Major research on hold in African Academy of Sciences crisis

ABSTRACT

The staff member, who has knowledge of internal procedures and who asked not to be named because they feared it may jeopardise their chances of getting a job in the future, said that the governing council lost confidence in the academy’s leadership. “The governing council was constantly accusing [some senior leadership] and the senior management team of making decisions independently without consulting them,” the former employee said. See PDF] “The bone of contention was really on employee remuneration and salary increases of senior management team members, and allowances for select members of the senior management team that were not in keeping with the policies of AAS.” The Deloitte report, which SciDev.Net has seen, highlighted allegations of financial mismanagement and fraud, and revealed that salary increases in 2018 for senior management exceeded the five per cent limit set by the governing council – in some cases increasing by up to 38 per cent.