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  • El-Rufai is an ingrate, says Timi Frank

    El-Rufai is an ingrate, says Timi Frank

    Suspended Deputy National Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank has described Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai as “an ingrate and a serial betrayal”.

    Frank warned President Muhammadu Buhari to be wary of the governor, who he said betrayed almost everyone he comes across on his way to where he is today.

    Reacting to media reports quoting el-Rufai as calling the former Vice President Atiku Abubakar a corrupt politician, Frank said former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan fell prey to el-Rufai in the past.

    The APC chieftain added that he was not surprised at the governor’s recent outburst.

    Frank said Atiku remained the most investigated politician in the history of Nigerian politics and has not be found wanting in all allegations levelled against him.

    He wondered where el-Rufai got the gut to challenge the former Vice President, who brought him to the limelight by appointing him to head the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE).

    Frank said: “El-Rufai’s latest outburst is not surprising because of his antecedent of betraying all his known benefactors, both in politics and in private life.

    “It is on record that the like of former President Olusegun Obasanjo will not be surprised because he has once betrayed Baba. Former President Goodluck Jonathan, who brought him out from exile, can’t forget in a hurry how this same man betrayed him. It is a matter of time and el-Rufai will also betray President Buhari once the President is no longer in power.”

  • El-Rufai replies Atiku on alleged bribe-for-shares

    El-Rufai replies Atiku on alleged bribe-for-shares

    •Governor to ex-vice president: you lack good record to be president

    KADUNA State Governor Nasir El-Rufai yesterday joined issues with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar over the latter’s claim that the governor once bribed him Transcorp shares.
    He said the former number two man lacks good record to take a shot at the presidency in 2019.
    El-Rufai was reacting to an allegation by Atiku in “Zero Tolerance”, a magazine published by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), that he demanded for a bribe for shares in Transcorp’s incorporation. He said the former vice president was being hunted by what he called “demons of corruption.”
    In a statement he personally signed, El-Rufai said the former vice president lied, claiming he never had anything to do with the incorporation of Transcorp.
    According to him, he did not offer the erstwhile Vice President such share as being claimed.
    The governor said: “This statement is issued in response to the latest falsehoods that emerge from Alhaji Atiku Abubukar. He has a record of spewing outright lies and innuendo against my person.
    “Therefore, I am constrained to provide a response to the fake news and irresponsible revision of recent history by Alhaji Atiku.
    “I never had anything to do with the incorporation of Transcorp. Those that established that company and fronted it like Festus Odimegwu, Tony Elumelu, Otunba Lawal Solarin and Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke are still around and alive.
    “As such, I could not have, and did not offer Alhaji Atiku any shares in Transcorp. I declined the shares that were offered to me. Having done that, how could I have offered anyone shares?
    “As we struggle to build a law-abiding society and secure progressive outcomes for our people, we cannot allow the triumph on these shores of those who will have us move to a post-factual world. Not even from a man as practiced as Alhaji Atiku is in the dark arts of damaging other people through a campaign of lies from him and his media machine.
    “In fact, I advised President Olusegun Obasanjo, Alhaji Atiku and then finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala not to accept the shares that were then being offered by the promoters of Transcorp.
    “My counsel to them was based on the grounds that they would face conflicts of interest when Transcorp bids for privatisation assets. At the time Alhaji Atiku and Ngozi were chair and vice chair of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) and were particularly directly involved in approving the sales of state-owned enterprises and assets.
    “When I published “The Accidental Public Servant” in 2013, Alhaji Atiku unleashed his media team in a campaign of vilification. Despite the viciousness of the attacks, they did not contest or explain away his shenanigans that were detailed in the book, from the Ericsson manoeuvre, to the Abuja Water Treatment Plant contract and his obsession with marabouts and their assurances of the political big prize.
    “He might also consider a full reckoning for what he and his acolytes did with public funds in the PTDF imbroglio, rather than indulging the usual bold face of the Nigerian big-man.
    “As a federal public servant, my oath of allegiance appropriately stood with the Federal Republic of Nigeria, not the big men whose conduct I was privileged to witness at close quarters.
    “People like Alhaji Atiku think that loyalty to them should be the goal of a public officer and that it should trump the oath of allegiance to the country.
    “Alhaji Atiku is already running for 2019 and he thinks that he can make people like us collateral damage in his attempt to rejuvenate his image. This obsession for power inclined him to support the rebellion against the party that manifested in the National Assembly and is continuing with obvious disrespect for the incumbent President.
    “Everyone knows that I support and will continue to work for the success of President Muhammadu Buhari as he leads our country through tough times.
    “Like everyone else, Alhaji Atiku is entitled to rehabilitation. But that often requires coming clean with the people. Can Alhaji Atiku explain the findings in the report of the United States Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations which detailed a pattern of wire transfers of more than $40 million from offshore companies like Siemens into bank accounts controlled by him and one of his wives?”
    “The report detailing the U.S. Senate findings is online, as one of four case histories of foreign corruption in the USA. Alhaji Atiku should tell a better tale of why he is avoiding the United States of America.
    “Someone as obsessed with Nigeria’s presidency as he is, should clear up such matters conclusively. We wait to see how well he does with that.
    “It is too late in the day to try to pretend that the fiasco concerning the attempt by then senators Ibrahim Mantu and Jonathan Zwingina to extort money from me for Senate clearance never happened. All Alhaji Atiku has just done is to confirm that he paid the senators, as I revealed on Page 139 of my book.”

