Steaman Group: The Ever-So-Respectable New-Face Of The Old-Criminality In Ghana's Land-Grabbing-Sector?

I had a jolly good laugh,  when I listened to a voice-recording, which the eldest of the younger generation that now controls our family's extensive all-freehold landholding portfolio, in the Eastern Region, forwarded to me yesterday. We have owned Thompsonakura, Kyekyewre,  since 1933, when it was purchased, surveyed and registered as a freehold property, at the Deeds Registry, Christiansburg, by my late grandfather,  P. E. Thompson Esq. 

We are major stakeholders in Akyem Abuakwa - because we are the largest freehold landowners in all of Akyem Abuakwa: with an Osiem-royal-heritage, on top too.

Furtheremore, we have been in unbroken-occupation, since Thompsonakura was purchased in 1933, and, above all,  it has never been sold before - yet, today, the arrogant-rogues who own the  Steaman Group, claim their company  owns our registered freehold property, and are warning us to stop our project there. Meanwhile we are talking to overseas investors, as it happens. Monstrous. 

Those arrogant morons don't know it yet - but they have bitten on more than they can chew. The thieving-sods. It would appear that today, the smartest land guards, and other menacing-type-demographics, which  rob with violence, in broad daylight, across our homeland  Ghana, are now going digital.

Hitherto, they used brute force to take over targeted-registered-lands, which they zeroed in, on, with near-total-impunity,  because they felt that  they could take them over, successfully, without much resistance from their scared legitimate owners. Today, they are deluding themselves into thinking that going digital, with fancy websites, is the smart way to enable them get around the stiff-penalties, outlined in the new Land Act 2020 (Act 1036). Fools.

That delusional rep of the Steaman Group's voice, in the said recording, sounded very much like that of a brutish myrmidon-thug-employee, of the murderous-gangsters, who run super-ruthless criminal syndicates,  which specialise in  stealing privately-owned registered  lands, with the help of bribed  public  officials. They are in for a rude shock. We will expose them - together with all the corrupt publice officials they have bribed to steal lands belonging to law-abiding folk, for yonks. Soon. Sarjewah.

In the aforementioned recording, that sodden uncouth-semi-literate's voice,  oozed controlled-malevolence, and, doubtless, isn't the kind of chap one would want to meet, at night, if one is a landowner, whom his bosses want eliminated, physically, to gain control of his or her registered land.  No.  No. No. Not under any circumstances. Cool.

Finally, perhaps the question we must ponder over is: Is the Steaman Group, the ever-so-respectable new-face, of the old-criminality, in Ghana's fast-growing land-grabbing-sector? Judge for yourself, dear reader. This is the link to  the Steaman Group's smoke-and-mirrors website: http://steamangroup.com/steamangroup.php?section=team.

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Is Our Homeland Ghana A Global Power In The Art And Science Of Egregious-Hypocrisy?

It will not come as a surprise, to some of us, entirely, were  our homeland Ghana to emerge as the world's most hypocritical-society, after the world's best leading-researchers, in comparative social analysis, published the findings of research carried out globally, on the subject of hypocritical-cultures. From north to south, and east to west, of the total landmass of our beautiful but beleaguered country, the cultural underpinnings of all Ghana's ethnic groups, are anchored on solid-bedrocks of fossilised-egregious-hypocrisy. Cool.

The trouble about our nation, dear reader,  is that it is dominated mostly by philandering-males, who lack moral compasses, and are consumed with endless-skirt-chasing. They focus mainly on amoral slay-queens, who are obsessed with posh houses, expensive top-range 4x4s (with all the bells and whistles), whose main occupation, is serious-gossiping,  constantly running others down and travelling abroad, for chilling-holidays, who daily take selfies, to post on their precious social media platform pages. Get the picture, dear reader? Hmmmm, eyeasem, ooooo. Msssa, to think that such a society will be successfully transformed, by any elected leader, by the end of his or her 8-year tenure, as Ghana Omanpanin, is unrealistic. Totally. 

