Responding to claims that some of the charity’s workers hired prostitutes during a mission to the Caribbean country in 2011, Lord Leslie Griffiths said he repeatedly came across similar accusations during his 40 years’ experience in humanitarian work.
The House of Lords member – and Baptist minister – said: “I’m very, very angry and I just hope that the situation now unfolding would lead to a proper investigation, more transparency and a greater sense of moral leadership.”
“I think it’s the tip of the iceberg; I’ve been aware of such incidents for the 40 and more years that I’ve been working in these sorts of areas…”
Meanwhile, International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt said on Tuesday that a decision on whether to withdraw public funding from Oxfam over the aid worker sex scandal will not be taken “hastily”.
The charity has issued an “unreserved apology” to the Government, donors, supporters and the people of Haiti over its handling of the allegations.
Ms Mordaunt said she would take the issue “very seriously” but stressed she would be guided by a Charity Commission inquiry into Oxfam while deciding whether to pull funding.
The charity received £31.7 million from the Government in 2016/17, but the support has been put at risk by the scandal, which led to the resignation of its deputy chief executive Penny Lawrence.
The Charity Commission said Oxfam…
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