  • Onu, El-Rufai for Materials Society conference

    Materials Science and Technology Society of Nigeria (MSN) has announced the date for its international conference.

    The five-day event the society is  organising with Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, will start on November 21 and it will hold at the ABU Hotels in Kaduna State.

    According to a statement by the Society’s National Public Relations Officer (PRO), Dr Baba Alafara, the conference with the theme: Engineering materials and solid minerals development: panacea for sustainable national economic diversification,  will be supported by Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Solid Minerals Development and agencies under the two ministries.

    Expected guets include Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu, who is the special guest of honour, Gov. Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State, ABU Vice-Chancellor, Prof Ibrahim Garba, and Chief Kunle Oguntade, MSN’s Board of Trustees chairman.

    The event will feature lectures and presentation of research papers by several speakers. There will also a scientific exhibition during which various locally-manufactured products would be displayed.

    Fellowship awards will be given to some of the participants, including Onu, Garba, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) VC, Prof AbdulGaniyu Ambali, Senator Ajayi Boroffice, Prof Ndubuisi Idenyi of Ebonyi State University, Prof Adenike Omotunde of Lagos State University, and Prof Martiale Zebazekana of the Kwara State University.

  • I met stiff opposition from corrupt influences in FCT -El-Rufai

    I met stiff opposition from corrupt influences in FCT -El-Rufai

    Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has confessed that he met with stiff opposition from corrupt influences against the change of the status-quo during his tenure as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

    El-Rufai, who spoke during the launch of the biography of  his late foster father, Malam Yahaya Hamza in Kaduna, said he was able to overcome the challenge on account of the sound education and good moral upbringing he got from his extended family.

    He said: “From Baba, we learnt to work hard and serve with integrity and purpose. He taught us the true meaning of love. Till this day I consider all of his biological children my own dear siblings.

    “With these virtues instilled in me throughout my childhood, I grew to become a focused young man. I carried on what I had learnt, to my years of serving the nation as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.”

    “When I became the Minister, I was determined to change the status-quo and modus operandi of our public service institutions. Of course, my vision for revolutionising the way public service was run was met with stiff opposition from corrupt influences.”.

    The late Yahaya Hamza, a renowned educationalist and former permanent secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education, died August 2015 barely two months after the inauguration of Mallam Nasir el-Rufai as governor of Kaduna State.

    El-Rufai said: “I was eight years old when I lost my biological father. Losing my father at such a tender age could have steered the course of my life in the wrong direction, but this was not so in my case.

    ” I come from a close-knit extended family so, I wasn’t allowed to feel the void of losing a protector and provider as I was immediately placed in the loving home of my uncle Alhaji Hamza Gidado.

