<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 30, 2017, at 1:00 AM, Ramanou S. BIAOU <<a href="mailto:biaous2002@gmail.com" class="">biaous2002@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi All,<br class="">How this person (With bad qualities) became a AfriNIC Board member<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: monospace, monospace; font-size: small; display: inline;">?</div><br class=""><br class="">Ramanou</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">I have known Nii and Andrew for several years now and attended several AfriNIC meetings over that time.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will not defend Andrew’s actions in this event. They are, in fact, indefensible.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, I will say that all AfriNIC board members are human beings. As humans, we all have our bad and our good qualities.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In Andrew’s case, his user interface is one of his worst qualities. He often lets passion get the better of his judgment and I hope he will learn from this incident to exercise better judgment going forward.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">However, I also know that deep down in his heart, Andrew is passionate about trying to do right by this community and has given quite a bit of his time in service to this community. He is often his own worst enemy and this is no exception. However, his heart is in the right place and I would hate to see his service to the community obscured behind the problems with his user interface.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>