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Sealeddeal:Someone already made that prediction on facebook: It would appear that Sam Amadi the current Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission,NERC has decided that he no longer needs his job and wants to proceed on retirement forthwith. I say this because he was bold enough to voice out a fact every reasonable individual knows but many are trying to dispel using the most ridiculous logic ever employed in Nigerian political discourse: that El PRESIDENTEs "BODY LANGUAGE" within the 90+ days he has been in office, has resulted in the now very obvious and undeniable improvement Electricity generation and supply. For those who believe this GRAND LIE i have nothing to say to them(all the brooms waved around the country during the electoral campaigns must have had some strong diabolic mass mind control ish). I only want to use this medium to warn Oga Amadi in the event that he did not think of the consequences of ( his need to tell the truth and shame the devil[s] ). First within a very short time,there will be some petition or the other against him alleging a litany of misdeeds fictitious or factual during his tenure as Chairman of NERC. Following that, the current ruling party will deploy their highly effective weapon the control of almost all of the press and media platforms (i have to say its quite an impressive weapon) and will spin a category 5 hurricane out of a cloudless sky before you say national interest,he will be out of office and an individual of unimpeachable integrity appointed as replacement. Where this individual will come from should be a no brainier by now .I mean down the Niger and Benue river belts crooks are all you will find and now is the time for "capacity and integrity" we shouldn't concern ourselves with the fact that the new appointee of "unimpeachable integrity" will very likely have his home town within 5 degrees latitude of Daura go figure. If on the other hand Oga Amadi has actually foreseen this and decides to leave before any of the aforementioned happens, it only saves him from an ignominious exit from office,it does not stop the Lying liars from carrying out the other options because NO ONE DEARS be in any position of public office in this administration and sing a different hymn from the rest of the choir. Let me be clear,i believe that if any public official is PROVEN to have betrayed the trust of the public and responsibilities of the office by A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION, he or she should be made to answer for it. The operative words here are "PROVEN and COURT" surely that tiny unimportant detail like proof can be produced so we can get on with the more important task of crucifying the thief. Of course if El PRESIDENTE and his SHADOW TEAM OF ADVISERS (the legality of which is a subject for another days consideration) are feeling magnanimous,they could skip all of the steps and just go to the end replace Oga Amadi. Beremx:Foolishness beyond belief and description. Rad1cal:The epistle egbon that just came back from hiding and shame after he was disgraced by the event in the National Assembly will never see ,read or hear of that no way, the blind gods that he and his ilk in apc serve forbids it. Here is a statement from Mr Clement Oke, Acting Chairman, Presidential Task Force on Power made in August 2015: “As projected in the PTFP 2014 Annual report, and with the completion of repairs of a major gas pipeline infrastructure and subsidence of vandalism, gas supply has improved. The nation attained new energy and power peaks in August 2015, increasing electricity supply compared to previous months. Averagely, electricity generation is being maintained above the 4,000 megawatt level. This trend should continue, and with the expected completion of North-South transmission loop, the mid 2015 projection of 5,000 megawatts level will be realizable during the fourth quarter of this year provided vandalism does not resume.” Clement Oke, FNSE Acting Chairman, Presidential Task Force on Power As the statement explicitly implies ,a series of activities and processes were being undertaking and in place well before the "PTFP 2014 Annual Report" was released and based on the work trends and fixed timetables a projection was made. For the individual with the least bit of common sense it is clear what we have in terms of improvement and advancement in Electricity generation and power supply today and running into the next year is the result of the work of the last five years. Within the last five years the power generation capability of Nigeria had been built up to 9000+ Mega Watts but there it was clear that the increase in power generation capability had seriously outpaced the transmission capacity by almost four to one , the distribution capability by two to one and the gas supply capacity (where that applied ) by three to one so it will be another full year before everyone of that 9000+ Mega Watt is able to be transmitted and distributed based on the plan of work and timelines in place well before May 29 2015.This explains why NERC is confident that by or around December 2015 transmission would have gone up to 6000 Mega Watts. Any government that is focused on working for immediate and visible results in development in any sector is thinking short term and that sort of development is unsustainable.Sustainable development is a long term commitment. |
