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Mpombo is indisciplined-Vernon Mwaanga

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MMD Chief Whip Vernon Mwaanga
MMD Chief Whip Vernon Mwaanga

MMD Parliamentary Chief Whip Vernon Mwaanga has said that it is indiscipline for former Defence minister George Mpombo and others to continue attacking President Banda through the media when they are aware of communication channels within the party.

Speaking in an interview in Lusaka yesterday, Mr Mwaanga said as such, Mr Mpombo and others that have incessantly attacked President Banda over the MMD convention and other issues faced disciplinary action.

This was particularly that the MMD had two days ago offered an olive branch to Mr Mpombo for reconciliation with others in the party.

“I certainly do not appreciate the attacks on President Banda by Mr Mpombo. If Mr Mpombo still wants to see the MMD continue as a governing party, he should direct his comments in writing to the right organs and not commenting through the media. That is indiscipline of the highest order,” Mr Mwaanga said.

He said that it was normal for MMD members to agitate that things should be done in a certain way but that they should not use unorthodox means of putting their points across.

He said using unorthodox means was tearing the party apart and it was therefore important that senior members like Mr Mpombo avoided such.

“I do not think that we are helping each other by attacking the party president in the Press. A party that does not have discipline will quickly run into trouble and what Mpombo and others are doing is starting trouble in the party. Members who are making such statements are indisciplined,” Mr Mwaanga said.

Mr Mwaanga said that the party constitution was clear on members that continuously violated the regulation, saying Mr Mpombo and others were courting trouble for themselves.

On the continuous comments on MMD matters by son of late President Levy Mwanawasa, Patrick, Mr Mwaanga wondered what constituency the late president’s son represented.[quote]

And MMD Luapula Province MMD chairperson Chrispin Musosha has said utterances by Mr Mpombo will not distract President Banda and the MMD from its developmental agenda.

Mr Musosha who is Local Government and Housing Deputy Minister said in an interview yesterday, Mr Mpombo’s outbursts on the president would not be allowed to distract him from his developmental focus.

He said it was clear that Mr Mpombo was sponsored and was not alone in causing confusion within the ruling party.

Mr Mpombo and his group had been planted and their objective was to call for a convention and then pour in a lot of money so that the president could start bending to their demands.

“There is no need for in-fighting because all past MMD presidents were given chance and ruled without any problems,” he said.

Grassroots in Luapula had accepted that the party had no money for a convention because he had covered all the structures of the party.

Mr Musosha said that it was sheer indiscipline for any party member to talk ill of the leadership

93 COMMENTS

  1. If there is an indisciplined person VJ is one. He tells lies through closed teeth. He twisted history to justfy the 3rd term nonsense, he lied that he had stopped politics. Leave Mpombo alone we mpombo we

  2. Vijee is pulling to the north, Kalumba laptop to northeast, Akulumpuno to west, Mabenga southeast, Mulongoti all the direction, Mpombo/Namulembe upright but inclined, Namakando upright but circular, ARAB caught in the web indecision whilest the PACT is tearing them off. The MMD party is torn apart is now called MMD APART. It looks anyone can talk about APRTYaffairs as one wishes. Now they should not be allowed to mix their indiscipline in managing the national resources like in their APART.

  3. Because of People like you (VJ), Zambia is in a terrible state like you are! Live Mpombo alone coz thats MMD’s chance of coming back to sanity. Is not going for a convention Unorthodox?

  4. Mpombo is one of them, let him talk. The so called better ways of expressing oneself within the party do not exist. A house divided within itself shall not stand. Bantu is watching and waiting!

  5. VJ has to hang on to politics.It is all he has done in his life.He has served under FOUR presidents now and looks forward to the fifth president.The lack of intra party democracy is what makes the likes of Mpombo or Namulambe speak out in the press.You don’t need a Phd in Political Science to see this.

  6. This man can’t survive without a government job so he has to do what he was employed to do – to bark unneccessarily.

  7. I thought VJ had stopped speaking in public considering the mistakes he made in DRC prior to his unceremonious firing by the late LPM. Now he has gone for Mpombo, I think he is courting trouble. If I were him, I would keep quiet and wait for my pay whilst the others cut each other’s throat for attention from RBB. He knows he is finished politically and he has no good background (y’know, drugs and all), so the best is to keep quiet. Let us wait ans see what Mpombo’s reaction will be. VJ, go take a hike and sleep, you are kaput!!