Perhaps the question we must all ponder over is: How possibly can any social transformation take place, when  those selfsame ruling-élites, are also beholden to cash-loving religious-charlatans, who specialise in fear-and-panic-causing prophesies, designed to entrap the unwary, and successfully take over their thought-processes - so as to ensure that their  hoodwinked-high-level-charges, are bamboozled regularly with a steady stream of cash-inducing prophetic-directions, to make possible the  averting of dreamt-of-future-disasters, in the spiritual-realm: where neither empirical-evidence nor further-and-better-particulars,  are required of them? Think Reverend Owusu-Bempah? Just asking,  oooo. Yooooooo. Checkmate, wai, mate. Sarjewah.   

Dear reader, it is againat that background, for example, that we must therefore situate the  sad spectacle, of a senior cabinet minister, consciously making a sad-spectacle of himself, spinning a Kweku-Ananse-web-of-fibs, to  try and hide the identities, of those amongst today's greed-filled-cohort of big-thieves-in-high-places, who conspired to rip-off Mother Ghana, in a deal in which they were going to make a killing, of  90 pecent profiteering-profit, to secure Russian made Sputnik5  COVID-19 vaccines, from a venomous-snake-like super-clever Arab Sheik, when the said senior cabinet minister, appeared recently,  before a fact-finding Sealect Committee of Parliament. Hmmm, eyeasem, ooooo...

It would appear that in Ghana, unlike India, our caste-of-untouchables,  are self-acclaimed aristos-who-serve-Mother-Ghana, diligently,  and work without pay, and, spurn sundry-ministerial-allowances -  allegedly because they make zillions on tbe side, moonlighting, at society's expense, on the golden-alter-of-unfathomable-greed, according to bush-telegraph sources,  oooo. Massa, today's cohorts of greedy-bastards, who are busy milking Mother Ghana dry, are known to all of us,  yet the Ghanaian media, strangely  continues to refuse to allow those of us minded to do so, to call those Shylock-spades,  spades,  publicly -  because the language we deploy to expose those sodden  thieves-in-high-places, isn't "decorous". Imagine that. In light of all the above, dear reader, one can confidently say that  Ghana is definitely a global power, in egregious--hypocrisy. Y3n Omaan, yi, enniii size, biaara, 3woor 3wiasesiyi emu, koraaaa, 3wor egregious-hyocrisy, 3mu, oooo,  Massa. Case closed. 

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Today's Regime-Fatcats Are Only Chopping-Ghana-Small

Ahhhhh, Ghanafuo paaaa. Ghanafuo, 3kasaa paaa, ooooo.  Today's lucky big-thieves-in-high-places, spot an opportunity to make a quick buck, and all of a sudden, all hell breaks lose? Ebeiiiii. How? Haaba. Small boys are young ampaaaa. Imagine that. 

Out of the goodness of their solid-gold hearts, the ruling party's well-heeled big-thieves-in-high-places,  suddenly decide that, to ensure the creature-comforts of our indefatigable, hardworking and honest leader  (who doesn't even take his salary, please note,  dear reader), they will charter a big-jetplane-with-a-shower, in which he can have a quick shower, just before he lands in all the foreign nations he is taking our begging-bowl-diplomacy to (Ghana is a gobal-power in begging-bowl-diplomacy, incidentally, dear reader, in case you didn't know that), and envious, good-for-nothing Ghanaians are complaining, nationwide. Why? Incredible.

Some of those useless-whingers, even  have the audacity to  demand that our angelic finance minister  (who also doesn't take his salary, because his arms-length-businesses, earn trillions of Ghana cedis,  each time Ghana borrows money, by the way, dear reader), goes to give Parliament  -  apparently a useless branch of government, in his view, some allege, according to bush-telegraph sources - insider information, in his possession about the public procurement contract handled by National Security to shield far-cats making  a killing. How daft can some people be. Hmmm, eyeasem  ooooo... 

Is it not amazing, dear reader, that the Ghanaian media, still don't get it  -  that that noble-born honourable finance minister might be disdainful of Parliament: because it is full of inquisitive-ignoramuses, who should know their place, but don't,  annoyingly? Why should he provide MPs with  secret national-security-procurement-details, about how much commissions, were earned by the big-thieves-in-high-places, who got that big-jetplane-with-a-shower deal? How? Hmmmm, eyeasem, ooooo...

