₦airaland Forum

Enskynelson:
Sorry, I didn't see your moniker before responding to you. The land is yours Middlebelter. Remember that being in the middle means confusion. You are not there and not here; you belong nowhere. LOL. When the North wants to 'use' you guys, they refer to you as North Central and in times of sharing allocation for the north, you become middlebelter. A middlebelter is a used and dumped north.

When you come to a public place to cast aspersion on the person you don't know anything about it only depicts the quality of your mindset and I therefore conclude you are not worthy of any response.

The two of you needs counselling. The truth from your narration is that your family was not kind to him on the Bride Price issue and you didn't play your role as a wife to be in persuading your parents on the need to review this price. Perhaps was was due to ignorance.

We expect your parents to know that a day will come when your brother will get married and that they will also need the support of their son in-law. Your parent have no right to allocate part of your brother's bride price to your husband and for the sake of your own peace of mind, do not get angry nor fight him as a result of his decision not to contribute. At this point, meet your parent and give them whatever your husband willingly give to support you for the wedding and tell them your husband does not currently have money to support them. Do not present it as if he deliberately refuse to support them. You should take side with your husband and also defend him before them for the sake of your own peace.

Enskynelson:
The bolded, how did you come about that? Meanwhile, you should as well try to read the implication of the judgement as it doesn't mean those living there will have to leave the land.

The fact that you secure a court judgement doesn't make the land yours. There will be appeal and if the court judgement is rigged again, then it means the Government is delibrately setting the region on fire. You will need to convince the whloe word how you own a land across major international rivers, tell us what the state of the land was in 1860 when you claimed ownership . Tell us why that place was not under Benue state with you and why you didn't lay claim to it then.

CrimeBuster:
According to a confirm information from one of the affected engineers who pleaded not to be mentioned. One of the Chinese contractors (name withheld) working inside the Dangote Refineries has sacked all black engineers working with them.

They said the order was from the headquarters in China that all black engineers should be disengaged due to the fear of spreading Coronavirus.

The question now is can this kind of treatment be allowed in their country?

If blacks can't work due to Covid 19, Chinese also should not be allowed to work.

This is injustice and racism on our soil.

We call on all concerned authorities to look into this wicked act.

Let this news hit the twitter at the same time if the information is ture. We really need to send those Chines back to thier country before they take over our country.

Laughable! His own style of seeking for peace by attempting to anex other people's land must by the type of peace unknown to mankind.

He should however not think the other tribes will seat down and watch him take over their land without a fight. In the 21st century, winning a tribal war may take more than the resources of the direct parties involved.

fairfora:
This epistle is unnecessary ok? Its purely premature at this stage. I'd advise you leave further comments until court decides. Stop jumping into conclusion. Obaseki had already said with oshiomohle in the panel, he won't get justice. Oshiomohle is not the court of law. That's his own pronouncement and NOT court's. Let him explore that and let the court decide who's right. Did he attend UI or not? Did he obtain NYSC or not? Let the court decide and not the party or oshiomohle himself. After all these, then you could come and hit me the way you did...and if you read my comment to internalise and not to attack, you'd have seen where I said worst case scenario, he would port...meaning he would decamp and contest in another party and that's if after exploring all the means within the party, he still didn't make it to the primary. Hope this is clear enough.

Point of correction, oshiomohle didnt tar the road leading to anenih's town. He stopped where the ACN's assembly member's town was while anenih used his political influence to tar the road leading to his town. I was always going to irrua specialist that time for a project I supervised for almost 2 years so I knew anenih's town. Nobody said oshiomohle didnt perform. He was one of the best governors in his time. He preached against godfatherism but suddenly wanted to become one by dictating to the people of edo including the Gov himself. What obaseki did to law makers oshiomohle also did as governor. Obaseki played a great role in his govt as well and that was what qualified him as governor. He merited it .

Maybe I should confess to you that my heart is somehow with Godwin the son of Obaseki, but the odds are against him. I pursued a project for many years under Adams in Edo State and visited him with my partners under the political influence of my then chairman, do you know that it was Godwin that Adams used to dribble us? the mischief planted by both of them is ripping and I wish them well. so, let them continue to fight. My grouse with Godwin nevertheless is that you don't biteb the fingers that feed you. Odubu was there, Ogeiwonmyi the Adams SSG etc, Adams jumped all of them to go and pick Godwin whose office at the Economic Mgt Team is at the extreme end of the Governmnet house behind theat of the SSG . What is even my own now, let them continue to fight.