  8. #12 you are right how many times has this guy been resigning and fired. It’s like he can’t make it in life minus anything to do with the parliament and goverment. Please is he the only one who can speak for all of us.

  9. LUSAKA TIMES, that picture about VJ is good coz it depicts a person who is sick and is supposed to be on medication. I wonder what sort of output would come out of such a person. If I was secretary to the cabinet or any administrator at parliament I would recommend for a leave of absence of this man and we are tired of such a man in times like this when he is not supposed to open his mouth.

  10. Why cant he just test the Teta Limousine too. We are tired of such rubbish. Ba Mudala, your time is up , if you cant retire, rest and Top U..just die like that chap who was hogwash..

  11. VJ should quit politics. You have gone beyond your usefulness. Its notly Mpombo talking but many are demanding hold of a Party convension. Why the fear? Seeing William Banda on ZNBC TV 19:00hrs news comments on Namulambe were totally baseless. Willie should not live in the politivs of 1980’s on UNIP. His statement did more damage. Politics is about numbers and compromising. MMD cannot afford to lose Copperbelt Rural already Kafulafuta is a problem and you add Mpongwe then Lufwanyama will follow suit. Shame of old William Banda. Yes there can be many pipo in line for Ministerial jobs but he is forgetting that even the opposition is waiting to adopt the same members he would like to flushout of te Party. Koma MMD has been totally highjacked by outsiders and heded for destruction.

  12. Last kicks of a dying HORSE…………………… Your Vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart,Who looks outside, dreams; Who looks inside AWAKENS

    “Carl Jung”, what purpose does it save for a man like VJ,once respected,young and vibrant politician who could have taken zambia to great heights, to end up like this,Lo what a web we weave for ourselves,he even looks older than KK, Tonga BULL? more like tonga Calf

  13. Mpombo is a fool he claims to be in MMD bt we kno tht che mpombo and magande are no longer in MMD bt there are jst being used by some opposition called th sinking TITANIC PACT th party with two selfish leaders who both wants to go to state House,MMD VIVA 2011

  14. What VJ said is not force it is true that Mpombo is indisciplined because in any society there has to be respect for leadership. For sure everyone can see that he is inviting dismissal. The best MMD can do is expel him. Even if you lose the seat at least you would have saved the party from further confusion. Look at what we did to Robby Chizhuka. Be bold and make right decisions.

  15. Democracy thrives in order, discipline and responsibility.MMD is a democractic and functional party with open structures and channel.Party matters are better discussed inhouse with descency and responsibility.When dissent takes a route of insolency, street smearing gigs, disciplinary codes must be invoked. A window of reconciliation should be broadened but with codes reenforced if change of behavior is not observed.Failure to re-enforce disciplinary codes is corting anarchy.No institution can thrive in anarchy.

  16. SATA’S PF PARTY CONSTITUTION ARTICLE 3 SAYS

    “The party shall ensure that all the public institutions, State-owned enterprises and popular mass and similar organizations are led by persons who are members (cadres) of the party and who are uncompromisingly committed to the party”.

    Is Sata worth talking about Democracy?

    Certainly no. He has no fragrance for democracy. The PF, of which Mr Sata is the unelected self imposed defacto leader since 2001, is the least qualified to comment on democracy and let alone accuse the ruling party of destroying the Judiciary and Parliament.

    Leading a party, whose constitution provides for party control of all public institutions, and the Judiciary vindicate the MMD that such PF is not for our country with its undemocratic…

  17. Leading a party, whose constitution provides for party control of all public institutions, and the Judiciary vindicate the MMD that such PF is not for our country with its undemocratic provisions of the party constitution that if the PF were in government they would run public institutions on partisan lines and completely destroy democracy for PF.

  18. IT IS INDCIPLINE AND SHAMEFUL FOR VJ TO VOMIT SUCH EMPTY SENTIMENTS ON PEOPLE THAT HAVE SEEN NO FUTURE IN THE MMD NINCOMPOOPS. VERON MWANGA MUST BE THE LAST PERSON TO VOMIT NONSANSE AS HE IS A MAN WITH NO FUTURE ONLY DEPEND ON POLITICKING FOR A LIVING. HE HAS SERVED WITH ALL THE FOUR PRESIDENTDS BUT HAS DONE NOTHING FOR THE NATION IN RETURN. IAM PROMPTED TO SAY THIS BECAUSE I CONTRIBUTE TO MWANGA’S PAY VIA PAY AS YOU EARN.

