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    <p>Dear All, <br>
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    <p>This was what I had warned us about. Attempting to force the
      nomination of the co-chairs on permanent basis will not hold
      water. That was why I was advocating that we make whatever we were
      doing regarding the co-chairs without election must be temporary.</p>
    <p>Truly, we have a petition against the Co-Chairs eligibility to
      continue to manage the PWDG. The petition should have put things
      on hold, but we carried on as if nothing.</p>
    <p>I want to suggest that we need to pause here and address the
      concerns. Else we will be acting contrary to our believes of
      openness and transparency.</p>
    <p>" We have refused to run but chose to jump"</p>
    <p>Simply,</p>
    <p>Daniel<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/05/2021 12:25 am, Emem William
      wrote:<br>
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          <p style="margin:0cm 0cm
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              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif">Dear
              AFRINIC Board, CEO, LC and RPD Community,</span></p>
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0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif"><span
              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif"> </span></p>
          <p style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif"><b><span
                style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new
                roman',serif">“Consequently, the PDWG is hereby informed
                and advised that it is a matter of sound and settled
                legal principle that, pending the outcome of the Appeal
                Committee proceedings, it (PDWG) refrains from
                entertaining any request emanating from the relevant
                co-authors of the said policy proposals for further
                amending these proposals on the legal principle of <i>pendente
                  lite</i>. It is also my considered view that any
                attempt in the meantime by the latter to submit a newly
                purported version of their policy proposal will be
                inadmissible (non-receivable) in law”. </span><span
                style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new
                roman',serif"></span></b></p>
          <p style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif"><b><span
                style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new
                roman',serif">Ashok.B.Radhakissoon.</span><span
                style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new
                roman',serif"></span></b></p>
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0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif"><span
              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif"><b>Legal 
                Counsel</b></span><span
              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif"></span></p>
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0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif"><span
              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif"> </span></p>
          <p style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif"><span
              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif">Above
              is a quotation from the email sent by AFRINIC LC on 9<sup>th</sup> of
              Dec 2020. Going by his fact (supported by the CEO and
              Liaison officer) and the fact that we submitted an appeal
              against the minority declaration of consensus on the
              position of Co-chairs recently, we would like to state
              that we currently have no co-chairs and I wonder why some
              individuals are parading themselves as the Co-chairs for
              this WG.</span></p>
          <p style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif"><span
              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif"> Let
              me be clear that until the determination of the appeal and
              until we exhaust all legal means, AFRINIC Liaison staff
              are to be coordinating the WG as the consensus declaration
              is “inadmissible”.   This is also because this was the
              last consensus we had on this issue. I do not want to
              believe and would not agree that some impostors would sit
              as co-chairs during the forthcoming policy sessions during
              AIS '21. I want to believe that the two gentlemen are just
              helping staff and would not be parading themselves as
              Co-chairs.  I hope the CEO and staff would note this to
              prevent a situation where we would have to begin this
              argument throughout the meeting.</span></p>
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0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif"><span
              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif"> </span></p>
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              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif">I
              am also surprised that Liaison staff and NOMCOM did not
              seek nomination for the position of Co-chairs. It is no
              longer news that one of the co-chairs we unanimously
              elected in Uganda for a two-year team should be finishing
              his tenure during AIS-21. Therefore, we are supposed to be
              having an election during this meeting. To my surprise, up
              till now, we don’t have a call for nomination rather we
              have two people illegally calling themselves Co-Chairs
              without been elected by the community.</span></p>
          <p style="margin:0cm 0cm
0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif"><span
              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif"> 
              I hope the CEO and LC would respond to my email before the
              meeting next week so that we don’t find our having to
              spend all the time during the policy session during the
              AIS on this issue.</span></p>
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0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif"><span
              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif"> </span></p>
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              style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'times new roman',serif">As
              a way forward, for us to spend our time discussing
              policies and not this issue during the upcoming AIS and to
              avoid wasting our precious time, I would suggest that we
              rectify the situation now and ask NOMCOM to call for
              nomination so that we can move forward. The Co-chair can
              be elected at the beginning of the meeting. I am sure we
              can reach a consensus on this and I would be ready to help
              coordinate this if liaison staff would be too busy
              preparing for the meeting.  </span></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;line-height:16.4067px;font-family:'times new
              roman',serif">Thank you !</span></p>
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        <div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Best regards,<br>
          Emem William<br>
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