health problems for which we wish her well. Although thumbscrews are not used nowadays, the Executive Director’s question to her global management: “Are you with us?” had a distinctly sinister ring, as a campaign to find moles and whistle-blowers was launched. A serving staff likened it to a modern version of the Spanish Inquisition. That is helped by the culture of intimidation that is long-established at UNOPS. Unpalatable facts are being finessed and busy personnel asked to do second duty as spin doctors. An internal indoctrination campaign is underway with tactics not unknown among famous authoritarian regimes around the world.
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That gives her discredited team ample time to clean up the crime scene – get rid of dodgy documents, purge incriminating emails, coerce witnesses, and bribe others to stay quiet.Ĭontinuing information leakage from UNOPS suggest that a cover-up is, indeed, in full swing. Grete Faremo resigned on 16 March but will stay on till 30 September. So, a collective cover-up was in their deluded best interests. On the contrary, the SLT huffed and puffed as they recognised that they would hang separately unless they hung together. Ms Faremo expressed regret at letting staff down, but the mea culpa did not extend to taking responsibility or providing explanation for what went wrong. There was understandable anxiety about reputation damage, impact on activities, as well as personal jobs and livelihoods. Others were disappointed at how the top management had let them down. Apart from some sycophantic noises from well-known opportunists such as the Director of the Europe Regional Office, there was silence that, in itself, spoke volumes.Ī brave soul or two said that they were not with her because they had no part in misappropriating the millions. To add insult to injury, the Executive Director pleaded for staff support: “We are stronger united together”. She also lied about the role of each of the SLT members in the alleged misappropriation of over US $ 60 million. Ms Faremo and Syndicate, known officially as the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), did not address any of the substantive points raised in previous articles of this series. The GLM was convened in panic after the publication of two articles on 4 th March and 9 th March, exposing a multi-million ring of fraud and corruption at this multi-billion dollar agency, a critical lynchpin of the United Nations system. That is a polite way of saying that she lied to her staff. Grete Faremo, Executive Director of the United Nations Office for Project Services was economical with the truth when she addressed her Global Leadership Meetings on 9 th and 16 th March.
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