  19. Ba Veteran, I sense that you able to think. I pity what you are and stand for. The wave of change has come again, THE PACT is here. You and MMD should try and find a dry spot underwater and you will be home and dry.

  20. After looking at VJ I even remembered Ackim Simukonda’s song, “bana bandi yee, temwaneni. Temwaneni yeeee”. Awe shuwa

  21. To me late president Levy Mwanawasa’s son, Patrick, comes accross as being more sensible than Mwaanga, Mlongoti, Shikapwasha and Kanitundila put together, both at the same time and one by one. About the constituency the late president’s son represented, ala, what constituency does Mwaanga himself represent? Maybe he thinks its his self confessed role of the chief “mwami” of the Movement for Mandrax Drug (MMD) traffickers which he is confusing for the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy, a creation of Aka and Chitala whose inception meeting he purported to accept a call out that was never sent. Had I been him, I would concentrate on preparing for the afterlife, death seems to be smiling at him!

  22. As if my comment # 31 is not enough Mwanga, as old as he is does not even have a single KANTEMBA no wonder he cling on to politics for monthly emoluments….Shame!! kwata amano VJ what legacy are you going to leave for the generation to come? Nothing maybe people will only remember him(VJ) for the attempt he made trying to hook SHALA MWANA KWASILA!!

  23. #28 Veteran Wisdom, as you may be well aware, is a state of mind acquired over a period of time. No one is born with an inherent sense of wisdom. It is learned and developed in our minds as we grow, and as we make mistakes in our lives. A life without mistakes would be a fairly redundant life as there would be absolutely no scope for growth. Im made to understand you are matured with 2 kids but since you blasted Mpombo and said his children are prostitutes in Australia who graduated from tasintha,and yesterday posted some drivel about reconciling with Mpombo,i now have no doubt that you are a mentally challenged person. This article is not talking about PF or SATA,but here you are spewing drivel about other issue

  24. Nincompoops Mwaanga is still saturated na kaumoya ka “tenze bantu”. Some people really die hard, when is Mwaanga ever going to realise that he is a medieval star of ancient times whose expertise just like times don’t work in these contemporary times of ours? He is 100% like Mushota, no decency of quitting the public arena to save us from the agony of watching this self-immolation engulfing him and sparked by the fire of “kulya maningi mabelo!”. If he is messing around with Mpombo, he should just wait the Lamba buru’s reaction in tomorrow’s Post. This might help push him over the edge and put him out of his misery.

  25. Mpombo is a mouth piece of the pipo of Zambia,so thoz who are against the pipo of zambia will call Mpombo indspline…….so VJ is saying Patrick shud not coment on n issue coz he daz not represent any constituency ..but VJ is a finished politician zoona..

  26. We are tired mwe, Ba mpompo ati, banamulambe nachiland ati, abalamba nafulwa, abalozi nabo naba kalipa, ba siliya bamano sana, ukwikataikata abantu, amasele muba paper, ukuvota vota, ba kolwe ukusunda sunda, Petrol ukupwa pwa, insala, ukwenda enda mufyalo fyabene nama deke, ukutuchusha kuli mamwisa, ukwibaiba ba kapoko nabo, amadilu-dilu, the list is long we are busy. At the moment it seems like there is nothing anybody can do about these sad affairs in our country, the onus is on us zambians who are feeling the pinch, us who go without food somtimes, and nobody cares. Anyway ba politician bonse I have been reading what you say ifisungu sana but you are doing nothing except ukulanda i wish you could sometimes act mwe. Don’t forget how we serve a living God and one day just maybe…

  27. 28@### you are erritating…… the issue is all about Mpombo the haedline is indisciplined-Vernon Mwaanga. Why do you always vommit name ya Sata? Be realistic you cadre.

