Dr Wigwe doubles as Ambassador to the Seychelles and is Nigeria’s representative to the United Nations Environmental Programme and the UN Habitat in Nairobi.
The High Commissioner was recalled back home to facilitate an investigation after his wife Tess Iyi complained that she had been battered and seriously wounded by the envoy.
Photographs of Dr Wigwe’s wife with injuries on her face were splashed on The Star newspaper in Kenya earlier in the week, sparking protests from gender-based organisations.
Foreign ministry spokesman, Damian Agu, said the outgoing Minister of Foreign Affairs, Odein Ajumogobia (SAN)had requested he returned home.
“It is only when he is back that we can investigate him and know if the allegations were true or false,” Agu is quoted as having told THISDAY on telephone on Monday.
When Capital News from Kenya telephoned the Nigerian High Commission offices in Nairobi, an official said they were not aware of the latest development.
“Yesterday (Monday) was a holiday for us so we resumed today (Tuesday), I am not aware of that and the deputy High Commissioner who could confirm such reports is not around. Please call us much later to get a confirmation,” an official who declined to give his identity said.
Last week, Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere wrote to the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Nairobi, asking for the waiver of the envoy’s diplomatic immunity to enable him order for his arrest and prosecution on the matter.
Dr Wigwe has in the meantime dismissed the battery claims terming them a “fabrication by his wife.”
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