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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">I did not accuse anyone of anything. Nor did I assume you were accusing me of anything. When a member states in an email on the public archived list, as you stated in your email of June 08, 2019,
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<p class="MsoNormal">"Very unfortunate that some of us have blatantly refused to acknowledge others either because of their colours or a high-powered racism exist in NCSG. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">How can some one who claim to chair a Committee sound as if there is no draft operation procedure in place even though you may not agree with it's content which should not amount to denial of efforts by colleagues."</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="+1">It is my duty as the elected Chair of this organization to report the matter to the appropriate authority. In this case, that is the Ombudsman. The request was to investigate the complaint of racism, not to accuse you
of anything or complain about you. I am actually not quite clear on what you were saying in that message, but if you genuinely feel that you are being blocked in your efforts due to racism, then the matter clearly must be investigated.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="+1">I thought I had made that clear in my message to you at the time:</font></p>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 8, 2019, 21:19 Stephanie Perrin <<a href="mailto:stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca" target="_blank">stephanie.perrin@mail.utoronto.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Remmy, I take allegations of racism very seriously, both personally and in my role as NCSG Chair. I am asking the Ombudsman to investigate this claim. I am not going to discuss the many issues which you raise
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">We are in the middle of an election, and I think it is most unfortunate that the tone of the campaign is as you, a candidate, have indicated below.
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<font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Stephanie Perrin<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="+1">Now may I please request that we stop discussing this on the public list, and permit the Ombudsman to investigate.</font></p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2019-06-11 12:11, Remmy Nweke wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Good evening Madam Chair,
<div>It baffles me that you have decided to own what you called an "accusation." You may go back to read my notes again and owing that you have taken the matter to Ombudsman, I should have expected that you caution your foot soldiers whether commissioned or
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<div>In reading my notes again be kind to check if there is anywhere your name was mention as claimed and if not why are you so particular about them. You reported to Ombudsman, and I commended you. So why not wait until that aspect is resolved and move on
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<div>Enjoy your evening madam chair</div>
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<div dir="auto">The above was my response to Stephanie claims as at yesterday night, unfortunately I did not know why it was not delivered, but just read Amr.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Dear Amr,</div>
<div dir="auto">For the avoidance of doubt and to put the record straight. I did not call her any of those names you chose them and she accepted same. So good luck.</div>
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<div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:sans-serif">You may not like my style of response.</span><br>
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<div dir="auto"> Fine, let's allow the Ombudsman to do his job with hope he will do a thorough job despite coming from Canada. </div>
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<div dir="auto">And you may like too to read my notes again before your conclusion. I do not have any issues with Stephanie or anyone including you, but if you want to rub it in. Good luck.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I have also decided not to respond to this trend outside to put the records straight. </div>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">As I mentioned, given there is an investigation going on and you continue to allege that I am acting with prejudice, I will not deal with these matters on the list.</font></font></p>
<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">You are very welcome to your own interpretation of the Charter.<br>
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<p><font size="+1"><font face="Lucida Grande">Kind regards, <br>
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On 2019-06-10 04:17, Remmy Nweke wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">I will answer you in line if don't mind. See below.<br>
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<p><font size="+1">The section dealing with Charter revision appears below.</font></p>
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<font size="+1"><span style="font-size:23.2px;font-family:sans-serif">5.0 Amendments to the NCSG Charter.</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">Proposals to amend
</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">this charter may be submitted by five (5) percent of the
</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">then</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">-‐</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">current members eligible to vote, based on the weighted voting as defined
in </span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">section 4.0. Proposals may also be put forward by the NCSG</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">-‐</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">EC or the ICANN
Board </span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">of Directors or one of the Board's c</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">ommittees.</span></font></p>
<span style="font-size:14px;font-family:sans-serif">p.</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:sans-serif">23</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">Amendments proposed by the NCSG members or the NCSG</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">-‐</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">EC
will only take effect </span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">after there has been a membership review, approval by 60% vote of NCSG members
</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">using the weighted voting defined in section 4.0 and final review/approval by the
</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">ICANN B</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">oard of Directors. Amendments proposed and approved by the ICANN
</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">Board of Directors or one of its Committees will only take effect after membership
</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">review and approval by 60% vote of the NCSG members using the weighted voting
</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">defined in section 4.0. The I</span><span style="font-size:20px;font-family:sans-serif">CANN Board may require proposed amendments to be
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<p><font size="+1">1. Individuals wishing to amend the Charter need to submit proposals for revision (i.e.text of the proposed new articles) supported by 5% of the members eligible to vote.
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<div dir="auto">By mere fact that the proposal needs 5% of the members eligible to vote means ordinarily ithe proposal should be put to vote in first instance.</div>
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<div dir="auto">What do you mean by precisely drafted? You may never get that until it has taken the cause of public comment and inputs from members to be even near properly drafted as its subject to tweaking by ICANN board etc.</div>
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<div dir="auto">That is after the initial voting and exercises must have been concluded ma.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Interpretation of individual to seek the 5% will lead to balkanisation of the process which is not even good for the EC or good governance of NCSG.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Above all the least madam chair should do is to take it to EC, schedule a date for review. I had requested simply that you put this in your next tenure agenda if really you want to help NCSG to kick start the process but was rebuffed.</div>
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<div dir="auto">I am not unaware of the process having done charter review previously including that of ISOC rebirth in Nigeria and NPOC and Nigeria internet Registration Association among others.</div>
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<div dir="auto">If we continue looking for excuses the problem will persist beyond many years to come. </div>
<div dir="auto">May be revisiting my initial proposal without any prejudice whatsoever will help us move to the next level.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Nice day</div>
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