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The police in Ekpoma, Edo State Police Command have arrested Felix Alika, a security aide at Zenith Bank Ekpoma branch for allegedly conspiring to kidnap his manager, Raphael Ibodeme.

Alika had been locking horns with his manager over his promotion in the bank and punishment for insubordination.

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Alika asked one Suleman to recruit other gang members to kidnap his boss.

Akhere, one of the gang changed his mind and reported the matter at the Ekpoma Police Division a few days before the operation.

Alika confessed to a plan to kidnap his boss because of their differences and accused his boss of being a criminal.

“Yes, l can confirm that Mr. Ibodeme, the bank manager and myself have been quarreling for some time now," he said.

The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Kontongs Bello, confirmed the incident, noting that the two suspects would be charged to court for attempted kidnap.

“The report from the anti-kidnapping squad in our Command said the security guard, Felix Alika, lied against Mr. Raphael Ibodeme."

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The Coalition for Revolution (CORE) has declared August 5, 2021, the commencement date of protests against bad leadership in Nigeria

Tagged ‘Buhari Is A Full-Blown Pandemic, Quarantine Tyranny', the group urged Nigerians to troop out to demand a better Nigeria. It listed a series of demands which it said are non-negotiable.

A statement by the group reads, “Join the August 5 nationwide protests against corruption and tyranny in Nigeria. Enough is enough! 

“You’re Shiites, IPOB, ODUDUWA, #ENDSARS, students, market men and women or citizens who can’t cope with rising food prices, workers whose miserable salaries are cut in half, people whose businesses have been ruined by economic mismanagement, farmers whose farmlands have been destroyed...come out on August 5, 2021. 

“It will be a total lockdown at home and abroad. Shops, schools, businesses are advised to observe strict closures. Only essential services will be allowed.

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"Our Diaspora citizens are advised to take their protests to the nearest Nigerian embassy or consulate or UN office around you. Let the world know we can’t continue like this anymore!

#FreeNnamdiKanu #FreeZakyZaky #FreeDunamis5 #FreeEndsars #FreeObigbo #FreeNigeria from the grip of tyrant Muhammadu Buhari #nogoingbacknow #August5Protest, #BuhariMustGo #RevolutionNow."

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Thirty Opportunity Funds Program scholars of the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos have received fully-funded scholarships totaling $4.35 million to attend American universities and colleges for the 2021/2022 academic session.

 

Following a competitive selection process, the 30 high-achieving, low-income students received financial aid from the U.S. Consulate General that covered expenses involved in the college application process such as payment for standardized tests, application fees, and visa fees in addition to air travel to the United States. 

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One of the beneficiaries is a 17-year-old boy Ekene Ezeunala who scored the highest score at the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

 

Ezeunala, who got 347, attended Meiran Community Senior High School, Lagos and received full funding to study Computer Science and Mathematics at Columbia University in the City of New York.

 

The lucky US-bound students are selected for six undergraduates, three masters and twenty-one doctoral academic programs including Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Bioinformatics, Computer Science and Engineering for the 2021/2022 academic session

According to a statement by Temitayo Famutimi, Information Specialist, Public Affairs Section of the United States Consular General in Victoria Island Lagos, on Thursday, the scholarship programs cover expenses for standardized tests, application fee and visa fees.

The statement reads, “Speaking on Thursday in Lagos during a reception in honor of the U.S. bound students, Consul General Claire Pierangelo urged the scholars to make the most of their opportunity to get a top-notch education while gaining the first-hand experience of American life and culture.

“I congratulate each one of you on your tremendous success. Your success is evidence of your leadership, academic performance, and the great potential young Nigerians hold for the future of this country.

“This is a very important step in your life. I strongly encourage you to maximize this opportunity. This is not just about your education as you have proven yourselves to be academically outstanding students. 

"I am also referring to your chance to broaden your horizons and embrace the diversity of people around you and learn, not just about America, but also about other cultures,” Pierangelo told the departing students.

“Ekene Ezeunala, one of the 2021 Opportunity Fund Program scholars, achieved the highest score in Nigeria at the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The 17-year-old alumnus of Meiran Community Senior High School Lagos received full funding to study Computer Science and Mathematics at Columbia University in the City of New York,” Pierangelo said.

While speaking, Ezeunala said the Education USA Opportunity Funds Program is “a truly life-changing experience. EducationUSA opened up a whole new world of opportunities and resources I never knew were available to me.”

Another 2021 OFP scholar, Urinrin Otite, was the first student to earn a first-class degree in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Port Harcourt.  

