Panel Clears AfDB President, Adesina of Ethical Wrongdoing

An Independent Review Panel has completely exonerated Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), of any ethical wrongdoings.

The panel vindicated Adesina and stated that “It has considered the President’s submissions on their face and finds them consistent with his innocence and to be persuasive.”

The three-member Independent Review Panel include Mary Robinson, who is a former President of the Republic of Ireland, a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Chairperson of the Elders, a global body of wise persons concerned with the world’s wellbeing; the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Gambia, Hassan B. Jallow; and Leonard McCarthy, a former Director of Public Prosecutions, a former Director for the Office of Serious Economic Offences, and a former Head of the Directorate of Special Operations of South Africa.

He also served as the Vice President of Integrity for the World Bank for nine years.