The Coordinating Commission for the Nakba Anniversary has called for removing Pierre Krahenbuhl commissioner-general of the UNRWA and his deputy Sandra Mitchell from their posts saying the agency’s services have declined notably after their appointment.
A spokesman for the commission told a news conference held in Gaza City on Saturday that the UNRWA’s services have been seeing a dramatic decline at all levels since Krahenbuhl took office in March 2014.
“The number of the agency’s Arab employees has fallen from 30718 in 2014 to 29825 in 2016 despite the increasing numbers of refugees and unemployed graduates” the spokesman stated.
“In contrast the number of international employees [at the agency] who receive high salaries has increased from 150 in 2014 to 182 in 2016 while the employment process at the agency has stopped in different programs and in all areas of its operations in compliance with a decision issued by commissioner Krahenbuhl in May 2015” he added.
