Sierra Leone President Koroma calls outgoing AfDB President Donald Kaberuka “a great son of Africa”
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire, 17 April 2015 – PRN Africa — High honours were given to African Development Bank Group (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka on Thursday, April 16 in Washington for his work to end extreme poverty on the continent during his 10-year career as head of the Bank.
World Bank Group President Jim Kim hosted a ceremony for Kaberuka in the atrium of the World Bank’s Washington, DC headquarters. There, he told a crowd of major players from the world’s economic and political stage that Kaberuka’s dedication to infrastructure development in Africa helped pave a way forward for the continent’s 54 countries. Kim thanked him for his service to the AfDB and the people who rely on it.
Five Presidents joined Kim in showing their appreciation, including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone and President Alpha Condé of Guinea.
“Truly some people are hard acts to follow and he is one of them,” Condé said of Kaberuka. “He has lifted the AfDB very high and it is our hope,” he added, “that African countries will be responsible enough to find a successor who will maintain the level that he has reached.” FULL STORY
