[Community-Discuss] [members-discuss] Allegation of Harassment

Tue Mar 20 10:17:06 UTC 2018

Dear All,

Many in this community may recall that in Tunis 2015, due to dysfunction in
the board and the loss of trust from a large section of the community, I
requested on the floor that the whole board should resign so that we can
restart afresh. And I was not alone.

However, the board managed to “sacrifice” two of its members to get us
moved on. Two other board members were later voted out by the community at
subsequent board elections.

The fact that two members of the then board who are still serving in the
board (at the highest positions as Chair and Vice-Chair) are now subject to
grave allegations suggests that it should have been better that the whole
board stepped down in Tunis. This would have saved us three precious years
for reconstructing our organization.

Shall we continue to address serious leadership issues of our organization
lightly? If we do so, AfriNIC will soon collapse. Reviewing the processes
of board members selection, board leadership selection as well as board
members performance assessment should be a matter of priority.

While the grave allegations against the board members and senior AfriNIC
staff do not automatically mean that they are guilty, good governance and
leadership practice commands that the accused board members step down and
the concerned staff be suspended with full pay, pending the outcome of an
investigation by an independent committee.
I urge them to take the wise decision needed here, for the sake of the
image of our organization and its future.

Boubakar

On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Badru Ntege <badru.ntege at nftconsult.com>
wrote:

> We have a  number of issues on the table based on information posted on
> this list that members beleive should have gotten swift action on Tuesday.
>
>
> I’m not sure about the mud slinging being referred to here.
>
> To most people these are issues key to the organization.  There has also
> been reference to elders else where.   Yes I know the Genesis of this and
> beleive if we do not put appropriate pressure now to the relevant
> stakeholders  it would be a disservice to the organization which is bigger
> than any one individual.
>
> Nothing new apart from the community outcry emerged before chair did the
> needful.
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> I Do not understand and I may never understand those who wish members to
> keep silent when we put up the mailing list for them to share their views
> about their organization
>
> Regards
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 17 Mar 2018, at 22:51, Ben Roberts <Ben.Roberts at liquidtelecom.com>
> wrote:
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> I agree with Ali and defer to his legal mind as to why we stop this debate
> now and wait for the investigation
>
> From my point of view I’m just bored of mud slinging without substantial
> information in this debate.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 17 Mar 2018, at 22:12 Wale Adedokun <wale at forum.org.ng> wrote:
>
> +1 @hussein
>
> Especially for the fact that the guys talking here are supposed to be
> elders in this community (ex-board members), the discussion is giving some
> of us a lot of heart ache when you see elders heating up the polity. The
> question is how did we get here as a community? The GC should do the
> needful asap get to the root of this unfortunate and disgraceful situation
> and let all found guilty be dealt with appropriately in the meantime
> everyone should be at peace and give the community some respect.
> Wale
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> Wale Adedokun PhD
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> Nigeria Network Operators Group(ngNOG)
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> ----- Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:
> >
> All
>
> I honestly think that this discussion now needs to stop until the
> committee tasked to investigate this issue reports back. My hope and
> expectations would be that:-
>
> 1. The committee is publicly announced.
> 2. Their TORs spelled out for the community.
> 3. They begin work and articulate the timetable.
>
> I believe Lucky has articulated this well.
>
> Let us give the team space to do their work. What we are currently doing
> continuing to speculate and infer will just impede their work.
>
> Regards
>
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> On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 8:57 PM, Badru Ntege <badru.ntege at nftconsult.com>
> wrote:
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>> > Sent from my iPhone
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>> > > On 17 Mar 2018, at 19:34, Alan Barrett <alan.barrett at afrinic.net>
>> wrote:
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>> > > I reject the idea that anybody should be suspended based on rumour
>> and/or accusations without due process.
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>> >Would not like to debate too much on this.  But if you actually
>> internalize the guidelines of the Mauritian Equal Opportunities Commision
>> guidelines to employers you will see that what we are suggesting is not
>> persecution but best practice.
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>> > It allows for due process to happen on a specific issue minimizing and
>> containing the issue.  But also showing that the employer took the issue
>> seriously
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>> > I also suggest that the guidelines handbook forms supporting literature
>> for the committee
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>> > Regards.
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