THE VINDICATION OF ADESINA AT AFDB via thisdaylive
The build-up to the re-election of Adewumi Adesina as President of the African Development Bank was characterised by intrigues from interests beyond the continent of Africa. Specifically, the United States came up with myriad of allegations of impropriety against the former Nigerian Minister of Agriculture.
In exonerating Adesina, the independent panel, according to its conclusion, was mindful of the fact that “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence”. At the same time, “it appears to us to be an undue burden to expect a holder of high office in an international organisation, to prove a negative, in the absence of sufficient grounds.
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