  28. VETERAN ETC. You are a lonely voice on this site. no matter how many names you use your style is like a sore finger, you cannot miss it. You talk of MMD consititution. Yes it was a wonderful piece of paper until FTJ raped it to suit his appetite, then came RB who Unipnised it. What use are laws if the makers cannot implement them? What good are laws when the makers keep on breaking them? You were in Unip when we risked the wrath of KK and now today you want to champion a cause that you never contributed to.

  29. Goodmorning

    We have really had enough of this MMD political dilemmas – can’t wait for them to go down the drain. Zambia needs a new beginning….just remember to vote wisely!

  30. What part structure is Vj talking about?.Mulongoti,Mabenga and Shikapwasha have destroyed the part because they only care about themselves.Some of us never like the MMD until Mwanawasa proved us wrong.That was the reason PF and UPND failed to topple it.But with Pipo like RB and again VJ and AKa at the top MMD has gone to the dog.Its not too late to change.That makes VJ think he is better the Mpombo?.VJ should feel ashamed that even the young man Patrick Mwanawasa is talking more sense than him.Shame on you VJ

  31. The most indisciplined person is a senior government official who turns himself to become the most notorious international drug traffickter/dealer. That’s YOU VJ, leave Mpombo alone. I advice you to seek urgent medical attention because your illness appears to have spread to your brains.

  32. What is happening in MMD at the moment does not make sense at all. This minute someone urges Mpombo to take the reconcilliatory route. Next minute another one stirs the hornet’s nest. It is very sad. With such leaders Zambia must forget about development because they are concentrating on trivial issues.

  33. Well well…there is something about this Mpombo and his outbursts. He comes out like a person who is really scared. Very scared infact. VJ’s track record is there for all to see, he is friends with the most treasured, and yes he must retire. But that cannot take away what he has achieved and gone through. The Communications Authority act should be amended so that people can only discuss facts and not innuendos. As for Mpombo, I am very sure he knows the shadow is catching up with him. There surely must be something!

  34. #35 only mistake you make chi-colour is to add language for thieves in your posting! u must be a enuch

  35. surely you mpombo supporters,vj is a man of all seasons you compare him to a kachasu drinker.thats why he has served all the presidents.

  36. Enu akwetu afuma Ku Lunda Kingdom munankutiyisha kuwaha na yihosha yenu, mulonga etu twekala antu afuma kudi muchidi wangovu nankanshi. Democracy demands free expression within and outside. The key question should be, what has ignited all these different comments either from people within MMD or outside?? These are symptoms of something going wrong, you get that right you might just then start rebuilding. The people of Zambia are looking for substantive improvements not just a bag of mealie meal or fertiliser, the limitations of our achievements are due to the limitations of our dreams and what we want. Enu a kwetu Nzambi ayihembi.

  37. #51 Musoka wanya mumbu, First I thought u are a real Ntan’ga but from what you have vomited on your 51 comment you don’t deserve to be Ntan’ga yami. Nawa nizhina dinakuteleli chikupu wenda nakuhalwa kwezhima wunakuya!

  38. 35 and 51 Tunasakili nankanshi, neyi nadingi neluka ku mwekala kachi nakuhosha nenu, ami nafuma ku Mwinulunga (a tata) a mama afumini ku Kabompo, nashakami kunu ku London munafumi yaka makumi ayedi na five. Mwantiyishanga kuwaha nankanshi. Tutachikwenu kuzatila hamu, mulonga twekala antu afumu ku muchidi kwafuma awanyana ejima avula mu Zambia. Nasakili nankanshi

  39. #53 Mwana ka Kalunda, nasakililuku hama hayihosha ya maana chochenichi. Twalekenuhu mayalenu bayi kudiswekan’gaku twatela kuzan’galala mulon’ga twekala muchidi wa n’govu. chakuhayama hohu iwu iyala wunaditumbi izhina da ‘musoka wanya mubu’hakuntuka ami muchi kalubemba nindi chicoular……hinukuhosha zhazhivuluku hamwaha himwana ka ka lunda wanyi.

