Yet another member of the World Health Organization (WHO) has reportedly been fired over sexual misconduct.
“Peter Ben Embarek was dismissed following findings of sexual misconduct against him that were substantiated by investigations into allegations received in 2015 and 2017,” the WHO said in a statement this week to the Financial Times.
Embarek, a scientist, was fired last year, but news of his termination is just now emerging. Details still remain unclear about the actual allegations, though.
The Times notes that there were additional allegations made against him, but that they couldn’t be “fully investigated” because the alleged victims had refused to “engage with the investigation process.”
According to Embarek, the investigation is still “ongoing,” and he’s appealed it.
Critics don’t appear to be surprised by the allegations against him:
Yet another Pedophile at the @WHO
— Richard Bag (@RichardBag23) May 3, 2023
Never fails.. The so called trusted people
— Kaisen (@Polynesian_1) May 3, 2023
Another degenerate P I G brought to you by the WHO.
— IslandTime (@IslandTime02) May 3, 2023
Daily edition of WHO proving they are a terrible group that must be shut down.
— Ben Armenta (@BenArmentaTexas) April 25, 2023
WHO as an institution is left with no credibility now. same as Enforcement Directorate (ED) in india.
— Jayesh Patel (@jayeshforreal3) May 3, 2023
What kind of misconduct? Child porn I bet… all these people who are trying to take over the world.seem to jabe the same goal, to enslave children as sexual commodities
— Jeff The Tech (@Jeff_the_tech) May 4, 2023
— LorieK (@ReroLorieK) April 25, 2023
Note what one critic wrote: “Never fails.. The so called trusted people.”
It was a reference to the fact that the WHO is supposed to be a prestigious organization that stocks only the smartest, brightest people — the so-called “experts.”
Yet for some odd reason, the so-called “experts” are often linked to things such as sexual misconduct, not to mention misinformation.
Embarek for his part rose to some degree of fame when he led a team of scientists to Wuhan, China, two years ago to investigate the origins of the coronavirus.
“Ben Embarek endorsed some key elements of China’s account of the outbreak, saying it was ‘extremely unlikely’ that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan because of the safety protocols there,” the Times notes.
And so he was no fan of the lab-leak theory — allegedly. The problem is he later said something entirely different in a Danish documentary.
“Speaking to Danish documentarians, Peter Ben Embarek said Chinese researchers on the team had pushed back against linking the origins of the pandemic to a research laboratory in Wuhan in a report about the investigation,” The Washington Post reported in August of 2021.
“In the beginning, they didn’t want anything about the lab [in the report], because it was impossible, so there was no need to waste time on that. We insisted on including it, because it was part of the whole issue about where the virus originated,” he reportedly said.
Based on this, there is some conspiratorial speculation that the allegations against Embarek are false and that the WHO is trying to get rid of him to hide the so-called truth about COVID’s origin.
US agency reportedly drops bombshell: Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic https://t.co/otgtsQ9qlM pic.twitter.com/V5bq1GbWt4
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) February 27, 2023
The problem for speculators is that Embarek’s behavior fits an established pattern. Indeed, his termination comes just a month after a WHO doctor was fired over similar allegations.
“Dr. Temo Waqanivalu has been dismissed from WHO following findings of sexual misconduct against him and corresponding disciplinary process,” WHO spokesperson Marcia Poole said in an email to the Associated Press at the time.
Waqanivalu had allegedly sexually assaulted a woman at a Berlin conference. He’d also allegedly harassed a WHO staffer.
Embarek and Waqanivalu aren’t the only ones.
“In recent years, WHO has been plagued by numerous reports of misconduct. In May 2021, the AP reported that senior managers were informed of sex abuse allegations during an Ebola outbreak in Congo but did little to stop it,” the AP notes.
“A WHO-appointed panel later found that some 21 staff members had been accused of sexually abusing people during that outbreak, among a total of 83 alleged perpetrators connected to the 2018-2020 mission,” according to the AP.
But it gets worse.
Dovetailing back to Waqanivalu, prior to his termination he’d reportedly been trying to replace a Western Pacific regional director. That director had himself been booted last August for … you guessed it … misconduct.
“The Western Pacific regional director that Waqanivalu was seeking to replace at WHO was put on leave in August, months after the AP reported that numerous staffers had accused him of racist and abusive behavior that compromised the U.N. agency’s response to COVID-19,” according to the AP.
“Last month, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an email to employees that the appointment of the regional director, Dr. Takeshi Kasai, had been terminated after an internal investigation resulted in ‘findings of misconduct.'”
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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