    “After living with Mallam Yahaya’s father for a few years, I eventually moved in with Mallam Yahaya as I developed a strong bond with his son.

    “According to biology, we are cousins because our fathers were brothers. However, those of you that witnessed the close relationship between me and the Late Yahaya Hamza, will testify that it was more of a father and son relationship.”

    The governor noted: “As a young boy trying to find my way in a complex society, Mallam Hamza with love and discipline was able to guide me on the right path. He took what I consider one of the best decisions in my life; sending my young head strong self to Barewa College. I say to you today, that I will not be who I am without the solid foundation I received at Barewa College. Till this very hour, I remain eternally grateful to my father, Mallam Yahaya Hamza. Baba made sure we lacked nothing and at the same time reminded us to be thankful of how blessed we were. He was my protector, friend, counsellor and most importantly my teacher,” he said.

    El-Rufai added: “With these virtues instilled in me throughout my childhood, I grew to become a focused young man. I carried on what I had learnt, to my years of serving the nation as the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.”

     

  • Amosun, El- Rufai, Dickson preach unity at Ojude Oba

    Amosun, El- Rufai, Dickson preach unity at Ojude Oba

    Governors Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna) and Dickson Seriake (Bayelsa) have urged the citizenry to see the country’s diversity as a source of “strength” for its “greatness”, and not for disunity.

    They advised that the diversity should be utilised in harmony “for the good and progress of Nigeria”, and not otherwise.

    The governors spoke separately yesterday in their goodwill messages at the 2016 annual Ojude-Oba cultural carnival of the Ijebu people in Ogun State.

    It depicted an array of people suffused with glamour and excitement.

    Thousands of Ijebu sons, daughters, friends and well-wishers participated in the event, where over 35 age grades – Regberegbes – paid homage to the Awujale, Oba Sikiru Adetona, who is often referred to as the Orisa Ijebu (the god of the Ijebu people).

    Amosun who hailed Oba Adetona for his ability to use “culture, tradition and religion” to weave an enviable and enduring unity among his people, said the nation’s leaders should emulate his leadership style, and forge a greater unity among Nigerians.

    The governor hailed the Ijebu people for making Ogun State unique with the Ojude Oba festival and for using same to launch the state into global consciousness.

    “One sees the love, tenacity and determination of the Ijebu people to showcase their rich cultural heritage and tradition. In Ogun State, we create the template for others to follow.

    “In Nigeria, we should serve diligently. It is not where one comes from or religion should count, but one’s diligent service. We should emulate kabiyesi ability to forge unity among his people despite different religions.

    “We should live in togetherness, love and harmony, not only in Ogun State but also in Nigeria,” Amosun said.

    For El-Rufai, the Awujale should be praised for his courage and leadership competence in leading his people towards organising the annual Ojude Oba, which he described as an “incredible event”.

    “I came here not as governor, not as guest of Governor Amosun or as a member of All Progressives Congress (APC), but I’m here because Awujale is my father, a man of great wisdom, unparralled courage and integrity.

    “Throughout my public service and exile, he was a true father to me. He advised and even supported me financially. I know the dream of  Ijebu state is close to your heart, and one can pray for your long life to see Ijebu state come to pass,” El-Rufai said.

    Dickson, who was the special guest of honour, urged Nigeria to export Ojude Oba to the rest of the world through cultural tourism.

    The governor, who is a descendant of Adebukunola Fidipote, a princess from one of the ruling houses of Awujale stool in Ijebu-Ode, said Nigeria should leverage on its rainbow of diversity to work towards greatness, and not division.

    Oba Adetona said the festival kept gaining more local and global attention by the year. He hailed Amosun and corporate bodies for their continuous support.

    Ogun State Deputy Governor Princess Yetunde Onanuga, former Old Rivers State Military Governor and traditional ruler Alfred Diette-Spiff, were among dignitaries at the event.

    Others are Olori Omoba Subomi Balogun; Speaker, Ogun State House of Assembly Suraj Adekunbi; the Moyegoso of Itele-Ijebu Oba Adesanya Kasali, Chief Ayo Adebanjo; Commissioner for Commerce and Industry Chief Bimbo Ashiru; his Culture and Tourism counterpart, Basorun Muyiwa Oladipo; and Police Commissioner Ahmed Iliyasu.

