The Seychelles Column - By Christopher Gill

Michel Takes To The Districts To Save Himself

Recently, President James Michel took clown and pony show from Abu Dhabi and the Dubai shopping malls and moved the parade of horribles to the districts. Surrounded with uzzy holstered body guards wearing sun glasses in the dark, and all the ministers available and in country, plus an entourage of advisors of bad advise, and no advise, Michel made his way to Pointe Larue, the traditional  SPPF stronghold which has garnished 64% plus votes in past elections.

After 45 minutes, it was clear, for all Seychellois, that aside from the senior citizens on crutches in the front row, the populace, of Point Larue, were not very amused with the promises of riches in 2006 and the gift of poverty being bestowed on them in 2008- 2009, by President James Michel, the man who feels for all our pain, in spite, of being, the man himself responsible, for inflicting our pain upon us.

Let us break down the main lies as Mr. Franke of Point Larue challenged Mr. President and our dear leader ran for cover under the arm pits of Cuban trained Minister Danny Faure. Cuba you will recall teaches its pupils in political Science, to lie to your death or until the Revolution dies. 

The minor lies, we leave to the People of Seychelles to handle as they try to catch Jack Joker Liar at his game.

Mr. Franke is frank!

As Mr. Franke of Pointe Larue challenged Mr. President to account for the $2.4 Billion missing in our accounts, as disclosed by IMF to Seychelles, Mr. Michel cowardly evaded the question and told Danny Faure to “play it again Minister” as he did in December to trick the SNP MNA’s into believing that money is not missing.

Under instruction from the man at State House, Mr. Faure said again, in a very arrogant tone of defiance becoming only of a Communist trained in Cuba, that the $2.4 Billion IMF has alluded to, is in fact money held by offshore companies.

Mr. Franke was denied a follow up question of clarification as traditional in free democratic states. Instead, State Security officials with wires in their ears, sun glasses covering their eyes, slowly made their way to Mr. Franke, should he ask for a floor again. Had Mr. Franke been allowed one more pertinent question, JJ Spirit, for all of Pointe Laure, and for all of Seychelles, would be finished.

The question Mr. Franke had to pose was along these lines below and it is damning on the SPPF regime.

Question Time For Spiritless Spirit

Of course Mr. Faure and Mr. President, we know the $2.4Billion is held by offshore companies. Former dictators and their cronies like perhaps, maybe, France Albert Rene and company do not usually hide stolen money from the people, in their own private accounts in their names. Dictators and cronies use offshore companies to hide this wealth stolen from the People. To keep it on shore, would lead the People to notice it everyday, when they go to work, like for instance, all the buildings on Providence highway, belonging to cronies and lovies.

Dictators and cronies use numbered accounts to secure and transfer wealth offshore. In Seychelles, only Nouvobanq has numbered accounts registered with the Central Bank of Seychelles. Mr. Laporte, has easy access to that information.

Nouvobanq happens to be Standard Chartered Bank, the largest bank in Africa, but it is also Government of Seychelles, SPPF controlled through majority shareholdings. Mr. Saeed the Managing Director, works for his shareholders, the SPPF Government, and even accompanies Michel on trips to the Arab world (or maybe underworld)!

What IMF said is correct Mr. Faure, SPPF Finance Minister, that is, that these companies offshore, that hold these funds, are owned by bona fide Seychellois Citizens.  Consequently, we want Mr. Faure, to ask IMF to publish the list of those companies in order that we can proceed to execute on ill–gotten funds, if they do exist, to the amount, of $2.4 Billion held in overseas accounts (which are mostly investment accounts and not bank accounts), as per the implication of IMF’s statements.

We can cross check this list with the information Mr. Pierre Laporte has on the total amount of numbered accounts held at Nouvobanq, aka Standard Charter Bank, created while Mr. Francis Chang Leng was Governor of the Central Bank.  Surely there are records of foreign exchange transfers from Nouvobanq or CBS, unless of course those huge shredders that were brought in a few years back have been working overtime!  OR maybe there will be a mysterious fire soon to destroy all evidence!

