A Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ibrahim Lamuwa, has denied the allegation of s£xual harassment leveled against him by a married female staff member of the ministry.
The allegation was brought by the alleged victim, Simisola Fajemirokun Ajayi, through a petition to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, filed by her lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN).
The petition detailed alleged instances of sexual harassment and other misconduct by the permanent secretary.
In a document seen by the Dialy Trust, the embattled permanent secretary, through his lawyers, denied the allegations.
“We are legal representatives of Ambassador Ibrahim Lamuwa (hereinafter referred to as “our client”), the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and have been authorised to make the following statement on his behalf, in response to allegations of s£xual harassment levelled against him by Mrs Simisola O. Fajemirokun-Ajayi, an aide to the Honorable Minister of Foreign Affairs,” the document read.
“The media, particularly the social media has been inundated with the digital copy of a petition written by legal representatives of Mrs. Simisola O. Fajemirokun-Ajayi against Amb. Lamuwa. This petition was clearly leaked in order to generate sympathy for her unsubstantiated claims.
“We wish to state categorically that our client has never made any s£xual advances towards Mrs. Simisola O. Fajemirokun-Ajayi, who he is aware is a married woman, neither has he ever made suggestive comments or innuendos that requested any form of untoward relationship between himself and her”
