VIDEO: Major gaffe as Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, threatens UN with legal action

 

 

 

 

Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has made the news for the wrong reason after issuing a stern warning to the UN (United Nations) to within 30 days, publish funds collected from donors on behalf of poor Nigerians or risk legal action.

 

The minister who made the comment at a press conference on Monday, claimed the UN had not been transparent in the manner in which they utilised funds they got from donations for Nigerians.

 

From the comment of Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, it appears she meant NGOs, not UN.

 

At the time of writing, she has not clarified what she meant by ‘suing’ UN because that would be a strange thing for the Minister of Women Affairs to drag the UN to court on behalf of Nigeria.

 

UN’s humanitarian effort

 

The UN, founded in 1945, is the largest humanitarian agency in the world, with several organs that address specified challenges such as UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP), UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), and UN Population Fund (UNFPA), among others.

 

How UN gets funding

 

The UN gets funding in two ways – Assessed Contributions and Voluntary contributions.

 

Assessed contributions are payments that all UN Member States are required to make. This payment, which is obligatory, is determined by the status of Member States in the UN and size of the economy. The United States is the biggest contribution to the UN in the category of assessed contribution

 

Voluntary contributions are not obligatory, but instead left to the discretion of individual Member States. These contributions are vital to the work of the UN’s humanitarian and development agencies.

 

VIDEO: Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, threatens to sue the U.N over the mismanagement of funds acquired in the name of Nigerianspic.twitter.com/LdmVIyS4Ae

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