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UPND will not legitimise an abuse on the body of Christ-HH

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HH with GBM reading a statement on the party's position on the day of National Prayers
HH with GBM reading a statement on the party’s position on the day of National Prayers

UPND President Hakainde Hichilema says the party and it’s membership believes in true Christianity, its principles and values and not Christianity for convenience.

Mr Hichilema said the UPND will therefore not take part in activities aimed at abusing the body of Christ.

He said politicians in the country are in the forefront abusing the name of Christ for their convenience and UPND will not be fooled into legitimatising such an abuse.

During a press briefing at his residence yesterday and attended by his Vice Geoffrey Bwalya Mwamba and party spokesperson Charles Kakoma, Mr. Hichilema said not until the PF removes the veil of hypocrisy which has resulted into the maiming of political opponents,UPND will continue attending prayers outside state declared activities.

Mr. Hichilema wondered how the party can participate in National Prayers in the midst of hate, breakdown in the rule of law, corruption, infringement on citizen’s rights to assemble and embezzlement of public resources contrary to Christian values.

He said it would be hypocritical of the UPND to attend such a function when as a party it’s right to freely assemble,mobilise and engage with its general membership and citizenry is curtailed.

Meanwhile, Mr. Hichilema has called on politicians to desist from abusing the body of Christ for personal glory but instead provide an environment in which both Christians and other religions could meet in harmony without fear of intimidation and brutal attacks from the PF and it’s surrogates.

He however urged UPND members and Zambians in general to remain prayerful, show love to another at all times in line with the teachings of the Gospel

106 COMMENTS

    • In a christian country?
      Where politicians would rather build parliament motel and not rebuild UTH.
      Where politicians would rather buy fire tenders rather than pay retirees.
      Where people believe in witchcraft in the same way they believe in Christianity in order to get rich.
      Where politicians are full of hatred rather speak in terms equality of all tribes.
      So what exactly are you asking people to pray for? When you do not practice what you preach?
      The truth is PF pray for yourselves you need salvation.

    • “Religion is the Opium for the masses” Karl Marx

      Keep the masses uneducated, drunk and then ask them to fast and pray. A governement for the people by the people.

    • Sir, UPND President, this is where I struggle most to understand you. Are you saying you or UPND members are better Christians or that you oppose the country, as sinful as you claim we are, uniting to seek forgiveness and to Glorify the name of God despite our shortcomings? Sir, if you cant realise your own weaknesses & cannot love & fellowship with your neighbour whom you see everyday despite his weaknesses then it’s difficult for you to love God who created us all. The whole country is coming before God in unison to seek His face but you say you are better & UPND has better things to do? It’s a shame. But God will Bless Zambia with or without you.

    • You dont have to be perfect to seek God but in your imperfection as you seek him you can meet him. There is nothing wrong to seek God in prayer.

    • Thou shalt not take the name of thy God in vein. Thieving politicians and Christianity – since when? Let politics be politics and Christianity be Christianity. Don’t mix the two. They are like oil and water. Zambian politicians lie, steal and kill.

    • Commonwealth and Telesphord Mpundu induced release, who doesn’t know that you were afraid of being confirmed to be dictators that you deny to be by the international community and especially IMF?

    • Your relationship with your god and how you go about it should be your private andpersonal business. Doing it in public with other people does not increase it value or effectiveness.

      You can pray all you want but nothing will change in the country if you, as an individual, doesn’t change.

      The time you spend uzipusika at “seeking the face of god (an extract from Nigerian movies) you could be doing something to emancipate yourself from mental slavery (religious indoctrination).

    • Machiavellianism has been elevated to the next level through prayers which are meant to manipulate, deceive, and exploit us. By the time most realize another election will have been rigged.

    • If someone mentions God we don’t question that individual thats the new zambian mentality we now think we are the Morden jews punkers will steal all year and call for prayers on the 18th lets brace ourselves for Gods rath or the purge

  1. When we go for prayers tomorrow we pray that all UPND cadres tune into ZNBC and pray with us. I will specifically pray that your president HH should know God so that he should stop misleading his poor cadres.

    • People just watch that for entertainment, people will be just watching how you will be howling at the sun, just like werewolves.