  40. 35,49, 51 Enu akwetu chinga tudikenghi, tuzatili hamu bayi kudi tuka tuka nehi. Awa atukabishanga akutiya kuwaha nei tunakuzunga mwetu, mwetu. The frustrtion some people have created in our country is criminal, all well meaning people should be against injustice, criminality, hero worshipping. But dont forget the world had people supporting slavery, colonialisim, racisim even a mad man like Hitler. These negative forces will always be there but need to be thought, a clean prosperous Zambia for all is worth fighting for. It is never going to be an easy fight because of vested interests. Zambia can be 10000% better for all and all well meaning people sould be involved in uplifting the lives of the majority Zambians

  41. you bloggers are *****s. mpombo is indisciplined. simple fact. respect authority or chain of command. this is not a zoo. wat a bunch of bitter hopeless chaps

  42. 59 what do you call indiscipline? would Zambia have been free if people did not fight those that were then in power? would you have had MMD if people had not been willing to reject the authority of the powers then? That word indiscipline is a smokescreen for fighting truth, honesty and integrity. Who is he being indisciplined to?? Please freedom of expression has to be from within and outside. Authority will be respected when that authority is being discharged within the norms of that authority, when authority is being abused it is no longer authority and the norms that apply to it are no longer applicable. If you are a thief of a parent, lazy, or any of the other negative things that people do in life, are you indisciplined when you dont respect such a parent?

  43. Bamudala bashelefye umutwe wekaweka. Guys fyalilowa but kuisunga. I feel sorry for him. Any one else thinks he looks like ka Teta in his last days?

  44. Mpombo is indeed indisciplined that is why he has been switching parties like bamba without principles from UNIP until 2000 then UPND in 2001, MMD in 2002 and now PF.Next will be NADA if not Milupi’s ADD party if not sondashi.

  45. #60 Mwana ka Kalunda, nakusakilili nankashi Nzambi akuhembi mandumi oku ku London wudi. Your words are not only inspiring but unifying too. Anami nawa nafuma ku Mwinilunga atata na mama aku Mwinilunga, ilan’ga ami nekala mu Lusaka. Chikuwaha neyi tukudiluka.

  46. KA VJ YOU SHUD STOP POLITICS AND CONCENTRATE ON ARVS. TIME IS NOT WITH YOU MUDALA. TETA HAS ALREADY FORMED MMD IN HELL SO YOU CAN GO EARLY TO PICK KA BU VP.

  47. Chapman, what do u mean Mpombo is a mouth piece of Zambians, NOT ME! Mpombo just talks rubbish and for once i support VJ. Indeed Zambians forget easily, who can forget Mpombo the bootlicker always kneeling before Levy, this man is just like shikapwasha, mulongoti, mabenga etc. If Mulongoti fell off with RB, The Post and most zambians will be praising him just because he will be on the other side. Mpombo is just a chap who is swallowing his own bitter pills, actually he is part of the cause of mess we are in together with VJ, Sata, Shikapwasha, Kunda and the whole rotten MMD.

  48. Eyi mukwetu 66, ami yami Muzeya . neyi wutemeshi nsangu wutemeshi ha [email protected]. Na kuli na wakwetu atushiya dehi a Froster Kanganja, a Happy Kapita, ni niwu wunatushiyi Teta twadinghi nindi ku shikola, a Roger, a kamawu diwu antangha. Wejima wetu bayi tudi a mukukulungaku, ilanga tuzatili hamu. Neyi muntemeshela ka message tu kutachika kuhosha, mulonga nakwinza katataka neyi Nzambi neteji.
    Nukuhembela mazu enu ni kalunda wejima wa kenga muchidu wetu. Ami heala nansumbula mutoka nyana ejima ekela namajina a chilunda, womba, Nkisu, nyanjengu

  49. it seems the man is about to leave his own legacy otherwise translated as what you will be remembered for when you die.1. innability to form lasting family relationships
    2. failure to hold down a job and life long dependence on GRZ for livelyhood
    3. dabbling in narcotics and other organised crimes
    4. lack of own personal principles expressed by agreeing anyone in plot one until they are done with him or he becomes an embarrassment
    5. readily available to do some any dirty stuff for others (vote rigging) for abit more of GRZ 6. BEING UNPHASED ABOUT ANY OF THAT

  50. #69 Lubs. You have made my day, I absolutely don’t even need to comment any more………

  51. VJ you have outlived your political life span. Who doesn’t know about you crooked ways since you childhood? Mwanawasa retired you but RB since he was disparate of winning election through rigging he brought you back. Because of you bad behaviour you will never inspire anyone. Look at the way you look like? You are turn gray showing that you are finished. Why can’t you just leave Zambia and shut up your big Bick. You are nonsense. You are an old man without substance. You are the person who will never real accept that you are old and you need to close your Bick. You are the most useless crook I have ever known. You evil acts will haunt you all the way up to hail. You are such nonsense. Give us a break we want to hear from new people not you Chi VJ. Naukota chimudala kabiye kamushi.

