Metropolis Councilor Ed Flynn issued a name for the resignation of Boston’s Chief of Financial Alternative and Inclusion Segun Idowu, and is searching for an outdoor investigation of a number of metropolis departments.
He made the decision Sunday in a press release shared on social media.
“The Chief of Boston’s Economic Opportunity and Inclusion failed to provide positive and ethical leadership to its employees, businesses and Boston residents,” stated Flynn in a submit on X on Sunday. “Ethical leadership can’t be an afterthought in city government. I’m calling for his immediate resignation or termination.”
The town councilor additionally referred to as for an “outside investigation into the hiring practices, workplace culture and environment” in a number of metropolis departments, together with the Workplace of Police Accountability and Transparency, Workplace of Financial Alternative and Inclusion, and Mayor’s Workplace of Neighborhood Companies.
The Mayor’s workplace didn’t reply to a request for remark Sunday night.
Flynn didn’t specify the explanation for his requires Idowu’s termination Sunday.
However his assertion follows a police report final week alleging two metropolis staff, one working as a neighborhood enterprise supervisor for the Workplace of Financial Alternative and Inclusion and a second as chief of employees for the Workplace of Police Accountability and Transparency, have been concerned in a home violence incident.
Each metropolis staff, Marwa Khudaynazar, 27, and Chulan Huang, 26, have been charged with assault and battery on a family member. Khudaynazar, a head on the police accountability workplace, was additionally charged with assault and battery on a police officer. Each pleaded not responsible at their arraignments on Thursday.
Idowu was not named within the police report. The Herald additionally reached to Idowu for remark and didn’t instantly obtain a response.
The workers have been instantly positioned on unpaid go away following the incident.
Flynn referred to as for each to be fired following the incident. The town councilor additionally referred to as for an “independent investigation into workplace culture and environment” of the identical three departments following the incident final week.
Idowu has headed the Metropolis’s Workplace of Financial Alternative and Inclusion since January 2022.
The Boston Police Detectives Union has additionally referred to as for an investigation into the arrests.
“Domestic Violence and Assault and Battery on a Police Officer charges are unacceptable by their very nature,” the union wrote in a social media submit after the occasion Thursday. “However, when the alleged perpetrator of such crimes holds a public office that can drastically impact a police officer’s livelihood, the blatant disrespect towards officers is especially troubling.”
“We can only hope for a bias-free investigation,” the union added, “and that the City uses the same lens of scrutiny in this case that they would use if the allegations were against a sworn police officer.”
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