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Though I couldn't read it all. I will try to justify little I read without favoritism.

The name ''Africa Development Bank'' suggested it is being managed by African, I don't expect American to interfere in its management except for business wise.

Akinwumi Adesina has long been my role model since he was Minister of Agriculture. He such a learned and of sound mind. I expect a better leadership role from him.

These allegations are just too much and very rampant among Nigerian political elite. While trying to redeem our image among international community, this is a huge blow to our face, our race and our fate.

Fellow Nigerians, lets try to do our best anywhere we find ourselves, favoritism and nepotism has been setting us back for a while, employ the best hands not the related hands.

seborrhic:
The scam agricultural revolutionists has finally been caught out.
The one minister that claimed to have revolutionalized Nigeria's agriculture on paper.

Shut up Slave.

This allegations are in bad faith. If you ever had an opportunity to work with regional organizations, you will be amazed at how Nigeria as a whole are not just marginalized, but seriously maltreated. Nigeria been the highest donor to the afdb, to me should be properly represented. The only sin Adeshina has committed is not dancing to the tune of France, the overlords of francophone countries. If the US were downtrodden in global bodies like the UN, you all know what would happen next. Enough of the rubbish.

You go mind them. The man's achievements during his tenure of Federal Minister of Agriculture and Consequent achievements as Afdb president speaks volumes. Are the allegations true, I can't say, if true, a warning is fair enough.

anonymous1759:
Shut up Slave.

frog12:
who are you? they'll get him out. buhari will be asked to get a replacement in. the problem is we allowed all these foreign countries as shareholders. afdb is using foreigner's monies

as long as AFDB would nominate the independent auditors and panelist, or the Stakeholders country I see him winning all this lightweight unprovabe allegation or he would simply head to court.. the plan raising this allegation is only to ruffle him up for his re election..

Imagine allegation such as clearing someone alleged of sexual harassment... not that he sexually harassed anyone , but he authourized the resumption of a staff who was alleged of sexual harassment during a time he was off duty and not active on duty for weeks... what exactly would this offense result into ?

or the Allegation that his childhood friend (relying on old picture) unduely benefited from a contract... Now the panelist would have an heculian task to prove his so called childhood friend wasn't qualified for such contracts, or else both adesina and the friend has the right to put up some litigation

another one that caught my eye is the allegation bothering on grants giving to IITA and another Nigerian based multinational agricultural institute, for a fact that Nigeria is over 200m, and sub Saharan Africa is 1billion people, Nigeria ordinarily stands at 1 : 5 to Africa, Africa's GDP stands at $2.5trillion while Nigeria's GDp alone accounts for $450bn USD that's 1:6 of Africa GDP as a Banker which country would you ordinarily consider for loans? even Chinese EXIM bank and IMF considers Nigeria greatly over other African countries... and the onus is on them to prove Adesina of having giving unmerited grant to IITA a multinational company


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Gbam

wamide042:
It baffles me that most people don’t seems to understand the way the US usually blackmail upright African men in high positions just because they want someone of their own interest in that position.
Just wait and see the way they will also come for the likes of Okonjo iweala soon..
God know i detest all this white men..
Incase you don’t know America is the most corrupt and indebted country in the world but they will never talk about it.
They are also the second largest traffickers of hard drugs ,cocaine, marijuana aside Mexico. They will also not talk about it but will rather be intimidating African countries and their people.

what achievements as agric minister show us the farming revolution. i really dont like the foreign intervention in afdb, but we've sold it.

lhurd:
You go mind them. The man's achievements during his tenure of Federal Minister of Agriculture and Consequent achievements as Afdb president speaks volumes. Are the allegations true, I can't say, if true, a warning is fair enough.

Brilliantly said

Exc2000:
as long as AFDB would nominate the independence auditors and panelist, or the Stakeholders country I see him winning all this lightweight unprovabe allegation or he would simply head to court.. the plan raising this allegation is only to ruffle him up for his re election..