Political entertainment. For there is no difference between Oshiomole and Obaseki, for the same spirit ruleth in both of them. It happened that there is disagreement but how will the masses of Edo people benefit therefrom? Godwin is not better than Adams, neither is Adams better than the son of Obaseki.

Edo people, they are playing on your minds. Oyegun, how will you regain your political relevance, you were preffered against your political rival as Chairman, then you fell out with your supporter, now you thought Godwin the same skill that is undoing him.

The social media suppoters, I greet thee.

AgathaMoses:
checkmate!

APC will lose the election

Day dreamer! You have no idea what APC as a party is upto. This is not PDP under GEJ. You doubting me, ask the people of Kogi state and their support for Dino or opposition to Bello?Whatever t will cost, APC are ready to teach him a lesson.

fairfora:
you guys would be so disappointed. All because he hates oshiomohle for practising godfatherism which he once preached against and for which he attacked the likes of tony anenih as governor,he has suddenly been seen as an enemy within same apc you so much love as a party. Elrufai did same ...even attaked tinubu and asked us to kick against godfatherism in lagos as he did in Kaduna and he suddenly became an enemy of state. Akeredolu and seyi makinde also did same but you guys aren't still happy for disgracing tinubu for doing the wrong thing. When would all these nonsense end in our politics as a nation? He will win and nothing would happen. Worst case scenario, he would port and edo would move on with or without oshio the thug

Oga it is people like you that are Obaseki's problem. Always misleading him and supporting him even when he is wrong.

Oshiomhole did not win the election just because he preached against godfather-ism, he won because the preceding government failed woefully to perform and the Edo people wanted a change. When Adams the son of Oshiomole got to Government House, he fixed all the major roads causing headache to the people of the land of Omon'oba. It became easy for him on the merits of good performance to win election even against all odds when PDP was at the centre. Edo people were ready to support him at all costs. Yes, after preaching against godfather-ism, he ''fathered" Godwin the son of Obaseki politically and Edo people supported him, because they wanted the performance of Adam's type to continue in Government house.

Now, here are the questions: did Godwin perform in like manner as Adams? Are Edo people happy with the level of infrastructural development under the son of Obaseki? Did Godwin reconstruct roads leading to the houses or home towns of opposition like Adams did to Tony Anenih? Also learn the basic principles of power, don't bite the hands that fed you. If you climbed the ladder at the expense of other people, then praised the process, don't come back to discredit that same process because you are indirectly discrediting your credibility. Mr current Governor, withstanding the above, I wish you well.

FlordFlorez:
Another one had been pulled down in Belgium. He was even their king. So, let yorubas pull down tinubu status down if truely black lives matter.

Yes you are right, but first let's pull down the statue os tribalism from our hearts and actions before we proceed. Racism and tribalism are identical twins

Esseite:
Get you stories straight...

The house was inaugurated with the Governors consent and proclamation, the 14 lawmakers absconded because they were not happy with the inauguration which they were were absent but communicated (case study Saraki vs NASS 2015). That could not get them to elect Oshiomole's cabal as speaker.

They decided to not attend plenary again to be sworn in , the speaker deemed it fit to declare their seats vacant as allowed in the constitution after 181days of not representing their people..

You can take your lies to undiscerning members of the public

dre11:
https://punchng.com/dadll-run-for-2023-presidency-says-atikus-son/

You lack sound knowledge of Nigeria politics. Do you think the South will be watching him take away their slot. Once you allow him to take advantage of the rotation, then the North will take the South for granted perpetually. So, tell your father to perish the ambition. You know what, PDP will not be so insensitive.

mrvitalis:
Ok let's assume igbos made mistakes but are ready to correct it by calling for division in Nigeria ...my deep question is ..yorubas have access to sea , large population and land , educated population ..why don't they want this country to split
Why do yorubas want one Nigeria when it's obvious oduduwa republic would be better ?

This country is not working for anyone ...no one ...why don't we split and save ourselves the stress ..we owe it to our children

There you are again blaming Yoruba. Have you heard about Racism in recent time how it is threatening USA? Tribalism is another type of evil as dangerous as racism. We are blacks,can't we find a way to work together to challenge the whites as a formidable black nation? is it impossible?

