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Three-man panel to review AfDB’s Adesina probe

July 1, 2020367 views0 comments

 

Three-man panel to review AfDB's Adesina probe
Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland (CREDITS: UCLA)

A three-man panel of neutrals is to review the report of the investigation of the charges of corporate governance infractions and favouritism launched by the bank in the wake of a petition by insiders who accused Akinwunmi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank of wrong doings.

Mary Robinson, a former president of Ireland, has accepted her appointment as a member of the review panel. The panel will now review the report of the internal ethic committee of the AfDB that cleared Adesina of all the allegations leveled against him.

Robinson, who served as the President of Ireland between 1990 and 1997, practiced as a human right lawyer.

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The board of governors of AfDB had agreed to set up a panel of three “neutral, honest, high-calibre” persons to review the report of the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) after the United States called for an independent probe following Adesina;s acquittal by the ethics committee.

Adesina had been under investigation since April by the office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption (PIAC) as well as the Ethics Committee and Audit and Finance Committee of the AfDB following allegations by “concerned staff members” of the bank who accused him of “various cases of alleged breaches of the code of conduct” of the bank in some appointments and several contracts “approved by Adesina’s team supposedly in violation of the AfDB’s statutory and ethical rules.”

According to The Africa Report, 16 of the allegations were documented in English while several others were made in French, including what the employees described as “unusual managerial style,” “dominance of impunity and nepotism,” “chaotic management of human resources” and the “financial waste and lack of budgetary discipline.”

However, a report signed by the chairman of the Bureau of the Board of Governors of AfDB, Niale Kaba, in May, absolved Adesina of all the allegations “which were thoroughly investigated by the Ethics Committee of the Board of Directors.”

The Bureau of the Board of Governors said: “The independent review shall be conducted by neutral high caliber individuals with unquestionable experience, a high international reputation, and integrity within a short time period of not more than two to four weeks maximum, taking the bank’s group electoral calendar into account.

“The bureau agrees that within a three to six months period, and following the independent review of the ethics committee report, an independent comprehensive review of the implementation of the bank’s group whistleblowing and complaint.

“Handling policy should be conducted with a view to ensuring that the policy is properly implemented, and revising it where necessary to avoid situations of this nature in future.”

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