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Disenchanted with the endless killings across the country, particularly in Kaduna State, the House of Representatives, last week, called for the removal of the National Security Adviser. PHILIP NYAM reports

Every discerning Nigerian is worried over the spate of killings across the country. For some time now, no day passes without reports of Nigerians being killed in one community or the other either by Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgents, bandits, unknown gunmen, ritualists, kidnappers or cultists. It has become a recurrent decimal although the government has always assured Nigerians that the armed forces and security agencies are up to the task.

The negative impact of the killings is fast becoming overwhelming. Whether in the North-East, North-West, North Central, South-East, South-South or South-West, it is indeed a sad era in the history of the nation. Apparently frustrated by the sordid stories of killings, kidnappings and destruction of communities by insurgents and other criminal elements, the House of Representatives upon the adoption of a motion of urgent national importance, last week, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to relieve his National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd) of his duties for abysmal performance.

The House equally urged the Federal Government to direct the Inspector General of Police and the Chief of Army Staff to deploy Special Forces to Birnin Gwari and Giwa Federal Constituency of Kaduna State to combat bandits terrorising the people.

The House in an emotion-laden session also urged the Federal Government to set up camps for internally displaced persons and to equally provide relief materials to offer succour to victims of the attacks. The motion These resolutions were consequent upon a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Hon. Shehu Balarabe, (APC, Kaduna).

In presenting the motion, the lawmaker expressed concerns over rising activities of Bandits in Birnin Gwari and Giwa communities in the past few weeks. He said that between March 24 and 28, over 117 people were killed, 130 abducted and over 10,463 people displaced, following series of attacks launched by bandits across communities in his constituency.

The lawmaker added that countless cattle were rustled, while houses and other valuables belonging to his constituents were razed during the invasions by the bandits. He called on the Inspector General of Police and the chiefs of Army and Air Staff to mobilise more personnel to the area. Hon. Balarabe further called on the Air Force to be more proactive in responding to attacks by insurgents as its helicopter that is supposed to be for rapid response has never engaged the bandits when called. He also appealed to the relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in charge of setting up and equipping Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps to help shelter the displaced citizens, especially as the rain is fast approaching. He further called on the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and other relevant agencies to assist the victims with stipends for survival.

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In supporting the motion, the House Majority Leader, Hon Alhassan Ado-Doguwa (APC, Kano) said: Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak in the capacity of the Majority Leader, who of course is the ambassador of government on this floor. You can see how this chamber has been thrown into disquiet over the motion.

When you have a government in place, the major responsibility of that government, especially a democratic one, which was elected by the people is to ensure safety of lives and property of citizens. When things like this continue on daily basis, those of us who are representatives of the government become speechless. We become speechless here to defend actions by the government.

This is an elected government under a popular democracy but we continue day in, day out killings, massacre, armed robbery all over, left, right and centre. This is a report from just one local government out of the 774. The case of Giwa is not just a new case; he (Balarabe) is only giving us the most recent happening. Giwa has been engulfed by killings in the last two, three years.

The House majority leader wondered why Kaduna, which houses key military and defence institutions and infrastructure, had become the epicentre of killings and activities of bandits and terrorists. His words: This is Kaduna where you have the representation of the Nigerian military and other security agencies; the highest you can count in the northern part of the country.

Why should this thing continue to happen? I think government and officials of government and even the security agencies are under democratic authorities. Government in this case has to rise up to its responsibility, call a spade, a spade. If it is about funding, each of us here knows we have never had any cause to contemplate funding our security agencies. I believe our relevant committees are following up in terms of implementation of such funding through our budget and their oversight processes.

Why should things continue this way? We are here for the Nigerian people and we must speak for Nigerian people. We cannot sit down here and fold our arms; the people who elected us are being killed by the day. I think if there is any other thing, I should add to this motion, Mr. Speaker with due respect to our institutions, on account of this institutional failure, regimental failure on the part of our security agencies because you have just no cause to raise excuse. Funding is provided.