  • Kaduna to domesticate Child Rights Act

    Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday said the government will soon domesticate the Child Rights Act to protect girls and give them fair chances of self-realization.

    The governor said this during an event organized to commemorate the 2016 World Population Day, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

    El Rufai, who was represented by his deputy, Mr. Barnabas Bantex, said the bill has been forwarded to the state Assembly for passage.

    He said: “We cannot deny that teenage girls in the country, especially in the north are facing issues detrimental to their wellbeing.

    “Issues ranging from forced marriages, early motherhood, sexual abuse, gender discrimination and lack of access to education and prompt justice.

    “In response to this, we are strengthening our justice system to speedily respond and tackle cases of rape and other forms of violence and abuse against the girl child.’’

    The governor reiterated his administration’s willingness to invest in the development of teenage girls, stressing that the state would continue to invest massively in the education of children.

    “Just recently, the state’s House of Assembly passed an executive bill that gives every child access to nine-year free and compulsory basic education.

    “When this bill fully comes into operation at the commencement of the next academic calendar in September, parents that refused to send their children to school will face the law,” he added.

     

  • Thousands dread El-Rufai’s bulldozers

    Thousands dread El-Rufai’s bulldozers

    A community of over 3,000 houses in Kaduna State is in danger of demolition, writes ABDULGAFAR ALABELEWE

    Kaduna State Governor Nasir el-Rufai has since proved what he can do with a bulldozer. Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) can testify. So can residents of the state he governs.

    The Demolition Man has waded into an old cold war between the management of Kaduna Polytechnic and Gbagyi Villa, a community of over 3,000 houses alleged to have been built on the institution’s land. You guessed it: el-Rufai’s bulldozers have come into the picture. And the people whose houses could be pulled down have protested, hoping the evil day does not come.

    Before 2011, there was no landmark demarcation between the Sabon Tasha campus of institution’s land and its neighbouring communities. The situation apparently gave room for the alleged monumental encroachment.

    Though, previous management of the institution had made efforts to stop the encroachment, it received little or no support from the government, until 2011 when the late Governor Patrick Yakowa mediated and asked the polytechnic to build a fence to prevent further encroachment. The school apparently not satisfied with the situation took up the matter in 2015, shortly after the election of Governor el-Rufai.

    Governor El-Rufai has however vowed to reclaim the institution’s land for it, despite a suit filed in the state High Court by members of the community to stop the Governor’s planned action.

    Kaduna Polytechnic, formerly known as Technical Institute, Kaduna, came into existence after the Northern Nigeria Executive Council’s meeting of 17th August, 1962. It became Kaduna Polytechnic in 1968 by the Federal Government Decree No. 20 of 1968, which was revised in 1979 by Decree .No. 79. In 1991, the institution was taken over by the Federal Government under Decree No. 40 of the same year.

    The polytechnic has four campuses spread across the Kaduna metropolis: Tudun Wada, Ungwan Rimi, Barnawa and Sabon Tasha. The contentious Sabon Tasha campus remains the only hope for the polytechnic to expand, especially for its proposed conversion to Federal University of Technology.

    Governor el-Rufai recently visited Gbagyi Villa where he said there was no going back on the planned demolition of the community.

    He told journalists, “Kaduna Polytechnic was allocated the land 40 years ago for one of the polytechnic campuses but unfortunately, nearly 70% of its land has been encroached [on] by illegal squatters.”

    The governor said his administration cannot condone illegality, warning that in Kaduna nobody can hide behind religion or ethnic group to break the law and get away with it.

    “The government will go through a process and give everyone opportunity to show that she or he has a title to the land and approval to build. If you don’t have these two, the law will apply and we will take the building down”.

    “It is unfortunate that some people have been deceived into thinking that this land is available to sell to anyone it is unfortunate. And in our system we are going to investigate and find all those who are involved in this and will be dealt with by the government.