Imagine allegation such as clearing someone alleged of sexual harassment... not that he sexually harassed anyone , but he authourized the resumption of a staff who was alleged of sexual harassment during a time he was off duty and not active on duty for weeks... what exactly would this offense result into ?

or the Allegation that his childhood friend (relying on old picture) unduely benefited from a contract... Now the panelist would have an heculian task to prove his so called childhood friend wasn't qualified for such contracts, or else both adesina and the friend has the right to put up some litigation

another one that caught my eye is the allegation bothering on grants giving to IITA and another Nigerian based multinational agricultural institute, for a fact that Nigeria is over 200m, and sub Saharan Africa is 1billion people, Nigeria ordinarily stands at 1 : 5 to Africa, Africa's GDP stands at $2.5trillion while Nigeria's GDp alone accounts for $450bn USD that's 1:6 of Africa GDP as a Banker which country would you ordinarily consider for loans? even Chinese EXIM bank and IMF considers Nigeria greatly over other African countries... and the onus is on them to prove Adesina of having giving unmerited grant to IITA a multinational company

nonsense. when dey want you out of office. dey go throw book size allegation against you. you think he can clear himself of all these 20 allegations ??

Exc2000:
as long as AFDB would nominate the independence auditors and panelist, or the Stakeholders country I see him winning all this lightweight unprovabe allegation or he would simply head to court.. the plan raising this allegation is only to ruffle him up for his re election..

Imagine allegation such as clearing someone alleged of sexual harassment... not that he sexually harassed anyone , but he authourized the resumption of a staff who was alleged of sexual harassment during a time he was off duty and not active on duty for weeks... what exactly would this offense result into ?

or the Allegation that his childhood friend (relying on old picture) unduely benefited from a contract... Now the panelist would have an heculian task to prove his so called childhood friend wasn't qualified for such contracts, or else both adesina and the friend has the right to put up some litigation

another one that caught my eye is the allegation bothering on grants giving to IITA and another Nigerian based multinational agricultural institute, for a fact that Nigeria is over 200m, and sub Saharan Africa is 1billion people, Nigeria ordinarily stands at 1 : 5 to Africa, Africa's GDP stands at $2.5trillion while Nigeria's GDp alone accounts for $450bn USD that's 1:6 of Africa GDP as a Banker which country would you ordinarily consider for loans? even Chinese EXIM bank and IMF considers Nigeria greatly over other African countries... and the onus is on them to prove Adesina of having giving unmerited grant to IITA a multinational company

seunmsg:
How much did they say he stole?

Those allegations are very specific and highly weighty. And I hope your support of the man has nothing to do with our usual petty sentiments of 'he is our brother'. This is international stage...not your backyard

ADESINA CARRY SWEET INNOCENT FACE.

But he has MEET HIS WATERLOO !

Not necessary as criminal as it sounds at least from an African sense of it.

BUT THE EUROPEAN AND AMERICANS WHO ARE WATCHING HIM DO NOT LOOK AT HIS OPEN GOOD FACE BUT THEY STILL GO DOWN THE BOOKS TO SCRUTINISE HIM UP AND DOWN.

He is RESPECTFULLY HELD IN HIGH ESTEEM IN NIGERIA of which he is been fingered as a possible candidate from the SOUTH WEST to contest for presidential office after Buhari 's tenure comes to a close.

WATER DON PASS GARRI !

BreconHills:
Africans don't think, they follow their prejudice and coat it with platitudes. People who have not worked in high wire positions take these allegations at face value. A cursory look at the characters Trump has pardoned will free them of the idea that this US administration lives in a moral universe.

Omitted from the long list of offences is China and the rebalancing of the Afdb currency portfolio.

Unfortunately there are those in Nigeria who will hate on the man because he was a PDP minister, others will hate on him because they want to zero his chances of returning to elected office and yet others because they hate his tribe. But anyone who gets a bank bond issuance oversubscribed during covid and who retains a triple A rating is a good ceo.

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.

