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The bureau of the board of governors of the African Development Bank has appointed Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, to lead the independent committee that will review the report of its ethics committee on allegations levelled against Akinwumi Adesina, president of the bank.

In a June 5 communique signed by Niale Kaba, chairperson of the bureau of the board of governors, the bureau said it had agreed to authorise an independent review of the committee’s report in the interest of due process and the “need to carry every governor along in resolving it”.

In another communique on Thursday, the bank’s board of governors announced the members of the review committee.

Other members of the committee asides Robinson are Hassan Jallow and Leonard McCarthy.

Jallow is a former attorney-general and minister of justice of the Gambia and a former justice of the supreme court of the Gambia.

In 2003, he was appointed as the prosecutor of the United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

Leonard McCarthy is a former director of public prosecutions, a former director for the Office of Serious Economic Offences, and a former head of the Directorate of Special Operations of South Africa.

McCarthy also served as the integrity vice president of the World Bank for nine years and is currently the president of LFMcCarthy Associates, Inc., an integrity risk management company based in Washington, USA.

The panel is expected to submit its report to the bureau between two to four weeks.