  2. I think HH has made an important observation. Even deep down the hearts of the people who’ve declared this day, they know it’s not a genuine call, but a political one, to score some political mileage. Those days, we used to have prayers called by the three church mother bodies. It’s not the role of the state or a politician to call for national prayers. That role should be left to Churches who are mandated to do so. Those days, the 3 church mother bodies used to speak in one voice. But once brother Pukuta came in, everything has changed. Under his watch, the EFZ has been annexed to State House which is so unfortunate as this body has had a history of providing effective checks and balances

    • When the PF come into power, we had peace, the levels of corruption, tribalism and nepotism were relatively low. Now there is an outbreak of all these vices, you wonder what has happened to the Christian nation we knew. Had it not been for the likes of Kambwili, it would have been hard to believe how one group of our community was managing to make money like “popcorn”. As Sanna Arman a contributor to F2FA put it, Kenya’s first President Jomo Kenyatta once said, “when the missionaries arrived, we had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land, and we had the Bible”. I know this is ironic, because despite fighting colonialism on one hand, Kenyatta became a beneficiary of it on the other, resulting…

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      I know this is ironic, because despite fighting colonialism on one hand, Kenyatta became a beneficiary of it on the other, resulting in his family owning over 500,000 acres of prime land across the country today. Nonetheless, I believe this does not take away from the validity of his statement.
      When Afrikans talk of colonialism, religious colonialism is often left out of the conversation. I am not certain whether this aspect of colonialism is constantly overlooked because we are afraid to confront Christianity because it is a religion many Afrikans have, over the years, come to place great faith in, or if it is simply forgotten.

  3. It’s not right to either encourage or discourage another person from exercise the right to worship. If you HH don’t want to be part to this gathering, you’ve an absolute right to do so. But let others make their own choices. And also note that the Bible does not allow us to judge others. As a human being you have no power to know whether the person is genuine in his prayers or not. It’s God to judge all of us.

    • IF SO ,HOW ABOUT OUR CONSCIENCES ????DEAD OR ALIVE ??? WE SHOULD REACH A STAGE WHERE WE SAY WHAT WE ARE DOING IS TOTALLY WRONG .WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE FOR OUR SELF THAT AM DOING THE RIGHT .WE SHOULD BE ABLE ASK OURSELVES WHETHER WHAT AM DOING IS CORRECT OR WRONG .THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO ASSUME THAT WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS CORRECT YET VERY WRONG.

    • God’s eyes and Man’s eyes are different, that is why the bible tells us not to judge. this is because where man sees hopelessness God sees a future. where man sees stupidity, God sees the beginning of a good life. God uses the foolishness of this world to confound the wise. i will neither condemn HH or ECL over this, But let each one do What they feel is RIGHT and BELIEVE will get approval of God.
      JESUS SAID ONE TIME, ‘ HE WHO HAS NEVER SINNED LET HIM BE FIRT TO THROW THE STONE ‘

    • You’re already judging others. This is not law where you can determine who’s wrong or right. As we to, we’re not guaranteed salvation no matter how much we pray. The final decision lies with God who sees what’s in our hearts.

    • HH + GBM are opposition leaders skilled to OPPOSE anything, anywhere at anytime, without cause!
      Kambwili is spilling the beans on CORRUPTION left right and centre – alebolaula!
      Kabimba + Mulongoti + Chipimo hallucinating!
      Nawikwi craftily silenced by internal FDD rebels [the two gentlemen from the North]
      Mumba is regreting his ex-convictions as Dagga Smoker and later on Reverend/Pastor
      Miyanda rethinking about the COUP DE TAT acquittal
      Mulyokela still recovering from DORA’s denial of the hand in marriage
      Edgar kulila bane

      LETS PARAY FOR EVERYONE & OURSELVES – we are all MAFIAS

  4. Chiwamila mbuzi kuluma galu. You did not find anything wrong with the Thanks Giving Prayers which were held at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross a couple of weeks ago.

    Hypocrisy is too much in this country

    • The thanksgiving prayers were not politicised and the day was not declared a public holiday. Neither did anyone call for people to turn up in numbers. Prayers are a one to one thing between God and yourself.

