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People Editor Has No Backbone

For “ Sesel Pou Seselwa”! Ha, Ha, Ha!

Last week in the People, a writer with no name had published an article saying we are not Creoles, we are Seychellois and it is high time we came to our senses, seemingly making an appeal to the Parti Le Pep lost goats on the issue.
The Editor of the People, placed a disclaimer to the article saying the opinion of the writer was not necessarily the opinion of the People.
How coward and lack of backbone has the People, the Parti lepep (PL) ragtag weekly become?
No More “Sesel Pou Seselwa” @ People?
Gone are the days when People would stand up for Seychellois and say: “Sesel Pou Seselwa”, that famous phrase Peter E. Gill handed to Albert Rene, to push for Independence after he came back from Kenya in 1965 and where there was a push for Independence throughout Africa from Britain’s receding empire in Africa and beyond.
Rene of course betrayed “Sesel Pou Seselwa” on June 5th, 1977.
After that infamous day , Rene proclaimed: “Sesel Pou Albert Rene”. The rest has been history, until James Michel embarked on a course to BANKRUPT Seychelles and sell her to the highest bidder, Khalifa and company.
This week, November 5th, 2010 , spineless and gut less People says: ....”Economic Risk of Opposition Sponsored Xenophobia”
In this rubbish article found on page Four (4), the writer got clearance from the Central Committee of JJ Spirit, made up of puffs and dragons, to site Jean Le Dem’s of the IMF, statement on the success of the Seychelles Economy in 2010.
Mr. Le Dem pointed out that Seychelles may finish the year with 6% GDP. But what Mr. Le Dem did not tell us, and he could careless, was that 6% GDP growth is from James Michel selling Seychelles to Sheik Khalifa Al Zayed Bin al Nayan for a pittance borne out of a few donations made from the whims of Khalifa himself, after not paying over $300 Million in taxes due for goods used on his house at La Misere. Just that amount of uncollected taxes could settle ½ of our external debt or ½ of our domestic debts and banks could drop interest rates to the commercial sector.
For Mr. Le Dem and IMF, these are complicated matters that will add paper to his Seychelles file. So he remains silent on where the growth comes from. This is our internal problem according to Le Dem and IMF;a little like the missing $2.4 Billion from our banking system, which can be addressed only by a change of government.
If Khalifa had paid his taxes when due, our GDP would be at 18% perhaps, outpacing Singapores’ 9% GDP for the year 2010. Weak pussy whooped by a female camel out of a zoo, People ignores that little detail, hiding the corruption that under pins SPPF’s investment programs.
SESEL POU SESELWA- PEOPLE!
I say this to the spineless Editor of the People: We Seychellois do not want a one man economy. It is a dangerous precedence and it is bad for the macro economic balance of country in the long run. We want a diversified economy that is fundamentally based on the most loyal investors to Seychelles: SESELWA! If Khalifa does not like that, he should go home. IMF will adjust the figures.
Don’t Forget Pitiful Eden Island
The second area of growth is Eden Island . This area is slightly lower in national contributions then Sheik Khalifa. But Eden Island has been given a free ride to exist in Seychelles that Seychellois investors would never enjoy. The Editor at the People does not mention that little detail.
Eden Island represents about 2% of the GDP. But People Editor, Eden Island paid no Stamp Duty on $49 Million land transfer, representing Rs. 35 Million in uncollected duties.
Additionally spineless People Editor, SPPF gave Eden Island all the beaches on Eden Island and the water ways, in direct violation of the Constitution of Seychelles, Article 2 which provides,1. The territory of the Seychelles, shall consist of- b. The territorial waters of Seychelles and the land area of the Seychelles.
How can Patrick Lablache sign off our waterways and beaches to Eden Island without a constitutional amendment People Editor?
Additionally weak, pitiful People Editor, spineless as you have become, Eden Island is operating an illegal hotel pool of apartments that is destroying the existing Tourism Industry. You are suppose to protect and enhance existing business when you bring online new business, not destroy exiting business and industry. The Editor at People is silent as a door nail on the matter.
People Editor like President Michel, has their left shoe on their right foot, and their right foot on a banana peel: mis-stepping every step of the way.
More Mis-stepping By Spineless People
In trying to explain the economic situation in the country, People says: “Yet, subtracting the foreign element from the Seychelles economic formula is exactly what the Opposition from SNP to NDP and Mouvman Seselwa Rasin (MSR) are attempting to do through their xenophobic campaign.”
As far as MSR is concerned, we are not xenophobic nor are we anti foreigner investment. We are pro any investment. How else are we going to pay off the debts SPPF created, People Editor? Investments can be it Seselwa or foreigner. However, our citizenship is not for sale as per MSR manifesto. Our land must not be for sale any longer as per MSR. Leases must suffice with foreign investors like in many countries. SPPF has sold too much for too cheap.
James Michel has sold more land to foreigners then any other sitting President of the Republic, weak, Spineless, People Editor, who has no courage to stand up and defend the People of Seychelles anymore. Instead you have reduced yourself to covering up for Michel’s failures and his program of selling our patrimony.
Neither is MSR willing to collaborate with providing foreigners any soft deals under the table like James Michel Government. This is where weak, spineless People Editor gets it wrong.
If Seselwa cannot benefit from the economic progress of our country, and our people cannot play a meaningful role in developing our country, because they do not pay bribes to SPPF, then we will eat bread fruit and salted fish.......it will be a pleasurable meal as usual.

I call on the Editor of the People to RESIGN!

SESEL POU SESELWA!
May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois!