Building an economy isn't an event but a process that can delay - Agbenyo

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• OFOSUAA 9 years ago

  BURSREBRANDING THIEVES, U THINK U CAN WASTE AND STEAL OUR MONIES AND STILL BE ABLE TO RUN THE COUNTRY EH?....Ndc voters and leadership think support for a political party simply means DO-ME-I-DO-YOU...But this is sheer stupid ...
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  BURSREBRANDING THIEVES, U THINK U CAN WASTE AND STEAL OUR MONIES AND STILL BE ABLE TO RUN THE COUNTRY EH?....Ndc voters and leadership think support for a political party simply means DO-ME-I-DO-YOU...But this is sheer stupidity of the highest level bcos its Ghana that ends up the loser and our kids who even end up the worst losers bcos we are totally destroying their future.......after failing to prove alleged npp malfeasance since ndc assumed power, all ndc has been doing is to use these allegation as basis to embark on serious thievery upon thievery with cronies and family members duping the state and destroying our economy the present state where one dollar which used to be 1.12 ghc in 2008 is now miserably one dollar to 4.0 ghc.....and all this while ndc has managed to throw dust into people’s eyes by claiming the ghc is weak bcos of imports exceeding exports.....such a preposterous reason, very very very preposterous indeed.......and the situation is worsened by their voters in the north and volta who are so so so poor and yet so so so gullible who continue to trust in ndc despite clear cases of thievery and plundering of state resource thro avenues like SADA SUBAH, GYEEDA AZUNTABA, RLG-NDC-ZOOMLION-COLLUSION to destroy our economy just to line their pockets with the stolen cash and live good abroad with their families.....it will only take a people with very evil minds to dole out over one billion dollars in dubious jdgt detbs to friends and cronies in order to share the loot EVEN THO THE VERY STRONGHOLDS OF NDC CONTINUE TO BE SO EXCRUCIATINGLY POOR ..........SO POOR THAT THEY ENGAGE IN VIRTUAL SLAVERY RIGHT HERE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AS KAYAYES AND TROKOSIS and we are shown daily videos of their kids lying on their tummies in poor dilapidated schools to learn and write simply bcos of lack of furniture........ndc govt overspent state budget by 8.7 bn ghc in 2012 just for mahama to win elections, and this was the last straw which broke the camel’s back as our ghc declined and has kept on declining ever since then...........bloated contract budgets and sole contracts awards have now become a channel to pay out outrageous amounts to cronies just for ndc to later share the loot...........huge monies dubiously paid to rlg, zoomlion, for no work done etc are yet to be retrieved without interest despite the continued destruction and weakening of our economy......DESPITE ALL THESE, WE STILL HAVE NDC PROUDLY PREDICTING A ONE TOUCH WIN FOR NDC in the 2016 elections...........and their gullible miserable strongholds are seen daily endorsing this criminal gang of thieves who didn’t even have an office till they came to power in 2008 and built a 20 million dollars mansion for a headoffice after duping the state big time thro fake jdgt debts........THE SUFFERING CONTINUES TILL GHANA HAS LEARNT ITS BITTER LESSONS THAT SUPPORTING POLITICAL PARTIES ISNT LIKE SUPPORTING HEARTS OR KOTOKO OR OLYMPICS WHETHER THEY WIN OR LOSE......we support parties to build a nation and ensure security and improve living standards for us all BUT NOT TO COME AND STEAL AND STEAL AND STEAL LIKE NDC IS DOING NOW....NOW DUMSOR IS OUR PORTION BCOS OF NDC THIEVERY..........ide biiiiii kekekekekekekeeeee........

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• aikins 9 years ago

  But one don't waste time on this ignorant, all he knows is talking just like his leader mahama.

  But one don't waste time on this ignorant, all he knows is talking just like his leader mahama.

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• NANA AMA 9 years ago

  The only visionless person who never rule Ghana is Nana Addo since he has no message, policies and he clueless when he come to governance. Mahama on the other hand is tried and tested and he has churn out various proactive po ...
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  The only visionless person who never rule Ghana is Nana Addo since he has no message, policies and he clueless when he come to governance. Mahama on the other hand is tried and tested and he has churn out various proactive policies such as the BASIC EDUCATION CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (BECE) RESIT POLICY, which allows candidates who did not excel in their exams at the Basic level to re-sit their BECE as private candidates. In effect, these are persons who, but for this
  golden opportunity, would have had their education terminated at the JHS level.