    • HH is right that Masons can’t interact with Christians. They will react and evil spirits will have to be cast out of them instead of praying and fasting

  5. Expecting HH to take part in prayers is asking for too much because the man is a well known satan1st!! The Bible says “light and darkness” cant mix.believe you me,HH’s upnd shall never take part in such good national events UNLESS PROMOTING TRIBAL CRUSADE AT TONGA TRADITIONAL CEREMONIES IN SOUTHERN!!!
    but since God is Almighty,He shall ensure that HH never enters state house!!whether PF leaders pretend by going to church,its not for HH’s upnd to judge those taking part in national prayers but only God can.WE ALL WORSHIP THE LIVING GOD AND ONLY GOD HIMSELF KNOWS REAL CHRISTIANS!!what upnd must be doing is pray together with all Zambians and let God Himself judge pretenders!!!

  6. People plse dont waste time with such people. If they dont want to attend prayers leave them. There comes a time in life when one seeks the face of God so earnestly to an xtent of wanting God to put them in state house. Until HH begins to differentiate between politics and serious matters that concerns his life then i will just be witnessing other people taking the throne but he will never partake on it. Make these words.

  7. National day of prayers alone will not solve zambia’s problems, government should call for a day of reflection, repentance and reconciliation for all party leaders, especially the pf. How can you mobilize citizens for a national day of prayer when you are the ones destabilising the country, through thieving, intimidation and corruption? This government should change their ways and turn to real Christian values before forcing prayers onto others.

  8. People plse dont waste time with such people. If they dont want to attend prayers leave them. There comes a time in life when one seeks the face of God so earnestly to an xtent of wanting God to put them in state house. Until HH begins to differentiate between politics and serious matters that concerns his life then he will just be witnessing other people taking the throne but he will never partake on it. Make these words.

  9. I think if we were all blameless why do we go then to pray our God. So hh thinks he is clean and others are not. This man he is a real satanist. Let him remain behind in fact he can bring confusion and Satanism.

    • Don’t play God and judge others. I find it wrong for politicians to sound the call to prayer. That is not their job. The most they could do is to request the religious bodies of the nation to make the call. Not government political declarations done at a political party gathering. It is not fair because religious issues must be politics neutral.

  10. Thanks HH. Let the Christians for Lungu mock God on their own. They will pray for Satanic blessings to continue stealing elections,state resources and persecuting their political opponents.They will pray for Maizegate,Roadgate,Mukulagate and their “wheelbarrow” scandals. Let them idolise their Wako niwako and Umodzi Kumawa Corrupt Bishops.

    • iT WONT HELP YOU CALLING HH NAMES! WHILE ON THE OTHER ANGLE CLAIMING YOU ARE CHRISTIANS. WHAT HH IS SAYING IS THE TRUTH WHICH HAS TO BE CONSIDERED BEFORE WE ARE DESTROYED BY THE GANG CALLING THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS FOR LUNGU. SO EVERYONE WILL BE THERE TO ONLY WORSHIP LUNGU NOT GOD.

    • Kambwil “the Messiah” will definitely pray for HH + GBM + indoctrinated blind followers no-show lawyer Jackson Chigwedere Mwiimbu

  11. To all those for the day of National Prayer. I like most of your comments but when I press the like button it shows unlike, but I am with you all the way.

  12. Lungu is a Pharisee, praying in public for show mean while his heart is very dark.
    From ECL’s actions one can see the man had lost his way, his deep and engulfed so much in himself, powr has blinded. from being humble his now arrogant.

    • This fake, false and hypocritical “Day of Prayer” of Lungus has brought evil bad luck to Zambia.

      Mark 12:38-40
      38 In His teaching He (Jesus) was saying: “Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes, and like respectful greetings in the market places,(Airport welcomings)
      39 and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets, (Swaziland)
      40 who devour widows’ houses,(Convicted embezzler stealing from a widow) and for appearance’s sake offer long prayers;(False hypocritical day of prayer) these will receive greater condemnation.”

      Is this not the same “lawyer” called Lungu that stole his widow clients money? and now “for appearance’s sake offer long prayers” ? God is punishing us for this evil man!

