Mr Adesina denies wrongdoing and the Bank's ethics committee sides with him.
The United States government has demanded that a fresh and in-depth investigation be conducted into the allegations against the president of theThe call came after the bank’s ethics committee had cleared Mr Adesina of all allegations of wrongdoing raised by “whistle-blowers” within the organisation. Mr Adesina is the sole candidate for Bank leadership over the next five years.
“We fear that wholesale dismissal of all allegations without appropriate investigation will tarnish the reputation of this institution as one that does not uphold high standards of ethics and governance,” it said.Ethics Committee Report The committee chairman said the whistleblowers did not provide any supporting proof of their allegations and added that when they were asked to do so they declined, arguing that doing so would compromise their anonymity.The whistleblowers, however, argued the ethics committee sat on their complaint for six weeks and did nothing about it.
“The sole objective of these tactics is to stall the work of the Committee, which we find very disturbing and a good indication that our initial complaint was not too far off the mark,” they wrote.The original complaint seen by PREMIUM TIMES include 16 cases of alleged breaches perpetrated by Mr Adesina and an additional four cases of breaches later sent to the Board of Governors.
The whistleblowers also accused Mr Adesina of preferential treatment in the appointment of Nigerian-born Martin Fregene. They alleged that Mr Fregene is an in-law to the bank’s president. They claimed that Mr Fregene was an aide to Mr Adesina when he was Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture and was appointed a lead expert to the Bank’s vice president on Agriculture in 2017 before being promoted to an adviser without competition.
“He was then immediately recruited by the President as a consultant and was kept in office in Pretoria with a very comfortable monthly fee of USD 23,000. Mr. KAPOOR, who is no longer a staff member, continues to enjoy the advantages of the position of director-general. And he does so in utter disregard for the presence of a Deputy Director General in Pretoria,” he said.
“When informed, the President himself requested the payment to be released to the supplier,” the petition stated.The whistleblowers also alleged that under Mr Adesina’s presidency, the bank’s organisation chart was altered to promote Nigeria to an almost full-fledged region. They also accused Mr Adesina of recruiting a biographer, Leon Hasser to write his authorised biography: “Against All Odds. World Food Prize Laureate Dr Akinwumi Adesina and His Drive to Feed Africa” with the bank’s resources.
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