UNIPSIL Bash At Claims

The United Nations Integrated Peace Building Office in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL)’s, has reacted to an article published in the Standard Times Newspaper of Monday 15 March 2010 entitled “Hilton to manage Mammy Yoko”; countering claims said to have been made the West Africa Holding Company.

In the said article according to UNIPSIL release, the West African Holding Company which currently manages Mammy Yoko Hotel raised a series of allegations ranging from the non-sufficient payment of rents to the physical destruction of the property by the UN during their stay at Mammy Yoko.  According to the Public of the United Nations, the claims mentioned allegations are factually incorrect and misrepresent the good image of the Organization in Sierra Leone

On the issue of the rehabilitation of the premises which the United Nations occupied the release said “Upon leasing the former Mammy Yoko Hotel, the UN spent considerable funds to rehabilitate the property at the time and made it suitable for the Organization’s operations as its headquarters; adding that the monthly rents stood as about ninety-two thousand United States Dollars (92000USD) at the time of completion of the lease in February 2009”.

The UN body revealed that in accordance with the lease agreement with the West Africa Holding Company, yearly rents for the premises was paid in advance at the sum of $1.2 million US dollars and that upon ceding the premises in March 2009, the sum of Two Hundred and Eighty Five Thousand United States Dollars (285,000 USD), was paid to the West Africa Holding Company to undertake repairs on the infrastructure, as jointly agreed. The release went on to  state that an additional Thirty Four Thousand United States Dollars (34,000 USD) was also made available as compensation for any environmental clean-up of the premises adding that the United Integrated Peace  Building Office completely considers the allegations in the article as factually in-accurate and a misrepresentation of the UN image in Sierra Leone.

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