      His FAKE “day of prayer” is just to try and…

  13. You people let me educate you,this is beyond pf it’s Godly things God just president lungu the way he the late president ftj to declare Zambia as Christian nation and it was fought but still stands. Now you supporters don’t support evil things from evil people weather you don’t participate we will still pray period

    • JEALOUSY AND ENVY SHOULD NOT FORCE YOU INTO STEALING, JUST WORK HARD LIKE HIM. GET SOME EDUCATION THAT WILL IMPROVE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY, IT TAKE TIME AND PATIENCE.

  14. HH is right, before prayers and fasting is done forgive one another, repent whole heartedly then pray and fast for God to answer your prayers and forgive your sins. No one can mock God as he can see the heart of men.

  15. HH will never allow Upnd members any function the Republican President is attending. This is not about mocking Christ, but his bitterness against Lungu. In fact if HH is a believer he would have simply avoided making any comments about the event. But his hatred has shrouded his thinking.

    • He should not keep quite but tell them the truth before they mislead many Zambians in believing they are for good. Infact Lungu is not even a christian and is he is from which church was he baptised? Why are even debating?

  16. Look here all, its neither for PF nor for UPND to judge who a true christian is. Amongst PF there are fake Christians, this too, is true for UPND. In any case prayers are about believers and their God. Totally personal. Furthermore, Christianity was never spread by force, but by dialogue – in which case the result may be positive or negative. It is also true that he who confesses his sins no matter how RED those sins may be God shall call them a child of God.

  17. What Christianity does hh practice were even gbm is considered a member. Who is mocking God here. People can judge for themselves.

  18. HH is bitter about loosing the 2016 Election and i see him die of BP before 2021. Those still insiting that the elections were lost are dull and rotten in their brains. UPND had the solid 14 days to produce facts that the elections were stolen but to no avail. They are the empty tins which makes the most noise. Only free mansons runs away from attending prayers as light and darkness do not mix. Ba HH grow and stop living in denial.

  19. The problem with HH’s upnd is hatred, this is why people thinks that HH is evil , the reasons why people are calling for prayers is because they have SIN before GOD, and nobody is PERFECT.The best he would have done was to come and save GOD amongst the SINNERS since HIM is claiming to be HOLY.If HH differed with The president lungu , he did not differed with People on the ground, for the sake of his political career,he would have come because not ALL who will attend DAY OF NATIONAL PRAYERS are PF ‘NO’ . The hh man HE is not at easy, lowly in heart, humble and forgivable. And to make the matters worse ,since losing 2016 general elections he and other COHORTS are busy sowing a seed of tribalism and regionalism. He has brought national divisions just as Nkhumbula and Kenneth Kaunda in mid…

  20. It is easier to call HH satan1st by many bloggers than to call ECL any bad name. First the state machinery will visit you and be charged of defaming the President. Secondly,It is the evil men that Jesus came for.
    Thirdly ,if HH is satan1st , who you are holy kindly pray for HH to repent. Holy men pray for sinners. A true child shall never bad mouth others because they fear GOD and keep His Commandments.
    I know HH is a seventh day Adventist and I don’t know which church ECL go. Kindly someone can tell me.
    I normally pray for ECL and HH.

    • Very good question Robmwale. WHICH CHURCH DOES LUNGU GO TO AND WHERE WAS HE BAPTIZED. The ending of this convicted criminal masquerading as president will be very bad.

  21. What else did expect from the Supreme leader HH with fat Albert sitting next to him?The man is just pathetic and disastrous. That’s the normal way of doing things for him. Imagine the way he was urging his party members to abstain or vote no to the Bill Of Rights. This guy needs some serious mental check. LOSING A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FIVE OR IS IT SIX TIMES IS NOT KIDS STAFF. WHERE IN THE WORLD HAS THAT HAPPENED. HE NEEDS TO BE ENTERED IN THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS.

  22. This is not leadership, this is not sensible, I think I was right to compare HH to Trump. These two are just not right to lead nations, wealthy people make for poor national leaders. Prayer is personal and has no room to harbor hate or grudges, he has no love for anyone and cares for nobody but his personal interests and those of his paymasters; the total destruction of African progress. I guess this is what the Bible means when it speaks of end times.

