[chapter-delegates] SAD NEWS AND Position of ISOC Nigerian Chapter on Veni Markovski's petition

[Rosa Delgado]

Dear Effiong and the Nigerian Chapter,

On behalf of the ISOC Geneva Chapter, we wish to express our deepest
condolences to Professor Nwodo's family and ISOC Nigeria members for
this tragic lost.

Best regards,

Rosa Delgado
ISOC Geneva Chapter
Vice-President

-----Original Message-----
From: Isoc Nigeria Secretary [mailto:secretary at isocnig.org.ng] 
Sent: Friday, 29 April 2005 18:50
To: 2005-petition-markovski at elists.isoc.org
Cc: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] SAD NEWS AND Position of ISOC Nigerian
Chapter on Veni Markovski's petition


On behalf of the  ISOC Nigerian chapter I am annuncing the very sad news
that our president and chapter founder Prof. T.C. Nwodo has suddently
passed away. The sad event happened  on 27 April 2005 at Rivers State
University of science and Technology Campus in Port Harcourt.

Thanks to his immense contribution and selfless work for  the
development and widspread of Internet in Nigeria and in Africa at large
he has actualize the Isoc mission that  " Internet is for everyone"

More details on his contribution will follows.

At the same time Isoc Nigeria chapter like to support the petition sent
by Veni Markovski so that he can be allowed to run as a  candidate in
the upcoming election for the Chapter member of the Board  of Trustees.
At the same time, we like to remark that we are agreeing with the
comment sent from the Italian chapter saying that "the present
discussions are severely  damaging the public image and the internal
cohesion of ISOC" For that reason we are not contributing on the
discussion and we are thinking that other chapters have the same
opinion. It is our strong believe that actions are the best way to
encourage the Internet diffusion and democracy than words. We noted that
a lot of speeches are going on and at the end not concrete solutions are
drafted.



for Isoc Nigeria Chapter

Effiong Umoren
General Secretary