The question is: Why should a noble-born finance minister, go to Parliament, to answer urgent-questions, from  sodden-plebians  -  who have the gall to make  nonsense-on-stilts-demands, such as which of the regime's crony-tycoons, in the family-and-friends category,  got the contract to charter the big-jetplane-with-a-shower, for our noble-born President  Akufo-Addo?

Furthermore, why should a noble-born finance minister, answer them  -  when  they are mostly envious  and lazy people, who are forever  complaining: who really must learn to keep their big-fat-traps shut?  Are they not aware that this is an imperial-presidency? Massa, they really are fools, ooooo - if they still haven't cottoned on to that on-the-ground-reality, yet, wai. Bloody-morons. Enough is enough. They are chopping-Ghana-small, too, some, wai. Haaba. Cool,  la...

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Should Parliament Pass New Laws Empowering Security Agency Personnel To Shoot To Kill Armed Robbers?

How best can the  Ghanaian authorities curb the growing menace of armed robbers across the country?  Being attacked by armed robbers is a traumatic experience that one wouldn't wish upon even one's worst enemies. That is why it is vital that an effective solution is found to halt that growing societal-menace, as quickly as is practicable.

Having said that, the point also needs to be made, however, that registering even a personal arsenal, consisting of the world's most powerful automatic weapons, will not  secure the lives of law-abiding citizens, and their loved ones, who share the same roof over their heads, in today's Ghana. No question.


Unfortunately, from day one, today's big-thieves-in-high-places, who now dominate our greed-filled and effete ruling-élites, deliberately focused on packing our national security apparatus, with ill-disciplined myrmidon-thugs, previously employed by pro-New Party Party (NPP) militia's, owned privately, by a few party bigwigs, after January 2017. That egregious-aberation, has weakened Ghana's law enforcement agencies, considerably. 


Incredibly, it was part of a grand-strategy, planned to enable them dominate the Ghanaian nation-state, for the next thirty years - to facilitate the looting of Mother Ghana, by stealth, with total impunity: to enable them to recoup personal funds expended to finance  their party's three presidential and parliamentary election campaigns (of December 2008, December 2012 and December 2016), and successfully implement their top-secret agenda, of turning Nkrumah's Ghana, into an Akan-dominated society (as it happens, I am Akan myself, and know what I am talking about).

Alas, it has ended up turning our mostly peaceful nation, into a sometimes  volatile African country, with a growing army of desperate youth, from some of the member-nations of the Economic Community of West African States  (ECOWAS), freely roaming across Ghana, seeking dreamt-of-vast-fortunes, as scrap dealers, galamsayers and illegal sandwinners. 

When business slows down, naturally (coming mostly from violence-prone backgrounds),  they take to  moonlighting as drug-crazed dare-devil armed robbers, terrorising innocent law-abiding folk.

The only lasting-solution, in my humble opinion, to curbing the growing lawlessness,  is the passage of new legislation, by Parliament, under a certificate of urgency, granting immunity from prosecution, to personnel of the law enforcement agencies, which empowers them to automatically adopt a shoot-to-kill-stance, when confronting armed robbers. Simple. Cased closed. Enough is enough. Haaba.

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#FixTheCountry: How Best Can The Ghanaian Nation-State Be Fixed?

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Police Corruption: Will Constable Prince Fordwuor Rise Rapidly To Root It Out As A Future IGP?

In honouring Constable Prince Fordwuor, on Friday 16th July, 2021, for his honesty in reporting to his commander, cash from a Stanbic Bank ATM that he found,  the current Inspector General of Police, Mr. James Opong-Boanuh,  was in effect, perhaps honouring a future Inspector General of Police. Bravo to Constable Prince Fordwuor.

In sharp contrast, shame on the many crooks in the Ghana Police Service, busy giving honest police officers such a bad name, across our homeland Ghana, with their never-ending bribe-taking. Disgraceful. 

Even as we speak, a case of illegal tree felling for bush-cut chainsaw lumber production, on a massive scale, inside the freehold 14-square mile upland evergreen rainforest property of the late P. E.  Thompson Esq., at Akyem Juaso, has allegedly been reported to the Anyinham District Police Command, and to the Technical Officer, of the Anyinham District Office, of the Forestry Service of the Forestry Commission,  Mr. Kofi Sarpong. 

 

We await the denouement of that particular egregious story/case of illegal tree-felling for bush-cut chainsaw lumber production, reported to Investigators.

The Anyinham District Police Command, must arrest and prosecute the Thompson family member, a lady, who is  said to be living in Jumapo (which is not so far from the Eastern Regional capital, Koforidua, incidentally), and who allegedly ordered the felling of so many trees.

Ditto, also arrest investigate and prosecute, all the police officers, and  Forestry Service personnel, who are said to be demanding secret-payments, to allow the stealth-evacuation of the said bushcut chainsaw lumber. Too dreadful for words. 

Finally, in light of all the above, perhaps the question we must all ponder over is: Has a  future IGP just been honoured, by the current IGP, James Opong-Boanuh - and will Constable Prince  Fordwuor rise rapidly to the top of the hierarchy, of the Ghana Police Service, and eventually succeed in rooting out police corruption as IGP?

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Will The Apocalyptic Effects Of Extreme Weather Finally Lead To A Global Environmental Marshall Plan?

As we speak, untold misery is being caused by extreme weather, worldwide, as flash floods, wildfires and searing-heat, affect tens of millions, in all the seven continents of our environmentally-beleagured biosphere. The financial cost of such natural disasters is incalculable. 

As the egregious-existential-dangers of a warming biosphere  (extremes in weather) are properly understood, by ordinary people,  globally,  finally, one hopes that a positive outcome from  the worldwide apocalyptic natural disasters, currently being experienced, will be the losening of the iron-grip of the climate-change-denying hardliner-Conservatives' hold, on electorates, in the wealthy OECD nations.

 

A well-funded environmental equivalent, of the Marshall Plan, which enabled the U.S. to fund a devastated Europe's economic recovery, after the Second World War,  for the whole world, today, is a must - for all of humanity clearly is at risk, from extreme weather, whether we hail from rich or poor societies. No question.

Battered worldwide by extreme weather, perhaps the question we must all ponder over is: By simply slashing the budgets of militaries, worldwide, can humankind not properly fund a green-funding initiative, which will support climate-change resiliency-planning, and rebuilding-efforts, globally, to help the world cope better with the horrific effects of  extreme weather? 

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Has The Time Now Come For Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo And Mrs. Samira Bawumia To Start Condemning The High-Level Corruption Strangling Mother Ghana?

Ideally, as a people, we ought to ensure that those who run our system, are well compensated, for rendered-service, to Mother Ghana. However,  it is vital that our ruling-élites also understand clearly, that until prosperity becomes more widespread, and ours becomes an equitable African society, in which the vast majority of the citizenry live well, it is in their own self-interest, to make needed-sacrifices too, when times are hard.

The roles of the positions of modern-day First Lady, and Second Lady,   are onerous ones. No question. If they are to be supported by taxpayers, for what they do, by way of sundry empowerment initiatives, for the upliftment of base-of-the-pyramid demographics, nationwide, it is crucial that systems are put in place, to ensure the probity and accountability demanded of all public officials, in the budgets of their respective offices.

Above all, if they want the public behind them, and win the eternal battle for hearts and minds, the present holders of the two positions, First Lady, Mrs.Rebecca Akufo-Addo and Second Lady, Mrs. Samira Bawumia, must be vocal in denouncing the egregious corruption, which is slowly strangling Mother Ghana - and condemn, in the strongest possible terms, the big-thieves-in-high-places, who are ruining the legacies of their hardworking husbands, President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Bawumia. Yooooooo...

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An Open Letter To The Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin

Nana Okyenhene Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin,

We shall go straight to the point, since you are an honourable and very sincere traditional  leader, who prefers plainspeaking. Sir, with the greatest respect, we cannot, and must not, allow, the priceless treasure of Okyenman, Kwaebibirim, to be destroyed, because of bauxite mining. No. No. No. It must never happen. Full stop. 

Nana, the time has now come for the Atewa Forest Reserve, to be turned into a protected national park. Those clever-folk, who went to China to trade it off as part of the collateral for a loan of some U.S. $2.5 billion, had no right, whatsoever, to sell the birthright of Akyems, without first consulting us. Nana, Okyenman di3, y3n enma ensei, da, oooo.

Sir, in so doing, the clever politicians who went to China to trade off Kwaebibirim,  disrespected us, the people of Akyem Abuakwa - they also disrespected you, our current traditional leaders, too,  and, worst of all, comitted sacrilege, by insulting our ancestors in daring to trade off priceless Kwaebibirim, for a Chinese loan deal. Monstrous, if truth be told. Abominable. Unpardonable. Unspeakable.

Nana, those of us who have personal contacts,  and global networks that include some of the world's best ecotourism-as-conservation brains, which can be placed at disposal of the Akyem Abuakwa State Council, applaud and salute you, for making the irrefutable-and-indisputable point, that Kwaebibirim's  wondrous flora, and fauna, make it one of the world's most important outdoor-living-aboratories, for biodiversity research - and that as a protected national park in which all mining is banned, can most definitely unlock precious value, as natural capital, to fund the development of Ghana, as a world-class ecotourism destination: serving as a solid green economic-pillar for Akyem Abuakwa, creating wealth that remains locally,  and generating  jobs galore, for our younger generations.

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Your humble servant, 

Kofi.

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Why Are Some People So Obviously Driven By Unfathomable Greed?

Why are some people so obviously driven by unfathomable greed? Today, I got a Facebook notification, informing me that a Facebok page I follow, had undergone a name-change. I was horrified by the new name, and the digital-image, of the person now apparently owning it. I immediately unfollowed the 'new' page. 

It so happens  that I used to follow the said Facebook page, simply  because its dynamic, hardworking and empathic female owner,  empowers young base-of-the-pyramid demographics, to bootstrap their way out of the poverty-trap, by teaching them valuable bootstrapping-skills, to enable them gain financial independence. Mystified by the sudden name-change, I immediately called the said lady, for an explanation.  

Long story short: I was dumfounded by the horror story,  of egregious callous-exploitation-of-innocents,  which I heard from her. Talk about self-seeking-at-the expense-of-others gone dosh-loopy. The question is: Is he not yet aware of how COVID-19, has taught creative entrepreneurs, the world over, the societal-value of human kindness - and its brand-burnishing powers for businesses underpinned by that desirable-virtue, in the new era of serial-pandemics? Haaba.

Speaking as someone, who for over two decades has done unpaid  pro-bono consulting work, for social impact entrepreneurs helping base-of-the-pyramid demographics, to bootstrap their way to financial independence, I find hardnosed-business people,  who so obviously care more about money, than their fellow humans, pretty hard to understand.  

 That fleecing-monster ought to bow his head in shame. What he has been doing to that hardworking female social-entrepreneur, helping disadvantaged youth, is vile and wicked. Unpardonable. Unspeakable. Abominable. Disgraceful. Shame on him. Monster. Perhaps, the question we all ought to ponder over,  dear reader, is: Why are some people so driven by unfathomable greed? 

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Can The Department Of Parks And Gardens Be Transformed Through PPPs?

Can the Department of Parks and Gardens be transformed, into a valuable and profitable state asset, through private public partnerships  (PPPs), with reputable Ghanaian green entrepreneurs, with solid track-records, of creating wealth and fulfilling green jobs galore, in Ghana's nascent green economy?

 At a recent tree-planting event, Ghana's former First Lady,  Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings, bless her, asked that the Department of Parks and Gardens, be made independent of Zoomlion. That was rather odd, for an ignoramus like moi. The question is: Is the Department of Parks and Gardens now controlled by Zoomlion?

Whatever be the case, under no circumstances, should the Department of Parks and Gardens, be made subservient  to Zoomlion, in any shape or form. Full stop. Case closed.

On the surface, on paper, Zoomlion is a great Ghanaian  company. But to its discerning-critics, it is a classic example, of a teflon-type Ghanaian private sector entity, which is scandal-proof, mainly because its tentacles  touch many sectors of our national economy, and has thus become too-big-to-fall, so to speak, regardless of the number of scandals alleged against it. 

 

Ideally, what ought to be done, is to transform the Department of Parks and Gardens,  through public private partnerships (PPPs), with other Ghanaian private sector entities, which have a solid track-record of delivering profitable adventure  parks, which generate fresh oxygen-laden air - vital at a time when air-quality in urban Ghana is deteriorating at an alarming rate (leading to a nationwide spike in respiratory diseases). Above all, let us never forget that public parks help preserve priceless green capital, for Mother Ghana, and for future generations  of our people.

 

A shinning example, is the Legon Botanical Gardens, transformed by Ghana foremost green entrepreneur, Mr. Eugene Kofi Boakye-Yiadom, through a PPP agreement, into a veritable haven-of-nature, in a rapidly expanding capital city, which is now a concrete-jungle, more or less, sadly.  

Committed and successful green entrepreneurs, like that, will never secretly dispose of publicly-owned lands, which are designated as green spaces, to property developers, ever. In light of all the above, should the Departmentof Parks and Gardens, not be transformed into a profitable state entity, benefitting the finances of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies  (MMDAs), nationwide.  Ditto producing private-sector wealth that remains locally, and, generating fulfilling-green-jobs galore,  across Ghana, through PPPs?

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The Lives Of All Ghanaians Matter - The Heads Of Ghana's Security Agencies Must Therefore Protect Them

In a metaphorical sense, tolerance was recently murdered, in cold blood, at Ejura.  The question is: Was the tragedy at Ejura avoidable? Was it inevitable? Did it occur, as some critics posit, because of the consistent-reluctance of the upper echelons of our nation's security agencies, to stand up to the few but powerful  hardliner-extremists, who dominate today's ruling party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and have done so, from the very day it won power, in 2017? What happened at Ejura is intolerable and unacceptable - and all those who whose egregious lack of judgement, caused it, must be prosecuted, after investigations.

That egregious failure, by the top brass of our nation's security agencies, over the years since the NPP came to power, in January 2017, to demand a halt to the NPP's hardliner-extremists' treasonable insistence, on packing our national security apparatus with ill-disciplined myrmidon-thugs, from the privately-owned pro-NPP militias, the Delta Force and Invincible Forces, and kitting them out in police, and military uniforms, for specific operations,  when it suits the ends they seek, has now given the world the rather  unfortunate impression, that there is a woeful lack of professionalism, in our security agencies.

Yet, nothing could be further from the truth. In the main, the hardworking career professionals,  in the security agencies of our country, are well-trained and truly world-class. It is not for nothing, dear reader, that they have gained a global reputation, for being one of the world's  best ever peacekeeping forces, which a grateful  United Nations Organisation, has always known,  it can rely on,  for its global peacekeeping operations, in the world's trouble spots.

The profession of arms is a noble one - for it is based on the willingness of brave men and women, to sacrifice their lives,  for their nation, whenever it is imperilled, and they are called upon to fight to save it from annihilation. That is why no one in this country must be allowed to prostitute the collective-honour of Ghana's security agencies. No. No. No. 

For the sake of our beloved Mother Ghana, the heads of all our nation's security agencies, must now step up to the plate, so to speak - and demand that all the myrmidon-thug-employees, of the privately-owned pro-NPP militias, the Delta Force and Invincible Forces, be purged from Ghana's national security apparatus, forthwith. Their barbarism, callous-actions, and criminal-inactions, could, one fine day, land  the top hierarchy of our security agencies, in the dock, at the International Criminal Court (ICC), at The Hague.  Enough is enough. Ghanaian democracy  matters - as do the lives of all its law-abiding citizens: which is why the heads of Ghana's security agencies must protect them at all material times.

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