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Opinions of Tuesday, 14 February 2006

Columnist: J. A. Fukuor/Daily Dispatch

Wanted - Presidential speech writers

Letter From The President

Countrymen and women, loyalists and opponents,

I delivered my state of the nation address last week. I didn?t explicitly say so but I hope you already know that the state of our nation is not good enough. You should very well know why.

Well, my address to parliament was unduly dominated by our small success with VALCO. I just told my speechwriters to make sure that our achievements with VALCO are highlighted and before I realized VALCO was in every other sentence. I know that some of you have already started referring to my recent state of the nation address as the VALCO statement. I take it as a well-deserved insult.