Here we are now as an institution, we have now sent an invitation, come and meet with the people of Nigeria, come and interface with us. Lets see how we can put heads together and address some of these perennial problems. At the end of the day, right from head to top; the Inspector General of Police, everyone of them sent a representative. This is a matter that is beyond a mere representative. Every commanding officer of a security agency owes Nigeria a duty to come and honour the call of the parliament.

Im not trying to preempt the actions and the good intentions of the committee set by this honourable House but security agencies have to stand up. With all sense of responsibility, I think Nigerians should at this moment be allowed to also take up arms. Ado-Doguwa expressed grave concern that Nigerians must be allowed to take up arms in defence and their hard-earned property because it is like a monumental failure. If the agencies of security have failed, then Nigerians should not be seen as failures. Let Nigerians organise themselves in the way of civil defence.

Let organise defence for their innocent souls, because, if the responsibility of the government cannot be carried out democratically, then everyone has the cause to defend himself. In his contribution, Hon. Haruna Mshelia (APC, Borno) noted that when things happen for a long time, people tend to forget. I concur with all the previous speakers, particularly our leader who spoke very well, but I want to remind the House that in Borno State, its still simmering. In fact, there is a local government call Guzamala, up till now, there is no a single soul living there.

In my constituency, which is the southern part, three communities were recently attacked, one in Igbohi ward called kilangala, where they attacked and destroyed property, another one on Gudi where the youth leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was killed, and in Geraha in Gida ward, where they displaced people and destroyed their property. Hitting the nail on the head, Hon.Nasiru Ali Ahmed (APC, Kano) said: I will start in sympathizing with all those who lost their lives, kidnapped or injured, in this horrible and tragic incident that happened in Kaduna.

I said it before in this chamber, from 2015 when this government came into power, how many service chiefs have we had, how many IGP have we had? Some have come and gone but only one person has not been changed up till today, and that is the National Security Adviser, what is the job of the National Security Adviser? Do we have a National Security Adviser at all? The agencies that have been mentioned, from the Army to Navy, Air Force, Police, Department of State Services, all of these agencies are accountable to National Security Adviser.

Mr. Speaker, from the interviews that I had of the people, who survived the incident, few days ago, they said, most of these criminals were between the ages the 16 and 18, with guns, Are we safe? We are saying that, the Nigerian Army, the Nigerian Navy, Air Force and police, with all the training that they have had, with the international training they have had, that a rag tag army of young boys are more powerful than them? Mr. Speaker, this madness has to stop, it simply has to stop. You travel by road, you are kidnapped; you go by train, you are kidnapped. Last week, the airport was attacked by bandits.

You sit at home you are kidnapped, you send your children to school they are kidnapped. A few weeks ago, somebody was kidnapped in the hospital, so where are you going to stay? You can be kidnapped right in this chamber, Mr. Speaker, what do we tell our people, the people who elected us, do we just fold our hands? I want to use this opportunity again to call for the resignation of the National Security Adviser; he must be removed. The call by Ahmed jolted the Deputy Speaker, Idris Ahmed Wase, who presided over the session, prompting him to appeal for understanding among his colleagues. He interjected, saying: I want to beg the House; let us not be too emotional, a lot of things are wrong. Every Nigerian in terms of the outcry of what is happening at this moment want us to step-up oversight and assignments that hav been given to us.

We should do the work diligently and report back to the House. Also expressing anger, Hon. Dachung Musa Bagos (PDP, Plateau) wondered why the promises made to Nigerians by politicians to tackle insecurity, when they were campaigning, have not been fulfilled. He called for a suspension of releases of appropriated funds to the security agencies until they can properly account for such expended funds. Hon. Ahmadu Usman Jaha (APC, Borno), in his contribution, said: In 2021, we budgeted N460 billion for the Nigerian Army alone, only N29 billion was for capital expenditure, the remaining was for recurrent expenditure.

In 2022, we budgeted N571 billion for the Nigerian Army alone, only N37 billion is capital expenditure, the remaining was for recurrent expenditure. The truth of the matter is that security in Nigeria has become a cash cow business. I am not willing to go without taking my own and he is not willing to go with taking his own and the other person is not willing to leave until when he gets his own.

Its just like a medical doctor putting professionalism aside. You presented a patient and as a patients relative you say every month Ill give you N100 million until the patient recovers or otherwise. The doctor will make sure that the patient does not die as well as continue to ensure that he does not recover because he will keep collecting the money. It is a simple analysis every person can understand. This is a cash cow business, they dont do it to finish because they will realize that everybodys attention was diverted towards the North- East, Okay, let them release North- East to some extent and go to north- West after North-West they move to South-West. Before you realise what is happening, the whole country is gutted with security challenges.

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First Look Media laid off 20 employees on Wednesday, including five reporters from investigative news outlet The Interceptone of whom played a pivotal role in reporting on multiple scandals involving the National Security Agency.

In an email sent to all staffers on Wednesday afternoon, obtained by The Daily Beast and first reported by Axios, First Look Media CEO Michael Bloom blamed the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic for forcing the company to make some incredibly difficult decisions as we continue to maneuver through these unprecedented times.

Adding that the nonprofit is now entering a new phase, Bloom wrote that in order to ensure the long-term health of our organizations First Look is recalibrating our operations and unfortunately having to part ways with some of our beloved colleagues.

Founded in 2013 by eBay creator Pierre Omidyar, First Look Media houses not only The Intercept but also the Press Freedom Defense Fund, a nonprofit media support group, as well as documentary film studio Field of Vision, and for-profit content studio Topic Studio and streaming service Topic.

Blooms email and First Looks rationale for the layoffs that also impacted The Intercept didnt sit well with much of the staff, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

While The Intercept is doing some of its best reporting since its inception, time and time again the parent company appears to be floundering in bad branding and ill-advised schemes to become profitable. If just months ago Topic was hitting some key milestones, why was The Intercept put in the position to fire 5 staffers? photo editor Elise Swain told The Daily Beast.

Senior leadership was forced to make an impossible decision and we lost an excellent reporter in Alleen Brown as well as a dedicated video producer and more. Now, further staff positions arent able to be back-filled. Blooms email to the staff uses the pandemicthis act of godas a scapegoat while the real blame lies with himself, an apparently failing subscription video on demand (SVOD) service, an expensive office, and the board's demand for skulls, she added. The email from Bloom verges on offensive: Dont gaslight journalists.

While the email sent to First Look employees didnt include the names of any of those impacted by the layoffs, one staffer took to social media to announce that shed been let go.

Just got laid off from @theintercept, reporter Alleen Brown tweeted on Wednesday. I cover environmental justice, especially where it intersects with criminalization, incarceration, Indigenous affairs, labor, I could go on. DMs are open if youre hiring.

The Daily Beast has confirmed that along with Brown, other Intercept journalists that were let go include tech editor Ryan Tate, investigative researcher W. Paul Smith, documentary producer Paul Abowd, and investigative reporter Matthew Cole, the former NBC News reporter who in 2013 collaborated with Glenn Greenwald on reporting stories based on NSA subcontractor Edward Snowdens leak of highly classified documents revealing U.S. global surveillance programs. Cole continued to work on such stories after The Intercept hired him in 2015.

The layoffs were spread out across both the nonprofit and for-profit portions of the organization, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Tate, for his part, spoke highly of The Intercept when reached for comment by The Daily Beast. As someone who was there for seven plus years, since not long after the founding, Ive seen The Intercept morph and evolve repeatedly like the media startup that it is, and given how much incredible talent they still retain, and the still substantial resources they possess, I genuinely believe they are on the verge of a bright and sustainable future, he stated.

Aside from his work on the Snowden revelations, Cole was notably one of the journalists involved in The Intercepts infamous NSA bombshell that unwittingly resulted in the arrest and conviction of whistleblower Reality Winner, who provided hacked documents to the outlet.

On Wednesday night, The Intercepts union released a statement in response to the layoffs, saying they did not need to occur.

These appear to be the first company-wide layoffs since First Look shuttered access to Snowdens tranche of leaked NSA documents and let go of several researchers who maintained those documents in 2019.

