Of musical chairs and failed experiments

After more than 32 years of total control by the SPPF, Seychelles has now entered a ‘new era’ of Parti Lepep but the song remains the same… James Michel is trying to give us the impression of a makeover, a ‘judge me by my actions’ business model that is nothing but more of the same. His propaganda machine has turned into high gear to mask some of the shady deals going on behind closed doors. In order to look like a ‘bon boug’, Michel is ‘empowering’ some new blood to keep propping him up. Look deeper through the stage curtains and all you see is a pantomime of musical chairs and failed experiments.

The SPPF government has been the champion of failed experiments. Isn’t it ironic that communism has gone down in history as a total failure but here in Seychelles the same communists have metamorphosed into capitalists of the highest order, giving away our country for peanuts and treating all its citizens like monkeys? Well this is what you get from people whose first and foremost intentions were to plunder and rape. In the process, they run the country by trial and error, with massive black holes where they keep pouring money endlessly to satisfy one man’s ego or the ruling party’s hardnosed ideology. The failed experiments are there for all to see. Some are slowly fading away but they leave deep scars in our people’s psyche – like the infamous NYS (which unfortunately contributed to the death of Michel’s eldest son). The same people who are today trying to portray themselves as the ‘supermen’ savior have been the architects of our doomed and failed state. How can they be trusted? The devil you know is better than the one you don’t know?? Do we need more failed experiments for us to realize that SPPF / Parti Lepep has failed us as a people? The list of failed experiments is endless and yet we see the same old bunch plodding along…

In line with the failed experiments are the musical chairs… For 33 years, this government has been playing musical chairs with the people in the civil service. This is the best way to reward mediocrity. Get Mr. X to sit on various boards and keep everything under control. Get Mrs. Y to take on a new position so that she can regurgitate the same bull in a different context. What a great way to operate an efficient government. Today, Michel has added even more musical chairs. There is no such thing as getting the boot if you are a party supporter – you can get away with any type of blunder. On the contrary, you are elevated to the highest position and you get to serve on other committees, boards or commissions. You get to perfect the art of lying and deceiving with the whole objective of staying in power and propping up a corrupt and unscrupulous government. They have too much to lose…

The Michel administration is a lame one. It is clueless at running the affairs of state. So in order to mask and cover up all these inefficiencies, there is a lot of fanfare about trivial things such as a media commission, a judicial commission, a technology think tank etc… etc… This is called empowerment, Jj style!  Much ado about nothing! Do all these choreographed shows indicate that our leader has great vision? Do self bestowed titles, awards and medals denote individual brilliance? How long are we going to tolerate such mediocrity?

Our great president has all the experience of propping up a failed communist state to guide him in his noble task to take us into this new century. He has drawn up the ‘Vision 2020’, sold us his ‘Strategy 2017’ and brainwashed the youth with ‘Aspiration 2013’ while everything that really matters crumbles before our very eyes. His main mission is to put this country back on a solid economic and social footing. Indeed a tough act to follow, especially when you are the main culprit of this country’s socio-economical undermining. No wonder we are being bombarded with all these sweet talk of unity, togetherness, determination, ‘leve debrouye’. He has finally come to realize that the failed experiments are catching up fast and there is no more music for the chairs to dance to. Keep dreaming dear leader!

Failure is in the eye of the beholder. Judge him by his actions come 2011 if we are to break this vicious cycle of failed experiments and musical chairs that threatens to torpedo our dilapidated ship of state…