    Barely a week after the governor’s declaration, thousands of residents and house owners in the community staged a peaceful protest, appealing to the governor not to render them destitute.

    The protesters raised placards with inscriptions including: ‘we want development and not demolition’ and ‘we are not criminals’ and ‘El-Rufai leave us alone’ among others. They also called on people of goodwill to help prevail on Governor el-Rufai to act within the law and not engage the rule of might.

    Leading the protest, Chairman, Gbagyi Villa Property Owners Association, Chris Obodumu Abba said, “It was on this same land that we were raised by our forefathers and it is the only place we know as home in Nigeria. We have become a community living together happily with other Nigerians from different parts of the country. It was part of our community land that government took over forcefully and built Kaduna Polytechnic without compensation”

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Nigeria awaits Buhari, el-Rufai over Zaria Shiite panel report

    RESPONDING to criticisms over their handling of last December’s Shiite disturbance in Zaria during which hundreds of lives were lost, both President Muhammadu Buhari and Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai, appealed to Nigerians to wait for the outcome of the judicial probe of the crisis. Despite the urgency of the matter and the unquantifiable pains the disturbance inflicted on hundreds of families, interested parties managed to exercise the requisite patience. Finally, and even though the report has not been officially released, the media have published glimpses of the conclusions and indictments contained in the report. Headed by Justice Mohammed Garba of the Federal Court of Appeal, Port Harcourt, the 13-man panel confirmed 349 dead, probably all Shiite members, and one soldier killed. The panel indicted the General Officer Commanding Nigerian Army Ist Division, Kaduna, Oyeniyi Oyebade, a major-general, and a certain A.K. Ibraheem, a colonel, for mishandling the crisis and using disproportionate force.

    According to witnesses, some of them government officials, victims of the massacre were buried in two mass graves, with some of the corpses conveyed in military trucks. Yet, the army said it counted only seven people killed. The public will now wait for government’s response to the very damning report, the first coming from Kaduna State government, the second from the army, and the third from the federal government. Given the way they initially approached the crisis, all three will be uncomfortable in responding to the obvious crimes against humanity committed by the soldiers. The army, it was clear, used excessive force when, according to the panel, it could have chosen alternative routes for their commanders to pass through Zaria. Until the report is released officially, it is not certain what the panel found out concerning the army’s theory that Shiite members planned to assassinate the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai.

    The second responder, Kaduna State government, also mishandled the crisis abysmally by prejudging the Shiites and demolishing their headquarters after the massacre. The religious group did not have building permits, the governor had said. Then finally, the Buhari presidency, basing its conclusions on unstated intelligence or findings, condemned the Shiites for attempting to set up a government within a government. There can be only one government, the president bristled during a media chat shortly after the disturbance. Commentators had noted immediately after the clash and the attendant massacre that the army’s disproportionate response and the state and federal governments’ connivance were fuelled by their hubristic interpretation of the powers of government and their inchoate appreciation of the fundamentals of democracy and the power of the ballot paper.

    It now remains to be seen how both Mallam el-Rufai and President Buhari, in that order, will respond to the panel’s report. The judicial probe has called for the prosecution of the two named officers and other senior officers who participated in the massacre. Though the panel also blamed the government for its lack of proactive response to malfeasant and troublesome groups, including the often obtruding and disruptive Shiites, the main quandary the government will face will be how to disengage the officers and prosecute them. Much worse, the Kaduna State governor himself condoned the killings by his insensitive statements shortly after the clash and then took steps to, as it were, erase the presence of the Shiites in their Zaria redoubt. The president and the governor will obviously find out soon that the loathing they claimed the neighbours of Shiites in Zaria harbour against the religious group has no evidential value in mitigating the atrocities committed against its members. They will also discover that mass burial and the lack of records of victims constitute obstruction of justice.