First Look did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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SHERIDAN Speaking at a Republican Women of Sheridan County meeting Tuesday, U.S. House challenger Harriet Hageman spoke of Wyoming as a shining city on a hill that needs to be protected.

Hageman said she worked to do this in her legal career and would do the same if elected to the House.

What we do, what were able to produce, what we believe in, our faith, our family, our community all those things are very important, and things that we need to protect, Hageman said.

Hageman has practiced law in the private sector across Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska, and ran in the 2018 Wyoming governors race. A former political ally of Rep. Liz Cheney, Hageman chose to run for the House seat following Cheneys public criticisms of former President Donald Trump.

Like many Wyomingites, I supported Liz Cheney when she ran for Congress, Hageman said in a statement announcing her bid last year. But then she betrayed Wyoming, she betrayed this country, and she betrayed me.

A February Wyoming Republican State Central Committee straw poll solidified Hageman as the candidate to beat in the House race this year. Hageman received 59 votes in the poll of Republican party activists. Cheney, her next closest competitor, had six.

Hageman has received Trumps endorsement for the position, and when asked during the meeting who she would support for president in 2024, Hageman spoke kindly of Trump, along with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Donald Trump exposed the dark underbelly of Washington, D.C., and he did a huge public service by doing that, Hageman said. I had some criticism of President Trump when he was running, but Donald Trump did what he said he was going to do, especially on the big issues.

Hageman was critical of about current President Joseph Biden and his administrations energy policies, which she said has led to inflation of gas prices.

Hes destroyed everything hes touched, Hageman said. Ive never seen an administration where every decision they make is not only wrong, its catastrophicI believe, truly, there is a special place in hell for people who adopt policies intended to increase the costs of housing, food and energyand thats what theyve done.

Hageman also spoke critically of the U.S. House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack, and their investigations into the insurrection that took place at the U.S. Capitol in early 2021.

One of the important things that has always set our country apart is we believe in equal protection, Hageman said. It doesnt matter who youre connected to or who you are. What were seeing with this is they have selected this group of people and they are persecuting them. It is a tragedy, and when we retake the House and the Senate, I think there will hopefully be some changes with that.

Hageman was one of a long list of Republican political candidates who made an appearance at a Republican Women of Sheridan County meeting Monday.

Joining Hageman at the meeting was governor candidate Brent Bien; Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Tom Kelly; House District 29 challenger Ken Pendergraft; House District 30 incumbent Rep. Mark Jennings, R-Sheridan; Sheridan County sheriff candidates Zach McLain and Roger Miller; Sheridan County coroner candidate Dr. Robert Byrd; Sheridan City Council candidate Andrew Patceg; and Sheridan County School District 1 board member candidate Bill Adsit.

While the offices the candidates were running for were diverse, all candidates expressed a desire to protect their constituents freedoms and protect Wyoming from the influences of the political left and others who might not have the states best interests at heart.

I feel like city councils job is to stand strong against the constant attempts to import ideas and culture that is contrary to Sheridans history and values, Patceg said. This is the arena I feel called to and where I can make a difference.

I am not running for state superintendent because I am an educational professional, which I am, Kelly said. Im running because this is my home, and I have come from places where the threats to our children have already won. Illinois. Colorado. Its not going to happen here, and thats why Im running.

Like many of the candidates at the meeting, Hageman promised that, if elected, she would fight what she sees as the federal governments efforts to limit citizens constitutional rights.

I never in a million years thought my country would do what my country has done in the last two years, Hageman said. And Im going to tell you right now, we cant tolerate it at all. We have to fight back. We have to fight back in Wyoming. We have to fight back across this country.

The candidate filing period for public office opens May 12 and will continue through May 27.

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Wilson County residents who want to vote in their county mayors race and a number of other seats will need to cast Republican ballots in the May 3 primary.

Incumbent Randall Hutto and challenger Phillip Warren are running for mayor, both as Republicanswith no Democratic or independent challenger.

Circuit court clerk and several county commission seats are among other contests with only GOP candidates as early voting for the primary begins Wednesday and continues through April 28.

There is only oneDemocratic candidate in the local primary, Belita McMurray-Fite, who is running for an at-large Lebanon Special School District seat.

Wilson County has a handful of independent candidates qualifying for select seats. Independents are not part of the May 3 ballot but will face Republican and Democratic nominees for those respective seats on Aug. 4.

More: Meet the Wilson County primary candidates and your vote now is vital. Early voting starts April 13

The primary leaves area Democrats in an odd place, Bobby Francis of the Wilson County Democratic Party Executive Committee Chair said. I only vote Democrat.

Tennessee is an open primary state.

State law to vote in the primary includes:

Or:

Closed primaries, which require a voter to be a registered party member, would needlegislative action.

We encourage all citizens to exercise their right to vote at every possible opportunity, including the Republican Primary on May 3, Wilson County Republican Party Chair Brad Lytle said. We do have concerns about illicit crossover voting in our open primaries, and we encourage our legislators to consider closed primaries, limiting them to only those who are registered in the appropriate party.

Both Wilson Countys Democratic and Republican parties called for primaries to precede the county general election in August. Primaries have occurred in Wilson County, but have been infrequent overseveral decades in the county.

Francis believes intimidation stopped potential Democratic candidates from running for local seats.Francis believes the landscape under Tennessee Democratic Party Chair Hendrell Remus is changing.

Early voting and election day voting centers will have signs and poll workers to guide voters to look at the sample ballots, Wilson County Administrator of Elections Tammy Smith said.

Voters can change their mind on party affiliation after they request a ballot, but the ballot is final once it goes through the tabulator, Smith said.

The primary has no certified write-in candidates eligible to be counted in the upcoming primary, Smith said. Write-in candidates had to be certified by noon, March 14.

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In one of the final acts in a 24-year political career, the Republican chief justice of the Ohio supreme court is defying her party and refusing to let them distort electoral districts to their advantage, a move that has some fellow Republicans calling for her impeachment.

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Since January, Chief Justice Maureen OConnor has served as the decisive vote on three separate occasions blocking Ohio Republicans from enacting proposed state legislative maps. She also sided with Democrats to block an initial GOP proposal for congressional districts before going into effect in January. Those decisions have prompted chatter among Republicans about impeaching OConnor, 70, who will leave the court after nearly two decades at the end of this year because she has reached the mandatory retirement age for judges in Ohio.

OConnor has a long independent streak. A decade ago, she joined a dissent when the supreme court upheld the state legislative districts drawn by Republicans. I broke away from the mould in some peoples minds, she would later say of that decision. Party affiliation should not and people have to understand it should not have anything to do with how a judge does their job.

In 2018, she joined with the lone Democrat on the court to dissent from a ruling upholding the forced closure of the last abortion clinic in Toledo. She has backed criminal justice and bail reform, as other Ohio Republicans are pushing to make it harder for someone to be released on bond. She has called for less partisan influence in the way judges are elected in the state. In 2020, just before the presidential election, she blasted the state Republican party for accusing a local judge of colluding with Democrats, saying the attack was disgraceful and deceitful.

Shes no shrinking violet. Shes got sharp elbows, said Paul Pfeifer, a Republican who served on the supreme court with OConnor from when she joined in 2003 until he retired in 2017. No amount of public criticism is going to change her mind if she feels that shes right in the position shes taking.

William ONeill, a Democrat who served with OConnor on the court from 2013 to 2019, said she was the justice he wound up voting with the most. They were the only two members of the court who dissented in 2018 in the Toledo abortion clinic case.

She can be swayed to reasonable arguments, he said. Her legacy is already carved in stone. The stand she is taking is consistent with her entire career.

Shes also one of the most successful politicians in the history of Ohio, said David Pepper, a former chair of the Ohio Democratic party. Shes been elected five times statewide, none of which have been close. The then Ohio governor, Robert Taft, picked the former prosecutor to be his running mate in 1998 to add law enforcement experience to the ticket. Once she was elected lieutenant governor, she oversaw the states department of public safety, taking on a leading role after the 9/11 attacks. She would travel overseas with troops being deployed from Ohio, even though that doesnt typically fall within the responsibilities of her role.

