‘Power is the highest priority of this administration’
After
about two years in power, President Yar Adua finally spoke with the
media in an
interaction he bared his mind on issues of corruption, the Niger
Delta and plans for
development under his 7-Point Agenda. Excerpts
NIGERIANS really want to hear from you and we hope that you will
use this medium to speak frankly and candidly. In a few weeks,
you will be two years in office and we must be frank with
ourselves that the impression out there is still one of things yet
to pick up and a pace still far behind what is expected. We
know all the slogans: The Seven-Point Agenda, Vision 20-2020 and so
on. But what exactly is going on? Where is Nigeria going? What are
you out to achieve and what exactly should Nigerians expect?
We believe in free market economy
There is no correlation between the pace and perception; the
perception of the pace of our progress is sometimes different
from the reality. Progress is a function of a combination of
factors which include resources, capacity and planning ...Now one of
the things we have done is to identify the enablers that will
ensure that Nigeria becomes one of the modern economies within
a specific time frame. That is why we have Vision 20-2020, which
everybody knows about, I hope. Then, the enablers: what are
those things that must be done and must be done correctly? So
we identified that the economy has to grow by double digit over a
period of over a decade and above, which will enable this
country to have a modernised economy to fall within the region of 20
developed economies of the world. Unless we are able to achieve
that we will not be able to accomplish this objective. And what are
those things that we must do? What we have identified first is
the kind of system we are operating: the economic system. So
we have adopted the free market economy whereby we try to get the
enabling environment in place for the private sector to be at the
driving seat with regards to production.
It is dangerous to leave the economy at the hands of private sector
Now, with slight modification, given the experience of today, which
shows that leaving the economy completely to the private
sector has its own inherent dangers, which is mostly
responsible for what is happening in the world today due to the
failure of the regulations or supervision. That is why we have
identified seven (7) critical areas that are the enablers:
that is infrastructure; we mean critical infrastructure as the most
important, without which we cannot achieve any goals.
Transport and power infrastructures are critical here. Without
power and energy we cannot build a modern economy. You cannot make
the economy to grow the kind of growth that is required and
that is why power is the highest priority of this
administration. The second one is transport infrastructure such as
road, railway, waterways, ports and airports. These
infrastructure are critical. As at today, inadequate
infrastructure accounts for 20% of inflation in the country. You can
see the kind of problem that we have in terms of transport
infrastructure alone. We just have to be able to move goods
and people. Then food security and agriculture is what generates a
lot of jobs for the people because the bottom-line is that wealth
creation has to do with job creation.
We want to grow the economy to create jobs
The bottom-line in terms of whatever we do is this: we want to grow
the economy so that people will have jobs. So, agriculture and
land reform come in here. Land administration because, I
always said that one of the things that we failed to do in this
country is to bring land to play its part in the development
of the national economy as a capital asset. And this is why
land reform and modernisation of the land administration form part
of the 7- Point Agenda because it will have a great impact on
the modernisation of the national economy. We feel people
should take initiative and get empowered. Nigerians all over the
country own lands, farmlands. You go to rural areas, people have
lands and houses where they are domiciled both in urban and
rural areas. But because the land administration system does
not allow these lands to come to the people as assets, as wealth,
they cannot use these as exchange for capital to invest. That
is why we have included this land reform as a critical issue on the
agenda.
The Niger Delta is the backbone for our modern economy
The Niger Delta is where we have resources such as crude oil and gas
and petrol chemicals as backbones for some of the needs of a
modern economy, mostly power and energy. Crude oil and gas are
the enablers for power and energy and the crisis in the delta region
and insecurity in particular is affecting production and
forming an impediment to investment. I have a firm belief that
throughout the continent, the Niger region has the greatest
potentials for wealth creation than any other region in
Africa. If you have peace in the area and you have
infrastructure that will enable development to come to Niger Delta,
within one and half decade, it will be the petrochemical hub
of the African continent. If we lose the opportunity, there
are other areas: Angola for example, before the end of the civil war
in Angola, Africa South of Sahara, we were about the only one.
But now there is peace in Angola. The civil war is over after
over 20 years of fighting a war and now they are settling down and
if we are not careful, investment that should naturally flow from
all parts the world into the Niger Delta will now go to
Angola. That is why we have to take this issue of Niger Delta very
seriously as part of the 7-point agenda.
