By Tony Karanja-Founder and Editor-in Chief
Jambonewspot.com
It has been brought to our attention that there may be unauthorized use of our website name for activities that do not reflect the true nature and mission of JAMBONEWSPOT.
A couple of weeks ago, we had a conversation with a reader who wanted to have the death of a family member put up on our website. After she made her request for the information to be put up, she asked how much we would be charging her for the service.
I informed her that Jambonewspot is a community website and that there is no charge for obituaries and she was pretty much surprised.
Apparently, according to her, some of the committee members had spoken to someone in Dallas who claimed to be a representative of “Jambonewspot” who told them that the charge required would be $200!! She therefore decided to seek another avenue but a friend of her’s referred her back to me and gave her my correct number so that she could verify the information as she was not sure the information was accurate.
Not withstanding the fact that “asking” for such an amount from a grieving family in our opinion is “obscene”, the use of the name “Jambonewspot” clearly was with malicious intent.
In light of this development would like to make it categorical that “JAMBONEWSPOT” is a community website that seeks to inform our community by bringing news as well as other services together in one forum for easy access for our readers who are based in several countries which include the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Kenya, South Africa..just to name a few.
To date, we have not established who that was but I can assure you that in the interest of our readers and the community at large, if we do come across such a fraudulent case again and we establish who these offending people are, we will act accordingly pursuing all the avenues available to us.
We seek to help our community as it grows and offer any support we can. We seek to help those who need our assistance in time of need and I believe we continue to do so.
We wish to inform our readers who may be targets of such malicious attempts by these and other unscrupulous individuals that we DO NOT CHARGE for death announcements nor for any announcements that are for non-profit making events.
We can never find it in our conscience to charge a grieving family in time when they need all the financial support they can get.
There are legitimate sites that give obituary services for a reasonable fee and these are pretty much justified.as they were put up for that one reason and may need to charge to meet administrative costs.
We at Jambonewspot however choose to support grieving families as they mourn at NO COST as a community service. We shall continue support EVERY member of our community regardless of tribal affiliation, religion as well as church membershipand it is our commitment to support and uplift those who need us.
We shall also support those in the business community and we will continue to maintain our integrity and professionalism by supporting other websites that we have worked closely with both in the Diaspora and back at home.
One way of doing this is recognising their hard work by crediting them for any of their works displayed on our site as well as carrying out our business in ways that does not intentionally or knowingly impede their work or gains hard-earned by them.
We shall not intentionally represent our website in a manner likely to circumvent the operations of another by taking any of their unique identifying features. Should there be a clash of any of these, appropriate communications shall be initiited.
This is the true character of Jambonewspot and this is the true essence of Jambonewspot’s mission. It is our hope to talk the talk and walk the walk for we are aware that our actions are a reflection of us.
For those who wake up everyday and work really hard in search of an honest day’s living, may God bless you and may God bless the work of your hands.
For those who are out of work at the moment, it is my prayer that the end is in sight. Even as you go through these tough moments, look around you every morning and see the people who sorround you and love you everyday. It is these people that keep you going even as the search looks tougher as these are the people that await you at home after a long day. May God bless you as you take your steps.
It is our hope that we continue to co-operate as a community and be mindful of each other and it is our hope that we will maintain the special relationship that exists between the community and Jambonewspot.
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