Nigeria as it stands today can and be great if we devise a way to work together, eliminate tribalism. It is especially very sad the level to which the current administration of GMB has taken it. If Nigeria is restructured as in regions are made to generate and spend money without the Unitary system imposed by Aguyi Ironsi and confirmed by Gowon / Awolowo, then we can be sure that the noise of tribalism will die down. Focus will now be at states and LGA where monies are allocated and position shared. Even then , tribalism will still persisit at smaller scale.

There are groups in Kwara and Kogi state that wish to be returned to SW because the are Yorubas and also groups from Delta state and perharps part of Kogi State that may wish to go to SE. All these issues must be addressed.

Perfectdanny:
It just started last week. I cant taste or perceive anything. Air freshner no way, perfume no way. Even food sef esp my favourite vegetable soup. Everything taste exactly same. Just tasteless.

I've taken drugs (malaria and anti-cold and catarrh drugs as prescribed by the doc) no way.

I've asked around and i found out that its very common and it just started. Has anyone experienced this?

please don't be offended. That may beone ofthe Covid-19 symptoms. Do body steaming,then prepare the recommended garlic,lemon,tummeric& ginger solution as preventive measure. however, if thesituation persists after three days, please see your doctor of call NCDC. Get well soon dear.

SirMichael1:
What I do know is, if Obaseki doesn't win the primaries, he'll decamp to pdp and because of his familarity with the terrain (Edo state), he'll be made the party's primary candidate. When the guber. election comes, Oshomole will want to rig the election and that's when he'll see the full wraught of Obaseki who will be waiting for any nonsense from Oshomole. After he wins, I expect Oshiomole to be barnished.

I laughed when I saw Tinubu supporting Oshomole, Edo no be Lagos that will allow god fatherism.


what i do know is, obaseki wins either ways and let's face it, Oshomole is currently doing more harm than good. People said they don't want godfatherism but you're imposing yourself upon them against their wish.

Sir Michael,we shall we be at liberty to quote also if Obaseki did not win.

wowo2:
He is on thin ice. He now needs to be extra careful and not take a penny above his fat salary.

What are you insinuating? Was there anything to suggest in the allegations that he embezzled their money? Nothing close to that, rather they are after key appointments, loans advanced for Agriculture and power projects that was competing with Word Bank Projects in Africa etc. Please take time to review the allegations again.
Let me tell you this, Adesina is a first class brain and guess what (but don't quote me), it appears he and Ngozi Okonjo Iwealla are working together to ensure that the areas neglected by Word Bank in Africa are being filled by AFDB which angers the owners of Word Bank. Trying to understand the political economics behind the struggle for the position.

Nobody is against transparency, Dr Adesina himself is solidly in support of transparency but you know that just as you can use the cutlass to clear weeds in the farm, if not carefully used, the same cutlass can be used to cut the yam and other crops you are trying to protect from weeds. In like manner, the ill intentioned whistle blowing, this time around was blown with the intention to inhibit the good development going on in AfDB in favour of Africa and Africans.

So, thumb up for Adesina, Iwealla, and guess the 3rd person...... GMB. Yes GMB for not playing domestic politics with our international interest.
Wish and hope Nigeria will always come together to fight for a common cause this way. That is how to win not when we are divided as Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa. I hope the tribalist on this platform can read this and understand that Nigeria has enormous potential to be very great if we are united in merit and purpose.

GOFRONT:
And All Femi Adesina could do is Eat apple while meeting is going On...

Leave this guy to eat his apple in peace. Do you want to eat Apple ni? Remember, not all apples are good to eat in Ado Rock? Ask Mr Sanni Abacha.

Racoon:
When something goes wrong, then it's time to call a spade a spade.This is what many have been shouting but Mr.President never listen.Segregation of a multi-complex nation like Nigeria by openly skewing appointments based on geo-political or ethno-regious group basis is not right.Nepotism is the mother of all corruption & this is is what Dangiwa(your subordinate back then) have reaffirmed again Mr.President.

Col.Umar Dangiwa is a well known expressly forthright person.He was so damn truthful that he seems to be the only core northern Hausa-fulani that was ready to resign his military commission by his resignation letter to IBB because of the annulment of the June-12 election by the kinsmen back then.I doff my hat sir.

It is unfortunate that we don't have many of Rtd. Col. Umar from the North. It very unlikely that Buhari will listen to his advice. Our prayer should be that GMB will not push us to a point of no return before 2023, and also that we should never have such a nepotic President like him again.

surgical:
it is not a corruption issue,but ethics

Did you take time to read Adesina's response to those allegations before coming to your conclusion?
As a student of corporate governance & politics, it is not hard to see politics of interest in what is going on. It is corporate politics 101 and I am happy Nigeria is responding appropriately.