    • leave TRUMP out of your low life thinking mentality. Trump will just be another best USA president ever only next to Ronald Reagan. so for you that weaklying Obama is what you think is right to lead a great nation like the USA.
      Trump is solving the many weaknesses Obama left around the world

  23. Love your critics. Your greatest enemy today may be your best friend tomorrow.To attack a home so called Satanist and call for prayers is hypocrisy of the highest order. Which home did Jesus attack when He was on this earth because that home was for a satan1st?
    Define a satan1st from the Bible? Quote from the Bible where the a living being a said to be a Satanist?
    Surely , have Zambians become more righteous than Moses, Joshua, Job and other than they call HH a Satanist? Is GOD talking to Zambians more than He talked with Moses and the Children of Israel..
    Has ECL become more righteous when he became President? Please don’t let a curse fall on our nation. ECL and HH are mortal and being a supporter of each does not make any of them special.

  24. look at the words you use against HH and GBM… Can your son use against you? Jesus cant use such evil words especially that some of you call yourself Christian for Lungu

    • WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THE SO CALLED CHRISTIANS FOR LUNGU! TO THEM CALLING HH NAMES IS BEING CHRISTIAN WHILE CRITICIZING LUNGU’S HYPOCRISY IS BEING UNCHRISTIAN. THE BIBLE SAY YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS! PRETENDERS AND A BUNCH OF VIPERS VERY DANGEROUS AND CANNING.

  25. Anso nga wakana ama results mu 2021 ukamona

    we dont need votes from nega nega.

    you are the ones in need of our votes.eastern.muchinga.northern.etc

    so be nice to us you u5 tribal minions

  26. Not that there should not be a “National Day of Prayer,” certainly not. It is the politicization of that which is good by the forces of darkness to which I am ambivalent.

  27. @ robmwale palibe akaba kuti ECL is righteous. We are just disgusted with your HH. Imagine prayer. Even enemies pray together. They say to ERROR IS HUMAN but to FORGIVE IS DIVINE. You need GOD’s intervention to forgive. THAT’S WHY WE NEED PRAYER.

    • KIKIKI WHAT KIND OF THINKING IS THIS? ATI EVEN ENEMIES PRAY TOGETHER. SO AFTER PRAYING THEY CONTINUE HACKING EACH OTHER. WHERE THERE IS NO TRUE REPENTANCE AND CONFESSION PRAYER IS USELESS. IT MEANS YOU WILL CONTINUE HALLOWING IN THE SAME SIN OVER AND OVER AGAIN. YOU NEED TO STOP YOUR EVIL WAYS AND REPENT AND WHEN YOU PRAY GOD WILL HEAR YOU.

  28. This guy has so many ways of running away from accepting our Lord Jesus Christ. Excuse after excuse all the time….we know who your are so please leave us alone. We shall go and intercede for you to accept Him as the Alpha and the Omega…PERIOD

  29. Look at the picture of the two..the other one is forcing a smile whilst the other one is as bitter as the day he lost the 2016 August elections….Please change and move on the 2021 is just aboiut the corner if you keep yourself with some productive things like going tom places you never did well….by the time you finish all the places you wont even realize it is 2021. Then try your lucky again. Fact is, be assured that my vote is not yours once more….

  30. Comment:who told him,we will be praying to lungs.whether Dr lungs declared the day deceitifully,we shall pray faithfully

  31. There us only one type of entity that advises against Christ by splitting the definition of what is a Christian body.

    HH is wrong in saying that Christians that depend on him fir convince sake are less acceptable than those that are Christians for it’s Principles and values. Theologically surely one can argue that, since Christ places no Price on his services to him, it would be wrong for us to evaluate Just based on our Pricing on our faith, ie is Christ worth more if we practice or depend on him one way or the other?

    In my opinion gained through discernment from the Holy Spirit, we are FREE to depend on Christ for our convenience, since that denotes Faith by Faith Alone. On the other hand if HH’s argument were to be upheld here it would mean that we put a judgement/ Price on…

    • On the other hand if HH’s argument were to be upheld here it would mean that we put a judgement/ Price on who is acceptable. And that in my discernment is; as Oscar Wilde wrote, “knowing the Price of everything but Not the Value.”