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• OFOSUAA 9 years ago

  CONTRACT SOLE SOURCING HAS BEEN USED TO DESTROY EVEN OUR ENERGY INDUSTRY AS AMERI AND KARPOWER ARE RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE TO RUN BCOS OF NDC SOLE SOURCING DIRTY DEALS WITH THE ENERGY SECTOR....BURSREBRANDING THIEVES, U THINK ...
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  CONTRACT SOLE SOURCING HAS BEEN USED TO DESTROY EVEN OUR ENERGY INDUSTRY AS AMERI AND KARPOWER ARE RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE TO RUN BCOS OF NDC SOLE SOURCING DIRTY DEALS WITH THE ENERGY SECTOR....BURSREBRANDING THIEVES, U THINK U CAN WASTE AND STEAL OUR MONIES AND STILL BE ABLE TO RUN THE COUNTRY EH?....Ndc voters and leadership think support for a political party simply means DO-ME-I-DO-YOU...But this is sheer stupidity of the highest level bcos its Ghana that ends up the loser and our kids who even end up the worst losers bcos we are totally destroying their future.......after failing to prove alleged npp malfeasance since ndc assumed power, all ndc has been doing is to use these allegation as basis to embark on serious thievery upon thievery with cronies and family members duping the state and destroying our economy the present state where one dollar which used to be 1.12 ghc in 2008 is now miserably one dollar to 4.0 ghc.....and all this while ndc has managed to throw dust into people’s eyes by claiming the ghc is weak bcos of imports exceeding exports.....such a preposterous reason, very very very preposterous indeed.......and the situation is worsened by their voters in the north and volta who are so so so poor and yet so so so gullible who continue to trust in ndc despite clear cases of thievery and plundering of state resource thro avenues like SADA SUBAH, GYEEDA AZUNTABA, RLG-NDC-ZOOMLION-COLLUSION to destroy our economy just to line their pockets with the stolen cash and live good abroad with their families.....it will only take a people with very evil minds to dole out over one billion dollars in dubious jdgt detbs to friends and cronies in order to share the loot EVEN THO THE VERY STRONGHOLDS OF NDC CONTINUE TO BE SO EXCRUCIATINGLY POOR ..........SO POOR THAT THEY ENGAGE IN VIRTUAL SLAVERY RIGHT HERE IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY AS KAYAYES AND TROKOSIS and we are shown daily videos of their kids lying on their tummies in poor dilapidated schools to learn and write simply bcos of lack of furniture........ndc govt overspent state budget by 8.7 bn ghc in 2012 just for mahama to win elections, and this was the last straw which broke the camel’s back as our ghc declined and has kept on declining ever since then...........bloated contract budgets and sole contracts awards have now become a channel to pay out outrageous amounts to cronies just for ndc to later share the loot...........huge monies dubiously paid to rlg, zoomlion, for no work done etc are yet to be retrieved without interest despite the continued destruction and weakening of our economy......DESPITE ALL THESE, WE STILL HAVE NDC PROUDLY PREDICTING A ONE TOUCH WIN FOR NDC in the 2016 elections...........and their gullible miserable strongholds are seen daily endorsing this criminal gang of thieves who didn’t even have an office till they came to power in 2008 and built a 20 million dollars mansion for a headoffice after duping the state big time thro fake jdgt debts........THE SUFFERING CONTINUES TILL GHANA HAS LEARNT ITS BITTER LESSONS THAT SUPPORTING POLITICAL PARTIES ISNT LIKE SUPPORTING HEARTS OR KOTOKO OR OLYMPICS WHETHER THEY WIN OR LOSE......we support parties to build a nation and ensure security and improve living standards for us all BUT NOT TO COME AND STEAL AND STEAL AND STEAL LIKE NDC IS DOING NOW....NOW DUMSOR IS OUR PORTION BCOS OF NDC THIEVERY..........ide biiiiii kekekekekekekeeeee........

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• Home again 9 years ago

  8 years NDC Is still asking for more time to fix economy? It's a proving fact u don't have solutions to our problems period.

  8 years NDC Is still asking for more time to fix economy? It's a proving fact u don't have solutions to our problems period.

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• OFOSUAA 9 years ago

  The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has alleged that President John Dramani Mahama and his brother, Ibrahim Mahama, have a hand in the murky $510 million dollar Ameri Power deal believed to have been inflated by governme ...
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  The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has alleged that President John Dramani Mahama and his brother, Ibrahim Mahama, have a hand in the murky $510 million dollar Ameri Power deal believed to have been inflated by government.
  