Do you know what it takes to be the only one being recommended for a second term contest for such an exulted position with many vested interest? Ethics they are talking about is like calling a goat bad name to find reason to use it for feasting.

emkz:
Great.

Let Buhari also contact Donald Trump directly and call this independent probe off. Let him also write to the African Union and African leaders for all of them to jointly endorse Adesina. We need to exert our influence in Africa and our institutions. If the USA wins in ousting Akinwumi, that would be a big blow on African geopolitics.

Akinwunmi's offence is that he expedited loan requests for African countries which the World Bank President claims increased the debt portfolio of those countries. Akinwumi's style weakened the creditor power of the World Bank and IMF (where the United States is the majority shareholder). The plan is to get Akinwumi to step aside and the investigation won't be concluded before the election date and a stooge of the United States is installed there to do their bidding.

Now if the US doesn't get her way, they may impose sanctions on the bank (for flimsy reasons). They are protecting their interests. Therefore, after this, African leaders need to buy out the United States and review her partnership in African institutions.

Thank you for the enlightenment. Isn't it time for Nigeria to mobilize all resources to speak with one voice on this matter and also mobilize other African countries?

Racoon:
Good! OBJ, Atiku, Aruma Oteh.Let the support keep coming but keeping in view no blemish on the side of Adeshina.All for one, one for all.

Akinwumi Adesina, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has responded (dated April 8, 2020) to the allegations against him courtesy of Premium Times. Read below…

Allegation No. 1

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Allegation No. 2: Appointment of Mrs Chinelo ANOHU-AMAZU

ADESINA: Ms Chinelo Anohu-AMAZU was recruited through a globally advertised, open and competitive recruitment process. The search process was carried out by a top notch external recruitment firm, Russell Reynolds of the UK. She was one of two top candidates (both women) recommended to me as President to consider for appointment by the panel. But, I can state categorically that the allegations made against her are untrue and defamatory.

Allegation No 3: Appointment and promotions of Martin FREGENE

ADESINA: Mr Fregene is NOT my brother-in-law. There is no evidence he is. Second, Mr Fregene is a world-class geneticist, internationally renowned for his work on plant genetics of cassava, and who worked earlier at CIAT, Colombia, one of the CGIAR centres, and subsequently as Director at the Danforth Plant Science Centre (probably the second largest private agricultural research centres in the United States).
He returned from the diaspora to Nigeria to work as Chief Technical Advisor when I was Minister of Agriculture in Nigeria. He was hired as a consultant by the Bank Vice President for Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Jennifer Blake, to support her in the development of the Bank’s Feed Africa strategy. I approved the recommended hire which was entirely within my power to do.

Allegation No. 4: Mismanagement of the TAAT programme

ADESINA: Allegations against me concerning the TAAT are belied by objective and solid facts demonstrating no violation by me of the Code of Conduct.

TAAT is an initiative of the Bank developed to help take agricultural technologies to the scale of millions of farmers across Africa.

Although some staff made some mistakes in the procurement process, this is being investigated by the Bank and no findings have been made yet. There was no impropriety.

The president does not get involved in contractual issues in the Bank, except in cases involving matters that may affect the image, reputation and interests of the Bank.

Allegation No. 5: Appointments and promotions of Mrs Maria MULUNDI

ADESINA: Ms Maria Mulindi worked with me prior to joining the Bank. She was part of my transition management team as I prepared to take office at the Bank following my election as President, and she very ably led all engagements with the Bank with my transition team. All Presidents of the Bank are allowed to bring in and appoint their own Chief of Staff and advisers, to help them to implement their mandate.
Allegation No 6: Direct contracting and appointment of Victor OLADOKUN

ADESINA: We went to the university together and have been very close friends since then. There is nothing in the Bank rules that says that being a friend of anyone in the Bank who gets recruited at the Bank is against Bank rules.

Allegation No. 7: Contracting of Kapil KAPOOR

ADESINA: The African Development Bank, under my chairmanship of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) Heads, was tasked to help further develop my proposal to the group on how we can work collectively to leverage global institutional investors to invest in infrastructure and other sectors.

Kapil Kapoor, who was previously the Director of Strategy and Policies of the Bank, prior to his appointment as the Director General for Southern Africa, had been leading this work working closely with all other MDBs.

