Who's the cat that won't own up, who knows how to be corrupt? [Give 'em the] SHAFT! Shut your mouth!
Another corrupt nail in the morally and ethically challenged career of the Kofmeister. Something tells me this is the tip of the iceberg...... and he dares lecture America on values.
MYSTERY SURFACES OVER APARTMENT OF KOFI ANNAN NY Sun
As Secretary-General Annan prepares to leave his post at the United Nations, a mystery is surfacing surrounding his apartment on Roosevelt Island, subsidized by New York taxpayers, which is still in use by the family of his brother, Kobina Annan.
The apartment was where Mr.Annan and his wife lived before 1997, when he became secretary-general. The Roosevelt Island home is part of an estate of low-rent state-regulated housing. For years, the Annans saved considerable sums by occupying an apartment meant to help financially strapped low to moderate-income New York families.
One question Mr. Annan has never addressed is why he and his wife felt comfortable availing themselves of this generous arrangement. Another is how it is that, since Mr. Annan and his wife left that Roosevelt Island apartment 10 years ago to move into the rent-free residence on Sutton Place supplied to the secretary-general, their former low rent apartment was handed over to be occupied by the family of Mr. Annan’s brother.
This kind of apartment, part of a state-regulated housing development program called Mitchell-Lama, is subject to strict eligibility requirements, involving family size and financial ceilings on combined family income.There is also a requirement that the leaseholder make continuous use of the apartment as a primary residence.
Kobina Annan is currently Ghana’s ambassador to Morocco, a post he has held for some years. His wife, Ekua Annan, features in the Ghanaian and Moroccan press as active in the Rabat diplomatic community. The pair posed together at a gala reception they hosted at their official Morocco residence in 2004.
But the issue is pertinent because Kofi Annan, whose wife comes from one of Sweden’s wealthier families, has spent years lecturing Americans on how the well-heeled have obligations to those less fortunate. Those low- to moderate income New York families for whom such accommodation was built face a four-year waiting list. Read it all here.
Condi give him a lunch! A dinner!
Illustration: Canada Free Press
More Kofi krap over at Pajamas Media: Fast Forward @ The Rosett Report
"What? Me worry?" TEHRAN (OFF News) – March 15, 2007 – After three months of living “underground,” former Secretary-General Kofi Annan came to the surface and spoke in the Iranian capital at the opening of a two-day conference questioning the existence of the UN Oil-For-Food scandal…. ( Read the rest HERE)
