<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">Dear All,</span><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">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. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">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.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">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.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">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.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">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.<span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">I urge them to take the wise decision needed
here, for the sake of the image of our organization and its future.<br><br></span></div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial" lang="EN-US">Boubakar<br></span> <br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 5:03 AM, Badru Ntege <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:badru.ntege@nftconsult.com" target="_blank">badru.ntege@nftconsult.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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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.
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<div>I’m not sure about the mud slinging being referred to here. </div>
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<div>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
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<div>Nothing new apart from the community outcry emerged before chair did the needful. </div>
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<div>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 </div>
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<div>From my point of view I’m just bored of mud slinging without substantial information in this debate. <br>
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On 17 Mar 2018, at 22:12 Wale Adedokun <<a href="mailto:wale@forum.org.ng" target="_blank">wale@forum.org.ng</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="color:black">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
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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:-</div>
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<span>></span>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.<br>
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