Some are baseless as a result of envy.

Godfullsam:


Do you know you have not answered the question he asked you?

Now, let me ask you again in case you have forgotten.

'how much did they said he stole'?

That is how you people fail interviews.

POC: When I was job-hunting, I didn't do interviews, I discussed my terms for accepting a job.

I probably went too far to say international organizations. In some international companies operating in Nigeria like Cadbury, Unilever, PZ Cussons, MTN, ExxonMobil, PWC, etc; when you are engaged with them even on contract basis, you'd be made aware of occupational ethics and these are strongly emphasized in each company's values. If you are employed by such companies, you cannot influence contracts to a company you have interests in or your wife's, or influence someone's employment because he is your childhood friend or protect someone who has been accused of sexual misconduct. It is more behavioural and ideal behaviour in the work environment and even outside.

For example, President Bill Clinton was impeached by the US Congress for perjury (telling a lie about his affair with Monica) to a grand jury. How much did he steal? François Fillon, front-runner and favourite to win the French presidency in 2017 was found to have given his wife a fictitious employment and paid her over €1,000,000 over 8 years; his popularity dipped and he suffered an embarrassing defeat in the first ballot. Nikolas Sarkozy was arrested and questioned for funding his campaign with money received from Gadaffi in 2007. How much did he steal? I will not give examples of CEOs who resigned or were fired for ethical misconduct but try and search on google "MTN Fires Amina Oyagbola". I hope you get my point.

Please try and acquaint yourself with things happening around the world, international organizations and international companies operating in Nigeria so as to avoid reiterating an abysmally daft question. You don't need to steal money, ethical misconduct is as bad to pin a CEO to.

I was moved to tears reading these damning allegations of corruption. Can't our people in high places in Africa have the tiniest modicum of integrity and honesty?

Kwanza:


"15. Disregard of rules concerning leave of absence of VPs or travel of management (unethical conduct, preferential treatment, impediment to efficiency). Mr. Khaled Sherif, VP for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, has earned a strong reputation of being an absentee VP. In 36 months, the total amount of his unjustified absences is estimated at more than 14 months while he should be entitled to a maximum of 26 leave days per year. Nonetheless, he spends nearly 4 months a year at the bank's expense in Washington DC, where he was based before he was recruited by the AfDB. For example, he left Abidjan on the 4 of October 2019 only to return on the 22 of October (an 18-day absence), to take part in the World Bank's Annual Meeting, which just lasted 6 days from the 14 to the 20 of October. In addition, Mr. Sherif was also absent for 2 and a half months, from July to the end of September, without any valid reason, not to mention a one-month stay last June in the USA. From November 2019 to early 2020, he has been absent from the bank. Other members of the management also enjoy this possibility of abusing the travel policy without sanction. Among them, Mr. Fregene who spends 10 days every two months at the bank’s expense in the United States, where is family is located. We cannot imagine that these absences have not been authorized by the President and they question the economic use of resources and the operational capacity of the bank when the staff rules make no provision for tele-working.

frog12:
then he should not step down.
can he or can he not your argument go lose power now.

its ethical to step down during an investigation against him, stepping down here is temporary ... if he had sent in a resignation letter then he had chickened out.. but he played them by stepping aside so that they don't accuse him again of influencing the investigators and auditors

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tonychristopher:
Very nepotistic.....

What is nepotic in all the allegations if it were not that his would have been contestants are fighting back?

Maybe you did not read it.
He helped in employing 2 Igbos...one,Mr Ezinwa was accused of a sexual crime and an Igbo woman.
He helped employ a Yoruba man,Mr Oladokun and an Edoman,Mr Fregene.....this is basically the nepotistic allegations and people mentioned from Nigeria.

gurunlocker:
If US is not very sure about the allegations, they won't ask for another investigation..... Sure they have hard evidence.

The same way they had evidence against Trump.

you can serve as his solicitor and defend him in the boardroom.