Kapil was essentially doing this work on top of his regular work as Director General. He retired from the Bank at the end of August 2019.

Allegation No. 8: Appointment of Emmanuel EZINWA:

ADESINA: The allegation that “A Nigerian, Mr EZINWA was found guilty of sexually harassing a colleague during his probation period; and despite his misconduct, (I) requested that Mr. EZINWA’s contract be confirmed, thus forcing the HR Director, Mrs Frauke HARNISCHFEGER resign is false.

The truth is that I do not know Mr EZINWA and have never met him in the Bank. The President does not get involved in any staff appraisals except for Vice Presidents and direct reports.

The then HR Director, Mr. David Ssegawa, evaluated the staff and there was nothing about sexual harassment.

Mrs Frauke HARNISCHFEGER was not the HR Director in 2018. The HR Director in 2018 was Mr David Ssegawa, who evaluated the staff and recommended the staff, as per the standard procedures of the Bank, to the President. Ms HARNISCHFEGER joined the Bank in 2019, one year after a confirmation recommendation made by the predecessor HR Director.

Allegation No 9: Preferential treatment for Nigeria and Nigerians

ADESINA: I did not introduce an organisational chart with a Nigeria Country Directorate. The decision to open a Nigeria Country Directorate was taken by the Board of Directors under my predecessor, the former President of the Bank, Donald Kaberuka.

Allegation No 10: Awards received by the President and costs borne by the Bank

ADESINA: I received the World Food Prize ($250,000) and the Sunhak Peace Prize ($500,000) in recognition of a life of accomplishments in the field of agriculture. Although they were individual prizes, they brought great credit and prestige to the AfDB.

I brought further credit to myself and the Bank by donating these two cash awards for the establishment of the World Hunger Fighters Foundation, a foundation that has garnered contributions from others and now funds the Borlaug Adesina Fellows Fellowship for young African Agribusiness Innovators.

The expenses of the World Food Prize event, including musical entertainment (musical groups from Nigeria and the Glee Club from Purdue University (my alma mater) were defrayed by the World Food Prize Foundation.

Allegation 11: Settlements for staff separations

ADESINA: The allegation that somehow the former Chief Economist, Mr Celestine Monga, departed the Bank with improper payments is false. The Chief Economist was not dismissed. Contract non-renewal is not dismissal of staff.

Allegation 12: Resignation of Mr David SSEGAWA

ADESINA: Mr Ssegawa was the HR Director. It is not true that I, as President, allowed him to resign when there was an investigation. There was absolutely no investigation of David Ssegawa when he resigned, nor was one contemplated.

Allegation No 13: Resignation of Mr Michel-Cyr DJIENA-WEMBOU

ADESINA: The allegation that I allowed the country manager to resign when he was under investigation for corruption is false. The President does not run country offices. They are under a Director General and overall oversight of a Vice President.

Allegation No. 14: Appointment of Mr Charles LUFUMPA as acting VP and Chief Economist

ADESINA: The allegations against me over the appointment of Charles Lufumpa as Acting Vice President and Chief Economist are patently false. My conclusion after careful review of the case of Charles Lufumpa is that the investigations conducted were very faulty and cannot prove the allegations made against him. My review also showed a well-orchestrated effort to make Mr Lufumpa a scapegoat for failures of others to do their job.

Allegation No. 15: Disregard of rules concerning leave of absence of VPs or travel of management.

ADESINA: The President does not monitor or manage time off for staff as that’s done by the Human Resources. The truth is the Vice President had personal medical issues that he had to get attended to (his private life must be respected) that required him to be away for extended periods, as needed, and he travelled with full knowledge of the department of health of the Bank which was monitoring him while away on medical reasons.

Allegation No 16: Political lobbying of Heads of State

ADESINA: It is alleged that as President I basically bribed and corrupted the 16 African Heads of State and governments in the ECOWAS region to support my candidacy for re-election.

The allegation essentially impugns the integrity, leadership and honesty of 16 African presidents and ECOWAS. This is a fanciful and baseless allegation.

Summary

In summary, every single one of the 16 allegations against me in the Disclosure remains unsubstantiated. I have not violated the Code of Conduct. The Ethics Committee should so find and dismiss the matter.

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festacman:
This is a fierce battle for the SOUL of AfDB. I hope Africa wins.

Finally the issues of visionless leadership, corruption and poor management of countries' economies have come to haunt Africa. We don't even fully own our bank!

Believe me, if Akinwumi Adesina will survive this storm, two things will help:

1. His personal relationship and rapport with leaders of Germany, France, Japan and Canada well as most African countries. Even after serving under Jonathan, he maintained good relationship with Pres Buhari. He has this intellectual charm. Part of his offence is that he has virtually secured 2nd term unopposed without recourse to almighty United States.

2. The hatred which EU has for the proud narcissistic Donald Trump, the President of United States may help Adesina's case. Nigeria should exploit this to protect our candidate and image as a country.

All these letters will put diplomatic pressure on AfDB Board of Directors but if US garners the support of key non-African shareholders, Akinwumi Adesina will go because Francophone countries will always toe the line drawn by France thereby deflating Africa's resistance. In addition, I don't trust South Africa to protect Nigeria's interest.

Sound analysis. That is one of the reasons I am happy with Obj's letter. I know he command some respect in the international community I sincerely hope France will not play the role of the spoiler in this game. It is politics whichever way we look at it and am happy the Finance Minister has written her own letter, thereby nullifying some of the allegations against him. Honestly, we must stand up to play our key roles in Africa. If S. Africa should work against us, instant retaliation is key to drive home a strong warning to others and S. Africa. We should revisit the MTN issue is another way with a strangulati g sanctions.

As a person , I am waiting for any misstep from South Africa. If we don't assert ourselves, then we shall continue to be at the mercy of our brothers in Africa and their foreign paymaster.

slivertongue:
adesina says he is innocent, so let the probe go on

Are you sleeping or do you lack capacity to understand the politics of position going on? The bank is an African Development Bank and the Board of the bank has absolved him from any wrong doing only for some position hungry people to go to USA to seek for a way to nullify the action of the Corporation.?

This is not done anywhere. Perhaps you need to know that one of the reasons they are using against him is that he hired some Nigerian principally the former DG of PENCOM. They said Nigerian government (PMB) remove the Igbo woman because of corruption and that Adesina influenced her appointment to a level close to VP. The same Nigerian government is the one writing to defend Adesina, if the allegations of favoritism were true, the Finance Minister would not be writing.

I urge you to visit other tred on this matter on Nairaland to see his response to all the all the allegations. The office is a very serious and powerful one and is highly coveted. For his outstanding performance, nobody is contesting against him that is the reason they want to ridicule him.

Fellow Nairalanders, please read Dr Adesina's response to the politically motivated allegations against him and be judges on these matters.

*Dr. Akin Adesina response to 16 Allegations against him as President AfDB Group*


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ALLEGATION 1: Nt provided

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ALLEGATION 2: Appointment of Mrs Chinelo ANOHU-AMAZU

RESPONSE : Ms. Chinelo Anohu-AMAZU was recruited via a
globally advertised, open, competitive recruitment process. The search process was carried out by a top notch external recruitment firm, Russell Reynolds UK. She was 1 of 2 top candidates (both women) recommended to me as President to consider for appointment by the panel I can state categorically that allegations made against her are untrue and defamatory.
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ALLEGATION 3: Appointment & promotions of Martin FREGENE

RESPONSE: Mr Fregene is NOT my brother-in-law. There is no evidence he is. Second, Mr Fregene is a worldclass geneticist internationally renowned for his work on plant genetics of cassava, and who worked earlier at CIAT, Colombia, one of CGIAR centres, and subsequently as Director at Danforth Plant Science Centre (probably the second largest private agricultural research centres in the US
He returned from diaspora to Nigeria to work as Chief Technical Advisor when I was Nigeria's Agriculture Minister. He was hired as consultant by the Bank's VP for Agric, Human & Social Development, Jennifer Blake, to support her in developing the Bank’s Feed Africa strategy
I approved the recommended hire which was entirely within my power to do.
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ALLEGATION 4: Mismanagement of TAAT programme

RESPONSE: Allegations against me concerning the TAAT are belied by objective and solid facts demonstrating no violation by me of the Code of Conduct.

TAAT is an initiative of the Bank developed to help take agricultural technologies to the scale of millions of farmers across Africa. Although some staff made some mistakes in procurement process, this is being investigated by the Bank and no findings have been made yet.
There is no impropriety. The President does not get involved in contractual issues in the Bank, except in cases involving matters that may affect the image, reputation and interests of the Bank.

