[Community-Discuss] Allegation of Harassment

[Adebunmi AKINBO]

 Dear Community Leaders and Members,
'once online echoes into eternity'
If we consider the above i advise that we make our contributions to the
committee setup.
Kindly await final reports.

The image of AFRINIC is more at stake than any individual.
Regards.
-Akinbo A. A. Cornerstone.


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 7:41 AM, Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Its unsual for me to keep this quite but i will where a members hat and
> the community hat and state my view point in this serious matter.
>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, 6:52 p.m. Sunday Folayan, <sfolayan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Since you and a number of people fail to heed the warning that what you
>> have is an allegation, Since a number of people cannot read between the
>> lines, Since silence is no longer golden but seen as cowadice, I remind you
>> again that this remains an allegation and I shall respond appropriately to
>> the GC whenever they request of it.
>>
> Sunday,
>
> I am unusually quite especially in the wake of this unproffessional
> conduct by yourself that is putting the organisation at risk "considering
> your admissions".
>
> Abraham Lincoln coined that;
>
> " You can fool some of the people all the time and all of the people some
> of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all the time."
>
> In otherword, the GC and the Investigation committee will go on and
> investigate complains of "moral harrassment", "sexual harrassment" and
> "usage of inappropriate language in the work place" that is Afrinic and
> come up with a report that will be subjected to the board "save for the
> conflict of interest" and later be shared with this community.  So the
> justice line of "Innocent until proven guilty: shall apply here in the
> meantime" for justice must prevail.
>
>
> However, however, however, lets me make some thing very very clear, that
> there is the real issue of the unproffessional conduct which involves the
> violation of the NDA as a board member and the disregards of ethics and
> privacy.
>
> In your own words and I will quote you below.
>
>  "I do acknowledge that I shared a chat (with the best intentions) which
> should have been treated with more caution, no matter how good the
> intention was."
>
> So in you own wisdom, you really believe this community is foolish. The
> information you shared in that chat/chats was not for staff consumption as
> it was under the perview of the board as it involves Afrinic operations.
>
> How does sharing such information as a board member with a junior staff
> member who is a subodinate of the CEO and you bragging about it based on
> the chat content in any way "good intension" as you put it.
>
> This is the worst level of unproffessionalism I have ever come across if
> you asked me. You sharing what a sus-section of the board have discussed in
> terms of the human resources of the organisation with "Nadage" knowing very
> well that you had also discussed the same issue privately with the CEO and
> then you go ahead and share such chats with Nadage is completely out of
> order and undermined the CEO.
>
> Did it ever cross your mind that by you sharing such information and more
> with a junior staff and a subordinate of the CEO;
>
> 1.That the act of chats sharing would cause a situation of insabodination
> when a junior staff has access to such information about their own manager
> and how it would affect their relationship as a team and how it would
> undermine Alan Barrett as a CEO.
>
> 2. You sharing those chats, clearly made a mockery out of the CEO to his
> subordinates who see him as their leader in the organisation.
>
> 3.You sharing those chats have painted a very wrong image of the
> perception the a group of board members think of a certain section of this
> community with the whole "Francos" and "Trouble makers" comments.
>
> 4.You sharing those chats have reminded us all the dangerous situations an
> organisation can find itself when board members start discussing board
> business and operation issues with subodinate members of staff where a CEO
> exists.
>
> 5.Is it boards role to promise staff job security, protection and
> promotions depending on how close they are to the board members?. What kind
> of habit is this?
>
> 6. You sharing those chats, have led Afrinic into the situation it finds
> itself right now with the rest of the RIR community looking at how a hell
> of a mess Afrinic has become in terms of Leadership and how "bad leadership
> skills" can pretty much ruin an organisation.
>
> And i shall ask;
>
> Where is the privacy?
> Where is the ethics?
> Where is the intetgrity?
> Where is that level of proffessionalism leader must have?
>
> We can all seat here and act like this is just some joke about one or two
> staff complaining but Sunday Folayani's behaviour is totally out of order
> come rain come shine.
>
> Sunday I call upon you to stepdown from the board based on the fact that
> you are very unproffessional and unethical in my view.
>
> And for the rest of the membership, with or without elections, we have to
> fix this mess and I call upon you all to help fix this mess.
>
> Thanks,
> Noah
>
>
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