<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dear all,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Let me start by saying a <b><i>BIG</i></b>
Thank you to everyone in the community, including those who voted for me,
against me and those who put themselves forward to serve this great community.
The elections have come and gone however the community remains. It was a
great joy for me to see that a lot of us wanted to serve this community. It is
just unfortunately that only two of us can emerge as Chairs. I am willing
to work with all others, including fellow contestants to bring stability to our
community (Moses also told me this). It is our community, and we all must be
involved in the policy process. I have personally spoken to all contestants that
were onsite, and I hope to do same with others in the next few days. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">More importantly, I also want to
clarify a comment I made during the session on how to improve our policy
development process. It was pointed out to me that some misunderstood me. I did not mean anything negative, but I was only
trying to point out that we (Africans) need to take into consideration the fact
that we are communicating in a language that is not ours and therefore, we need
to define things better to avoid a loss-in-translation. I thank one of my
mentors Mr Tijani Ben Jemaa, who pointed this out to me. Apologies to those who
felt offended by my comment. I would ensure I choose my words better next
time. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Moving on, </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I want to say this again </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"I belong to everyone, and at
the same time I belong to No one."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As a Co-chair I promise to ensure
that we (co-Chairs) are fair, firm and maintain the rules. I would ensure that
we(co-chairs) listen to all sides and apply the rules as appropriate without
fear or favour from any community. I would also try as much as possible not to
allow my personal opinion(s) to influence any of my judgement. I would ensure
that we follow the code of conduct and enforce it. Personal attacks would
NEVER be tolerated, and we would take appropriate decisions/actions based on
the rules on whoever attempt to break these rules. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I would also ensure that we
(Co-chairs) update the community periodically as I have spoken to Moses, that we
should try to do some few things differently to build on the gains of the past
co-chairs because we live in a dynamic environment and need to continue to
adapt to meet up with the current realities. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> I would also ensure we operate
an open-door policy and build trust from all stakeholders within the community
and we would expect the same from the community. Please, as we go along
remember we (co-chair) are humans, we would make mistakes, but we would ensure
that we learn and improve as we go along. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I must acknowledge the fact that both of
us (Co-chairs) have few years of AFRINIC PDP experience between us but we would
take this as part of our strengths and hope this would help heal some of the
wounds within the community. Therefore, we would only look at the good history
books and leave out the not too good ones. In this spirit, I would be proposing
to Moses that we do not revisit the issue of an anonymous person sending emails
(on rpd list) to course disunity within the community. I would propose to him
and the community that if the email stops, then the issue should be forgotten
among other issues that have divided this community. I beg us all in the name
of God Almighty, let us reconcile our differences pick all the proposed policies
again and see how we can accommodate each other. Let us drop the ones that we
can drop (if possible) and improve on the ones that requires improvements.
The sky is wide enough to accommodate us all. No one would live in this world forever,
but our actions and inactions would be remembered when we are long gone. I
would ensure that we (Co-chairs) seek advice as appropriate and also ensure we
carry everyone along. Please give us a chance and give us time to come up to
speed with things. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> A painful moment for me during the build up to this election is the
fact that I had to look at two "friends" in the face and I told them
how unhappy I was with some of their actions. I wish I could keep to myself
what I discovered cos they have the right to support whoever they wanted too. “Humans
don’t give power or victory, they come only from God”. Sarah and Caleb, I am
willing and ready to work with you both in any capacity I find myself and I
have forgiving whatever wrong I discovered you did to me and I hope you do same
if you feel offended with any of my actions. God is the only Judge that can
never be wrong. I have never and would never wish any “bad thing” to befall
anyone talk-less of someone I see as a friend. I hope we reevaluate ourselves and make amends. I decided to say this publicly because
I hope it would help bring about a reconciliation process. I hope you see it this
way and let us move on together. I cannot strive in a hostile environment and
the only reason I decided to run for this position is because I want to bring
about a change to some things and improve our process while building a resilient
system. By the special grace of God, I have achieved few things in life, I am ‘kind
off’ comfortable with where I am and in my last count, I have travelled to over
40 countries across the world. Hence, I hope we all understand that I only want
to attempt to rebuildA this community where necessary with little or no personal
gains. I promise to dedicate as much time as I can to this work. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> I would also like to thank
Dewole and Sami for doing a fantastic job in a very difficult situation. I
would ensure that we (co-chairs) keep consulting with them as appropriate from
time to time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the next few days, we would ensure
that we update the community on the proposal that we have on the table. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Finally, I hope this New dawn leads
to a brighter day.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I thank you all and apologies for
this long email.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif" class="MsoNormal">
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