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Racial Discrimination: FCDO Guilty! Tribunal Rules in Favourof Sonia Warner

Ann Chime by Ann Chime
November 18, 2022
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Abuja, Nigeria…An all-white tribunal in London has ruled that the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office are formerly known as British Department for International Development (DFID) in Nigeria racially discriminated against a black senior civil servant, Ms. Sonia Warner after launching an inquiry into her sex life.

Sonia Warner, a British civil servant for 33 years who oversaw government grants given to Nigerian organizations under the Anti-Corruption in Nigeria (ACORN) program of the FCDO, was the victim of unconscious discrimination when she was “pushed away”, “disowned”  by colleagues, the employment tribunal concluded.

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The ruling follows a six-month departmental inquiry that was launched into Warner while she worked in Nigeria as the Senior Responsible Officer of the ACORN program. She was accused of forming an intimate relationship with an employee of an organization receiving UK government cash – a claim she denied and the tribunal has proven to be false.

The ruling follows media reports last year that found that many black, Asian, and minority ethnic men working in development for the government claim to have experienced prejudice at work, including racist jokes and doubts about their legality as UK citizens.

The tribunal in its ruling concluded that Warner had been the victim of unconscious bias by senior colleagues assessing and conducting claims against her.

It said: “We have found that the claimant [Warner] was treated with an unwarranted degree of suspicion, that unfair assumption was made about her, that minds were closed, that she was treated unfairly in the disciplinary process, which took an unreasonably long time.

“The explanations that we received from the respondent [FCDO] for this treatment were not just poor or unreasonable excuses. They simply did not adequately explain the degree of unfairness and unreasonableness in the treatment and we infer that the missing part of the explanation is the claimant’s race.

“The claimant was ‘pushed away’, ‘disowned’ during the disciplinary process in a way that we consider would not have happened were she a white civil servant with the equivalent length of service and experience,” the tribunal said.

Warner, who had worked across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, moved to Nigeria in 2017 as a senior governance adviser, leading on anti-corruption. Her job was to help Nigeria tackle endemic corruption by providing grants to both government and civil society organizations.

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