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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Owen,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The issue I raised is an important issue and was discussed extensively on this mailing list. It abides with common sense it should be addressed. Since then and to the best of my knowledge, nothing has been said about addressing it. So it
is in the right direction to draw the attention of the CEO and Chair on it, and if it is an oversight, they do something about it.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As usual and as the self-appointed PRO or Spokesperson of AfriNIC, you have failed to read very well my email and embark in your verbiage providing obviously erroneous answer. I am not surprised that you are pointing out that the issue
I raised “wasn't an issue of illegality of AfriNIC” when you could not even realize that my email was not addressed to you but rather was specifically addressed to the CEO and the Chair. Although we are on a public mailing list, the question is not for you.
Allow the CEO and/or the Chair to speak for themselves.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In fact, your strategy of occupy space with your empty verbiage is not helping the community. This attitude is characteristic of someone who does not mean well.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am still waiting for the reaction from the CEO and/or the Chair of the Board.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Marcus<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 15, 2016 5:39:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> General Discussions of AFRINIC<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Community-Discuss] Issue of AfriNIC illegality</font>
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<div>Hello,
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The advice from counsel is that it most likely would not. Further, it seems that the companies act requires proxies.</div>
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<div class="">… And we explained that in the context of Company act, the limit of 5 proxies is legal. as Company act only recognise the nine(9) board members as AFRINIC members(Registered Members).</div>
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We being who, exactly?</div>
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<div>There was discussion on this list which led to the Jean-robert questioning to which Marcus refers to in this mail about "AFRINIC illegality”</div>
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<div>I explained that, the act only recognises the 9 board members who are the registered members. As quorum for registered members is 5 in person, the max of proxy one registered member can carry is 4. So the limit to 5 was defined to comply to the act while
addressing the issues.</div>
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<div class="">Because IIRC, AfriNIC legal counsel disagreed.</div>
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<div class="">As discussed, the limit of proxy to 5 per person and zero proxy per candidate in the bylaws(which applied to Registered members and "Resources Members") was decided by this community to solve some issues to the elections process. As the changes
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I would argue it was made to alter some perceived issues, which I am not convinced were actual issues.</div>
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<div class="">I am not convinced that unlimited proxies discourage participation and would, in fact, argue that limiting people’s choice in how they appoint proxies on their behalf may well discourage participation.</div>
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<div class="">However, based on your assertions I decided to look into the companies act and see what it actually says.</div>
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<div class="">As near as I can tell, the relevant sections are Part V, Subpart IV, sections 128 through 130 which read:</div>
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</span>of requiring the instrument appointing a proxy or any other document necessary to show the validity of or otherwise relating to the appointment of a proxy to be received by the company or any other person more than 48 hours before a meeting or adjourned
meeting in order that the appointment may be effective thereat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none" class="">and a person so authorised shall, in accordance with his authority and until his authority is revoked by the corporation, be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the corporation as the corporation could
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ordinary or special resolution required by this Act or by the memorandum or articles of the subsidiary to be made, performed, or passed by or at an ordinary general meeting or an extraordinary general meeting of the subsidiary has been made, performed, or
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<div>Seems like we are not reading the same act. Are you referring to the act presented here ? <a href="http://companies.govmu.org/English/Legislation/Pages/Companies-Act-2001.aspx" class="">http://companies.govmu.org/English/Legislation/Pages/Companies-Act-2001.aspx</a>
This act directs how we operate AFRINIC LTD as a private company and the rules should be consider only in that context.</div>
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<div>The same legal counsel who supervised the adoption of the current bylaws in 2013 with theses changes. May be it i time for him to explain how it worked in 2013 and not now </div>
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