Investors will not come to hostile environment
Generally no investor, domestic and foreign, will want to invest in
an environment where their investment is not secure. So
security has thus been made part of the 7-point agenda. So,
these are the steps, the enablers that this nation must adopt for us
achieve a double digit growth rate. Besides, we are carrying
out reforms in various sectors. The public sector reform
within the civil service to build capacity is related to the seventh
one I have not mentioned: Human Capital. Of course, no matter
the kind of environment; when you put these enablers on
ground, you must have the manpower - educated and skilled manpower -
to operate within those sectors, especially education and health
that determine quality of human capital. We have a large
population, which is an advantage. It will be a disadvantage
if the potential and capacity is not developed. But when the
capacity and potential is developed, this huge population
becomes a great advantage. Now the reforms of the macro-economic
system are going on.
The private sector is critical
What we are doing with regards to implementing the seven point
agenda is trying to bring in the private sector to come into
infrastructure development. At the end of the campaigns, I set
up a small committee to work out roughly what we will require in
terms of infrastructure development and we require an
investment of about $10 billion annually for the next ten
years to ensure the development of infrastructure in this country to
support the kind of economy we want to grow. And government
cannot do that alone because for now, government resources are
just inadequate. So, we decided that one of the things we need to do
is to bring in the private sector into the infrastructure
development. Once we do that the roads, the railways. Already
effort has begun with ports and waterways and airports as well as in
power. If we get the private sector to come and invest in these
sectors, the money released from these areas will now go to
fund the social sector such as education and health to enable us
have enough resources to produce human capacity that we require
while the infrastructure that is put in place will now help
resources coming not only from government but from the private
sector. And that is why we have decided to embark on the reform of
the petroleum sector to make the NNPC a National Oil Company to go
and compete with other oil companies like Shell, Aramco of Saudi
Arabia and Agip so that we separate production and distribution from
regulation and ownership.
Our plans for joint ventures
From the beginning, we have decided that once the National Assembly
pass the reform bill, we will allocate some blocks to the
national oil company to give it an asset base like other oil
companies, where it can use its reserve to get credit so that
government will be relieved from funding Joint Ventures from
the cash calls annually. These calls will go into
infrastructure and human development. This way, the current Joint
Ventures we have, we will incorporate them so that each Joint
Venture will become incorporated. Government will surrender
some of its shares to Nigerians who want to invest in the oil and
gas sector so that each Joint Venture is an incorporated
company with the NNPC as a national oil company. Nigerians who
buy interest will float these shares in the Stock Exchange so that
the shares can be quoted. It will now run as an incorporated
joint venture and will not depend on government at all for
finances. So these are the critical major changes taking place to
ensure that we achieve the target of a double-digit growth rate.
Even with the recession, we still recorded 6 per cent growth
rate by December of last year. I think the figure for the
first quarter of this year is also hovering around that figure. So
this is the overall strategic plan that we have. And to do this, we
need to plan for each sector.
Our score card
And I will tell you the progress that we have made. We take the
power sector. I have explained it and other officials have
explained that as at today, we have so far managed to sustain
our production of electricity to between 2,700 megawatts and 3,000
megawatts. When I say we have managed to sustain, when you
know the problem afflicting the power sector you will know
that so far this is not an easy achievement. Most of the generating
and transmitting and distribution facilities need total
rehabilitation as some of them have not been rehabilitated for
the past 40 years. For some, the routine Turn-Around Maintenance has
not been carried out over time. So, you find the generating plants,
the turbines now have short lifespan because of the way they
are maintained. Some are at the end of their life-spans. We
also have the problem of gas which we are trying our best to tackle
now. We have tried to maintain these 2,700 to 3,000 megawatts.
Sometimes, we experience system shut-down due to pipeline
vandalisation by people who steal condensate, which sometimes
results in production cut down to 1,200 or sometime 1,000 megawatts
and it takes two to three days or even sometimes four to five
weeks before repair can be effected. Now this is the situation
as at today. We have a plan to generate 6,000 megawatts by December
this year and also to generate 10,000 megawatts by the end of
2011. Not only to generate this but to ensure that the power
generated is transmitted and distributed. These plans we have begun
to implement simultaneously by doing all the rehabilitation
that we need to do; the critical transmission lines that we
need to repair because the transmission lines that we have; the
integrity of transmission and distribution lines has been very poor.
