[Community-Discuss] Allegation of Harassment

[Owen DeLong]

> On Mar 22, 2018, at 21:41 , Badru Ntege <badru.ntege at nftconsult.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> One becomes a board member as result of the will of the community through an election.  The ultimate owner of AFRINIC is the community.  

Technically, this is not quite accurate. One becomes a board member by the result of an election by the resource members, not the community. The community is a much larger body.

> The community is saying it has lost faith in the office bearer investigation or not since what the office bearer has admitted to is enough for community to feel he is no longer suitable. 

Again, this is also not quite true. Some members of the community are saying this, but no objective deterministic research has been presented showing that this position is held by a majority of the community.

> The office bearer also has an allegation which is personal and that needs to be investigated since it has far reaching implications to the individuals involved. 

At least there is one true statement in your email.

> The community is saying we need to move and he steps aside deals with his issues without affecting AFRINIC business. I think this is only fare.  

Some members of the community are saying this. Other members are calling for a rational approach to a valid and fair investigation and due process.

> However at the moment we are all being held hostage due to decisions made earlier.  

This is simply sensationalism which has no legitimate place in the discussion. Nobody is being held hostage. I realize that it is popular to use this term as rhetoric in AfriNIC discussions, but really, there are no prisoners here. There are no hostages. The due process is being followed with reasonable deliberate haste.

> We need to move 

What kind of movement are you seeking? Do you propose that we gather a lynch mob and take out all of those who are accused without bothering to investigate or establish the true facts of the situation?

I’m sure this would satisfy the more vocal members of the community, but I do not think it would shine a positive light on AfriNIC going forward.

I am very happy to see the current leadership attempting to continue with due process under the circumstances despite the mob mentality being expressed on this and other lists.

Owen

> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On 23 Mar 2018, at 07:33, Sunday Olutayo <olutayo at olutayo.ng <mailto:olutayo at olutayo.ng>> wrote:
> 
>> Why is judgment being pass without investigation and hearing? Why are some people eager to be the hangmen without due process? I believe in justice, and it can only be obtained or dispersed through due process.
>> 
>> We can not be passing judgment of yet to be proofed allegations. So let follow due process, the independent committee should it work.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sunday Olutayo
>> 
>> On Mar 22, 2018 11:39 AM, Noah <noah at neo.co.tz <mailto:noah at neo.co.tz>> wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Mar 2018, 5:57 p.m. Wayne Diamond, <wayne at domains.co.za <mailto:wayne at domains.co.za>> wrote:
>> 
>> Some body from the AfriNic board that is NOT implicated in either the harassment or breach of NDA needs to take control now and make a decisive statement to the community in the very near future (as in 72 hours) in order to inform the community of what is being done about each of the issues.
>> 
>> Thanks Wayne....
>> 
>> And to be pricise we have below board members who seem to lack cohesion but i could be wrong.
>> 
>> Mr.Masilela Lucky
>> Mr.Abibu Ntagihiye
>> Mr.Bope Christian
>> Mr.Ilunga Serge
>> Mr.Ojedeji Seun
>> Mr.Subramanian Moonesamy
>> Mr.Alan Barrett (ex-officio)
>> 
>> The reputation of AfriNic and the community cannot wait until the end of April for an investigation to start.
>> 
>> +++1 
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> To the board that are not involved in either, get your act together quickly or step down for a new interim board to be appointed in order to resolve this but this cannot continue any longer in this manner.
>> 
>> 
>> +++1 
>> 
>> Noah
>> _______________________________________________
>> Community-Discuss mailing list
>> Community-Discuss at afrinic.net <mailto:Community-Discuss at afrinic.net>
>> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss <https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss>
> _______________________________________________
> Community-Discuss mailing list
> Community-Discuss at afrinic.net
> https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo/community-discuss

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.afrinic.net/pipermail/community-discuss/attachments/20180323/6088c2dd/attachment.html>