The president of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), Akinwumi Adesina, told the bank's ethics committee that allegations of impropriety and fraud against him were "frivolous and not based on objective and solid facts", his defence obtained exclusively by PREMIUM TIMES shows.
On January 19, 2020, a group within the bank petitioned the committee, headed by Takuji Yano, the institution's Japan Executive Director, to demand investigations into 16 allegations against Mr Adesina.
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