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From the leadership’s viewpoint, the request was imbued with an air of ingenuity. In light of the rampant misuse of government resources and potential fraud—estimated to have siphoned off hundreds of billions of dollars—the initiative was seen as a necessary step toward salvageable accountability. The strong assertions from leadership claimed that failure to respond would equate to a resignation, a statement made in an effort to stress the seriousness of engagement and participation. This candid approach was, in their view, a way to sift through and identify genuine contributors against a backdrop of what seemed like bureaucratic inefficiency.