Adeshina did not support the African currency ECO hijacked by France, he made sure that only Ivory Coast was trading with it. AfDB did not acknowledge it as legal tender
Secondly, many African countries instead of going to Paris are going to AfDB for loans which they now claim he is giving loans that will not be repaid.
He also put in a lot of money in China Yuan for African trading and projected currency swap.
These are the main issues not sexual harrassment by a staff.
All these allegations don't matter to the West except the above

So what's his crime? He favoured the inclusion and elevation of Nigerians in Afdb. And fellow Nigerians are calling for his head, nawa o, instead of us to resist the demonic over Sabi and over controlling usa

Godfullsam:
U are stupid .

One of the reason why he is in these mess is because he decided a Igbo who has a bad record of sexual harassment.

He also engaged a Igbo who was kicked out of PENCOM for financial misappropriation.

You shouldn't have answered him, its obvious he is a himbo.

WIKIPEDIA Adesina was the Nigerian Agriculture Minister from 2010 to 2015.[7] Adesina was named Forbes African Man of the Year for his reform of Nigerian ag:riculture. He introduced more transparency into the fertiliser supply chain. He also said that he would give away mobile phones to farmers but this proved too difficult. One of the reasons was the lack of a mobile network in country areas.[8]

frog12:
what achievements as agric minister show us the farming revolution. i really dont like the foreign intervention in afdb, but we've sold it.

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.

The same Adeshina that one of his supposed crime was inclusion and promotion of Igbo people. See just leave them

frog12:
nonsense. when dey want you out of office. dey go throw book size allegation against you. you think he can clear himself of all these 20 allegations ??

Carefully note the words, phrases or clauses I highlighted in bold format

"The following cases are listed in no particular order, and state how we think the Code of Conduct might have been breached. [/b]In some of these cases, [b] the conflicts of interest may be hard to prove , but we wish to recall that the Code of Conduct calls for the avoidance not only of actual conflicts of interest, but also of the appearance of such a conflict.

The Trump government alluded to the fact that (a) the conflicts of interest may be hard to prove .... (b) but we wish to recall that the Code of Conduct calls [b] for the avoidance not only of actual conflicts of interest, but also of the appearance of such a conflict. Just like the case of W.H.O and the harrasement of the Boss cos he is from Ethopia and he accepts donation from Ethopia, disregarding useless noisy racist America and their media propaganda.. Adesina is being harassed with allegation they claim are hard to prove in fact non existing.. just 5 months to his re-election

Trump already lost Africa to china and they (Racist Americans) are just fighting a lost battle

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Ethics and corporate governance is a very very big deal in international organisations. You can't afford to loose guard as a leader in such places. If you try to run things the way most of our corporate leaders do things here, then you are in for a rude shock especially when you have US as a stakeholder. Certainly there will be interests and politics but that is the more reason not to drop the ball on ethics. I admire Adesina as a person and my best wish is that he is given a fair hearing.

Exc2000:
as long as AFDB would nominate the independence auditors and panelist, or the Stakeholders country I see him winning all this lightweight unprovabe allegation or he would simply head to court.. the plan raising this allegation is only to ruffle him up for his re election..

Imagine allegation such as clearing someone alleged of sexual harassment... not that he sexually harassed anyone , but he authourized the resumption of a staff who was alleged of sexual harassment during a time he was off duty and not active on duty for weeks... what exactly would this offense result into ?

or the Allegation that his childhood friend (relying on old picture) unduely benefited from a contract... Now the panelist would have an heculian task to prove his so called childhood friend wasn't qualified for such contracts, or else both adesina and the friend has the right to put up some litigation

another one that caught my eye is the allegation bothering on grants giving to IITA and another Nigerian based multinational agricultural institute, for a fact that Nigeria is over 200m, and sub Saharan Africa is 1billion people, Nigeria ordinarily stands at 1 : 5 to Africa, Africa's GDP stands at $2.5trillion while Nigeria's GDp alone accounts for $450bn USD that's 1:6 of Africa GDP as a Banker which country would you ordinarily consider for loans? even Chinese EXIM bank and IMF considers Nigeria greatly over other African countries... and the onus is on them to prove Adesina of having giving unmerited grant to IITA a multinational company

Isn't the west interfering in African sovereignty?

GODPUNISHALABI:
lol no be this idiot wey we been dey hail as presidential material those days lol....this country funny die

Seriously my brother,can't believe what i'm seeing yet.
If these facts are true I'd suggest he resigns fast because the future humiliation will be greater.
You can see some people even trying to put up a defence for him despite these facts.
The 'norm' in nigeria is not the same for the world.

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."

They (US) want him out because him no wan lick their butt
Adesina is a pan African....i'm appalled that his countrymen does not see this and instead yet again glorifies and believes what the white man says
So sad, inferiority complex and unpatriotism playing out in so many folks mind

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

Exc2000:
Carefully note the words, phrases or clauses I highlighted in bold format

"The following cases are listed in no particular order, and state how we think the Code of Conduct might have been breached. In some of these cases, the conflicts of interest may be hard to prove , but we wish to recall that the Code of Conduct calls for the avoidance not only of actual conflicts of interest, but also of the appearance of such a conflict.

The Trump government alluded to the fact that (a) the conflicts of interest may be hard to prove .... (b) but we wish to recall that the Code of Conduct calls [b] for the avoidance not only of actual conflicts of interest, but also of the appearance of such a conflict. Just like the case of W.H.O and the harrasement of the Boss cos he is from Ethopia and he accepts donation from Ethopia, disregarding useless noisy racist America and their media propaganda.. Adesina is being harassed with allegation they claim are hard to prove in fact non existing.. just 5 months to his re-election

Trump already lost Africa to china and they (Racist Americans) are just fighting a lost battle

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GODPUNISHALABI:
lol later una go Dey shout na Igbo sabi defend their corrupt brother pass... this thread na reference point

Appointment of Mr. Emmanuel Ezinwa (unethical conduct, impediment to efficiency, preferential treatment, adversely affecting confidence in the integrity of the Bank).
Did you get that? Some Nigerians are just too daft on this forum.

darfay:
The same Adeshina that one of his supposed crime was inclusion and promotion of Igbo people. See just leave them

It is not the tribe....It is the individuals and its shameful, most of whom are fathers and adults.

How did it get this bad?

The Igbo man was brought in ....they jeered
The Yoruba man in...they mocked
Now Adesina, make we continue


We go tire!

Kubernetes:
This calls for concern.
Nigerias international image is at stake.
Why why

...and some people commenting here are already taking sides with Adesina without hearing the full outcome of the investigation and probe.
Like someone has said before, these are very weighty allegations that wouldn't have been levelled against him if there were no proof and evidence. Some people think US and international organizations are like APC and PDP & the way we carry propaganda against people we hate in this country. The US & co clearly have some hard evidence against Adesina, just like Invictus Obi.

That this man was hailed by many Nigerians as a hero and presidential material and he ended up in this kind of quagmire in an international organization shows how low our standards are in Nigeria.

so you steal from wiki instead of giving me hard evidence!!!! i dey wait, show me his achievement as agric minister. how many relatives you know benefit??

lhurd:
WIKIPEDIA Adesina was the Nigerian Agriculture Minister from 2010 to 2015.[7] Adesina was named Forbes African Man of the Year for his reform of Nigerian ag:riculture. He introduced more transparency into the fertiliser supply chain. He also said that he would give away mobile phones to farmers but this proved too difficult. One of the reasons was the lack of a mobile network in country areas.[8]

Its none of my business, he should be probed and prosecuted if found guilty.

All these allegations against only you sir and have you forgotten that this African development bank is not your father's property.

Yorubas were urging USA to indict Onyema of Air Peace.

Now that they have come for their beloved son, they are now insulting the country they invest praised.

Karma is a bitvch

frog12:
what achievements as agric minister show us the farming revolution. i really dont like the foreign intervention in afdb, but we've sold it.

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