Otite will be attending Lehigh University in Pennsylvania where she received a fully-funded offer to pursue a doctoral degree in Civil Engineering with a research focus on the resilience and sustainability of structures and infrastructure systems.

“Looking back, the EducationUSA Opportunity Funds Program was the bridge I needed to reach my dream of studying in the U.S., and I would recommend reaching out to EducationUSA as the perfect first step to anyone hoping to study in the US,” Otite said.

Their impressive list of acceptances includes Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Columbia University, Princeton University, Purdue University, University of Pennsylvania, among others.

According to the latest Institute of International Education Open Doors Report, Nigeria retained its top ranking as the number one source of African students studying in the United States. About 13,762 Nigerians study at more than 1,000 U.S. colleges and universities.

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Three persons have been confirmed dead and many persons wounded in a bank robbery in Ilara- Mokin, Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State.

SaharaReporters gathered that one of the victims was a popular Ondo-based journalist and the spokesperson of  Elizade University, Olubunmi Afuye.

The robbers also killed a policeman and a motorcyclist.

A resident of the town told SaharaReporters that the robbers came to the bank around 3 pm and shot into the air to scare those within the vicinity of the bank.

Bank staff and customers who came for transactions at the bank scampered for safety.

The resident said the robbers used dynamite to blow open the entrance and carted away an unspecified amount of money.

“Bank staff and customers who were around for one thing or the other scampered to safety. There was confusion everywhere,” the resident said.

“A journalist, policeman, and motorcyclist were killed by the gunmen.”

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A court in Foggia, Italy, has sentenced a 25-year-old Nigerian man identified as Evans N. to 19 years and six months in prison for killing another Nigerian, 34-year-old Emeka N. in Italy.

Evans killed the 34-year-old during a fight in the informal camp of Borgo Mezzanine, in the southern region of Puglia, in October 2020.

Italian news agency ANSA reported that investigations carried out by police officers from Foggia and Manfredonia showed that the two men started to fight at a restaurant in the tent camp.

Emeka worked at the restaurant; his alleged killer had gone to eat there at around 6:30 pm on Tuesday, October 27,” ANSa reported.

Their fight started in the restaurant, over the food served, sources close to the investigation said. The men then allegedly walked out of the restaurant and their fight became violent.

Investigators alleged that the murder suspect then walked back into the restaurant to get a kitchen knife which he used to stab the victim.

The victim was said to have suffered two fatal stab wounds – one to the chest and another to the throat.

Evans was charged with voluntary manslaughter, and prosecutor Roberta Bray had requested a 19-year prison term.

The defendant’s attorney claimed her client had acted in self-defense or, insubordination, that he had committed involuntary manslaughter.

During the trial, the defendant told the court that he did not intend to kill his friend.

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Violence against Nigerian students is growing at an alarming rate. Yet, there seems to be no hope of a quick end in sight.  Aside the usual reports of mass kidnappings of students from their schools, an anomaly that has become a key part of thenarrative in our educational system, students are now being attacked off campuses.   This week alone, there are reports of at least three tragic deaths from such attacks. 

On Monday, a trigger-happy soldier reportedly shot dead Gray Ekpezu, a final year student of medicine and surgery, University of Calabar, Cross River State.

Neighbours claimed the student was shot for no reason in the evening of Friday, July 9, in front of his compound at Edibe Edibe in Calabar South of the state.

When irate residents took to the streets to protest the unfortunate incident, one of the battalion commanders in the area, reportedly advised them not to take laws into their hands, with a promise that the culprit would be brought to book. Since then, nothing has been heard. 
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There is another report of a student identified as Jennifer Ugadu who was also allegedly murdered by her soldier boyfriend, Jay Matol.  

Jennifer was a model and 200- Level student of Niger Delta University (NDU), in Bayelsa State. She was reportedly found dead in her apartment with multiple stab injuries and bullet wounds on Sunday, July 11, days after she was killed.

It was reported that Jay Matol had earlier accused Jennifer of being unfaithful. According to reports, he first raped her before shooting and stabbing her to death. If the message alleged to have been written by Matol on Jennifer’s department’s WhatsApp group is anything to go by, he gave himself up as he was alleged to have announced on the group that he killed her and planned to kill himself too.

Also, on Tuesday, a Bio-Chemistry student of Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka Stephen Odje, was killed on his way to school while two others, Divine Omajuwa and Husseina Hamza of Geology and Pharmacology Departments respectively, were reportedly abducted. Fortunately, the abducted students were released on Wednesday as confirmed by the state police command. 

In another report, the President of the Students’ Union Government of the Federal College of Education, Pankshin, Plateau State, Mr Zuma Francis Fwanshiwa, confirmed the kidnap of a final year student of the college.  

