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Adesina, AfDB President finally defeats whistle-blowers

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July 28, 2020
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The embattled President of African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Adewumi Adesina, who is seeking second tenure, has been exonerated of allegations by the three-man independent panel.

The panel was set up on the instance of the United States to review the report of the Ethics Committee of AfDB, which had earlier cleared Adesina of wrongdoings as alleged by whistleblowers.

The unanimous report of the independent panel revealed by a reliable source early on July 27, 2020 dismissed as unsubstantiated the allegations.

According to the report, the members of the panel said they “considered the President’s submissions on their face and finds them consistent with his innocence and to be persuasive.”

The panellists did not pass judgement on the president’s evidence but bore in mind that “the whistle-blowers’ complaints were wrongly publicized and that fairness required that the President be heard.”

It is titled: “Report of Panel of High-Level Independent Experts Reviewing Report of Ethics Committee of African Development Bank and Response of President Thereto.”

The panellists said they were mindful of the fact that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. At the same time, it appears to us to be an undue burden to expect a holder of high office in an international organization, to prove a negative, in the absence of sufficient grounds.

“An attorney writing on behalf of the President, also argues quite correctly in our view, that a distinction should be drawn between alleged institutional failure at the Bank and the conduct of the president. We have not attached any value to the Dissociation Note in our deliberations.

“The President has also as part of his detailed submission enclosed 18 annexes, which he believed might be relevant and necessary to make his case and assert his right to due process.”

The panel its report into two parts, considered first “the complaints provided to the Ethics Committee by the whistle-blowers and found that they had been properly considered and dismissed by the Committee.”

In the second part, “it considered, in the interests of due process, the responses of the President.’’

“The whistle-blowers’ complaints were wrongly publicized and that fairness required that the President be heard. It has considered the President’s submissions on their face and finds them consistent with his innocence and to be persuasive.”

Both the Ethics Committee of AFDB and the Bureau of the Board of governors had exonerated Adesina of any wrong doing but the United States government, one of the shareholders of the bank, insisted on an independent investigation.

Nigeria, the majority shareholder of the bank objected with President Mohammed Buhari, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Former President Goodliuck Jonathan supporting Adesina.

Past African presidents and leaders also threw their weight behind Adesina, who is the sole candidate for the re-election as the president of AfDB.

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