      As stated, above, There us only one type of entity that advises against Christ by splitting the definition of what is a Christian body. The Anti-Christ, comes between us and splits Christ’s gift to us and tells us that we are worthy only if………

    • HH, please let the Holy Spirit convict you. You should join in prayers with your fellows in Christ. You should pray WITH your enemy, FOR your enemy. There is Power when we pray together with no disunity in Christ’s Body.

      HH, You have for a long time spoken against a work in Christ by the People of this Land. There is no excuse for one who has been a Church Elder. What you have reasoned here is utter drivel. We MUST ALL hold hands in Prayer. For Christ Alone is able to understand all our inner thoughts and ways in which things came to be and through Him Alone, a way out of those things is promised.

  32. Prayers can only be heard by God when you all turn away from your evil ways. Without turning away from them your prayers will be invain.Stop falsehood and deceiving the poor.repent of your sins and focus on being good to others as you seek to approach the Holy God.Reflect on the words at Matthew 5:23-24.

  33. Well meaning Zambians must not be distracted by those calling fellow sinners to repent before praying. They too need to repent. Those who will be praying would be a mile ahead to repentance.

  34. When you are in a group of pipo and someone shout everyone is invited and you think u will not attend why should you make a statement ,you just keep quit simple because even other upnd members will attained so its personal conviction above all not about hh but pray to God ,true darkness and light can mix

  35. The supreme Leader HH of the UPND is a troubled person who will for ever be seen to be Anti-Christ…Unfortunately he has managed to mislead his followers who worship him…It’s never to late to repent if he wants to have a peaceful of mind…

  36. Ah you are addressing the Zambians you call “cowards?” Patron of all Tonga ceremonies to the exclusion of all others? May our Good Lord truly offer you His peace. Enjoy your day with GBM

  37. I love the Lord but I just don’t like it when it mixes with politics. I just can’t see myself parading at this bizarre grandstanding masquerade.

  38. HH will never attend prayers, reason is simple he can’t risk his Freemasonic membership which is a source of campaign money.

  39. One thing that singularly lets U5 down is the unveiled contradictions in his life and his self righteousness. Look at corruption and tribalism.
    1. His “presidency was born in a shroud of tribalism”. Now there is nothing wrong with a tonga being President of Zambia but in our One Zambia One Nation, we cannot say it’s time for a tonga because that becomes tribalism.
    2. Corruption, U5 reads his statement on corruption while seated next to a renowned corruption itself.

    U5 could have started by renouncing both the above, or acknowledging them and assure us that they had repented. Short of that the two musketeers represent selfish individual interests and not national interests. For me Terrible, that is my biggest challenge with these two: you cannot fight corruption when you yourself…

  40. ….For me Terrible, that is my biggest challenge with this U5: you cannot fight corruption when you yourself are corrupt.
    Why do you think the miners turned against him during campaigns last year? He freely campaigned in places like Chililabombwe and failed to sell his message as people felt insulted with the glaring contradictions.

  41. Two people went to pray. One of the two started praying. “Lord thank you that I am not like that man. I pay my tithe and keep the Sabbath. I help the poor and am faithful etc.

    The other man could not even look up. He beat his breast crying to God. “Oh God forgive me a sinner etc.

    There ars people who are holier than thou and others simoly realise they are sinners

  42. HH’s observation is 100% correct. Elsewhere Kennedy Kamba has just revealed that the Real Purpose of the Prayers was to undermine the Commonwealth mediated Dialogue and seek recognition from HH and other Opposition Leaders by attending the Prayers. These Prayers are meant to idolise Lungu and legitimise his Illegitimate and Corrupt Rule. HH is Right to refuse to grace the Fake Prayers. Lungu and his Fake Christian Bishops are mocking God and will pay the price.

  43. Then I suppose HH’s thanks giving day was a total fraud if we are to believe his sentiments expressed on this site. Since majority of zambians are Christians
    and are praying today then it does not need rocket science to confirm HH AND UP
    ND have lost it one more time.

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