She took the initiative to do that and I would say it was above and beyond what she would have to do in her role, Taft said in an interview. She was part of our team but she was also her own person. She was an independent thinker.

She was elected to the court in 2002, and became chief justice in 2010.

Now, OConnor and the court are not backing down in their refusal to let Republicans in the state get away with one of the most brazen efforts to gerrymander electoral districts to their benefit.

A new provision in the Ohio constitution requires partisan makeup of the states 132 legislative districts roughly reflect the partisan breakdown of statewide elections over the last decade, which is 54% Republican and 46% Democrat. The three plans Republicans have passed so far, and a fourth one currently pending before the court, however, would enable Republicans to win a veto-proof majority in the legislature in a favorable year for the party.

The constitutional violations of the maps that the Ohio redistricting commission continues to pass are obvious, said Jen Miller, the executive director of the Ohio chapter of the League of Women Voters, which is involved in suits challenging the plans.

Republicans have forged a sneaky attempt to enact their maps. The initial plan the court struck down in January would have given them control of 64.4% of districts. They then submitted a new plan to the court that nominally had the required 54-46 split, but several of the districts were barely majority Democratic essentially toss-ups meaning Republicans could still win them in a favorable election. After the court rejected that plan, Republicans came back with a third plan that slightly increased the Democratic majority in those districts, which was again rejected by the court. Last month, Republicans submitted a fourth plan that took the same approach.

Its a pure power play, said Paul Beck, a retired political science professor at the Ohio State University. Its almost like theyre saying we have the power to do this and so were gonna do it.

OConnor has bluntly called out the way Ohio Republicans are abusing the redistricting process. The first time the court struck down the legislative maps, back in January, she went out of her way to write a concurring opinion urging Ohio voters to strip lawmakers of their redistricting power entirely.

Having now seen first-hand that the current Ohio Redistricting Commission comprised of statewide elected officials and partisan legislators is seemingly unwilling to put aside partisan concerns as directed by the peoples vote, Ohioans may opt to pursue further constitutional amendment to replace the current commission with a truly independent, nonpartisan commission that more effectively distances the redistricting process from partisan politics, she wrote.

The standoff has left Ohio at a chaotic impasse. Unlike supreme courts in other states, like Virginia that have stepped in to draw maps, the Ohio supreme court is prohibited from making its own plan. Early voting began on 5 April without state legislative districts on the ballot. Last month, a coalition of civic action groups challenged the maps to request that the redistricting commission be held in contempt for failing to comply with the courts orders.

The hard line from OConnor and three other Democrats on the supreme court, where Republicans have a 4-3 majority, is extremely consequential. This is the first redistricting cycle the partisan fairness requirements are in effect (voters approved them overwhelmingly through a ballot measure in 2015). By refusing to accept the Republican maps, OConnor and the court are setting a precedent that signals how aggressively the justices are going to police partisan gerrymandering.

The consequence of caving would be a disaster. This has gone from a battle over democracy in Ohio to a battle over democracy and the rule of law in Ohio, said Pepper, the former Democratic party chair. No other citizens who violate the law four times get rewarded for it.

After the court blocked Republican maps for the third time, Republicans in the statehouse began openly weighing her impeachment, according to the Columbus Dispatch. Its time to impeach Maureen OConnor now, Scott Wiggam, a GOP state Representative, tweeted. I dont understand what the woman wants, state representative Sara Carruthers told the Dispatch. Ohios secretary of state, Frank LaRose, a Republican who sits on the panel that draws districts, said recently he would not stand in the way of an impeachment effort, saying she has not upheld her oath of office.

Ohios governor, Mike DeWine, a Republican who also sits on the redistricting panel, has been more outspoken against impeachment. I dont think we want to go down that pathway because we disagree with a decision by a court, because we disagree with a decision by an individual judge or justice, he said in March.

Though its unclear if the impeachment effort will move forward, many doubted it would succeed.

Both ONeill and Pfeifer, the former justices who served with OConnor said they were confident the impeachment efforts would not affect her work. What in the world is she supposed to have done that violated her oath of office?, ONeill said.

It will have the opposite effect of what theyre seeking.

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