Sierra Leone: UNIPSIIL Staff Want ERSG Out

17 September 2012

National staff of the United Nations Integrated and Peace-Building Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL) last Tuesday staged a peaceful strike action over what they described as discriminatory and unfair treatment meted at them by the management.

Displaying placards in front of their office at Signal Hill, west of Freetown, the disgruntled workers demanded that the Executive Representative of the UN Secretary General in the country, Gens Anders Toyberg-Frandzen, must go because of his total disrespect for them in public and privately and for showing little or no consideration for cultural differences and sensitivity.

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