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ALLEGATION 5: Appointments and promotions of Mrs Maria MULINDI

RESPONSE: Ms Maria Mulindi worked with me prior to joining the Bank. She was part of my transition management team as I prepared to take office at the Bank following my election as President, and she very ably led all engagements with the Bank with my transition team.
All Presidents of the Bank are allowed to bring in and appoint their own Chief of Staff and advisers, to help them to implement their mandate.
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ALLEGATION 6: Direct contracting and appointment of Victor Oladokun.

RESPONSE: We went to the University together and
have been friends since then. There is nothing in the Bank rules that says that being a friend of anyone in the Bank who gets recruited at the Bank is against Bank rules.

ALLEGATIONS 7: Contracting of Kapil KAPOOR

ADESINA: The African Development Bank
under my chairmanship of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) Heads, was tasked to help further develop my proposal to the group on how we can work collectively to leverage global institutional investors to invest in infrastructure and other sectors.
Kapil Kapoor, who was previously Director, Strategy & Policies of the Bank, prior to his appointment as DG for Southern Africa, had been leading this, working closely with all other MDBs.

Kapil was essentially doing this work on top of his regular work as Director General
He retired from the Bank at the end of August 2019.
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ALLEGATIONS 8: Appointment of Emmanuel EZINWA

RESPONSE: The allegation that “A Nigerian, Mr EZINWA was found guilty of sexually harassing a colleague during his probation period;
and despite his misconduct, (I) requested that Mr. EZINWA’s contract be confirmed, thus forcing the HR Director, Mrs Frauke HARNISCHFEGER resign is false.

The truth is that I do not know Mr EZINWA and have never met him in the Bank.
The President does not get involved in any staff appraisals except for Vice Presidents and direct reports.

The then HR Director, Mr. David Ssegawa, evaluated the staff and there was nothing about sexual harassment.

Mrs Frauke HARNISCHFEGER was not the HR Director in 2018.
The HR Director in 2018 was Mr David Ssegawa, who evaluated the staff & recommended the staff, as per the standard procedures of the Bank, to the President.

Ms HARNISCHFEGER joined in 2019, one year after a confirmation recommendation made by the predecessor HR Director.

ALLEGATION 9: Preferential treatment for Nigeria &Nigerians

RESPONSE: I did not introduce an organisational chart with a Nigeria Country Directorate. The decision (to open such Directorate) was taken by the BOD under my predecessor, the Bank's ex President @DonaldKaberuka

ALLEGATION 10: Awards received by the President and costs borne by the Bank

ADESINA: I received the @WorldFoodPrize ($250,000) and the @SunhakPrize ($500,000) in recognition of a life of accomplishments in the field of agriculture. Although they were individual prizes,
they brought great credit & prestige to @AfDB_Group.
I brought further credit to myself & the Bank by donating these 2 cash awards for the establishmnt of the World Hunger Fighters Foundation, a foundatn that has garnered contributions from others & now funds the Borlaug
Adesina Fellows Fellowship for young African Agribusiness Innovators.

The expenses of the @WorldFoodPrize event,v including entertainment (musical groups from Nigeria and the Glee Club from Purdue University (my alma mater) were defrayed by the World Food Prize Foundation.

ALLEGATION 11: Settlements for staff separations

RESPONSE: The allegation that somehow the former Chief Economist, Mr Celestine Monga, departed the Bank with improper payments is false. The Chief Economist was not dismissed. Contract non-renewal is not dismissal of staff.

ALLEGATION 12: Resignation of Mr David SSEGAWA

RESPONSE: Mr Ssegawa was the HR Director. It is not true that I, as President, allowed him to resign when there was an investigatn. There was absolutely no investigatn of David Ssegawa when he resigned, nor was one contemplated

ALLEGATION 13: Resignation of Mr Michel-Cyr DJIENA-WEMBOU

RESPONSE: The allegation that I allowed the country manager to resign when he was under investigatn for corruption is false. The President does not run country offices. They are under a DG &overall oversight of a VP

ALLEGATION 14: Appointment of Mr Charles LUFUMPA as acting VP and Chief Economist.

RESPONSE: The allegations against me over the appointment of Charles Lufumpa as Acting Vice President and Chief Economist are patently false!

My conclusn after careful review of the Charles Lufumpa's case is that investigatns conducted were very faulty & cannot prove the allegations made against him. My review also showed a well-orchestrated effort to make Mr Lufumpa a scapegoat for failures of ors to do their job

ALLEGATION 15: Disregard of rules concerning leave of absence of VPs or travel of management.

