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"''It is almost possible to assume that the private press has, for all practical intentions narrowed down on the '[[sensationalist]]' value of the story without considering the core values of the process at stake and the precedent setting process at work in this matter. Precedence is being set, because this is the first time since the renaissance of our democracy that an illegally awarded contract on a national scale project has been successfully suspended, cancelled and reversed in the interest of higher ideals''. | "''It is almost possible to assume that the private press has, for all practical intentions narrowed down on the '[[sensationalist]]' value of the story without considering the core values of the process at stake and the precedent setting process at work in this matter. Precedence is being set, because this is the first time since the renaissance of our democracy that an illegally awarded contract on a national scale project has been successfully suspended, cancelled and reversed in the interest of higher ideals''.<br>Sophia Bekele, writing a May 2002 opinion column in the ''[[Addis Fortune]]'',<ref>[http://cbsintl.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/yes-justice-has-been-done-by-sophia-bekele-for-fortune.pdf yes, justice has been served]</ref> " | ||