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I read with utmost dismay that Obasanjo has proposed to have a $6bn gas plant built in Ondo State. My first reaction was: 'wait a minute, what the hell is this guy trying to do? Taking away as usual what belongs to Delta?'
Not that it will make any difference, but i'd want this kleptomanic president of Arewa-Yoruba to explain why he wants to pipe gas over hundreds of kilometres from Delta to a plant in Ondo state when he is supposed to be "developing" the Delta?
Can he explain why some place in Ondo state is more suitable for this $6bn. project with all its attendant benefits, than Delta state when the raw material is sourced?
Why can't this project be cited in Delta State - the very source of the gas and avoid the stress of pipelines and all that, unless there is a secrete agenda?
Is there a law that says that Delta should only be exploited, and not developed? And if there is, who wrote the bloody law?
Is there a law that condemns Deltans to perpetual impoverishment to the benefit of Arewa-Yoruba?
Is it a taboo for Deltans to have something to show for all the torture and degradation their land has suffered?
Is it a crime for Deltan youths to have access to jobs and employment without having to crawl and beg for it even when they are most qualified for it?
Or is this just another way of telling the Deltan people that they have no stake in the geo-polity of Nigeria?
I call on Obasanjo and his lords to re-consider their intentions and their consequences, and relocate this project to Delta State where it rightly should be. Failure to do this will amount to puting one of the final nails in the coffin of this anomally called nigeria. They may well have to look elsewhere to source gas for this their ondo project.
These people must now know that it is not what a few sell-outs from the Delta in Abuja tells OBJ that matters. The real power lies with the ordinary, deprived, exploited, and oppressed people of the region. The hungry and very angry (most of them educated, but unemployed) youths of the Delta are sick and tired of this NONSENSE CALLED one Nigeria.
With the way things are going, Obasanjo's Arewa-Yoruba might not have a Nigeria to scramble over, come 2007. Honestly, i sincerely hope there isn't!
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Gowon came and piped away crude from South to Kaduna, an awusa land. Now, comes Obasanjo planning to siphon gas from the same source to Yoruba land.
The South comprising South-East and south-south have been oppressed for too long. Revolution is the only way. Guerilla warfare is the only way.
It is happening in Iraq and Palestine. It happened in former Apathied South Africa. This exploitation of Africans by Africans should stop.This exploitation of Nigerians by Nigerians must stop. Sorry, is Nigeria a united country or a forced union?
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quote: The South comprising South-East and south-south have been oppressed for too long. Revolution is the only way. Guerilla warfare is the only way.
Yes I also agree. Enough rethorics.Nobody is listening. It is soon time to have another go at it. This time international situation is in our favour. What still needs to emerge is the required leadership.
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(lol)My kind brother thank you for intent behind the lavish superlative "venerable" which you assigned to me.
Physically, I'm often reminded I have a big head. my immediate senior sister made it a point as kids to drive home the feeling that it must be a deformity; "Isi ka nwite" an uncle would chide me.
I'm now afraid that if I dont get adressed as UkaObasi (without qualifiers) here at BNW, that this my head might just inflate afterall and become a deformity for sure.
When I think of guerilla warfare my mind automatically goes to question what method? Guerilla warfare can certainly be through our writing and through the manner in which we sensitize others with an array of substatiation, both socio-political, commonsensical and above all historical.
Man I have seen your writing, both in style, substance, and in delivery, and I daresay it is sharp as a Samurai's sword. My brother, this reflects my preference. I have no doubt that if all southerners were to set their minds on the acquisition of defensive devises, that the sky would be the limit in what they could have access to and what they could invent in case the need arose.
Yet while I believe no one should remain weak and vulnerable as it used to be, Its my opinion that its much more valuable to conquer minds through painstaking dialogue and substantiation of fact first, presented in such a way that the initiative to pick up devices at the appropriate time becomes that of the individual when they see the writing on the wall unfolding before their eyes brazenly or surreptitiously.
