{"id":150068,"date":"2022-01-20T13:52:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T13:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=150068"},"modified":"2022-01-20T13:52:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T13:52:35","slug":"former-aid-minister-priti-patel-claims-government-officials-tried-to-hush-up-oxfam-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/former-aid-minister-priti-patel-claims-government-officials-tried-to-hush-up-oxfam-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Former aid minister Priti Patel claims government officials tried to hush up Oxfam abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOVERNMENT officials \u201cat the highest levels\u201d knew about aid workers\u2019 sex abuse but tried to keep it hushed up, a former Cabinet minister has claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Development Secretary Priti Patel has revealed to The Sun that she fought a pitched battle with her own senior staff not to highlight the growing scandal last year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nintchdbpict000384371636.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Her claim came as her successor at DFID, Penny Mordaunt, accused Oxfam of failing in its \u201cmoral leadership\u201d over a prostitutes scandal in Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure grew on the under fire British charity as it was hit by more allegations on Sunday that its staff had also exploited needy local women in Chad.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Patel spoke out against what she branded a \u201cculture of denial\u201d across the aid world that has been going on for years.<\/p>\n<p>The senior Tory MP said: \u201cOfficials at the highest levels knew about this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nintchdbpict000384335614.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy was a government department not calling for prosecutions, and taking money away from Oxfam as far back at 2011?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople need to go away and ask questions about why they didn\u2019t do more at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Patel\u2019s dust up over whether to air sex abuse concerns by charity and NGO workers came before a speech she gave to the UN in New York last September.<\/p>\n<p>Senior DFID staff told the former minister \u2013 who resigned three months ago \u2013 that abuse had only been carried out by UN soldiers on peace keeping missions, and to claim otherwise was \u201cover-stepping the mark\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nintchdbpict0003837027062.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>As the scandal deepened yesterday, it also emerged that 120 workers for Britain\u2019s leading charities were accused of sexual abuse in the past year alone.<\/p>\n<p>Fears are spiraling that paedophiles have specifically targetted overseas aid organisations.<\/p>\n<p>But critics accused DFID of not wanting to act for fear of giving aid spending a bad name and tarnishing the controversial 0.7 per cent target.<\/p>\n<p>Current Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt will on Monday haul in Oxfam\u2019s bosses to demand they come clean on everything they know about staff abuse.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/nintchdbpict0003837084202.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>She also warned the charity that its government cash will be cut off unless it proves it has got a grip of the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Mordaunt told BBC1\u2019s Andrew Marr Show: \u201cThey still have information they should be giving to authorities.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST READ IN POLITICS<\/h3>\n<p><style data-emotion=\"css ksk4ta\">.css-ksk4ta{opacity:1;display:block;border-radius:inherit;height:104px;width:156px;-webkit-animation:fadeIn 300ms;animation:fadeIn 300ms;}@-webkit-keyframes fadeIn{from{opacity:0;}to{opacity:1;}}@keyframes fadeIn{from{opacity:0;}to{opacity:1;}}<\/style>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" 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