    It will not be enough for the Kaduna State government to release a White Paper on the crisis. The governor must come to terms with his comments and attitude over the clash. He will need to show remorse and offer a full apology. Next, the president himself must show remorse for the very biased and casual manner he dismissed the clash and prejudged the Shiites. He needs to issue a full apology as well. Then they must go on to make full amends for the oppressive and atrocious manner they have treated the leader of the movement, El-Zakzaky, whom the Department of State Service has detained unlawfully for many months. If they are smart, they must open talks with the Shi’a Movement and discuss compensation. Otherwise, armed with the report, whenever it is issued, the Shiites will exact a terrible price from the government. And if the government decides unwisely to bury or distort the report, the International Criminal Court (ICC) will be petitioned to retrieve the report and call the government, including those not indicted by the panel, to account. The federal and state governments, and the army are in unwinnable positions. The sooner they realise it, the better.

  • El-Rufai receives report on Shiites-Army clash

    Kaduna State Governor,  Nasiru El-Rufai, on Friday said anyone indicted by the Judicial Commission of Inquiry set up by the state government in the December Shiites-Army clash in Zaria would be appropriately sanctioned.

    El-Rufai said this while receiving the report of the commission in Kaduna.

    The commission, inaugurated in January, was mandated to investigate the clash between the Shiites Islamic Movement and the Nigerian Army in Zaria, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.

    The governor said the report would be diligently studied for proper implementation.

    He said the state government would be guided by the commission’s recommendations in assigning administrative and criminal responsibility to those who allegedly participated in the violence.

    “Kaduna State has witnessed at least 10 rounds of ethnics and religious violence in the last three decades,” he said.

    El-Rufai said a white paper conveying the decision of government on the recommendations of the commission would be issued promptly.

    “And the necessary follow up actions will be taken to avoid similar crises that took place in the last three decades in parts of state,” the governor added.

    He said the commission was set up to provide best option for accountability and transparency in providing justice to the affected persons in the mayhem.

    He commended the chairman and members for accepting to serve in the commission and for their commitment.

    The chairman of the commission, Justice Mohammad Garba, thanked the state government for finding the members worthy to participate in the inquiry.

  • El Rufai: Bringing change to Kaduna

    SIR: When I read in the FORBES recently that ‘’democracy is delivering impossible results,’’ I didn’t understand until I met the indefatigable governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El Rufai.

    He shocked many on assumption of office when he reduced the number of commissioners from 24 to 13 as part of reducing the cost of governance. Again, after the historic launch of the free school feeding programme early this year, the governor revealed that the programme increased enrolment in schools by 60 percent. The school feeding programme should be celebrated for many reasons. First, good nourishing food has cognitive impact on the growing pupil. Second, the programme certainly would boost the economy of the state. Third, jobless youths who have been granted loans for the production of all kinds of food stuff for the feeding programme can no longer bestride the streets of Kaduna or conscripted for the purpose of extinguishing innocent souls in the name of religion.

    The school feeding programme has been targeted at feeding at least 1.5million pupils in the state! UNESCO statistics has shown that 10. 8million Nigerian children of school age are roaming, hawking, labouring and begging on the streets, particularly in the northern Nigeria, where more than 90 percent of that figure is domiciled!

    As a promoter of freedom of worship, Governor El Rufai swiftly condemned the attack on one Francis Emmanuel a Christian and a carpenter in the Kakuri Kaduna area of the state who was stabbed by unknown youths for eating during the Ramadan fast. The governor’s swift reaction barely 24hours after the incident and subsequent visit to the victim calmed frayed nerves.

    As a true reformer, who believes in the saying that ‘’if we don’t kill corruption, corruption will kill us,’’  the governor removed 13,000 suspected ghost workers from the state’s payroll, promising to deal decisively with those who have swindled the state.

    On the controversy generated by the state’s religious bill that has attracted negative responses from both Christian and Muslim scholars, El Rufai has been listening and discussing with relevant stakeholders, noting that what is being done is with clear and honest intentions. He has stressed that no sensitive government will take decisions contrary to the religious beliefs of the people.

    The state has saved a whopping sum of N221million naira by stopping sponsorship of pilgrimage, blocked multiple taxation, commenced renovation of over 4,000 schools and other massive urban renewal and developmental strides. These speak volume of his avowed commitment to good governance, equity and social justice.

    • Erasmus_Ikhide,

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