RESPONSE: The President does not monitor or manage time off for staff as that’s done by the Human Resources. The truth is the Vice President had personal medical issues that he had to get attended to (his private life must be respected) that required him to be away for extended periods, as needed, and he travelled with full knowledge of the department of health of the Bank which was monitoring him while away on medical reasons.

ALLEGATION 16: Political lobbying of Heads of State

RESPONSE: It is alleged that as President I basically bribed and corrupted the 16 African Heads of State and governments in the ECOWAS region to support my candidacy for re-election.
The allegation essentially impugns the integrity, leadership and honesty of 16 African presidents and ECOWAS. This is a fanciful and baseless allegation.

In summary, every single one of the 16 allegations against me in the Disclosure remains unsubstantiated.
I have not violated the Code of Conduct. The Ethics Committee should so find and dismiss the matter.

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chibu4u2:
Lol



Which dirty CV?.......he should be probed and if found guilty made to face the law.



Nonsense post. What if he's guilty nko?

BTW which one be is and was, u high?

Part of the allegations against him is that he employed one of your sisters from SE as a Senior officer of the bank taking the salary of a VP. The woman is the former DG of PENCOM. It was alleged that he hire her notwithstanding the corruption allegations against the woman by GMB Government.

It is a case of Nigeria against Nigeria in Africa.

All I can summarize here is the politics of reelection for a second term.
If you are talking about re recruitment, are those hands needed, are they qualified, was the procedure followed etc the fin stage the CEO can decide to pick out out the most qualified hands. Also these are mere allegations and it must be proved before any sanction.

Imagine the allegations against the former PENCOM DG? That woman performed well as a DG I can smell the hands of fellow Nigerian here

If this account is true then I pity Alhaji Lai Mohammed. I expect him to know that when you hold public office, you should be ready to absorb all forms of insult. Is it not the same Lai Mohammed that made insulting GEJ a trade at a point and never was he detained (to the best of my knowledge) for all those attack.

It is easy to become a dictator. Let say this, history has a funny way of repeating itself and once power changes hands and he is paying for his misuse of power, let no man pity him. This I know, will certainly happen. It happened to Obj, GMB his principal was once in the valley but the man is being careful, I do hope he will caution this man because the damage of decree 4 is still fresh on our memory and we are not unaware of the proponents of anti social media bill.

Bobby4090:
Attention seeking woman, you have no reason to attack your superior publicly. Before you know it She started playing the Woman card of gender victimization.
For God sake what is Buhari doing. This woman should be dismissed at once. In a private organization by now she would have been sacked. She took it too personal maybe because of her ego and I have lost all the respect, I had for her.

Did you just call Patanmi her Senior because he is minister? Will you call that behaviour of his honourable? They are both appointee of Mr President band except you have personal issues with Abike, I can't sincerely understand your attempt to justify Patanmi's actions. Men that failed to respect fellow appointees in government (especially women) is less than honourable.
Let's assume that Anike is a man, does that justify his actions? No! There are laid down procedures of communication in government and forceful eviction that jeopardise the resources of fellow MDA is a complete act of irresponsibility.

Much as I wish Obaseki well, to be objective, I feel his chances are slim if he is resulting to Jagaban now for help. Where was Tinubu when Obaseki was attacking his mentor and benefactor up and down with the support of Oyegun? Suddenly , he remember there is a Tinubu somewhere?As a student of power and morality, we are thought never to bite the hands the feed us. Let Obaseki and his deputy Governor rely on their "majority" support in Edo APC to win the primary.

If someone stake his neck to support you to emerge as Governor against Pastor Osagie that was more popular and all you can do is to turn against him when you get to the office , not that you have extra-ordinary performance on infrastructure that you can use to campaign , then I think you should just go alone to test your popularity.

joyandfaith:
what if obaseki wins direct primary? what if government declares curfew in day of primary and scuttle the whole process?

The basis of that curfew must be very strong to pass the test of good reasoning. This is because APC would have announced the date of the primary at least two weeks ahead of the election proper.

For Obaseki, I think the game is up. Young as we are, we have seen many of Obaskei's type and how they end it politically. He should ask people from Kwara what happened between Snr, Saraki and Adamu Attah. Yes, he may have his own supporters but we all know that without the active backing of Adam Oshiomole he couldn't have won the election that produced him as a Governor. Forget about the doctrine of no political godfather, and understand the reality of Nigerian politics. Unfortunately I don't see him winning the battle. He may be lucky to be an exception though.