  52. Leave Mpombo alone….do your job and sort out Zesco and Indeni. Useless , greedy ,selfish Chiluba idolising MMD party.

  53. The pact will and shall never rule Zambia, dont be mistaken by the rubish from the post , you shall be led astray with wishfull day dreaming like sata, who have tried it i dont no how many pple but God and the pple have categorically refused him as head of the nation.
    So all you pple think that pact will rule continue dream but i can assure yaa all that Sata wil go the grave opposing and HH is not even worth taking about, bcuase he is nothing but a shame to his tribe and his party that he has sold to ……………………………

  54. #73 Do you honestly think the dinosaurs and recycled politicians like Vj are the ones to rule Z???? leave HH alone at least he is trying to stand up against a greedy regime. 20 yrs of MMD is destroying Zed.

  55. #73 with all the respect I have for all people do you really think HH can be compared to Venon Mwanga, Shikapwasha , Mulongoti and all the as***les that you think are clever????? wait you will be shocked. All those who think MMd is doing something good for mother Zambia are behaving like a teenager blindly in Love with a criminal. Maybe someone can aggree with me that Kafupi and his flok are a banch of serious criminals and those who are in support gain a lot of hard earned stolen tax payers money from them. You have have stolen pafula leave room for others to try and develop the country ba phicolor.

  56. Why do you wish people to die? How do you know that VJ is dying soon? No one is immortal. We shall all die whether thin or fat. Critisize what a person is saying than talking about his health. This is the major problem with this blog. It is full of people who are frustrated. Let us be mature and stop insulting. Indeed, some people use this blog objectively and sensible but others have nothing credible to contribute and end up writing the products of excretion.

  57. VJ has reached a point of no return it is good to leave friends behind than enemies; oldman put your house in order better you forcus, your life on where to spend eternity rather than continue with politics

  58. Never mind the messenger, but take the message. Does that sound familiar? Indeed Mpombo is some indisciplined, and contradictory clown who does not know where he is going or coming from. While propagating the need for democracy and a convention in his party, he flirts with PF which has never and will never hold a convention. And some bloggers are busy singing praise songs, how daft!

  59. VJ ‘s education is just too little and for one, I cannot expect him to understand the intricacies of modern politics. They are just too complex and are confusing his head. By the way, the man looks sooo unhealthy, could it be the STD he harvested from Tshala’s well that is engulfing him with fire? You bet it is!

  60. Mpombo is a spent force. He is failing to accept that his bululus are no longer in charge. Simply listen to people like Gabriel Namulambe and you will appreciate what iam talking about.

  61. What is the % of lambas in zed and when did they become prominent? Shakafuswa and Mpombo lampooned and insulted the man who helped Levy mwanawasa become President. I am asking because Mpombo and Nalubambe are provoking the situation. When these people are waxing in fat and money they forget that they are lambas. When they are fired or lose a major position in government, they suddenly remember their tribe. Today we have Mpombo switching loyalty to Mr Sata, does he know what he is doing?

  62. Now that Mulongoti has the change of heart what is the comment from Mushosha. Veteran and others say. They behave like zombies who are easily manupluted to believe in anything that their sponsors say.

  63. Mpombo and Mamulambe are flying too close to the sun, they may have their wings burnt. These hangers on were virtually unknown before Chiluba nominated their uncle in 2001. Today they want to hold Rupiah Banda to ransom. Can they tell us the % of lambas in Zambia. When a dull cabinet minister claims to represent a group of zambians, he must be sacked and a by election held. There will be always another lamba willing to replace namulambe – guaranteed.

  64. Viva VJ you are a great leader, most of you frustrated bloggers will never achieve what VJ has achieved. Everyone makes mistakes in life and God forgives and is the only one who judges. MAY THE ALMIGHTY GOD BE YOUR PROTECTOR VJ.

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