There are still many unstable minds out there, my fear is that any open discussion about defensive devises could cause a potential rush by the people who wont quite put them to the application of defense which should be a well planned, well strategized last resort.
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I concur. Your thoughtful wisdom falls upon the ear gently, and makes the listener crave it the more.
It's a true saying that we must not try to outrun the rabbit, and though we may have to be patient, we are still in the hunt and will not lose our breath. All that I can do here, in word and deed, toward those good and important things to which you have alluded, I will do, but I will require your counsel and guidance, as a seasoned veteran of these efforts. I will consider it a kindness to receive such, according to your wisdom, as the need arises; and will use my small skill in the pursuit of our common benefit and in the attainment of our collective goals.
Nwanna, thank you for the kind words but you give me more credit than I am due. Still, I like hearing it(he laughs), so thanks!
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A FEW years ago at Obi Akwiwu’s house in Apapa, I listened with attention as Patrick Utomi analysed the conditions which favoured the Eastern economic corridor as the future, the new economic beltway, given the convergence of strategic indices that characterize that geography. Akwiwu was hosting the Aka-Ikenga that evening, and there was quite a flurry, perhaps because of the abundance of rare cognac and other forms of the incendiary beverage, of activity and significant attention drawn to Utomi’s analysis. I was very interested particularly because it struck a cord for me.
My own analysis over a period of close observation matched Utomi’s optimism. President Olusegun Obasanjo was then still in jail, locked and contrite in Abacha’s Gulag. Utomi’s analysis was for a future when common sense and decency, as well as a high awareness of the common good would emerge in government and public policy. Democracy, we thought, would stimulate these things. One however does not need to be a futurologist to see, that in the circumstance, the development of the Eastern economic corridor remains a dream deferred, possibly until that zone is freed of the devils riding on its back.
The twin devils include, the current government of President Obasanjo, who has continued to enforce a treaty which the Igbo and the rest of the old Eastern region were forced to sign, and which the president supervised in 1970; whose central goal, even if unstated in any bold letter, was the strategic dismantling of eastern economic, technological or political potential. Such a potential, for various reasons, remains a threat to some interests within Nigeria. It reminds them of the old spectre of “Igbo domination.” Needless to say that Nigeria is not the beneficiary of the destruction of the Igbo potential, it is in fact its greatest loss.
In the six years of the Obasanjo presidency, we continue to experience a skewered attention to the various parts of the federation. Igbo interests still do not count. New power stations for instance have been built in Ondo and Ogun states, the entire infrastructure of the Nigerian oil industry has been strategically appropriated by Obasanjo and his kinsmen, from oil production to oil pricing.
A new multibillion-naira terminal is being constructed at the Lagos airport, the Gateway Cargo airport is currently under construction by the federal government in Ogun state, the largest LNG project is slated for Ondo, and all these are good things. They should be built in those places. What the Igbo ask is: “where is our own?” What is the Igbo stake in Nigeria worth? The Nigerian commonwealth has treated the Igbo, especially, and our minority neighbours shabbily. The Obasanjo government continues a relentless pattern of subjugation. Eastern roads are no longer the issue. The complaints are to no avail.
The Niger Bridge is about to collapse; the minister of work says, there is nothing Nigeria can do about it, except privatize that bridge, and raise N50 billion, which means an endless tax on the people of the East. Igbo merchants have been subjected to indignities and losses because they can’t import through Port-Harcourt or the Warri ports. They have to import textiles through Lagos or risk the seizure of their goods! The Akanu Ibiam International Airport in Enugu has been upgraded only in name.
Meanwhile, Easterners wishing to fly directly to the East from across the world cannot do this because of a deliberate federal government policy that restricts international air travel to the East. Above all, where the federal government makes huge investments in energy generation and gas production in Ondo and Ogun and the west of Nigeria, the East is left as an abandoned patch, even though this oil which will kill Nigeria is to be found in Igbo land and its surroundings. The question again: what is Nigeria to the Igbo?
The Igbo were of course the builders of modern Nigeria. I need ever so often to remind Nigerians of this fact. They constituted the engine upon which Nigeria functioned before its utter collapse. They dreamed about a Nigeria equal to any great power in the world, and resilient enough to protect the black races from any more form of subjugation. The seed of pan-African cooperation and solidarity was sown in Africa through the soul of that great Igbo, perhaps the greatest African statesman of the 20th century, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, who saw a global vision in which Nigeria was in all her strength and complexity, the leading black nation of the world. But here I speak, about a Nigerian ideal. Azikiwe’s dream collapsed in spite of his best efforts.
Those who malign his memory today, do so –– not on account of anything else - not that he was a corrupt political leader, not that he was inhumane, not that he lacked style or substance, not that he was without vision - but precisely because he was too idealistic, too much of a dreamer, a cosmopolitan in the midst of parochialists. Azikiwe shaped the original Igbo attitude to Nigeria which took Nigeria as a great work in progress, and the Igbo in the smithy of its history, shaping its future for the great good of the black world. Igbo universalism came however to clash with the parochialism of its “competitors” –– those who feared that “the great Igbo horde” had been unleashed onto the Nigerian space, and that they were about to take everything.
This fear of the Igbo and their settlement across Nigeria, and their great attempt to domesticate the Nigerian chaos, which threatened certain settled cultures, has shaped the direction and nature of the Nigerian conflict.
A talented and fearless people, unwilling to submit to any king or potentate, is a strange phenomenon in normally feudal and monarchical societies, where people conform to their historical places, either as serfs or as lords.
The Igbo knew no lords and was serf to none. He thrived and in thriving set himself up for destruction. The Igbo, the fear of the Igbo by other Nigerians, remain the issue in neo-colonial Nigeria. That is exactly why the attempt has been made to delete ethnicity, language and religion, and a critical demographic index in the proposed federal census.
It is precisely the fear of the Igbo that has led the federal government to enact various policy decisions which have led to the under-development of Nigeria, because such development initiatives would require that Nigeria place the right pegs in their right holes. The other devil on the Igbo shoulder thus is the Nigerian state itself as it is currently constructed. I have written that Nigeria is a burden to the Igbo. Left alone, the Igbo would soar to the stars. Nigeria has almost destroyed the Igbo dream and ability to transcend the conditions of coloniality. The gains of the anti-colonial struggle which the Igbo led have been lost for today, Nigeria remains a romping ground for those imperial interests whom the Igbo fought with zeal.
They have become even bolder in their cultural, economic, political and administrative penetration of Nigeria. That is why, those who go to speak for the Igbo in any conference or dialogue should remember, that they carry a great burden of history. In any case, the outcome would determine the real options before the Igbo. The Igbo are tired of living in the belly of the whale. It is not a comforting place. Ask Jonah.
Igbo/Biafrans:
The yoroba and olusegun obasanjo continue to rob Biafra of its wealth to build up their own nation. Must Biafrans remain helpless in the face the assult on our collective intelligence, or are we going to act, how? We certainly have credible options before us to end this occupation policy and make it costly for nigeria to continue to impose its economic will on Biafra. Thirty five years is ENOUGH!!
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quote:Yes I also agree. Enough rethorics.Nobody is listening. It is soon time to have another go at it. This time international situation is in our favour. What still needs to emerge is the required leadership.
I too agree with all you guys with slight deviation. Highlighted shows the area I don’t care much for instead people should be encouraged to be on one-man patrol to sabotage the hell out of any infrastructures that aids government apathy towards WE, THE PEOPLE, example, gas pipelines, oil pipelines, flow stations, offices and residential buildings of oil exploration companies etc. Just go out cause as much damage as you can individually wreak and don’t say sh.i.t about it to anyone, not even to your parents.
Every writer is required to condemn any government that would enforce such a wicked and divisive policy of siphoning something from one end to a long distance destination just for the unfair benefit of his folks.
Uka,
quote:When I think of guerilla warfare my mind automatically goes to question what method? Guerilla warfare can certainly be through our writing...
At a point it might be necessary to apply breaks to the written stuff and move into action for I still remember, “ACTION speaks VOLUMES/LOUDER/BANG than WORDS/WRITINGS,” lol. The endless intellectual warfare (writings) only makes an impact where you have educated government as in the western hemisphere not in Africa and certainly not in the kaikai land/nigeria. Even the least educated Afghan knows that guerilla w… for now beats out any other options for nigeria. It is therefore, recommended that people should individually partake in hide and destroy. Sorry, Uka, I know I broke one of the cardinal/unspoken rules but my dear brother, sometimes one feels better after venting.
Amadi O.
quote: A FEW years ago at….
Please check your PM IMMEDIATELY!
Greg:
What can I say about ya but, “CARRY ON!! I hear ya. I see where you firmly stand even if you stop writing today. I salute ya.
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quote:Sorry, Uka, I know I broke one of the cardinal/unspoken rules but my dear brother, sometimes one feels better after venting.
MeBiafran,
No need to be sorry my brother, we are afterall saying the same thing in different ways. In one of my postings, I once shared the saying that “Discretion is the better part of valor”, and one of my wise and capably discerning brothers immediately understood me.
By discretion, I’m by no means advocating weakness, lest any misunderstand me, even though I’ll gladly be percieved as weak, than appear to be in competition to display what could mistakenly be viewed as exhibitionist rhetoric manifesting bravado.
Those who want action yesterday do not use the internet for their means of achieving it. They simply act, and we then read about them in the news.
I’m on the internet, because it offers an opportunity to continue to sensitize large numbers of people, and so I can only judge and calibrate my performance on the basis of internet standards until the day when I find myself in the field
Those who are better at “action” in the field, should not be on the internet, even for the sake of incitement to action, because that very incitement, is itself “rhetoric”, and may sadly prove to be ineffective by attracting the wrong kind of attention of those who are capable of scuttling the intended action before it even has a chance to unfold, rather, they too should then equally judge their achievements on the basis of what they have successfully inflicted on the ground. This way we would be able to measure their effectiveness in action instead of reading more rhetoric about their brave intentions on the internet.
This is what the saying “Discretion is the better part of valor” means to me.
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"I’m on the internet, because it offers an opportunity to continue to sensitize large numbers of people, and so I can only judge and calibrate my performance on the basis of internet standards until the day when I find myself in the field"
I agree intoto.
We should also share with our friends, relations and well wishers about the plight,sorrow and misery that befall us as nation. At the same time we should share our hopes, solutions and progress.
For Obasanjo to even think of building a gas plant in Ondo is treason. We see how gas flaring has ruined farmlands in Rivers and Delta. Economics sense should tell him that source of raw material should supercede any other consideration. inview of the cost of piping and other associated cost of locating such industry at ondo. Not to talk about the apeasment of the delta people and provision of employment.
Now most here will understand why i am against Aremus so called National Dialogue. The same thinking that led him to think about Ondo instead of Delta, is what is driving him to convene a decietful National Dialogue.
Ka Chineke mezie Okwu!
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quote: instead people should be encouraged to be on one-man patrol to sabotage the hell out of any infrastructures that aids government apathy towards WE, THE PEOPLE, example, gas pipelines, oil pipelines, flow stations, offices and residential buildings of oil exploration companies etc. Just go out cause as much damage as you can individually wreak and don’t say sh.i.t about it to anyone, not even to your parents.
I feel you brother and am actually advocating the same line. But still you must agree with me that this in itself is already the evolvement or emergence of Leadership. For when several such parties emerge they will eventualy contact, merge, coordinate for greater efficiency. So from there a leadership will naturaly evolve. and I mean now stictly for the Para military cum gurellia wing. It is slowly hapenning. The men to do it are there in the form of various politicaly sensitised and militant youth organisations. Another group that can be very active in this and they are infact taking an increased intrest and action in these issues are the univerity secret cults or confra, especially in the south-south. They are becoming increasingly active as subversives and several groups have been taking on the nigerian military in armed gurellia warfare for some time now in Rivers/Bayelsa. Ofcourse the university students in general and the host of unemployed graduates is also a willing pool of recruits for such runs. Yawa go gas sooner or later.
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I would like my noble friends Olusolaa and Funmi Onodipe to comment on this thread.
Those who wish Nigeria well out of the blues while they remain blind to these everyday injustices should see why every body remains suspicious about their true motives.
For Ondo and Ogun axis to have been proposed for a $6 billion dollars gas plant(the largest in the world)yet no LNG exists there,2 electric thermal power stations,N60 billion naira FG allocation for Bitumen exploration (while the bitumen deposit in Afikpo area is snubbed,Anambra Govt.is forced to source bank loans to exploit and develop the huge crude oil deposits on the Igbariam -Aguleri basin and Ogbaru area),Toll free international cargo airport and dry seaport for Abeokuta,ultra modern new seaport for Ondo,Sudden boundary adjustment to cede more Delta oil wells to Ondo state,two refineries,auto assembly plants etc.All these are good things to be largely financed from our commonwealth handled by the Federal Government of Nigeria.I thank God for Ondo and Ogun people`s luck.But,while the same FG cannot even fix the rusty bolts on the falling Niger bridge talkless of patching the appaulling death traps called federal roads in the southeast.Power failure is worst in the southeast,yet the same FG cannot use the abundant gas and coal in the region to set up power plants there too.Even the coal powered Oji River power plant slated for rehabilitation since the onset of Obasanjo`s govt.have continously been denied of funds.
Those who always pretend to wonder why there is so much discontent and unhappiness in Nigeria should please,please stop adding more insult to injury.
quote: I would like my noble friends Olusolaa and Funmi Onodipe to comment on this thread.
My brother this has always been the truss of our discussion. The injustice, unfair policies and brazen murder of political opponents. Much as I disagree with some jokers in here for instance, I’ll never canvass death as a way to shut Fumi up, no way yet they support the shameless murderer of Bola Ige, which makes one wonder whence they think... anus? You did be surprised to know that olusolaa would in a heartbeat condemn that part which makes no sense so, let madam fumi tell us what she thinks that is, if she is thinking at all. It is irritatingly disturbing for a self acclaimed learned person to overlook major issues such as this thread to chase baby stuff about syntax and all that junk. Who gives a rat sh.i.t about writing 101 even though we in the Eastern Region operate from the 600 level to their disdain? Let FUMI answer you, leave olu out of this because he's shown the capability to be as objective unlike the village ngbekes, the wayward charlatans in here.
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Thanks MeBiafran. I came in from a long meeting and saw this. I will still try and accept Njiko's invitation.
I work in marketing communications and there is what we call "Expectation Management". Do you, Nwa Umuigbo, truly believe that all these will ever be done (or even started) in Obasanjo's time? I think Obasanjo is trying to manage the expectations of the Yorubas as he has variously been accused of treachery in the past. This is what we call HYPE in advertising and Public Relations. Of all the LAUDABLE promises made to the west since 1999 tell me the ones that had been delivered.
Well, again, I'm not on this board to promote a Yoruba agenda and I won't ever be made to. What I (and my likes) want is a ruler that will better the lives of the AVERAGE Nigerian, be he from Pluto!
But peradventure Obasanjo truly meant to deliver all these "favours" to the west to the detriment of the other regions, then he would be going against the oath he swore to and which demands of him equal, fair and just treatment of every part of the country, and that I can't defend. However, my brother don't believe all HYPES. Always read between the lines.
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quote: Well, again, I'm not on this board to promote a Yoruba agenda and I won't ever be made to. What I (and my likes) want is a ruler that will better the lives of the AVERAGE Nigerian, be he from Pluto!
God bless you for this statement. Your writings bring mist to my eyes, my dear friend. You remind me of another dear friend; ADDY whose exit was unceremonious. Please remember there may come a time it might be necessary to vehemently disagree but never allow any minor misunderstanding cloud the major strength you've shown here. Ride on brother!!