The list and subsequent transactions will show where much of the $2.4 Billion has gone and tally with IMF declarations. We will have helped Mr. Faure, help himself and at the same time, help poor, pitiful Mr. President.

Faure Says Offshore Is Not Seychelles

Faure says monies offshore is not in Seychelles. He seems to want the People of Seychelles to forget about the $2.4 Billion IMF declaration of missing funds. He and SPPF aspire, and dream, to have the Opposition beaten to death mentally, over just the mentioning of this amount in Public.

President Michel, a man that cannot even ride a horse, or likely, drive a car on his own, says the $ 2.4 Billion missing from our coffers is the horse of battle for the Opposition. It is not. It is our money you arrogant SPPF failure, that can only claim to be educated when you are surrounded by men with AK-47’s to protect you when making false speeches in public.

People of Seychelles can be forgiving about many things. But when it concerns the People’s money, there is no compromise and no pardon, SPPF. So resolve to give back the money and stop firing people in Government because they tell you to do that.

Remember The Mango Lesson

When a thief is holding your mango in his hands, remember well, he will tell you, the mango was broken off the tree by himself, he will have you believe because he took the mango, it now belongs to him. Now SPPF want us to believe, that because the corrupt took this $ 2.4 Billion belonging to the People of Seychelles, it belongs to them now.

Do not be fooled by a thief! We need this money to help us through a period of great hardship, which SPPF has dragged us into since they drove Seychelles into financial bankruptcy well before we ever heard anything about a world financial crisis.

Now, as time goes by, the days become weeks, the weeks become months, SPPF will have us believe that the world financial crisis is the cause of our problems in Seychelles today. Do not be fooled.

The only thing that the world financial crisis brought to Seychelles is one fact: SPPF will now have to repay all its debts. Because they have fooled us before, we will pay the price for failure as long as SPPF is around. When we rid Seychelles of SPPF, much of our debts will be forgiven and even pardoned; we will be able to live as a decent People, gifted, with a most special place by God, on Earth.

As the next District meeting gest underway, People of Seychelles, gather your courage like Mr. Franke and tell it like it is.

Mr. Payet Calls For True Unity

At Point Larue, Mr. Payet bravely, with great courage of a true Seychellois, cut through Mr. President’s charades and challenged him to cause to be resolved, as a Nation, the atrocities committed by James Michel and Albert Rene regimes, during the one party state. Mr. Payet, made a call for a Commission on National Reconciliation to be formed, to hear and bear witness of wrongs committed against fellow citizens to help the Country heal a wound that SPPF wants to believe does not exist. Being indecisive and wiggly for fear of offending France Albert Rene, and murderers that still walk our streets, James Michel said the suggestion can be placed before a Committee.

People of Seychelles, in this moment of despair, how many issues will be placed before how many Committees. We live in an era, wherein we require leadership, true leadership, to navigate through the disaster upon us. Michel proposes that Committees handle even basic and simple but important ideas. He has none of his own.  He goes to the Districts and converts frustrations into ideas, and then sends the idea to a Committee. To lead a Committee he needs Irishmen and South Africans. Michel has taken Seychellois pride and competence and reduced it to a basket of in-competency.

How many more years can we survive with this kind of putzy, in-competent, leadership? In no time, we will need a Committee to decide when we can use the comfort room, when we can use electricity, when we can fill up our gas tanks. We will need three (3) stamps and two (2) seals to buy one (1) packet of 6kg Pampers for our young babies. We will need a Committee to approve use of S-26 infant formula, since it is better then the donkey’s milk products from China they want us to use to feed our babies with.

I salute Mr. Payet for his great courage to face an armed putzy, incompetent leader and to ask for the formation of a Commission of National Reconciliation and in not so many words, to put an end to the June 5th misery and charade. But Mr. Payet should have also asked for a committee to pour water for the Commission as well, and one to approve of the water pouring for dry seasons, since the idea of $25 Million for desalination plants has not worked out too well. But the commission money has been banked.

May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois and our beloved Seychelles!

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