New head of UN’s Internal Investigative Office to be named soon: Spokesman

Constructive criticism was welcome and that the Secretariat would be looking seriously at the constructive and substantive elements of Inga-Britt Ahlenius’ report, while responding to any inaccuracies in it, the UN spokesman has said.

Asked by the media at the noon briefing at the UN Headquarters in New York, Martin Nesirky, spokesman for Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had said that that the end-of-assignment report turned in by the departed former head of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), Inga-Britt Ahlenius, would be looked into as constructive criticism was welcome and that the Secretariat would be looking seriously at the constructive and substantive elements of the report, while responding to any inaccuracies in it. He added that a successor to Ahlenius would be named soon.

Inga-Britt Ahlenius had slammed the Secretary General as being a bureaucratic weakling who has reduced the U.N. to a “sad” and perilous state of irrelevance by destroying accountability in his own house.

 

Ms. Ahlenius, the departing Under Secretary General for the Office of Internal Oversight Services, dispatched an end-of-assignment report at the close of her 5-year tenure on Friday that accused Ban of undermining her work to make the world body open and accountable.

Though Ban has frequently touted his own projects to that end, Ahlenius wrote that under his watch, “There is no transparency, there is lack of accountability” at the U.N.