  The party in a statement issued on Monday, cited ten reasons why there must be an “immediate, open, public, bipartisan and parliamentary enquiry into the $593 million agreement.”
  
  Government on the other hand has explained the deal cost $510 million.
  
  Critical questions have been raised about the deal after two journalists working for VG; a Norwegian Newspaper blew the lid on some details of the contract between Ghana’s Power Minister and Ameri Power.
  
  Below is the NPP’s full statement
  
  Following on from the damning revelations from the two Norwegian investigative journalists on President John Mahama’s NDC government’s alleged fraudulent deal on 10 power turbines from Ameri Group of Dubai, and its rather weak, contradictory and porous response this morning, it is now evident that an urgent, immediate open public inquiry by Parliament, through a bipartisan committee, into details of the deal is urgently required.
  
  In February this year, the NDC Government entered into a Built, Operate, Own and Transfer agreement with Ameri Energy of Dubai for the supply of 10 turbines with 230-250MW capacity of power. The total cost of the deal to Ghanaian taxpayers for the five-year period will be US$593 million, comprising of the $510 million direct cost plus a “variable charge” of $83 million ($16.6 million x 5 years). This is 16.3 per cent of the total cost of the project. Normally, a variable charge never exceeds 2 per cent of the total cost of any contract of this nature. So what explains this astronomical mark up?
  
  These 10 GE turbines, according to industry experts, go for a total basic cost of some $220 million. This, naturally, has raised questions over the justification for the additional whopping $360 million.
  
  The investigations, done by the two foreign journalists, first of all, confirm several suspicions raised by local observers, surrounding this deal, as well as raise questions that have not, and will not be answered by the President’s agents merely issuing statements and press releases. It calls for an open, bipartisan full-scale enquiry into it.
  For clarity, let us summarize some of the issues:
  
  1. Two of the companies connected to this transaction are also closely connected to President John Mahama. These are Engineers & Planners, owned by the President’s brother, and entrepreneur, Ibrahim Mahama. In fact, President John Mahama was at one time a director of Engineers & Planners. The other firm, Amandi Construction, which has also generously benefitted from government contracts and its executives are very close to the President, is a sister company to STL, the controversial firm that is a contractor to both the Electoral Commission and the National Health Insurance Authority regarding the biometric register of both institutions. The involvement of these two firms in a deal that is reportedly inflated to the tune of some US$360 million is a serious cause for concern, adding to the worrying matter of how the cost of corruption is sinking our nation under this NDC Government.
  
  2. The NDC Government has come out to deny the key financial details of the transaction, but evidence from the contract before Parliament, especially the key annexures (Annexes ‘G’ & ‘C’), clearly contradicts the NDC Government’s position. In fact the contract suggests that together with the specific, quoted costs, other contingent costs will lead to a total outlay far in excess of US$1 Billion. This is a worrying matter, given the precarious position of Ghana’s finances, including a near GHS100 billion public debt.
  
  3. The structure of the deal is itself troubling. President John Mahama’s government also has a working relationship with GE, the global American conglomerate from whom the plants were acquired. GE is also working in the energy sector to supply electric power. Why did the Ghana government choose to enter into an arrangement that would cost us, in specified terms, some 130% more (and potentially, if contingent liabilities fall due, cost five times more what it would have been if we purchased the plants outright)? Why go through an inexperienced middle company?
  
  4. Why did the deal go through Ameri Group, which appears to have been created shortly before this deal? Who are the real people, Ghanaian contacts, behind this Ameri deal? This question is legitimate because Ameri came from nowhere to be handed this lucrative deal on a ‘golden’ platter.
  
  5. Amund Bakke, the Editor of the Norwegian paper which broke the story, VG, contradicted the statement from the Minister of Energy this morning that the alleged Norwegian fugitive, Umar Farooq Zahoor, was not connected to Ameri and was merely a witness, who signed the agreement. Mr Bakke insists Mr Umar Zahoor was the CEO of Ameri at the time the deal was signed earlier this year and that the Minister is on tape, admitting to same when he was interviewed by the two Norwegian journalists last October. When was Mr Umar Farooq Zahoor removed from Ameri as CEO of Ameri Energy?
  
  6. We also want the NDC Government to come clean on the involvement of US Company, APR Energy on this project. Our information is that, APR Energy, which former US Secretary of State, Magdelene Albright and financier, George Soros, reportedly have controlling shares in, won the bid for the 10 GE turbines in Ghana. It appears, for some reason yet to be explained, that deal was frustrated and handed to Ameri Energy without any competitive tender.
  