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quote:Originally posted by olusolaa: However, my brother don't believe all HYPES. Always read between the lines. [/QB]
Bros, Thanks for your advise.But,do you not think OBJ would do enough justice to at least "HYPE" other regions by laying foundation of their own economic prosperity too? Especially now that the "HYPE' became somewhat more of a reality by the initial release of 80% of the N60billion for bitumen exploitation in Ondo,the real boundary adjustments that ceded more Delta oil wells to Ondo, the signing of the contractual agreement for the $6 billion dollars LNG plant for Ondo with more than five multinational oil companies???You market communications skills would truely help me understand these real "HYPES".
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Njikoka, I was challenged to seek further information on this issue, based on your last post. My understanding is that the companies commissioned were to embark on exploration and I've not read anywhere that 80% of N60b was released to anybody! I will be willing to have the link to your source. Also, I understand only four states have bitumen deposits in Nigeria (Lagos, Ogun, Ondo and Edo). Even as we speak now, the communities are already at arms with Obasanjo on the declaration (that they were never consulted - please see http://www.nigerdeltacongress.com/farticles/false_start_in_the_bitumen_belt.htm . Please provide links for me to read if you have them.
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Your questions are great. Your pain is our pain therefore, direct these questions to people like Fumi, AdeCONle who see no evil unless that angel has an Igbo name or appearance only then will it be termed evil. Take my advice and leave olu, he does not cheer to foolishness. Read him well. Can I remotely say the same about the flies that allow the debate or ideas to descend to a gutter level? No, no, no! Methinks the awusa boy, daud’s jitteriness could be traced to these debates where ideas are proffered on how to abandon them to their waste. I sincerely have the feelings that this is what aremu would eventually do, surgically and systematically clip their tired wings by isolating the northern blood suckers from the rest of us at the appropriate time (2006). Failure to do this would only quadruple the pain and distress that the islamist would unleash on them at a later date. Obasanjo can’t be that stupid, he may be a crook and a killer but not dumb.
olu
Please do not, I repeat do not take the things we discuss here lightly. Make it a daily habit to go over these things with your folks at home. The lazy awusas have no agenda, theirs is about "bring am make we chop," chop something they didn't cultivate. "I sincerely have the feelings that this is what aremu would eventually do, surgically and systematically clip their tired wings by isolating the northern blood suckers from the rest of us at the appropriate time (2006)."
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MeBiafran, I have a couple of friends that are as pained as most people on this board. Some would have loved to contribute but has no real access to the internet (just dash into cybercafes to check mails and dash out) while some are GENUINELY too busy to contribute. I consider the issues strong enough to join a change group ( www.visionnigeria.org ) We meet from time to time and brainstorm on how to spread out LONELY song to as many people as possible. One day we will smile, by God's grace.
Its 9pm Nigerian time and I have to leave the office. Have a goodnight.
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Olusolaa, I am not surprised that your article would not even mention Ebonyi state massive bitumen deposit.Infact,before bitumen was discovered in your mentioned states,it had always been known to be in huge commercial quantities in Today`s Ebonyi state area. You can check this site
from the revered Alexander`s gas and oil connections.I could not access the thisdayonline.com archives to also post the reported amount Obasanjo has sunk into the Ondo bitumen project.If you are truely a Nigerian,you should understand that it is not unfounded that the FG is only interested in developing any resource as long as it exists outside their percieved "rebel area".Imagine the billions sunk into futile oil exploration in the lake chad basin while the anambra river basin over flowing with crude and gas is snubbed to the cash strapped state govt. to develop if they can.
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What do you want me to say? To confirm if there is bitumen in Ebonyi or not? I can't because God knows I don't know. I also won't hold brief for Obasanjo and please don't get me wrong, there is nothing in all I've posted on this board that suggest that the present system is equitable.
If I were you however, I will be glad that there are moves to explore the bitumen in Ondo because sooner or later the Ondo people will join the clamour for resource control. You can be sure that the best that can happen is for the present derivation equation of 13% to be applied thereby swelling the ranks of derivation principle advocates.
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