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Spokesman denies UN representative asked to leave

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    Presidential spokesman Septimus Kaikai today denied personal knowledge that President Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah had demanded the recall of UNDP Resident Representative Elizabeth Lwanga.
    “I am not personally aware of this decision at all,” Kaikai told IRIN.

    His comment came in response to news reports that Kabbah made the request because UN expatriate staff had failed to return to Freetown after evacuating to neighbouring Guinea.

    The news reports also said that Kabbah, a former UN official, claimed some UN agencies were “refusing to return in order to put pressure on the government to negotiate with the RUF [rebel Revolutionary United Front]”.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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