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All clear for AfDB’s Adesina as independent review panel clears him of allegations of corruption

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Africa's GDP growth must reflect in continent's economy, says AfDB 

The coast is now clear for Akinwunmi Adesina, president, Africa Development Bank, to seek re-election as he has been cleared by the independent review panel of experts of corruption allegation.

Adesina had earlier been cleared by an internal probe panel of all allegations levelled against him by some staff who accused him of nepotism, corporate governance infractions, among others.

However, Steve Mnuchin, U.S. secretary of finance, called for an independent probe to further look intto the allegations against Adesina.

AFP reports that the panel of three experts, led by Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, alongside Gambia’s Chief Justice Hassan Jallow and the World Bank’s integrity vice president Leonard McCarthy, cleared Adesina of all charges alleged by whistleblowers.

“The Panel concurs with the committee in its findings in respect of all the allegations against the President and finds that they were properly considered and dismissed by the Committee,” Monday’s report concluded.

The African banking institution and Adesina, who is the sole candidate for the bank’s August’s presidential elections, had been in the eye of the storm since April over allegations of impropriety levelled against him by some whistleblowers working in the bank.

The former Nigerian agriculture minister had always stated he was “innocent” of the charges.

Robinson, who led Ireland from 1990 to 1997 before serving as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights until 2002, dismissed the 16 whistleblower allegations against Adesina.

The bank’s Ethics’ Committee, which first investigated the allegations, gave him a clean bill that was accepted by the Board of Governors, but the United States rejected the report and demanded a fresh probe by an independent body.

The board subsequently authorised an independent review of the Ethics Committee report on Adesina, who has received the backing of Nigeria and other African countries ahead of his reelection next month.

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