Exc2000:


he was the first man to eliminate fraud in the delivery of fertilizers.. a scam orchestrated and benefited by politicians and civil servants for years.. it was through him that farmers got their fertilizers directly from the government without middle men, and folowup system where developed using SMS

during Adesina's tenure as the Agro Minister, planting went on during the dry season due to his provision for irrigation farming, dredging and canal water ways... I as aperson remembered fully buying fresh maize in the dry season and commending him

All these allegations against him

gaventa:
It's very disheartening what we so called Nigerians have been turned into. Hating on ourselves? Just because you think the US are perfect. How many US expatriates have been tried in Nigeria or how many Foreigners have been asked to step aside from our own parastatal. You all need to wake up and ignore why ethnic differences. You are still being colonized by this people but little can we all realise this. Wake up Africa!!! Don't always believe anything your slave masters tell you remember a slave master will never teach his slave how to be free!!!!!! #FreeAdeshina

Who stopped those expatriates from being tried in Nigeria? Is it not because of corruption that our leaders or govt officials refuse to try them but rather pally with and help the expatriates/foreigners after they have been given some hard currency?
Let's not be emotional about this...if Adesina is culpable, let him go for it. Corruption and nepotism is a disease...we can never move forward in this country if we continue to reason this way.

Africa is f*ed . Until we stop receiving funding from these "saviors", we can't say we are free.

dont worry. afdb is now americadb

Incandescent:
Africa is f*ed . Until we stop receiving funding from these "saviors", we can't say we are free.

darfay:



Isn't the west interfering in African sovereignty?

ofcarse they are.. unfortunately for trump and his racist allies unlike Jonathan that allowed them to rubbish him and pace him on arms ban and embargo there by being overwhelmed by boko haram and ultimately defeated, Buhari, W.H.O boss, and even Adesina are now looking for funding from the Chinese, and arms from Russia.. Chinese EXIM bank has the lowest interest rate of all the international lenders and they are the only ones who actually supevice the loan unlike IMF that lets politicians loot away us to slavery

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Nah wah o. Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.... I trust ijebu people....some of the ijebu witch-doctor go don dey help am conjure their gods.

frog12:
you can serve as his solicitor and defend him in the boardroom.

a good product markets its self.. he doesn't even require a solicitor,.. let them prove there allegations if any.. facts and not heresay wishy washy, he already got cleared by the first panelist, the second would be piece of pie

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Racoon:
Serious? These allegations are damning.

Yes. Seems like a bazaar worthy of Aso Rock.

Finally, we get to read a detailed layout of the allegations.

I was skeptical earlier and felt the US was simply trying to get rid of him for their own political leverage.

These allegations cannot all be made up - the probe should happen and if he's found guilty, man should just relax and not run for another term in peace.

blowjohn:
Why do I get the feeling that it was the sexual harassment thing that made people shine their eyes on him in the first place?

You people do not like reading?

It was Mr Ezinwa,the person he employed that committed sexual harrasment not Adeshina.
Adeshina's sin was that he did not sack Mr Ezinwa.

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Alex9999:


Again, you don't have "steal" to bring down an organization. You just have to violate rules -- OMG. Is our country/continent going anywhere soon? I assume you are a youth. With this kind of thinking -- no chance!

You saw what I saw too. "How much did they stay he stole?" Sad about young Nigerians.

frog12:
dont worry. afdb is now americadb

It's a sad situation. I pray Adesina is exonerated

Kwanza:

"11. Settlements for staff separations (unethical conduct, preferential treatment, impediment to efficiency). The reorganization of the Bank by President Adesina proved very costly in terms of agreed voluntary separation packages. However, on top of these packages, many separations were the subject of confidential amicable settlements for which it is unclear if they were needed or the result of preferential treatment. In 2019, the use of a contingency budget of UA 2.8m was requested and in 2020, an additional UA 2m was budgeted for such cases. An illustrative example is that of Mr. Celestin Monga, former Chief Economist, who, in exchange for a severance package of 15 months of salary (more than USD 400,000), tendered his resignation in September 2019 merely 3 weeks after his 3-year contract had been automatically renewed. Why wasn’t the contract not renewed at the expiry date which would have resulted in a lower compensation of just 36 days of salary? Did Mr. Monga and others benefit from presidential preferential treatment or were those compensations objectively justified? Was this a method to circumvent the requirements of article 37.2 of the Agreement and so bypass the consultation of the Board of Directors?