The kidnapped student identified as Felix Gele is in 400-Level and a final year student in the Department of Psychology. The kidnappers according to the union leader are asking for N5mransom. 

These reports represent only the tip of the iceberg, since many more cases might have gone unreported. As at July 7, 2021, the UN estimated that at least 950 students had been abducted from Nigerian schools in seven months with nearly 500 children kidnapped in the past six weeks alone.   

Surprisingly, despite this grim picture of insecurity in Nigerian schools, our lawmakers are more concerned aboutstopping the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board from allowing any child below 18 years to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. For them, age has a lot to do with learning ability, particularly in higher institutions. 

I’m probably missing something here because I still can’tunderstand why the age a child takes UTME is such a national issue at a time like this. It isn’t as if our higher institutions have complained that 16-year-olds are finding it difficult tocope with learning. On the contrary, we have seen many 20-year-olds emerging best graduating students. What has the time a candidate sits for UTME got to do with life-threatening challenges confronting the generality of Nigerian studentsnow?  I guess thousands of students across the country would rather want to know what government is doing to guaranteetheir safety in and out of school. 

This is what I think the lawmakers should be talking about. By now, the committee on education at the National Assembly should be championing the campaign for the declaration of a state of emergency on Nigerian schools. They should bethinking of how our schools could become safer for both students and workers. 

Honestly, when confronted with leaders that would rather ignore leprosy and concentrate on curing ringworm, one may not help but question the intellectual capacity of such people. Of all the problems confronting the education sector in Nigeria, should legislating on admission age be the prioritynow? Are the lawmakers suggesting that a child should sit at home and remain idle for two years to clock 18 before going to a higher institution? Funny!

This dearth of thinking is also manifesting in Akwa Ibom State where the government has taken a decision to ban pupils older than 12 years from admission into secondary schools in the state. The state governor, Udom Emmanuel, reportedlysaid the move was aimed at curbing cultism in the state’s schools. 

Akwa Ibom reminds me of El-Salvador’s draconian abortion law where any woman who suffers a miscarriage is immediately viewed with suspicion. Recently, a woman, Sara Rogel García, 29, was recently let out of prison after spending eight years in prison simply because she had an accident that resulted in the death of her unborn child. 

Rogel slipped and fell while washing clothes eight months into her pregnancy. The impact caused her to lose consciousness, and her baby was stillborn. By the time she awoke in the hospital, she was handcuffed to her bed. Four days later, while still recovering from her injuries, not to mention the emotional toll of having lost a baby she had been looking forward to having, she was sent to jail.

Relating this to Akwa Ibom story, the state has wrongly concluded that any child above 12 years that is not yet in secondary school must be a cultist. There can only be a few exceptions and that is why the government thinks granting admission to such exceptions after a written undertaking by their parents is good enough. 

 

To the state, the solution to halting massive recruitment of students into cultism is to prevent those that can recruit others from going to school. What now happens to these children when they are left outside school?  Let’s even assume that all kids above 12 years in the state are cultists, does that mean they are doomed for life? 

The state was acting as if it was doing the children a favour by allowing them to go to school. It has not yet dawned on these politicians that going to school is the inalienable right of every Nigerian child and nobody including the governor of any state has the power to deny a child the right to access education for whatever reason. If a child is found to break the law or endanger the life of others, the state is empowered to use the instrument of law to deal with the situation. Attempting to stop a child from going to school because you think the child can spread cultism, to me, is a lazy approach to solving a problem. 

Beyond this, what Akwa Ibom State has proved to the world is that apart from lacking the political will to implement Nigerian laws, it does not even know the provisions of its ownlaws. 

Take for instance the UBEC Act (2004) which has been domesticated by every state in Nigeria including Akwa Ibom, the law guarantees unfettered access to nine (9) years of formal basic education for every Nigerian of school age.  As a matter of fact, every government in Nigeria is expected toprovide free, compulsory and universal basic education for every child of primary and junior secondary school age while all parents and guardians must ensure that their children or wards attend and complete their primary school education and junior secondary school education.

This is the law. It does not stipulate any condition that may make a state to refuse to provide free and compulsory education. Unfortunately, while any parent who contravenes Section 2(2) of the Act commits an offence and liable on first conviction, to be reprimanded; on second conviction, to a fine of ₦2,000.00 or imprisonment for a term of 1 month or both; and on subsequent conviction, to a fine of ₦5,000.00 or imprisonment for a term of two months or to both, there is no punishment for any state that fails to provide compulsory basic education to their children. That is why a state like Akwa Ibom can publicly say it won’t allow some kids to be in school.  This lacuna in the UBEC Act should be reviewed as soon as possible. 