Over the years; just like generation itself, there has not
been major maintenance. So we are doing that now in the programme.
Besides, we are constructing new transmission lines to ensure that
we achieve the plan of transmitting the 6,000 megawatts and by
2011 the transmission of 10,000 megawatts. These two
programmes we have begun to implement with PHCN programme and NIPP
programme. What we are doing now is supervising the projects
that are on-going making sure that everything is okay. Even
with all the problems associated with it, we are tackling them and I
am confident, fully confident, that this target will be met.
And I have asked the minister and the power committee to work
out the period and pace we need to generate not less than 25,000
megawatts by the target period of 2020. I have no doubt in my
mind that once we achieve the 10,000 megawatts by 2011, by
2015 we will have another generation of about the same amount. So
they are working on another plan covering 2015 and 2020. This
is the situation report. Gas projects, Joint Venture projects
are going on now. All the time the Cash-calls since the
independence, the attention of government has been on the production
of crude petroleum every year until this year, 2009. For the
first time, we voted $1.5 billion as cash call for the Gas
Joint Venture project to produce gas for domestic use. And the
projects that have been designed to meet the 6000 megawatts
and 10,000 megawatts in the power sector and other domestic
needs of gas, the industrial sector especially the Lagos and Port
Harcourt axis and Kano...the gas pipeline that transfers gas to all
these places is on the drawing board. But for now where we
have the gas is up to Ajaokuta, Obajana Cement, Lagos and Port
Harcourt and around Benin. We need this gas for power and for
industry. We have this programme that we have begun to
implement. The Joint Venture Programme has begun. The NNPC is
working with oil majors, Shell and Chevron and Agip, to set up
more gas processing plants and to set up an extraction plant
in Oteregu to drive the gas, which gives us problem now. The
specification is the problem. It is wet. It is not as dry as
it ought to be. After some time, they had to stop to dismantle
the pipes and remove parts that are condemned, otherwise it will
corrode. The memorandum for the award of the contract for the
extraction plant is ready and I think the plan we have the gas in
all right.
The State of Emergency Power
I want to look at everything. I think by the end of May, I will be
ready by the grace of God to declare the emergency in the
sector. Emergency is really to allow government to use any
national resource and to set aside any agreement entered into to
ensure that the target for the production, distribution and
transmission of power targets are achieved. For instance, once
the emergency is declared, it will allow government to take any gas
from anywhere. For instance now also, some of the transmission
lines for which contracts have been awarded by NIPP during the
last administration have not begun, not because of lack of payment
but because in most cases people in the areas are asking for
compensation for the right of way to erect the towers for the
high voltage transmission lines. The cost of compensation alone is
sometimes more than the cost of erecting the transmission lines. But
once the emergency is declared, it will involve government
going ahead with construction of the transmission lines even
if the issue of compensation has not been settled. Such issues can
be settled at any other time. So, we don't have to waste time.
For now, we can't do much by law until we pay the
compensation. But once the emergency is declared, it can be done. We
can go ahead and dismantle some structures. These are some of
the problems militating against the progress and this power
issue is so important to this nation that nothing should be allowed
to stand in its way. This is what we have put in place in the power
sector.
Road Infrastructure
On the road transport infrastructure, we have succeeded in giving
the first concession, the Lagos - Ibadan Express way. Now we
have the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC)
in place. Besides this, we are working on the concessioning of two
other major highways - Benin-Ore-Sagamu and Kano-Kaduna-Abuja.
Negotiations and other things are going on. We will soon
advertise according to the public procurement regulations and we
hope that before the end of this year, concession of the two
roads would have been completed. But for now we want to
concentrate on three major roads. God willing, we will continue on
the policy of infrastructure concessioning in the road sector.
For now, we will concession some parts of our roads that are
commercially viable. For roads that are not commercially viable, we
are working on programmes to see how best to tackle them. When we
came in 2007, we met contracts that were already awarded for
631 highways that were worth N931 billion, almost one trillion
naira. So we had to step back and look at the entire situation. When
we matched these contractual commitments with the income of
government that is going into the sector and we asked our
officials in the ministry to work out the timelines for the
completion of these projects, their report made us to have a
rethink. Some had been abandoned, some had started and for
almost all of them advance payments had been made...and almost 50
percent of them had been abandoned at various stages, so we
had to stop and re-organise and re-plan them because it will
take 13 years to complete those projects assuming we commit all the
funds in the sector into the projects alone. We met with some of the
contractors ... we selected some of the most critical ones and
I think I have the list of the 13 which have been completed. I have
the list of the 13 which I will give you if you want…. What we need
to do is to get back to a situation where when you award a contract,
it is serviced to completion. So this is the situation with the road
infrastructure.