"12. Resignation of Mr. David Ssegawa (unethical conduct, preferential treatment, impediment to efficiency, adversely affecting confidence in the integrity of the bank). T his case is widely known in the bank after it was disclosed by the Ivorian ED and has been the subject of an internal audit and an investigation.A Ugandan national residing in Kenya,Mr.SSsegawa was appointed by the President to the position of Director of Human Resources in 2016. In clear violation of the Bank's rules and procedures, he signed through direct procurement two service contracts amounting to USD 2.1 million to the benefit of a Kenyan recruitment firm (CAREER CONNECTIONS Ltd) to process some aspects of staff recruitment. The maximum signing authority of a Director at the Bank, for direct procurement, is UA 100,000. On top of the abuse of the delegation of authority matrix, it was at the time alleged that Mr. Ssegawa had a stake in that company. When those fraudulent procurement practices were revealed and an audit was requested, the President separated from Mr. Ssegawa by letting him resign while under investigation and allegedly paying him a substantial severance package instead of sanctioning him. Since then, Mr. Ssegawa is enjoying the responsibilities of Global People Director at OXFAM.

"13. Resignation of Mr. Michel-Cyr Djiena-Wembou (unethical conduct, preferential treatment, impediment to efficiency, adversely affecting confidence in the integrity of the bank). This former country representative in Chad was found guilty of serious misconduct after an audit and an investigation. But instead of being sanctioned by the bank, he was allowed to resign and received a golden parachute as part of an amicable settlement. Not having to face the consequences of his acts, he is now, ironically enough, expert in good governance for ECCAS.

"14. Appointment of Mr. Charles Lufumpa as acting VP and Chief Economist (unethical conduct, preferential treatment, impediment to efficiency, adversely affecting confidence in the integrity of the bank). Yet another perplexing case of impunity. As Director of Statistics, Mr. Lufumpa, a Zambian national, awarded two contracts (to KNOEMA and PROGNOZ) for a total amount of more than USD 18m. Internal audits and fraud investigations have concluded that the contracts were fraudulently awarded, and the responsibility of Mr. Lufumpa has been established in 2016. To this day, no action has been taken by the bank towards Mr. Lufumpa. Better still, in October 2019, Mr. Lufumpa was appointed Acting VP and Chief Economist by the President.

"15. Disregard of rules concerning leave of absence of VPs or travel of management (unethical conduct, preferential treatment, impediment to efficiency). Mr. Khaled Sherif, VP for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, has earned a strong reputation of being an absentee VP. In 36 months, the total amount of his unjustified absences is estimated at more than 14 months while he should be entitled to a maximum of 26 leave days per year. Nonetheless, he spends nearly 4 months a year at the bank's expense in Washington DC, where he was based before he was recruited by the AfDB. For example, he left Abidjan on the 4 of October 2019 only to return on the 22 of October (an 18-day absence), to take part in the World Bank's Annual Meeting, which just lasted 6 days from the 14 to the 20 of October. In addition, Mr. Sherif was also absent for 2 and a half months, from July to the end of September, without any valid reason, not to mention a one-month stay last June in the USA. From November 2019 to early 2020, he has been absent from the bank. Other members of the management also enjoy this possibility of abusing the travel policy without sanction. Among them, Mr. Fregene who spends 10 days every two months at the bank’s expense in the United States, where is family is located. We cannot imagine that these absences have not been authorized by the President and they question the economic use of resources and the operational capacity of the bank when the staff rules make no provision for tele-working.

"16. Political lobbying of Heads of State (unethical conduct, political activity, private gain). The President is the unchallenged travel champion of the bank. He uses the opportunities of these travels to meet with regional Heads of State and make financial promises (effectively bypassing governors, EDs and operational staff) to secure support for his reelection to a second term and to stifle competition. Ironically, in 2015, it was reported that Mr Adesina had lobbied the World Bank through the Nigerian governor to prevent Mr. Makthar Diop, then WB Vice-President for Africa, from using his official travels and position to campaign for his own election for president of the AfDB. Mr Diop consequently did not run. Recently, at its 56 Ordinary session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government, ECOWAS announced the endorsement of the candidacy of Mr. Adesina for a second term just after Mr. Adesina had delivered an address to the session. Being a politically elected function, any effort to secure an election or a re-election is considered a political activity. Staff willing to run for the office would have to resign before being allowed to do so."

Could it be that Mrs Anohu-Amazu was sacked by ethnic bigot for no reason other than to replace her with a northern? All these are allegations that must be proved.

fergie001:

We will continue to humiliate ourselves outside......we are becoming a people without shame!

A Nigerian was appointed in Liberia....we made it tribal here
Another Nigerian supposedly in Sierra-Leone...we subjected it to tribal battle.

Now Adesina is in the web, these same nincompoops and ne'er-do-wells are doing the same exact thing. One animal here even said he carried his PDP blood there. Another orangutan said because he is Yoruba.

