Re-hiring scandal
ONE of the Oxfam workers sacked over sexual misconduct allegations in earthquake-shattered Haiti was later re-hired by the charity in Ethiopia.
The decision to re-employ the man as consultant was described by the charity as a “serious error”. Several staff were sacked or resigned in 2011 over a string of lurid claims, including that they had used prostitutes while delivering aid to Haiti.
The charity is now checking whether there were “any issues” while the man was posted in Ethiopia. A SERIES of billboards have been paraded through central London to highlight the “lack of progress” made since the Grenfell Tower fire.
Eight months on from the tower-block blaze, the Justice 4 Grenfell campaign group said key issues were being “downplayed or ignored” and that it was acting to keep “this tragedy in the national conscience”.
The billboards, which were driven past St Paul’s cathedral, where a national memorial service was held in December, and Westminster, say “71 dead”, “And still no arrests?”, “How Come?”
They are a reference to the Oscar-nominated film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, in which a mother challenges authorities over finding the culprit for the rape and murder of her daughter.
Justice 4 Grenfell said: “These three billboards are here to keep this tragedy in the national conscience, to make sure the voices of those no longer with us are heard.”
Clarrie Mendy, who lost two relatives in the fire, said she wanted to “commend” what the billboards represented.
She said: “A lot of people have deadened, closed their minds to Grenfell. Life goes on every day, we know, but for some of us it doesn’t, it’s never moved on from that day.”