Why plans on the railways are in limbo
When I came I met Railway Modernisation Programme which contract was
awarded to a Chinese company to construct a double track
standard gauge for Lagos-Kano at the cost of $8.3 billion
dollars. $250 million dollars had been paid, I think, in May from
the excess crude account. One thing about this contract is
that there was no financial plan. It was based on a
concessionary loan of $2 billion to be provided by the Chinese
government. When the Chinese President visited Nigeria during
the South-South's Summit 2.5 billion dollars was promised: 500
million dollars from the government itself at a concessionary rate
and 2 billion dollars from the Chinese Exim Bank also on
concessionary rate. And I think the previous government
decided that of the $2 billion, one billion dollars will be for this
project and another one billion dollars to the Mambilla and Zungeru
power projects. It was decided that the $500 million from the
Chinese Government would be put in space technology. Earlier,
this government signed an agreement with the IMF as part of debt
relief measures, not to take any loans that were not concessionary
in nature. These loans were to be given in exchange for four blocks
of crude oil with proven reserves.
When I visited China and we discussed, I was told this 500 million
dollars was given on concessionary rate from the Chinese
government but the $2 billion dollars was given at commercial
rate from the Chinese Exim Bank. That was not what I understood was
the agreement. It was to be on concessionary basis and one
billion was to be used for the railway project in exchange
also for four oil blocks ...Now that never happened. Now that
situation was unacceptable to me and we are not going to take it
because we will not go back to the previous situation before
the debt relief. We will not take loans that are not concessionary
in nature but we are still working on the project.
What we have decided to do in this administration is that instead of
abandoning the existing single track, we will rehabilitate it,
get it to work. We are working on a Railway Development
Programme. The Council has already approved the contract. Now we
will have 25 locomotives running between Lagos and Kano by
December this year or January next year. The 25 locomotives
have already been ordered and General Electric has begun
manufacturing. And we are also working on a PPP Model with
General Electric, Nigeria Railway Corporation, African
Development Bank to have next year another 75 locomotives so that by
the end of 2010 or early 2011, we will have 100 locomotives
running across Lagos - Kano rail line and we have given out
the contract for the rehabilitation of all the portions that require
rehabilitation. The rehabilitation of the stop stations and the
signals is on-going so that by the end of this year, this will
be completed. Now, we are doing the same programme with the
Port Harcourt-Maiduguri rail line next year against January 2011 and
also the following year when we are doing this we are working
on the Kano- Lagos for the PPP to have a 100 locomotives running.
Also in 2011 against 2012, we will have the same 100 locomotives
running from Port Harcourt to Maiduguri. So, we are now trying to
renegotiate with the Chinese on Lagos - Kano standard gauge. I
have directed that we renegotiate with them to have a single
track standard gauge from Lagos to Kano. We are looking within the
region of three billion dollars. We need to put the railway
back on track and really need to modernise the railway to
realise the Vision 20:2020. If by the end of this year we are able
to reach agreement, when we continue, we will have the double
track but one standard gauge modern railway and one narrow
gauge modern railway running. We will duplicate another one on
North-East axis. We are rehabilitating all the tracks to the ports.
We are doing another one to Onne, Port Harcourt to Calabar so
that all our ports will be linked to the rail. The central line is
almost nearing completion and the standard modern railway from
Ajaokuta to Warri is also going to be completed this year. So
this is the railway sector we are working on.
