Kojo’s Whinin’
Annan’s Son Believes Criticism Is Unfair
Kojo Annan believes he has been unfairly criticized in an official report on the awarding of a U.N. oil-for-food contract to a company for which he worked, his lawyers said in a statement Wednesday.
Investigators probing the U.N. oil-for-food program said Tuesday that Kofi Annan didn’t interfere in the awarding of a December 1998 contract to Cotecna Inspection S.A. of Switzerland, which employed Kojo Annan at the time.
But the report also accused Cotecna and Kojo Annan of trying to conceal their relationship after the firm was awarded the contract. In a letter attached to the report, William R. Taylor, one of a team of lawyers working for Kojo Annan, acknowledged his client had not told his father the entire truth regarding Cotecna.
The report said that after a British newspaper, The Sunday Telegraph, reported the link between Kojo Annan and Cotecna in January 1999, “Cotecna disguised its continuing relationship with Kojo Annan by routing the payments that were made to him” through three different companies on instructions from the secretary-general’s son.
Kojo Annan worked for Cotecna in West Africa from 1995 to December 1997, and then was a consultant for the firm until the end of 1998 ” when it won the oil-for-food contract. He remained on the Cotecna payroll until 2004 on a contract to prevent him from working for a competitor in West Africa.
Kofi Annan didn’t interfere? That’s interesting wording.
As for Kojo feeling the report is unfair in its criticism of him – - how about the criticism he is getting from dear old dad?
The report has made direct ties between Kojo and Cotecna that go far beyond the norm and if reporting that is a criticism then so be it.
Articles of Interest
Read the Report
US Senate Press Release, by Senator Norman Coleman
March 31, 2005 - 04:05 PM on March 31st, 2005
The U.N., Is nothing but a real third world money making and drug dealing nut house of really evil rats. but can it be any other way?:idea: