The Ewe Factor within the NDC

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• Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago

  It is not scholarly to profile a whole group by reference to a handful of politicians. So your article falls short.
  
  And it is not too difficult to see that the characters you mention here are not unique to the Ewes: The go ...
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  It is not scholarly to profile a whole group by reference to a handful of politicians. So your article falls short.
  
  And it is not too difficult to see that the characters you mention here are not unique to the Ewes: The good, the bad and the ugly are pervasive in all the language groups.

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• Goodness 9 years ago

  Bad presentation mr researcher. U only want to fall into d good book of npp, the only reason why ewes follow NDC is the demonstration of truth. Ewes hate lies n above all they dig into maters for the truth to prevail. Make su ...
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  Bad presentation mr researcher. U only want to fall into d good book of npp, the only reason why ewes follow NDC is the demonstration of truth. Ewes hate lies n above all they dig into maters for the truth to prevail. Make sure u stop a attacking ewes wisely becos of d litle fame u want to gain. Ghanaians are very wise

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• Badness 9 years ago

  Stupid argument (from Goodness), Ewes are wrong folks, they are greedy, wicked, selfish and hypocrites. What more do you want to hear about Ewes, just ask?

  Stupid argument (from Goodness), Ewes are wrong folks, they are greedy, wicked, selfish and hypocrites. What more do you want to hear about Ewes, just ask?

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• Kojo T 9 years ago

  NPP has nothing to offer but tribalism.Their type caused xenophobia in South Africa. failures always blame others.All the articles today from NPP have one theme BLAME

  NPP has nothing to offer but tribalism.Their type caused xenophobia in South Africa. failures always blame others.All the articles today from NPP have one theme BLAME

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• Kojo,Krachie 9 years ago

  On the contrary,some of the best friends i have ever had are Ewes.Growing up in Kumasi,i know how Ashantis feel about and treat Ewes.If you want honest,dedicated friends,look for an Ewe person.They do not make friends based o ...
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  On the contrary,some of the best friends i have ever had are Ewes.Growing up in Kumasi,i know how Ashantis feel about and treat Ewes.If you want honest,dedicated friends,look for an Ewe person.They do not make friends based on what they can get from you nor do they have the greed of the Ashantis.
  If we Ashantis will tone down the rhetoric and preach an all-inclusive politics in Ghana,we Ashantis will do just fine.

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• voltarian 9 years ago

  which party lies more than ndc? A whole party with propaganda secretary n u what. is it not the lies ablakwa (an ewe) has bn spreading tat is making thirtiary students atack him? The whole party is a lying one n ewes r chanpi ...
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  which party lies more than ndc? A whole party with propaganda secretary n u what. is it not the lies ablakwa (an ewe) has bn spreading tat is making thirtiary students atack him? The whole party is a lying one n ewes r chanpioning the lies.

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• National Agenda 9 years ago

  Any person who steals is never truthful. Having said this, I advise that let's live together as one people with one destiny. We must stop the tribal divisions. Let us forgive any person or group of people who have played thes ...
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  Any person who steals is never truthful. Having said this, I advise that let's live together as one people with one destiny. We must stop the tribal divisions. Let us forgive any person or group of people who have played these tribal cards... Let us embrace one another for the good of Mother Ghana.... Amen!!!!

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• Kwame D. 9 years ago

  Mr Immanuel Okrah Boateng
  
  Your article does not carry any researched facts.
  
  Togbe Afede is a known NPP man, that being the reason why he and his nephew the former MP for Ho Central Captain Mfordwo did not see eye to eye ...
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  Mr Immanuel Okrah Boateng
  
  Your article does not carry any researched facts.
  
  Togbe Afede is a known NPP man, that being the reason why he and his nephew the former MP for Ho Central Captain Mfordwo did not see eye to eye.
  
  We in Ho Central know this very well.
  
  Late President Mills appointing Togbe Afede as a Member of the economic Team during the handing over was purely a request by the incoming President to use related BRAINs that he Mills knew about.
  
  There is no EWE factor in NDC. People who speak Ewe have had their political difference from ages. Prior to Independece, the ANLO (southern Volta Region) were Nkrumah followers, whereas the EWEDOME between Ho, through HOHOE were ABLORDE (UP).
  
  The change in the political dynamics is the RAWLINGS coming. JJR did not treat anyone differently as Nkrumah did, and as Busia did. Hence the heavy command of support for JJR.
  
  NDC being an offshoot of JJR, it goes without saying, that "EWEs" go with the Akatamanso.
  
  It is as simple as that.
  
  Long live Ghana.

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• Kofi Agbenyo 9 years ago

  Since when did Togbe become Captain Nfodjo's uncle? The problem Nfodjo has with Togbe is not political. Nfodjo opposed and has never been happy with Togbe's ascension to the throne at the expense of the late Togbe afede Asor ...
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  Since when did Togbe become Captain Nfodjo's uncle? The problem Nfodjo has with Togbe is not political. Nfodjo opposed and has never been happy with Togbe's ascension to the throne at the expense of the late Togbe afede Asor II's children, who are Nfodjo's nephews, period!

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• Yaovi 9 years ago

  NDC founder is not from volta region. Rawlings father is from Scotland.

  NDC founder is not from volta region. Rawlings father is from Scotland.

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• Ray Parker 9 years ago

  There has been this antagonism between the Ewes and Ashantis long before the altercation between Victor Owusu and Dr Agama. Those NPP guys who don't understand why Ewes don't support their election bid should find out and add ...
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  There has been this antagonism between the Ewes and Ashantis long before the altercation between Victor Owusu and Dr Agama. Those NPP guys who don't understand why Ewes don't support their election bid should find out and address it. Insulting Ewes at the slitest opportunity will never help them.

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• small apor 9 years ago

  if ashantes and akyems want votes from ewes, then they should first vote massively for NDC come 2016, then in 2020 they vote massively for Alan cash as president, small apor for NPP.

  if ashantes and akyems want votes from ewes, then they should first vote massively for NDC come 2016, then in 2020 they vote massively for Alan cash as president, small apor for NPP.

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• True Scholar 9 years ago

  Poor writing skills from a biased tribalist and an educational lightweight.

  Poor writing skills from a biased tribalist and an educational lightweight.

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• MUMU VOTERS 9 years ago

  And so they dont vote for the batterment of our nation, they vote for party? Well, well, well.. Black man dont think! The reason BLACK OBAMA won US election is, BUSH destroyed CLINTON‘s economy and they need a savior. When ...
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  And so they dont vote for the batterment of our nation, they vote for party? Well, well, well.. Black man dont think! The reason BLACK OBAMA won US election is, BUSH destroyed CLINTON‘s economy and they need a savior. When educated people create hatred among they country men, we can‘t count that as smart. You mention only four or five people that are gaining from the government, what of the remaining EWES?

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• Ghanaman 9 years ago

  Tribal hate monger

  Tribal hate monger

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• JKK 9 years ago

  The idea of founding a party that eventually became NDC did not come from Rawlings. That idea came from some stalwarts in the PNDC who were bent on prolonging their political power. It was a collective idea which was not star ...
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  The idea of founding a party that eventually became NDC did not come from Rawlings. That idea came from some stalwarts in the PNDC who were bent on prolonging their political power. It was a collective idea which was not started by Rawlings. Those actually behind the idea of the party saw Rawlings as the best person to lead such a party. Without him, the party would be a lightweight. The man was still popular and a vote winner. So the party formed around him as leader which many people equated with founder.
  
  Nkrumah almost single-handedly founded the CPP, provided its ideological underpinnings, led the party and gave it direction. You cannot say the same thing about Rawlings and NDC. It is true that the banning of the CPP for so many years is affecting the party's fortunes till today. But even if the CPP hadn't been banned, the party could never be the same without the person of Nkrumah. But NDC is today trying very hard to distance itself from Rawlings who is only just being tolerated.
  
  The analysis in this article is faulty. One can discuss the Ewe factor in NDC but a proper analysis should go beyond the petty concerns dealt with in this piece.

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• Blame my teacher. 9 years ago

  So how did Rawlings become the founding father and not one of the founding fathers of the NDC? That's why the writer stated that it was "the combined efforts of Rawlings and his cadres drawn from the other non-Akan groups acr ...
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  So how did Rawlings become the founding father and not one of the founding fathers of the NDC? That's why the writer stated that it was "the combined efforts of Rawlings and his cadres drawn from the other non-Akan groups across the country."

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• vivor 9 years ago

  most educated asantes' are still uncivilised, why?

  most educated asantes' are still uncivilised, why?

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• Blame my teacher. 9 years ago

  Even when the writer has identified himself as a Guan from the Volta Region, you still refer to him as an Asante?

  Even when the writer has identified himself as a Guan from the Volta Region, you still refer to him as an Asante?

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• Cano 9 years ago

  Trokosi stinky child molester, where is Asante in this?

  Trokosi stinky child molester, where is Asante in this?

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• a scientist 9 years ago

  In all this I blame the fantis. If the fantis team up with the akan group, we will not be having this destructive minority ewes collapsing the country. Having said that there are very good and progressive ewes out there who ...
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  In all this I blame the fantis. If the fantis team up with the akan group, we will not be having this destructive minority ewes collapsing the country. Having said that there are very good and progressive ewes out there who are not really engaged in this destructive greediness.

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• dickson agbedzi 9 years ago

  There is no academic display of research finding here.the writer who is not a researcher in my view is to tribalistic and ethnocentric.l imagine that he a just some street guy trying to find his way into npp

  There is no academic display of research finding here.the writer who is not a researcher in my view is to tribalistic and ethnocentric.l imagine that he a just some street guy trying to find his way into npp

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• Ekow 9 years ago

  Hei Mr writer, why didn´t you mention the many killing that Ewes have committed during PNDC days against Akans and the numerous stealing that they have involved themselves in? What positive contribution have Ewes and NDC giv ...
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  Hei Mr writer, why didn´t you mention the many killing that Ewes have committed during PNDC days against Akans and the numerous stealing that they have involved themselves in? What positive contribution have Ewes and NDC given to Ghana?

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• KWAKU ANANSE 9 years ago

  THEY ARE JUST INWARD LOOKING, HENCE THEIR DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCIES.

  THEY ARE JUST INWARD LOOKING, HENCE THEIR DESTRUCTIVE TENDENCIES.

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• KDK 9 years ago

  Who is inward looking more than Akyem / kwawu and Akeapim

  Who is inward looking more than Akyem / kwawu and Akeapim

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• Nima Old Soldier. 9 years ago

  Having the opportunity to meet D.S Antor the man who fought Osagyefo Nkrumah to send his people back to Togoland where the Ewes come from, and read Kofi Awoonors despicable and divisive book, I humbly call on concerned Ghana ...
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  Having the opportunity to meet D.S Antor the man who fought Osagyefo Nkrumah to send his people back to Togoland where the Ewes come from, and read Kofi Awoonors despicable and divisive book, I humbly call on concerned Ghanaians to read from the half Ghanaian Ewe man Kofi Awoornors book which alleges that Ewes are the hegemonies of Ghana politics by giving instances of senseless military coups made in Ghana which were Ewe led and his unguided speech in parliament "I am Ewe first before a Ghanaian"
  
  The Ewe tribe is the most aggressively ethnocentric and politically mischievous prepared to use violence and spiritual tool against opponents yet they are the first to point to another of being tribal. They never integrate freely with other tribes and feel superior when in fact they are the most inferior and less developed in Ghana.
  
