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The officers, reportedly his cronies, are attempting to soundlessness and coerce the imaginable witnesses, creating a hostile situation that undermines the probe and perchance compromises the truth.
Witnesses successful the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) who are expected to attest against suspended Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Ibrahim Lamuwa regarding allegations of intersexual harassment against pistillate staff are facing intimidation and witch-hunt from elder officers loyal to him, SaharaReporters has learnt.
The officers, reportedly his cronies, are attempting to soundlessness and coerce the imaginable witnesses, creating a hostile situation that undermines the probe and perchance compromises the truth.
Some of the workers successful the ministry and missions abroad, nether the aegis of the Concerned and Patriotic Foreign Service Officers, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, disclosed this successful a 28 paragraph constituent 'Non-Paper' written to President Bola Tinubu.
The petition, dated July 3, 2024, is titled: "Appeal To Mr. President To Address Institutional Challenges In The Achievement Of Nigeria's Foreign Policy Objectives".
SaharaReporters reported connected June 10, 2024 that Nigeria's overseas affairs curate Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar had written to the Head of Service of the Federation, Dr Folasade Yemi-Esan, officially complaining astir allegations of intersexual harassment against the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Ibrahim Lamuwa.
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In a petition obtained by SaharaReporters, a joined worker of the ministry, Mrs Simisola Fajemirokun Ajayi, had disclosed the excesses of the Perm Sec done her lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), and urged the curate to analyse the Perm Sec.
She had asked that disciplinary actions should beryllium taken against Lamuwa to service arsenic a deterrent to others.
The Concerned and Patriotic Foreign Service Officers, successful the missive to the President, exposed a disturbing study of Ambassador Ibrahim Lamuwa's alleged intersexual misconduct during his diplomatic postings.
The missive revealed a signifier of inappropriate behaviour, hinting astatine a past of intersexual exploits that had raised superior concerns astir his fittingness for office.
"Particularly disturbing is Ambassador Lamuwa's decadence that has go a recurring diagnostic successful his full nationalist work career. His unbridled intersexual assaults and harassments connected minors and women is legendary. Cases see harassment of neighbours' children, arsenic a young Officer, portion occupying authorities spot astatine the Foreign Affairs Quarters successful Gwarimpa, Abuja, the inglorious removal from his station successful Canada to debar an impending declaration of Persona Non-Grata (PNG), and intersexual battle cases involving a ample fig of locally-recruited Staff successful our Mission successful Dakar, Senegal.
"In Senegal, portion serving arsenic Ambassador and Principal Representative of Mr. President, Ambassador Lamuwa threatened a pistillate slope official, saddled with the absorption of the Embassy's account, that helium would guarantee the question of the Mission's relationship to different fiscal institution, successful the lawsuit that she does not hold to prosecute successful intersexual activities with him."
The radical disclosed that it took the dependable signaling of the incident, earlier Ambassador Lamuwa could retreat from his inherent evil intentions.
"More precocious astatine the Ministry's Headquarters, a joined pistillate Policy Officer tasked with the implementation of Presidential Reforms could not defy the aggravated unit and she succumbed to Ambassador Lamuwa's menace and was duly rewarded for her compliance successful the yet-to-be-released 2024 posting exercise, without owed diligence.
"In addition, the media has besides been awashed lately with the trending lawsuit involving an adjutant of his Boss and respective unreported ones by pistillate Officers successful the Ministry, including CCTV footage of this shameful enactment successful the Office."
The acrophobic unit regretted that each these incidents involving Lamuwa could person been avoided, if a strategy of checks and balances was successful spot successful the medication of the Ministry, with the assignment of Under-Secretaries.
"With his planetary estimation arsenic a intersexual pervert and predator, determination is nary uncertainty among Staff, friends, colleagues and acquaintances that helium is susceptible of committing the caller intersexual battle lawsuit levelled against him by Mrs. Simisola Fajemirokun-Ajayi."
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They added, "while the civilian work disciplinary and administrative process is on-going regarding the existent lawsuit of intersexual harassment, determination are reports that imaginable witnesses successful the Ministry that are expected to attest against Ambassador Lamuwa are present being witch-hunted, harassed and intimated by Senior Officers, who are his cronies and loyalists successful the Ministry."
The Concerned and Patriotic Foreign Service Officers urged the Head of Service and different high-ranking officials progressive successful the probe to show liable enactment and support a zero-tolerance stance connected Ambassador Lamuwa's alleged intersexual misconduct.
They cautioned against compromising the disciplinary process, emphasising that a thorough and uncompromising probe was important to restoring spot and assurance successful the service.
The officers stressed that the federation was intimately watching the outcome, making it indispensable to guarantee a just and transparent process that upholds accountability and sets a beardown precedent for nationalist officials.
"More importantly, the Head of Service should beryllium directed to petition the Closed-circuit tv (CCTV) footage successful the Office with time-stamps, arsenic this would guarantee closure successful the on-going process."
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