  7. In the President’s own State of the Nation Address this year, given on 26th February, 2015, he stated that, “Guarantees are currently being agreed for the following: Karpower ship (Turkey) 450MW, APR (UAE) 250MW, GE 300MW.” Whiles making this statement to the Ghanaian people before Parliament, the President was fully aware that the contract with Ameri Energy had been signed on 10th February, 2015, 16 days earlier. So why did he give the impression that some Dubai-based APR was the company contracted to provide the 10 turbines? Was Ameri Power or Ameri Energy created to deceive the procurement process that it was still APR (US) that Government was dealing with?
  
  8. Why did Government take out the Florida-based APR Energy, with years of experience in the business, offering a far cheaper option, to bring in Ameri Energy, which had no experience in the field? Was it all to make hundreds of millions dollars of unconscionable windfall on the back of the needless Dumsor misery visited on suffering Ghanaians in the past four years?
  
  9. This is because we have been made aware that Ameri has effectively sold the entire operational aspects of the contract to Metka, to be the operator of the five-year BOOT project between Ameri Energy and the Government of Ghana. Indeed, the terms of agreement paved way for exactly that to happen. The contract is worth $350 million to Metka, which will undertake the entire project, including the procurement of the 10 turbines and the management of the plant. Government should explain to us, does this mean that for being the needless agent, Ameri Energy simply walked away with at least $160 million or possibly $240 million, if you add the peculiar $16.6 million per annum “Variable Charge” slapped on top of the contract for five years.
  
  10. Our final question for now, there is actually a company based in China and Pakistan called Ameri Energy Group (www.amerienergygroup.com) which has been in operations since 2005. It has no links with Ameri Energy, which is also linked to Ameri Group, both in Dubai. Could this be a case of passing off created by a person allegedly wanted for multi-million Euro fraud in Europe?
  
  We have reason to believe that the public information available on this Ameri deal is significantly more in what it covers than it reveals, especially the key players behind the deal, the extremely high costs of acquisition, how much the government has paid in cash, guarantees and escrowed amounts and other issues.
  
  This murky, and allegedly fraudulent deal has come at a time when Ghanaians have suffered four years of power outages that have collapsed businesses and added to the growing unemployment and desperation of Ghanaians. It has come at a time, today, Monday, 14th December, when Ghanaians are being demanded to pay a 60% price increase in the cost of electricity to their homes and businesses.
  
  This “Ameri Christmas” gift is probably the straw which will break the back of the camel, regarding the incompetence and corruption of this NDC Government. We, the New Patriotic Party, are extremely concerned about the reckless and wicked manner that the affairs of our country are being conducted under President John Mahama and his NDC Government.
  
  On these and other burning questions requiring answers, we of the New Patriotic Party are convinced and feel obliged to demand, on behalf of the people of Ghana, an immediate and public inquiry into the Ameri Group deal. Nothing below this will satisfy Ghanaians as to the propriety of this deal.
  
  …Signed…
  
  Freddy Blay
  (Ag. National Chairman)

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• Chief Vandal 9 years ago

  Look at this clueless idiot too. After 8 years you still need time? What a joke. I weep for Ghana.

  Look at this clueless idiot too. After 8 years you still need time? What a joke. I weep for Ghana.

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• Nanagoygo 9 years ago

  Look at this too ,he knows next to nothing ,as politics is so cheap this boy talking to ghanaians ,Stupid fool

  Look at this too ,he knows next to nothing ,as politics is so cheap this boy talking to ghanaians ,Stupid fool

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• Abdulai Mumuni 9 years ago

  Look at this idiot still preaching better Ghana after eight years of massive looting,corruption and thievery. We are wise now and your empty propaganda cannot sway us. SHAME!!!!!

  Look at this idiot still preaching better Ghana after eight years of massive looting,corruption and thievery. We are wise now and your empty propaganda cannot sway us. SHAME!!!!!

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• Laryea 9 years ago

  Mahama NDC has become vehicle for this dirty Ewe tribe to steal

  Mahama NDC has become vehicle for this dirty Ewe tribe to steal

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• NANA AMA 9 years ago

  If you have any evidence which implicates any NDC member of any wrong doing, furnish the police with report and seek redress at the courts. Ewes, and Voltarians are advocates for the truth and they are currently in tune with ...
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  If you have any evidence which implicates any NDC member of any wrong doing, furnish the police with report and seek redress at the courts. Ewes, and Voltarians are advocates for the truth and they are currently in tune with the good works being done by the NDC. Thus, the 31km shia-tanyigbe road has been complted thanks to the NDC government. A feat the NPP could not attain in 8 years

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• Equator 9 years ago

  You are only justifying economy your goverment has destroyed. How long do you build basic economy. Eight yrs of destructive economy is enough. Anymore yrs for NDC Gov't will lead to hell.