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

orangutan

booksize allegation. everything is image. the moment everyone/leaders on the continent read it, adesina go resign himself. the french and americans know what dey are doing,. dey waited for the right time like hunters

Exc2000:


a good product markets its self.. he doesn't even require a solicitor,.. let them prove there allegations if any.. facts and not heresay wishy washy, he already got cleared by the first panelist, the second would be piece of pie

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i think he will resign

Incandescent:


It's a sad situation. I pray Adesina is exonerated

just look at the salaries of these people. they are humongous

Exc2000:


a good product markets its self.. he doesn't even require a solicitor,.. let them prove there allegations if any.. facts and not heresay wishy washy, he already got cleared by the first panelist, the second would be piece of pie

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Those allegations are very flimsy.I am sure that America has its candidate but was disappointed that Adeshina had it so easy going for second term.

Adeshina will overcome.

Yes, there is nepotism (connection/networking) everywhere. However, unlike in Nigeria/Nigerians, these things are subtly carried out. For example, in-house employment opportunities need to be advertised irrespective of the fact that a candidate may have already been penciled down for the advertised position. I am surprised that Akin would have allowed these lapses. Nonetheless, I hope he survives this and is re-elected. He is one Nigerian that has made us proud in recent times.

angelfallz:
if i'm to be honest, the so called allegations aren't serious. There is nowhere in the world where there is no favouritism. Trump the president of the USA, appointed his daughter and son-in-law to positions of power.
A Nigerian is head of the AFDB, it is normal that he would favour Nigeria, why do you think countries fight over such things. Countries fight over such things because of what they stand to gain.

Fraudulently awarding contracts is a serious one for me.

seunmsg:
Very watery allegations. It’s very obvious they simply want him out just to make the bank an instrument of western control of African countries.

this is y European countries are far better than Africa as a continent. Why will he pay someone a severance package after resignation of fraud. AFDB is not a family affair,do y don't WB president give appointments to his family members,wat a nonsense response from a graduate in Nigeria

teepain:


The truth is that AFDB under the sharp leadership of Adesina has taken a lot of lending businesses away from American and French interests and the guy has demonstrated a sense of independence that is alien to these neocolonialists who would rather have their lackey head AfDB.

Sadly, I read on here yesterday how Adesina was thrown under the bus by some Nigerian tribal irredentists who accused him of hriring his Yoruba brothers in breach of extant recruitment processes and controls. However, this article has rubbished all those claims. The 2 major people mentioned as having enjoyed undue advantage from the troubled AfDB President do not share tribal affiliations with him but they are Nigerians and if they were qualified why wouldn't he allow their employment to go through.

Nigerians should be careful the way we play the tribal cards because at the end of the day only Nigerians can help Nigeria and Nigerians! Help will not come from outside.

The moral of this debacle can be captured in this rhetorical question, "Why does Africa Development Bank need non-africans as shareholders?"

Think Africa, Africa think.

Fair question. Because we need the money? The 27 non-Afrircan members are all rich countries and aren't beneficiaries of the bank - only African countries are. But I think you can raise this as a separate question, that is, separate from the issue on ground - that Dr Adeshina allegedly abused his position by "violating ethical guidelines in the recruitment and promotion of staff, disrespected internal probationary rules, condoned sexual harassment by his protégé, recruited unqualified staff, favouritism, duplicated company roles and probably wasted banks funds on unproductive concerns." (Thanks for the summary, emkz.)

they are saying the man is nepotic. you know, the main problem is we've sold afdb to the foreigners otherwise they'll have no voice. i didnt realise the situation was like this. we sell,sell,sell.

Obamaofusa:


Those allegations are very flimsy.I am sure that America has its candidate but was disappointed that Adeshina had it so easy going for second term.

Adeshina will overcome.

emkz:
These are very severe accusations and Dr Adesina must be compelled to resign if convicted.

Yet, he has the right to fair hearing, and I hope the OP would publish his response and the report of the ethics board that exonerated him earlier.

Even if he is vindicated, he goes into his second term as a weak President and this would hamper his abilities to approve loans expeditedly as he is currently doing. This is where the interests that want him out want to assert their influence.

Severed? Pls how? I have read thtough all the allegations only that of Ezinwa I think was wrong every other allegations are just packed of bad feelings.

I was expscting to read he stole billions but can't see such. Let him just step aside his time is up he has done his part in AfDB. Good luck to him.