  Ewes in the Volta had over the years supported and voted P/NDC with most appointed government officials including ministers, the army, police and the civil service yet their region is the most developed.
  
  It's about time Ewes accept the fact that we all one people one country with one destiny and if they continue voting for bad and incompetents into political power simply on tribal grounds and not on national performance on issues of dynamic social economic benefit for all , this country will certainly sink and will sink with us all in the wrecked boat.

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• cojo opoku 9 years ago

  Ewes in my opinion are the equivalent of blacks in America They are a used and abused people. Black America have allowed the democrat party to brain wash them into thinking that the republican party is racist. The democrat pa ...
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  Ewes in my opinion are the equivalent of blacks in America They are a used and abused people. Black America have allowed the democrat party to brain wash them into thinking that the republican party is racist. The democrat party gets 90-95% of their votes as a result in every election cycle. The NDC have successfully done to ewes what democrats have done to black America. They have tag the npp with tribal bigotry with the help of Rawlings and are getting 95-100% of their votes yet getting nothing in return in terms of developments. The parallelism is so striking.

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• Fred Amoah 9 years ago

  It is a fact that the REPUBLICAN PARTY is racist.Your statement that Black Americans have allowed the Democratic party to brainwash them does not make sense.Your analogy is absolutely wrong.

  It is a fact that the REPUBLICAN PARTY is racist.Your statement that Black Americans have allowed the Democratic party to brainwash them does not make sense.Your analogy is absolutely wrong.

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• Lawrence 9 years ago

  Okrah, am not too sure if you really understand what you have written.It's laughable to mention a few people and attribute them to a whole tribe. By the way, can you tell readers the percentage of Ashanti/Akyems that always g ...
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  Okrah, am not too sure if you really understand what you have written.It's laughable to mention a few people and attribute them to a whole tribe. By the way, can you tell readers the percentage of Ashanti/Akyems that always give their votes to the NDC? I will not say Akans. No. The Ashanti/Akyems? There are better and well triained discerning Akans out there. That the late Prof. Awoonor was the cause of the division between the Ewes and the Ashanti/Akyems could only be accepted by a lunatic. What division are you talking about and if there are? Have you ever heard of a man called Victor Owusu and have you been reading comments made against the Ewes on this site? I don't think the Ewes are so stupid like you think,so as not to be able to look at things objectively and take the right steps. If really you are a Guan, what have you to say about somebody calling for your extermination just because you are a guan? Go and do your homework properly and come back. You nearly make a good point.

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• ketaboy 9 years ago

  So this self-acclaimed son of the Volta Region wants us to swallow his diabolical diatribe. So he tells us the NDC was founded by an Ewe man and yet apart from that founder no other Ewe man or woman has been imposed on the Pa ...
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  So this self-acclaimed son of the Volta Region wants us to swallow his diabolical diatribe. So he tells us the NDC was founded by an Ewe man and yet apart from that founder no other Ewe man or woman has been imposed on the Party as presidential candidate. He does not see any good in this. The Volta region was relegated to the back of the line in terms of development even under the founder who hailed from there and has worsened since. Not even vice presidential post. Which Ashanti founder would have made this sacrifice in order to keep the country together? Which Akan founder would have given the plum positions to other tribes and deny his or her tribal constituency development? History is very clear on this. NPP? CPP? Hell no. This history is not complicated. Even a simpleton can discern. The depth of intellectual poverty it takes to misconstrue and offer the garbage this writer puts forward is abysmal.
  If this brother is truly from Eweland, I would like to remind him of the adage " Wo metsoa emia fia amedu o" to wit " you don't use your left hand to point to your hometown"
  
  Straight talk from a ketaboy. "Wo be ekpo medzea ngo na ame wo ga noa avuta biam o".The brother is a sellout. How may pieces of silver did he take?