We plan to keep the aviation sector safe and healthy for investment
Our programme for the aviation sector is to ensure that the entire
Nigerian airspace must be safe by 2011.And that the four
airports in Ikeja, Kano, Port Harcourt and Abuja we are going
to turn them into modern international airports. Our programme will
be on total air safety and we are going to ensure that all our
international airports reach international airport standards
by 2011. A lot of discussions are going on but we are bringing in
the private sector for the Abuja airport. Right now we are
discussing with Lufthansa to make Abuja the operational hub
for West and Central Africa. We have had several technical meetings
both in Frankfurt and here in Abuja. They will work on runway,
workshop, hangar for aircraft maintenance and also have a PPP
arrangement for the school of Aviation in terms of training
and capacity building. Concerning Port Harcourt and Kano, we are
talking to operators for PPP arrangement and in Lagos, we
already have a partnership agreement with Bicourteny and we are
going to look at the agreement and modify it. These are the
programmes we have going in terms of transport infrastructure.
The Niger Delta issue has dragged for too long
The Niger Delta issue has been protracted. We are doing everything
possible to deal with the challenge there. We have reached a
stage where we had to create the Ministry of Niger Delta so
that we can channel more funds into the region. I told some people
that this is the third time in the history of this country
when a ministry has been specifically created to address a
certain national issue. The first was the Ministry of Lagos Affairs
for the development of the then federal capital area and the
other one is the ministry of Federal Capital Territory. In
terms of development and infrastructure, I believe the measures we
have taken both in terms of government intervention and the
creation of the ministry I believe will address the major
problems mitigating against development of the region. On the issue
of security, we have reached a stage whereby we have brought
the task force there under one command. We are changing the term of
engagement of the task force
Siemens was blacklisted because of the corruption involving
Nigerian officials but your administration lifted the blacklisting
and even awarded them more contracts?
I must give you some information. When we went for the African
Union-European Union Summit in Portugal, the Chancellor of
Germany discussed specifically spoke to me on Siemens and
assured me that the German government had taken all the steps
required and that it had made the company itself-Siemens - to
undergo such restructuring and changes. The German government
pleaded for the sake of our relationship that we lift the
blacklisting because the company now had a totally new
management and that the German government was giving the
Nigerian government assurance and guarantee that what has happened
will never happen again. We accepted this request in the
interest of Nigerian-German relationship. We acceded to the
request of the German Chancellor because some times, there are
things which involve relations between nations, to maintain
good relationship among countries especially at a time when we are
engaged in negotiating the Nigerian-German energy partnership. I did
not want us to jeopardise that opportunity and that is so far all we
have been doing to get investment in the energy sector. The
partnership we have been negotiating indeed is the first one
that will provide a concrete result because that is the first
partnership that we have discussed that has reached concrete
agreement for investment in gas production to the tune of
about $1.6 billion dollars. Then we have reached a conclusion and
they have agreed that part of the partnership will go completely for
the domestic gas use. That it is in the second phase of the
investment where they will invest about $7.5 billion that will be
the liquefied natural gas. I think these were worthy considerations.
Does it not bother you that Nigerians, home and abroad, have this
impression that your government is soft on corruption,
particularly because of what the two gentlemen who played
prominent roles in the anti-corruption campaign under the previous
administration, Nuhu Ribadu and Nasir El-Rufai, are going
through. Added to that is the belief that, people who are
perceived to be corrupt, like some former governors and others, are
known to be close to your government. What is going on?
It is not about them being close to my government. Not my
government. It is between me and them, the ex-governors. You
see, these former governors are my colleagues. We had worked
together for eight years. Because I am the President, I cannot just
jettison people I know. I am always very careful to separate
my personal relationship with people from my state duties.
What people usually perceive of the leadership does not determine
the way I do things, both officially and personally. I don't
know anything else about the fight against corruption that we have
not done.
Now, how do you link Nasir el-Rufai with fighting corruption?
Well you see, for example, I am not aware of anything so far this
government has done against Nasir el-Rufai. I am aware that the
Senate has been investigating the activities of the past FCT
Ministers. That you demolished someone's house is not a mark of
fighting corruption. It is only okay when you demolish it
within the law. So, I am not aware that there is anything. I
have not held any investigation into the activities of the ministry
of FCT. In fact, since I came into office, I have never
directed that something which was done in the past should be
investigated because the challenges before me are enough ...It is
more challenging to face the task at hand than to waste my time
trying to investigate what others have done. That is different
from when I receive a petition of wrong-doing whether in the
present or in the past. It is different. For instance what the
National Assembly is doing, to investigate FCT from 1999 or
from 2007 to a certain time, is a different thing. I have
never done that. If a petition comes before me or a report comes
before me alleging corrupt practices, in the present or in the
past, I have a reason to investigate that. But it was the
Senate Committee on FCT that investigated the activities of El-Rufai.
And as far as I know, I don't even have the report of the
investigation because the committee did not permit one to go
out. I think they submitted it to the EFCC. For the EFCC, I give
them the independence. So, you see, all these perceptions they
shout about, I am not aware. You may not know that in this
government, there is a lot of propaganda in the media. Take for
example, the issue of Nuhu Ribadu. I don't know what was wrong with
the police asking people to go for training and I don't know
what is wrong with the notion that the police asked people to
nominate him (Ribadu) to go for a training programme in NIPSS.
People have allocation, the police have allocation, the military
have allocation, the air-force, the army, the civil service;
so they send officials to go and undergo training. That the police
asked him (Ribadu) to go, frankly speaking, I do not see why that is
something that is making people get annoyed but as it were,
people chose to see it in different light: that it as the
government that sent people away because it does not want to fight
corruption. And I think that no government will allow this
kind of cheap propaganda to distract it from working. No
government will want its authority to be weakened by any cheap
propaganda. The other thing I can see from what people are
talking is what led to his dismissal from the police force. The
officers, I understand, the Police Service Commission re-graded are
about 250 who are working outside the rules and regulations.
What is unusual about that? Because something wrong is being
corrected? People do not know that the exercise even affected my
ADC, Hamza. Hamza and my former ADC when I was governor, Shetima,
who is here now were among the ones who were de- anked,
downgraded because the promotion they got was outside the
regulations. What is wrong in doing that? And when that was done,
Nuhu as a police officer, everybody in this country is aware,
was posted and he refused to go. Even if he had complaints, he
should go to where he was posted. And what do you think will happen
to the institution if action was not taken against such acts
of indiscipline? He refused to go on posting. He refused to
wear his uniform.... If another person is posted and the person
refuses to go, what will happen to the institution? He refused to
appear before a panel... what do you think should have
happened? Because he did a good job in his previous posting as
a police officer to the EFCC is not an excuse to do what as he
pleased... he should obey...I hate to hear that he is being
victimised because government does not want to fight
corruption. No, that is not so say that he is being victimised. All
these things are deliberately fabricated propaganda and for
me, frankly speaking, this kind of things never bother me
because I know all of us will account for ourselves to a higher
authority...I mean to God. Those that deceive, they are just
deceiving themselves because there is a place, not only in
this world, where people must account. This is the issue. I have
never asked the police to do anything specifically in respect
of that. I didn't even know that the Police Service Commission
set up a panel to correct wrong posting in the last few years... I
have never asked them to set up the Police Service Commission
to ratify an abnormality taking place in the past years. I
have my two officers who were affected in my office. I did not
even know that they were wrongly promoted. The Police Service
Commission followed the rules and regulations. After that, Nuhu
refused to accept that he is a policeman serving under anybody. So
the truth is different from the falsehood and perception.
Ribadu would have honorably resigned
Apart from this incident, anything concerning Nuhu. Even the thing
that happened in Kuru, because, annually, they come to me
after they finish the course to discuss the courses they had
done that year. Among all the officers that came, it was only him (Ribadu)
who was in mufti. I spoke for a few seconds with others but I
spent more time with Nuhu that day. I asked him about his
family and all that...They even wanted to prevent him from coming to
me because he was not in his uniform, but we overruled
that...And in Kuru when the incident happened, I saw in the
papers that his certificate was not allowed. I queried that action.
I told the Vice President that the two of them involved should
be given their certificates... I expect the civil society,
when somebody has done wrong, you should be able to say that
that person has done wrong. If he felt that at the time, he could no
longer function in the police, he should have honourably
resigned. If I were him, with the kind of powers he wielded,
because during Obasanjo's time, he wielded enormous powers, I would
have resigned....
There was no intention to remove Ribadu from the EFCC
, there was no intention to remove him from the EFCC. He was only
nominated to go for a course but the events that followed that
made it impossible for him to go back because it was perceived
as if it was Nuhu against the Federal Government. If that is what
people want to use to judge whether this government is
fighting corruption or not, then that is unfortunate. I believe that
firmly, I am not sure it is for me to judge, it is for others to
judge, but I believe firmly that the measures we are taking today
are the ones that are necessary to fight corruption in this country.
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