In the mean time, the Akwa Ibom State government should be reminded that it is not doing any child any favour by allowing them to go to school. Education will ultimately sustain the state; it will liberate the mind of the people and make them very useful members of the society.

Our leaders’ preference for a quick fix as opposed to a well-thought out solutions to real problems, is also reflecting in the way the National Youth Service Corps is handling the problem of insecurity of corps members across the country. 

I learnt the agency is no longer giving prospective corps members the chance to choose their preferred state.   It has also made it compulsory for enrolees to provide the name of the person to contact in case of death at the point of registering for the scheme.  I guess this is NYSC’s own way of subtly passing across the message that any corps member could die in the course of service. After all, insecurity in Nigeria has reached the roof top and there is no sign that it is coming down soon.   

The bottom line is that a nation is as good as the quality of its leaders. The earlier we start putting deep thinkers at the helm of our affairs, the faster our journey to our El-Dorado would be. 

 

Olabisi Deji-Folutile (PhD) is the Editor-in-Chief, franktalknow.com and member, Nigerian Guild of Editors. Email: bisideji@yahoo.co.uk

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The Nigerian Army has confirmed that it released 1,009 persons who were implicated in the Boko Haram insurgency war, but denied that they were ex-fighters of the sect. 

The army authorities who did not give the extent of involvement of the released persons in the insurgency added that the exercise was part of the ongoing Counter Terrorism Counter Insurgency Operations (CTCOIN) in the North-East. 

The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig Gen Onyema Nwahuckwu, stated this on Thursday while reacting to the release of the 1009 former fighters as reported by SaharaReporters and other outlets. 

Nwachukwu said, “It is an indisputable fact that the ongoing Counter Terrorism Counter Insurgency Operations (CTCOIN) in the North-East has led to the arrest of several terrorism/insurgency suspects. 

“These suspects have been held in custody, while undergoing profiling and further investigations by  experts from the Joint Investigation Centre (JIC) and those who are found culpable are usually handed over to prosecuting agencies  accordingly, while those who are not implicated in terrorism and insurgency are cleared and released to the state government for rehabilitation before they are reintegrated into the society. 

“These cleared suspects are therefore not ex Boko Haram fighters, as peddled in the reports. A total of 1009 cleared suspects, not ex fighters, were therefore released after this rigorous process on Wednesday. 

“It is also necessary to categorically state that the handing over of the cleared suspects was not shrouded in secrecy as it was witnessed by United Nations Humanitarian and government agencies, in tandem with global best practice.” 

 

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Senators affiliated with the ruling All Progressives Congress, on Thursday, voted against the electronic transmission of results.

 

The original 52(3) as contained in the report under consideration read: “The Commission may transmit results of elections by electronic means where and when practicable.”

But an APC senator from Niger North, Sabi Abdullahi, amended the clause to read, “INEC may consider electronic collation of results, provided the national network coverage is adjudged to be adequate and secured by the Nigerian Communications Commission and approved by the National Assembly.”

    

Senate President, Ibrahim Lawan, ruled in favor of the amendment when he conducted a voice vote.

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There was a disagreement and the Minority Leader, Enyinnaya Abaribe, called for a division that would require individual voting on the floor.

 

Lawan sustained Abaribe’s point of order and called for a division.

 

At the end of the poll, 88 senators voted, while 28 were not available to vote.

 

The outcome of the election showed that 52 APC senators, including the chairman of the Senate INEC committee, Kabiru Gaya, voted against the panel’s report, which gives the electoral umpire the sole power to determine the practicability of electronic transmission of results.

 

The Peoples Democratic Party members on the floor all voted in favor of electronic transmission of results by INEC without interference from either the NCC or the National Assembly.

 

The APC members, while casting their votes against the amendment, attributed their decision to the claim of the NCC that only 43 percent of the country has network coverage.

 

According to what they voted for, NCC and the National Assembly will take over the work of INEC by transmitting the results against the backdrop that INEC cannot carry out the electronic transmission of results unless the NCC and the National Assembly approved.

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The Senior Pastor of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre (Glory Dome), Abuja, Paul Enenche, has secretly laid off the Department of State Services lead agent of the church as part of a plot to absolve the church of the continued detention of the five #BuhariMustGo protesters. 

SaharaReporters learnt on Thursday that Enenche let go of the church’s DSS lead agent to cover up the church’s involvement all along in the arrest and detention of the activists. 