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• Curteous 9 years ago

  what is the head,the body and the soul of this write-up.Prof Kofi Awonor brought divisiveness between the Ewes and the Akan? what are u smoking there? for the fact that u are a Guan from the region doesn't prevent u from bein ...
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  what is the head,the body and the soul of this write-up.Prof Kofi Awonor brought divisiveness between the Ewes and the Akan? what are u smoking there? for the fact that u are a Guan from the region doesn't prevent u from being an npp man after all not all Voltarians are NDC. Remember the NDC is more nationwide than your npp because since 2008 NDC won 8 regions out of 10.try harder next time.

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• Komla 9 years ago

  U are nothing but a fool and idiot, a big one as such.

  U are nothing but a fool and idiot, a big one as such.

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• Ras Cobra 9 years ago

  so my question is what at all do you people spewing ethnocentric hatred on this forum want? a tribal war? breaking up Ghana? or what? Ghanaweb what's your agenda? Ghanaweb is it your to agenda to turn Ghana into another Rwa ...
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  so my question is what at all do you people spewing ethnocentric hatred on this forum want? a tribal war? breaking up Ghana? or what? Ghanaweb what's your agenda? Ghanaweb is it your to agenda to turn Ghana into another Rwanda? and do we have a media commission in Ghana?

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• King Gezo 9 years ago

  You are a damn lier. A confisioniiast just trying hard to create enmity between the other tribes and Ewes. In fact Ewes were voting danqua/busia until Victor owusu's tribalistic insult.

  You are a damn lier. A confisioniiast just trying hard to create enmity between the other tribes and Ewes. In fact Ewes were voting danqua/busia until Victor owusu's tribalistic insult.

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• National Agenda 9 years ago

  So King Gezo, are you confirming that Ewes are doing tribal politics??? I think many Ewes will not agree with you on this. Let's prepare our minds and vote on issues and forget about tribal lines.

  So King Gezo, are you confirming that Ewes are doing tribal politics??? I think many Ewes will not agree with you on this. Let's prepare our minds and vote on issues and forget about tribal lines.

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• Malike 9 years ago

  You are intellectually deficient

  You are intellectually deficient

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• Oboye 9 years ago

  Ghanaians have big problem, because we have a lot of ethnic group. We hates our selves because if you don't speak my language or comes from my home town, l don't like you. Countries like USA,Germany, France, Italy, just menti ...
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  Ghanaians have big problem, because we have a lot of ethnic group. We hates our selves because if you don't speak my language or comes from my home town, l don't like you. Countries like USA,Germany, France, Italy, just mention a few who speak the same language understand each other and they are also prosperous because theysspeak one language.Ghanaians doesn't want people who tell truth, if we don't change our life style our country will not progress. God bless Ghana

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• WAR 9 years ago

  The secrets are exposing, AKAN's unite quickly to save GHANA from this ndc Babylons.

  The secrets are exposing, AKAN's unite quickly to save GHANA from this ndc Babylons.

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• Conrand .M Baba 9 years ago

  Good piece.anyway the writer can forgive these nitwits for a lack of application of what a good write up is all about.

  Good piece.anyway the writer can forgive these nitwits for a lack of application of what a good write up is all about.

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• Conrand .M Baba 9 years ago

  Good piece.anyway the writer can forgive these nitwits for a lack of appreciation of what a good write up is all about.

  Good piece.anyway the writer can forgive these nitwits for a lack of appreciation of what a good write up is all about.

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• Conrand .M Baba 9 years ago

  Good piece.anyway the writer can forgive these nitwits for a lack of appreciation of what a good write up is all about.

  Good piece.anyway the writer can forgive these nitwits for a lack of appreciation of what a good write up is all about.

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• kofikofi 9 years ago

  What you attributed to Togbe Afede was allegedly said when president Mills visited Ho in 2009 long after the ndc won the 2008 election. Stop peddling falsehood here. You are bush dwelling midget tribalist.

  What you attributed to Togbe Afede was allegedly said when president Mills visited Ho in 2009 long after the ndc won the 2008 election. Stop peddling falsehood here. You are bush dwelling midget tribalist.

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