  You are only justifying economy your goverment has destroyed. How long do you build basic economy. Eight yrs of destructive economy is enough. Anymore yrs for NDC Gov't will lead to hell.

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• Agbovi 9 years ago

  Avukoklo president must be kicked out like a chamber pot. A school class prefect is better than him. Odwanfunu man! !!!!

  Avukoklo president must be kicked out like a chamber pot. A school class prefect is better than him. Odwanfunu man! !!!!

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• NANA AMA 9 years ago

  You can hurl insults on NDC members albeit the truth is they are #ChangingLives and #TransformingGhana. Work is currently ongoing on the Kumasi Central Market and the Kotokuraba Market in the Central Region.
  
  In the area o ...
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  You can hurl insults on NDC members albeit the truth is they are #ChangingLives and #TransformingGhana. Work is currently ongoing on the Kumasi Central Market and the Kotokuraba Market in the Central Region.
  
  In the area of rice cultivation, local production has more than doubled since 2008,rising from 301,900 metric tonnes in 2008 to 604,041 metric tonnes in 2014.These interventions have increased food production hence ensuring food security

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• sea storm 9 years ago

  Agbenyo's foreign Accounts is full now in a short time,and we MUST still thighten our belts for him to steel more."onya-soomi"

  Agbenyo's foreign Accounts is full now in a short time,and we MUST still thighten our belts for him to steel more."onya-soomi"

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• NANA AMA 9 years ago

  Playing the ethnic card just shows the desperation the NPP feels when nothing is working in their favour. JM is protecting our public purse and this accounts for the removal of over 35,000 ghost names from the NSS pay roll.

  Playing the ethnic card just shows the desperation the NPP feels when nothing is working in their favour. JM is protecting our public purse and this accounts for the removal of over 35,000 ghost names from the NSS pay roll.

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• Abi 9 years ago

  8 yrs in government and the ndc is still giving lame excuses for their failure????? How long do they want to take to build the economy?? 1000 yrs??????

  8 yrs in government and the ndc is still giving lame excuses for their failure????? How long do they want to take to build the economy?? 1000 yrs??????

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• NANA AMA 9 years ago

  The NDC is the best administration to manage Ghana and under their watch, as at the third quarter of this year 2015 $201,072,785.62 representing 41% of the total of $792,623,122.73 worth of investment for the year was awarded ...
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  The NDC is the best administration to manage Ghana and under their watch, as at the third quarter of this year 2015 $201,072,785.62 representing 41% of the total of $792,623,122.73 worth of investment for the year was awarded to indigenous companies thanks to the NDC government

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• amega 9 years ago

  Enough is enough Fred.we are tied of the promises.Nana Akuffo Addo would come and make Ghana better.

  Enough is enough Fred.we are tied of the promises.Nana Akuffo Addo would come and make Ghana better.

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• Rev Edwin 9 years ago

  So your Government is a Delay government, well park your self some where and let the movers the NPP take control.

  So your Government is a Delay government, well park your self some where and let the movers the NPP take control.

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• Ama Ghana 9 years ago

  Agbenyo, Please tell this to the 300 workers in Tema who have lost their jobs as a result of our governments failings (Dumsor)recently.This is what happens when the economy is mismanaged and fundamental infrastructural pillar ...
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  Agbenyo, Please tell this to the 300 workers in Tema who have lost their jobs as a result of our governments failings (Dumsor)recently.This is what happens when the economy is mismanaged and fundamental infrastructural pillars in the economy collapse. If we don’t address this, more occurrences like this are imminent.
  At this time we shouldn’t just see this as 300 workers losing their livelihood in an already impossible economy, but please take some time to pray for their dependences; wives, children, mothers etc.

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• Mr Bond 9 years ago

  Did this last to not make sense with his nonsense of building an economy could be delay is incompetences and foolishness and this idiot is part of imbecile president John Dramani Mahama administration term.Will a wise preside ...
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  Did this last to not make sense with his nonsense of building an economy could be delay is incompetences and foolishness and this idiot is part of imbecile president John Dramani Mahama administration term.Will a wise president appoint this fool into his cabinet?Fools ruling Ghana.

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