The activists, including a blind church saxophonist, have now spent about two weeks in the DSS detention as families also worry about their welfare and medical care. 

The detained activists are; Ben Manasseh, Emmanuel Larry, Samuel Gabriel, Anene Victor Udoka, and Henry Nwodo. 

Last Sunday, the family members of the protesters had stormed the Glory Dome in Abuja to protest against the continued detention of their wards, but they were also roundly harassed and molested by the security agents who had mobilised to the premises in large numbers.

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Two journalists with Punch Newspaper and Roots TV had also been arrested and whisked away by the DSS and the police to an unknown location before they were released late on Sunday. 
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SaharaReporters learnt on Thursday that Pastor Enenche had taken a step further to cover up the church's role in the arrest and detention of the protesters. 

“Pastor Enenche in an attempt to cover up the involvement of the church in the matter has asked the lead DSS agent in the church, who the church used in handing them over to the DSS, to leave the church for now. 

“Enenche also admitted to the church elders that approached him on the matter that he initially consented to handing them over to the DSS to show to the Buhari regime that he was opposed to the #BuhariMustGo campaign and to punish Sowore for negative reporting against his church,” a top source said. 

SaharaReporters had on July 9 reported that the five protesters dragged the church and the DSS to court over their illegal arrest, detention and violation of their human rights. 
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SaharaReporters had obtained the court papers filed by the activists, bearing their names; Ben Manasseh, Emmanuel Larry, Samuel Gabriel, Anene Victor Udoka, and Henry Nwodo as the applicants. 

The respondents are; the State Security Service, the Director-General of the SSS, the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, and the Pastor-in-charge of the Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Pastor Paul Enenche. 

The suit is being heard at the Federal High Court of Nigeria; Abuja judicial division. 

Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, who had also gone to the church in company of fellow activist, Deji Adeyanju, shared the court papers, noting that the five detained activists had sued the DSS and the church authorities over the violations of their human rights. 

SaharaReporters had last Tuesday reported that the DSS admitted that it was the Dunamis church which called for the arrest of five human rights activists who wore the #BuhariMustGo T-Shirts to its church service two Sundays ago.

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The Senior Pastor of the House on The Rock Church, Pastor Paul Adefarasin, has said the Independent National Electoral Commission is behind Nigeria’s woes for publishing false figures.

The cleric described the nation’s electoral umpire as a fraud, adding that results generated in both population census and polls in this country were lies.

Adefarasin revealed this during a sermon in his church as seen in a video obtained by SaharaReporters. 

He said, “You have got to go into politics and government deliberately. By the way, if we don’t fix Nigeria's problem, by that I mean Independent National Electoral Commission; I am saying it plainly. 

“Put me in trouble if you like, INEC is a fraud. Numbers in Nigeria as far as census is concerned, as far as election is concerned are a lie. And if nobody will speak about it, the righteous will speak about it. Our righteousness is not of ourselves but it is of him and he will protect.

“Where the numbers are not properly reflected in our voting; this is the only country in West Africa, when you move to the ocean through the desert and the numbers decrease or rather the only country in the world that you move a large number of water or little or no water and the numbers increase; it was not Nigerians that started it.”

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The Senate session, on Thursday, turned rowdy over discussions on the electoral act amendment bill.

A heated argument broke out when the Senate deputy whip, Sabi Abdullahi, proposed an amendment to section 50 (3) of the electoral bill, Cable reports.

“The commission may transmit results of elections by electronic means where and when practicable,” the section reads.

Abdullahi proposed that the Nigerian Communications Commission must certify that national coverage is adequate and secure while the national assembly must approve before the Independent National Electoral Commission can transmit election results.

But Albert Bassey, the Senator representing Akwa Ibom North-East, kicked against the idea and said the initial proposal made by the committee should be retained.

The upper legislative chamber subsequently moved into a closed session following the back and forth over the matter. 

 

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Adeyemi Azeez, Special Assistant to the Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun has been accused of leading scores of cultists to attack the state chairman of the National Association of Nigeria Students Comrade Adeyemi Ajasa.

According to a source, Ajasa, a student of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye was also abducted by Adeyemi and his gangs.

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The chairman was said to be in the bad books of the governor’s aide.

“Early this morning, the SA on Students Matters to Ogun State Governor, Adeyemi Azeez led scores of cultists to beat and attack Nigerian students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye in Ago environ and whisked away Comrade Samrich, NANS Ogun chairman.

“They carted away his car after he was brutalised and kidnapped by the cultists led by Adeyemi Azeez,” a friend of the students’ leader told SaharaReporters.

Meanwhile, calls put across to the governor’s aide were not picked nor returned.

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