There are currently 23 grid connected generating plants in operation in the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry with a total installed capacity of 10,396.0MW and available capacity of 6,056MW........ Source : KPMG- Guide to the Nigerian Power Sector http://www.kpmg.com/Africa/en/IssuesAndInsights/Articles-Publications/Documents/Guide%20to%20the%20Nigerian%20Power%20Sector.pdf The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ikeja Electric, Mr. Abiodun Ajifowobaje, in this interview with ‘FEMI ASU, says a chunk of the nation’s installed generation capacity of not less than 10,000 megawatts remains stranded largely due to gas shortfall.Source: http://www.punchng.com/business/energy/nigerias-power-generation-capacity-almost-10000mw-ajifowobaje/ Now 15 months after the power sector was privatised, has it been ‘so far, so good’? Before I say anything on privatisation, I think we have to say something about what led to the privatisation in the first instance. As we are aware, 10 years before that privatisation, there had been little or no government funding in the power sector. Therefore there had been serious challenges in transmission, generation and distribution networks. For us to at least give minimum power supply to the Nigerian populace, conservatively we need nothing less than 10,000MW. At the time the privatisation was done, the highest we had reached was about 4,500MW, and that was briefly, not on a continuous basis……..……..As things developed, it became very apparent that government could not, with other competing areas like health and education, give adequate funding to the power sector, but to allow investors to come in and bring in technology, ready management and of course funding that were not coming from the government. So, about 15 months ago, November 1, 2013, the companies were handed over to the private sector after following a very rigorous bidding process, which was termed as one of the most transparent in privatisation history in Africa, and since that time, all the investors have been doing everything within their power to see that at least they do more to see that power gets to the people. What are the challenges facing the private investors who bought the privatised firms? The first challenge that the investors faced was that it was when we took over that we started analysing the problems in the sector. You will recall that during the privatisation scheme, there were a lot of union activities and they refused any investors from coming in to do physical inspection of the networks. For you to be able to plan, you have to know what is on the ground.…………..At Ikeja Electric, we had to start doing technical audit, customer enumeration for us to actually know what is on the ground, and this took time. ….. ……But what I want to say is that the power sector is not like any other sector. It takes a lot of time for anything you put on the ground to materialise. I know that Nigerians want to see things improve almost overnight. That is not the case with the power sector – after doing all the due diligence on the networks, we have to look for funds to do all the necessary corrections, we have to look for the money to do all the metering………….. The country achieved the peak generation of 4,517.6MW of electricity on December 23, 2012. But more than two years after then, we are still struggling to reach 4,000MW. For how long must things get worse before getting better? The capacities that were there at the time we attained the highest peak are still there. Not only that, the NIPP project has added between 3,000 and 5,000MW. So, when we are talking about installed capacity today in Nigeria, it cannot be less than 10,000MW. In fact, Transcorp in Sapele and Egbin in Lagos have added additional capacity since they took over. For Egbin, Unit 6 was already moribund but has added 200MW to that. So, as I am talking to you now, we have almost 10,000MW on standby. But why are we not getting it? Simply gas issues. Number one, we are not getting enough gas to power the power stations. Not only that, even the little gas that we get, every day, we see pipeline vandalism……..……. .Early last month, we were giving our customers almost 12 to 15-hour power supply, but in the last one or two weeks, it has reduced to eight hours because they said the gas pipelines had been vandalized. Not only that, this is the time we have low water for the hydro power stations. So with the gas not getting to the thermal power plants, and the water at the dams at the lowest level, this is the worst period for power to come from the grid. ……… What investments or projects should customers expect from your firm, apart from the embedded generation and smart metering? As I said earlier, If I want to give my customers constant power, I need 1,250MW. But the question is can the network carry that? From what we have on the ground now, I will say ‘no’. But before the takeover, I think the highest we have ever attained here was about 650MW. But today, all the little problems that used to disturb operations have been addressed; so that if power comes now, I can assure you that we can take 1,000MW. Based on the study that we are carrying out on our lines immediately we finished that, we will come out with a programme on how to expand the system...... |
Mustapha Abdulrahman Words they say are cheap and nothing is as sweet as beating up the weeping boy as all, including weaklings suddenly gain strength and bury their own weaknesses in the collective attack. Unfortunately, it bellies current failures and provide a ready platform for discuss even when we know the lie in it. No situation affords the above assertion better expression than what has become the order of the day in casting former President Goodluck Jonathan in bad light; selling him as a total failure even in the face of realities. We know that the heart does not lie but the tongue is deceitful; so one wonders why even respected men choose to live the lie because that is the vogue. Examples to prove the point are legion and glaring for which one would have been tempted to gloss over them except for the fact that Nigerians have started acting too early as if we are suffering from collective amnesia on the issue of Jonathan’s performance given the circumstances. Most painful is the fact that we have soon forgotten the accolades that attended the reformation of our international gateways and the advertorials that graced newspapers showering praises on how things had changed. The question that rushes to ones lips is “Are we being fair to Jonathan by painting him with the tar of general lack of performance? Can we stand the pricking of our conscience over the issue of realities of crediting one man with the success of another just to scurry favour? There were certain things that had left our memories which the Jonathan administration restored to our collective psyche and never in the annals of the country’s history was freedom of expression given such a handle as under his regime. He paid dearly for it with the abuses which it appears people have been fixated on long after he gracefully left the stage. It is incontrovertible that in every sense of it, his transformation agenda really transformed the country in all sectors though the rot in the system which had endured over the years seemed to taint his efforts; but if truth be told, he left giant marks which his traducers have been working assiduously to rubbish without success and in the process; celebrate their own ignorance and lack of direction. Rather than fall into the common mistake of attacking ideas and people, it is more honourable and respectable to take some issues and address them to prove that Nigerians will be lucky to have President Muhammadu Buhari leave marks on the political and developmental space like Jonathan did. Without even starting, cries are all Nigerians are getting from the present regime which unknown to them, is preparing grounds for the explanation of its would be failures. Jonathan approached governance with a developmental mind with the best intentions for the country. He placed national interest above self, a reason he chose a different path by conceding victory no matter how it was won just for the country to be at peace. A retrospective look will reveal how his opponents in no distant past took their losses at the polls and the hundreds of Nigerian lives, property and animosities that went into it. That alone places him head above all Nigerian politicians and bellied his considerations for the country. Simply put, he transformed the Nigerian psyche, giving us an opportunity to think straight once more. [b][size=14pt]Another At a point, notwithstanding that gas is not like crude oil that thieves could puncture the pipelines to steal, yet each time power peaked within his tenure, saboteurs would cut the gas supply and power will drop. What has the present regime done to stop that other than those who were doing it have simply stopped because power has changed hands? Anything that is seen in improvement of power in the coming years remains a credit to Jonathan; even Buhari knows that. Another funny assertion is that refineries in the country coming back on stream three months after the new regime took over were the handiwork of Buhari. The simple question to ask is how long does Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of a refinery take? What for example is the average time and process of replacing the Catalytic Cracking Unit (CCU) of a refinery like happened with the Port Harcourt refinery? Answers to these questions would show that it takes an average of 18 months for TAM and even longer to procure and install CCU since it is not an on-the-shelf part; yet gullible Nigerians are plied with sweet stories of what is not. The fact again is that Jonathan’s regime turned around the refineries and any result coming in that sector goes to only one person, Jonathan. Prior to the coming of the Jonathan administration, road travel had but died across the country. How many kilometers of motorable roads did we have before then? Travelers between Lagos and Benin, Edo State slept more on the road than the days they made the journey in a day. The Ore axis if it had mouth, would have testified to how many travelers it swallowed through accidents, not to talk of those it hosted in traffic snarls while armed robbers had field days. Yet those who ply the route now can attest to the difference. Soon too, maybe, those would be credited to the vaunted “change”. Roads across the northern parts of the country are even better now as more works were done there. Some bridges conceived in the 70s and left in the drawing board breathed the air of realisation under Jonathan while the South East which has the worst roads also got some relief. There is no part of the country that did not feel the road rehabilitation and construction. We await Buhari to surpass those records. Airports across the country could be said to have had the best of it as modernisation spread evenly for the first time since our independence under Stella Oduah as Minister. Even today, no one can without covering his face in shame; say Jonathan did not reform our airports from Lagos to Kano, Sokoto to Kaduna, Calabar to Owerri, Benin to Abuja and Enugu airport which started enjoying international flights. Jonathan had a fair mind so much that developments other heads of State had vowed would be executed over their dead bodies are now functional when they are still alive. Rail transportation which is supposed to take pressure off our roads died long time ago. Also, the political and military class used it as the worst conduit pipe to drain resources for years without anything to show for it. Infact, rather than shop for tar list to nail Jonathan with, one thought that the present regime would probe the rail contracts prior to the time Jonathan revived it. Today, Lagos to Kaduna, Kano route is back on stream, Port Harcourt-Maiduguri is also back on stream among many long hauls. The speed rail between Kaduna and Abuja is nearing completion while modern coaches and heads have been brought into the country, yet people are behaving as if they are not seeing. Can one remember the amount the country lost to food importation even with the land mass that it is blessed with? Have we forgotten that fertilizer importation, allocation and distribution created emergency billionaires while the real farmers that needed them never had access to that necessary farm input? Can we remember how rice farmers craved for patronage and milling machines without getting positive response from the required quarters? Do we not know now that we are inching towards self-sufficiency in rice productions? How many people know that Nigeria is the highest cassava producer in the world? So many milestones the mind could not fathom in the past were achieved in agriculture under Jonathan. We thank God that Buhari is a farmer; we shall see how far he would consolidate on what Jonathan did. One thing that needs be said is that even though the achievements are like work in progress, the effect of those projects are going to be positively felt decades from now and therefore beyond Buhari’s tenure, so posterity should be kind enough to credit Jonathan with his good works. Coming to the issue of statesmanship, he still stands head above everyone which has lionised Jonathan in the African continent and beyond. How many sitting heads of state ever conceded defeat at a poll they superintended? What would have happened if he decided to contest the results with all the proof of underage voting and the lopsided distribution of permanent voters cards? Have we forgotten the assertion of the “baboon and the monkey to be soaked in blood” should a particular candidate lose the elections? He is not in the category of desperate politician who wants to be in power by all means. We can remember not in the distant past, the sharing of the treasury to elongate constitutional given days in power by some who today are masquerading as political saints, yet Jonathan sacrificed the office for peace. He had the army, police and other security apparatchik at his control to have foisted himself in power or even put up credible challenge to the election results but refrained from doing so because of the thousands that would have died from the aftermath. Putting the nation first, he saved lives. From the foregoing, should we attack a man because he refused to pull punches? Should his peaceful disposition be taken for weakness and therefore pummeled with the notion that he lacks power to go into an offensive or defend himself? Caution should be exercised when aiming a sledge hammer on the skulls of the innocent. Every Nigerian has been a victim of the fraud in government; while some looted the treasury within very short periods of time and are answering statesmen today, others try to hide theirs in bantes and aso oke, casting the impression of piety and modesty but we know that their worth when they assumed power is not what it is today after selling our common patrimony to themselves and cronies in the name of privatization and yet they bask in the euphoria of being protected from probes. Probe is good but why not being fair to all and probe every regime, at least within the era of democratic rule? It appears the probe is just another name for going after Jonathan who pre-scientifically had warned his ministers to brace up for persecution. Apply the golden rule and probe all instead of picking and choosing In the event the suspicions of reasonable minds that Jonathan is the target hold true, know that the seed of discord has been sown unless the plot is to tar a certain section of the country in order to exclude them from power in the future. Humiliating Jonathan is humiliating the office of the President and the consequences can be dire after all, there had been probes without consequences in the past. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/how-unfair-can-we-be-to-jonathan-/218105 Its on record that Nigeria's electricity generation capability(not necessarily generating) as at May 29th 2015 was somewhere around 9000+ Megawatts PROJECTED TO HIT 10000 at the end of this year going from work ALREADY IN PROGRESS the interview below dated :[b]April 16, 2015 [/b]states this. If one is honest you would recall that shortly before that period(January to March) was when an ALL OUT ATTACK ON GAS PIPELINES FEEDING THE POWER STATIONS took place. |
efilefun:These guys should stop fooling themselves abeg not everybody is ok swallowing shit and calling it portage.The National Identitity Management commision already had a task force whose mandate was to INTEGRATE all the biometric and other related data collected over the last decade by inec, frsc, banks, immigrations ,just about any statutory agency that has collected such data . This is an ongoing project/more accurately process it doesn't happen overnight and the mandate was given under the previous administration why come out now and act like this is a post may 29 brainwave. IDIOTAS that what these guys are. |
rusher14:No Nigerdeltan is going to endanger his homeland in the coming war ,methods have been refined we will not have to blow up every pipeline facility ,only a few that matter and they will will result in shut ins but no spills where possible or at the very worst ultra minimal spills.The gas lines though will suffer unrestricted and sustained attacks(analysis determined that long term damage from gas line ruptures are very minimal) and we all know how important those lines are . You think this continuous power supply you are currently enjoying came from solar supply or from the dams? They want ya all to get so used to the new improvement then they will tell you who is boss. https://www.nairaland.com/2134648/apc-manifesto-well-grow-oil/1#30507375 |
MizMyColi:My sister if i had my way i would hang ruben abati ,doyin okupe, fani kayode and reno omokri (although he wasn't that prominent) upside down by their balls for seven days ......they failed horribly and it wasn't that Gej's government had nothing to show(there are tons of stuff that the previews administration achieved or had in/on its last mile through the pipelines) it is that they let the opposition tell the story of the administration and when it became obvious that the opposition had engaged outside consultants were too proud to admit that they were outmatched and find their own consultant. #GEJ was right Corruption is more than just stealing |
erunz:For the records note also that the bolded sentiment applies to the south south.If not then my question to them is :are there only two new members of apc from the south south in the national assembly? |
darkjorse:From the onset i have always said that if buhari was the only man who can save nigeria , as he has been advertised and sold to the gullible by the apc then i'd rather Nigeria is destroyed today because then Nigeria is already finished. When hin no be GOD. |
adconline:Let me add that that "order" will not just be obeyed because it has been made, proof of (successful) prosecution of the owners of that wealth by the lawfully constituted enforcement agency (EFCC,ICPC and SFU-POLICE) before the order will be considered officially not to talk of compliance any thing other than that is a bust. While that is on, the associates /agents of the asset owners can and will legally challenge the order which has very little chance of passing legal scrutiny if the agents can show that due and fair processes were not followed by the country making the order. Conclusion snail baba can engage all the slimy consultants he wants( a throw back to the PTF days ), even if they locate said assets/funds , they can not touch them not to talk of retrieving them. Come to think of it do you know how near impossible it is to do that here in Nigeria, to speak less of other lands..... |
duality: fx45:I thought i was the only one thinking along that line.If as an analyst you realist that boko haram was a major tool for the "change" we now have you would have wondered what the exit strategy for boko harams controllers now that their mission objective has been achieved.am Clearly the scenario in play is to have boko haram trash so much in its "death throes" before its death. |
barcanista:FIXED |
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byrron:Are you surprised, ever since these "wise men" flagrantly ignored the law and the fact that buhari ,had broken ,and is still breaking the law by lying in affidavit about his WASC result i resolved their wisdom is worthless.It is these wise men that will destroy Nigeria eventually. |
edoyad:. Constitutionally assigned sentinels that is an apt description. |
atlwireles:Remember i told you here that a good number of people on this site were babies at the tail-end of the ibb regime and the abacha regimes.What makes things worse than their not knowing history is that they can not be bothered to learn. |
haji56:If i wasn't thinking about this ,you have got me thinking now? |
Oludulicious:Almost got me rethinking my opinion of that crazy guy gen buhari and his of repeated claims that buhari is in trouble. |
aresa:Not that i agree with you, isn't it curious that the NSA (whomever he is ,we do not know that one has been appointed) is not the one issuing this directive? The current author of that directive has no authority whatsoever. |
edoyad:My point exactly if he has a problem with some people in the SSS he can go after them but to generally target an entire institution because you have a grouse is beyond petty,it is presidential overreach.The SSS performs a statutory responsibility, if you want the army responsible for your protection for whatever reason no matter how ill advised that decision is, send a bill to the National Assembly to amend the armed forces act. For one i'd like everyone to note that what we see here is a pattern consistent with what those who warned us about Buhari say he is incompatible with the current democratic dispensation. We already see the rise of the reincarnation of Major Hamza El-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer to Abacha in the person of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Aide de Camp, Mohammed Abubakar strutting around and giving directives, he has no authority constitutional or procedural to even contemplate. Soon enough he will be the one summoning and ordering his superiors possibly the service chiefs around all the while buhari's fans here will tell us that Buhari never said this ,never did that and that it is/was all the mistake of an overzealous aide. Make no mistake Buhari is constitutionally empowered to cause any change he deems reasonable within the SSS but he MAY NOT the INSTITUTION FROM CARRYING OUT ITS STATUTORY RESPONSIBILITY. The protection of public officials and the person of the president and vice specifically requires a particularly and carefully developed skill set not generally required/ found within the armed forces. The ability to shoot and move quickly while important,is far low on the totem pole.While a soldier in a combat position is geared to seek out/react and meet and eliminate a threat, the protection detail is trained to do all that while making sure that their Charge is protected through it all. More than just that the presidential detail is trained to assess and anticipate situations, circumstances individuals that while seemingly safe one moment could become a threat the next.TO DO THAT REQUIRES A RATHER HIGH DEGREE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND INTELLIGENCE ANALYTICAL CAPABILITIES. A number of American presidents have had issues with the Central Intelligence Agency the primary arm of Americas foreign intelligence operation but they did not try to emasculate or rubbish the institution,rather what they did was to make far reaching changes in the leadership structure of the institution(as far as could be allowed but the US Legislature). As someone said in a previous thread on this matter, "Its this attitude that made d police ineffective. Instead of treating their f..k up, they were sidelined". Buhari could learn lessons from them since he is about to meet the Americans in a weeks time. https://www.nairaland.com/2406069/buharis-adc-formally-writes-withdraw/4#35181954 |
Freemanan:Even the paranoids have enemies...... |
baralatie:Why you dey bother answer that one? Technically and factually the court has not cleared Buhari , the matter was stalled in court then withdrawn.If someone else pursues it it could(certainly will be damaging to their beloved president). |
Barselonia:READ his post again, slowly one word after another, then read it one more time then read a third time , i swear if you do not see the answer to the question you just asked , i will pay for 2015 GCE /NECO examination forms as well as the private lessons to prepare you for the exam. |
obailala:If that thing there is your definition of live evidence ,you had better not be a lawyer or be remotely connected to the legal profession in any way.I am an engineer but i know enough to know that even in the best of scenarios where those documents have be authenticated(it might be something typed in tinubu's bedroom using a 1990 typewriter) it remains conjective and a petition of sorts , nothing evidential about it. |
noblezone:The fooly of our people hurts to watch their stubbornness is something else entirely.An agenda that we all had been warned about the "WARNERS" screamed themselves sore but were labeled bigots and alarmists by the people who should have taken the warnings.Now that agenda is unfolding slowly [b][size=15pt]BEFORE OUR EYES[/[/size]b] but they are too proud to admit that they were wrong and seek to provide all sorts of rationalizations and explanations the policies formed of that agenda. |
Lushcream:Curse you just when i was about to celebrate FTC. |
gratiaeo:DID I JUST GET FTC? It will be interesting to see how they justify keeping these planes now they see what each an every one of them is used for.If they don't get rid of the planes like they claimed they would in the campaigns, will they apologize to GEJ for maligning his image and misrepresenting the facts? |
Freemanan:If you are not a muslim , this statement is an attempt to hide your head in the sand. Keep living in denial of what we all know is happning .The agenda is unfolding little by little couched in seemingly harmless and unrelated policies like this one above while you make excuses and explain them away until their teeth is barred and you can not deny things anymore. |
mekaboy:I am waiting for the pastor-professor-commissioner-vice president's response to this very injurious breach of the constitution and fundamental human rights. |
PvtParts:The fools forget that the last four years and more , the DSS had been responsible for buharis security as is his right as a former head of state only for hime to shove them out. He will fall out before 2019 as you said , obama's choices end up failing/ending miserably. |
rottennaija:Make him stop.I want to see how you do it. |
DravenCreighton:Then you know the hausa saying that goes :"zamu gani ai" We shall see. |
amunkita03:".....hitting him hard......". I feel so sorry for you.I really do. Run along now, go watch TV ,strike back will be on tonight. |