Andy Bastable asked whether Mr Mutiku could “turn off his libido”

Raphael Mutiku was one of Oxfam’s most experienced public health engineers, a veteran of emergencies across the world with more than a decade of experience in providing safe water supplies to stricken people.

Before Haiti he had helped to build Oxfam camps in Albania, India, Sudan and Uzbekistan and in 2003 featured in press coverage of the charity’s efforts to help Iraqi refugees fleeing the conflict in their homeland.

“You’re dealing with people who are traumatised and frightened. They deserve care and decency,” Mr Mutiku told reporters visiting the desert site where the camp was being built.

Mr Mutiku was back in the media in Haiti in October 2010 when an Oxfam press release quoted him talking about the organisation’s work to contain a