The Seychelles Column - By Christopher Gill

We Want True Democratic Elections Not Sham Elections in Seychelles

Happy New Year all Freedom Loving Seychellois!

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all Freedom Loving Seychellois, a Happy New Year! We are all born free and no one gives us Freedom. Freedom is our birth right. Seychelles is our Motherland, she belongs to us, as we belong to her, let not one man  take our Motherland away from us: Happy New Year!

We Want True Democracy Not Sham Elections

Seychellois want true democracy to reign in Seychelles. We do not want any part of tyranny, communism or sham elections to prop up failed regimes. We want the Right to life, the Right to Liberty, and the Right to the persue  Happiness to be guaranteed to all Seselwa Rasin in their Motherland, no matter where they live in the World.

We will not accept any excuses why we cannot enjoy our Freedom as God intended we do.

We will not accept excuses over why we cannot enjoy the Right to life, and meet our Maker, when he decides, as opposed to when a Communist thug decides.  

We will not entertain explanations of why we are not entitled to be happy in our Motherland, while we are overrun by foreigners willing to pay bribes to enjoy paradise and launder wealth.

In 2011 I say this to PL Communists and their cohorts: Seychelles belongs to Seselwa Rasin, not to any one else. This is a constant in the political equation of Seychelles that will never, change.

Communists and Collaborators that attempt to keep Communists in power, before warned: it is the wish of the Seselwa Rasin people, that Democracy reign in Seychelles, and sham elections be done away with once and for all. All voices must be heard, not just some voices that sound off according to instruction.

Electoral Commissioner Setting Up Sham Elections

It is becoming highly evident to me personally that the Electoral Commissioner Hendrik Gappy, who doubles as the Registrar of Political Parties in Seychelles, is setting up the Elections of 2011 to be a SHAM ELECTION to keep a failed regime in power, led by James Michel.

Everyday, Mr. Gappy, who has been appointed by the PL Presidential candidate on a short leash Two (2) year term of office, uses the SBC to brainwash the Public into believing that his election process is “free -fair and credible”. It is not of course.

Early in the process of elections for 2011 there is a strong case to demonstrate that the elections of 2011 will be sham elections.

MSR Denied Certification To Participate

On December 17^th, 2010 Mouvman Seselwa Rasin (MSR) was denied certification to participate as a bona fide political party in the process, by Hendrik Gappy. Mr. Gappy blocked certification of MSR because MSR poses a real threat to the ruling PL Communist parties hold on power. Because MSR members and supporters come not only from the Opposition, but from the PL as well, PL did not want MSR taking votes from it in the upcoming elections.

A little here and there would be enough to defeat James Michel, the only President in our history to lead us into bankruptcy.

Briefly, Mr. Gappy claims the party platform of MSR is discriminatory, but our lawyers say differently. They are right of course and Mr. Gappy is wrong as usual. A party platform cannot discriminate against anyone, since it has not been put to practice, under color of law or government action. It is only a proposed program for reform and change of status quo until validated by the support of the People.

Furthermore, after over Ten (10) years of being a Registrar of Political Parties, Mr. Gappy has no rules or regulations in place for party certification. This means he cannot legally deny certification any political party. Without rules and regulations in place the Registrar of Political Parties is a little like a crab- without claws.  

Any hobo lawyer will tell you that enabling legislation creating an agency is not sufficient for the functioning of the agency. You need rules and regulations in place to function as an agency. It is illegal to function on as AD HOC basis, especially when you are dealing with the election process. Mr. Gappy has admitted to functioning on an Ad Hoc basis on SBC only this week. Hence he knowingly has broken the law in the past in the course of administrating elections.

In reality, Mr. Gappy’s disclosure on SBC reveals that all our past elections were illegal. Now he wants the next election to be “credible”.

A dereliction of civil servant duty if ever there was such a case. Yet the man was just handed a Two (2) year contract again. Why?

No Equal Protection For MSR Supporters No Human Rights

As MSR is denied certification, Mr. Gappy has curtailed the rights of MSR members and supporters who have their names on the Voter Register. This being the case, the Voter Register cannot be credible, since those MSR members and supporters will not be able to vote for their presidential candidate Christopher Gill. Any Voter Register that victimizes a voter based on his or beliefs, cannot be remotely credible.

To restore credibility to the Voter Register in this instance, the Voters that support MSR must be given the right to cast a vote for MSR candidate. Alternatively, Mr. Gappy must resign from the office of the Electoral Commissioner before the next elections, to restore credibility to the process after MSR is certified.

Verification Process of Names on Register Badly flawed

The process Mr. Gappy uses to verify names on the Voter Register is badly flawed. This makes the Voter Registry not credible. The flaw is in the process which is highly controlled, to contain discovery of the fraud within the Voters Registry. Read below.

Mr. Gappy opens the Voter Registry once every year, for Two (2) weeks, in January of each year. He allows you to go to your District to check for YOUR name. His highly flawed process does not permit you to go to his office and reveal fraudulent names on the registry be they patent or latent in nature. This being the case, no one inspects the fraudulent Fabrikes on the Voters List.

We in MSR believe there are as many as 5,000 Fabrikes on the Voter register that are not bona fide Seychellois. They have obtained citizenship under GOP and applied for Citizenship, they have obtained Citizenship through buying passports, which we know has been common practice in Seychelles for many, many years. 

Credibility of the Voters List could easily be certified if the list was made available on the internet. No secret in having the right to vote. But Gappy uses an elaborate process to check ones name and district.

Mr. Gappy knows that MSR will address these issues, and the balance of power and political control in Seychelles, hinges on this key point. Hence his attempts to ridicule our serious efforts to form part of the political process in Seychelles.

Sudden Departure of the Chief Electoral Officer and Dubious Replacement

A final point that renders the Voter Register flawed and not verifiable as being accurate of the bona fide voters in Seychelles, is that the Chief Electoral Officer for over Ten (10) years Mr. Anacle Tirant, has just suddenly resigned or retired, without Notice to the Public. Mr. Tirant has been caretaker of the Electoral Register for many, many years, and he just packed up and left on the eve of a Presidential Election.

Miss Jenny Adrienne has been named as the replacement of Mr. Anacle Tirant, and her qualifications and trustworthiness have not been solidly established with the Public at Large. In fact, her career record leads one to believe she is bent politically towards the PL Communist Party and not a neutral person.

Here are the reasons of this assertion: 1. she retired from Revenue Commission and Customs after a long career, 2. went to the Central Bank, left quickly; 3. went to the Supreme Court, as Master of the Courts and left abruptly, without Notice to the Public as to why she left.

Now, if someone has bounced about that much in Government in this short time span as Miss Adrienne, one can only ask why has she been handled with kid gloves all along the way only to be given the post of Chief Electoral Officer on the eve of elections?

I leave this to Miss Adrienne to clarify to the Public as she is so obligated to do. If she does not clarify this adequately, MSR will call for her resignation as well, as we call for Mr. Gappy’s , for breach of public confidence, in knowingly violating material provisions of the Seychelles Constitution in the discharge of official duties.

For her part Miss Adrienne has told us that she is capable and can do the job as Electoral Commissioner. Mr. Gappy backs her up and says that they can make the Voter Register credible in the Two (2) weeks Miss Adrienne will be working on the list in January 2011. I suspect she said she was capable when applying for Master of the Court post and the post at the Central Bank of Seychelles, which she quickly departed from.

Against this back drop is numerous years of poor voter turn out to verify their names on the Voters List every January of each New Year. 8%, 12% 16%, etc.

If Voter turn out is poor over the next Two (2) weeks, then the Voters List has not been sufficiently verified by those entitled to vote, to push forward with elections using the list. It renders the list not sufficiently credible. All parties in opposition to PL must stand united and Boycott the use of a not credible Voters Registration List.

When Mr. Gappy moves forward with a flawed Voters List, as we expect he will, he will be implementing a flawed election process upon the will of the people. The world usually calls such process a  SHAM ELECTIONS.

Sham Elections should be BOYCOTTED by the People, to take the Government of the day down the hard way. We will have to reclaim our Freedom.

Mr. Gappy knows that, that is why he spends each night on SBC to brain wash our People over his already, dubious process.

His efforts remind me of the Jonestown, Guyana massacre where Jim Jones in Guyana, the guy who mixed a KOOL AID ( Orange Squash) for his church of 1000 people and made them drink it. But Jones  did not tell them the mix had a little Cyanide in it. Hundreds died, listening to Pastor Jim Jones, “a man of God”.

Bona Fide Seychellois Overseas Still Not Permitted on Voters

List

While Mr. Gappy and Mr Tirant have been registering patently or latently fake citizens or Fabrikes on the Voter Registration List for years, they have been denying bona fide Seychellois that reside overseas the right to be placed on the list and the right to vote in upcoming elections.

The residency requirement for Voter Registration was done in 1993, because of the high cost at the time to register voters residing over seas. Today, with internet technology, it is easy to register a Bona Fide Seychellois who resides overseas to vote. No effort has been made by PL , Gappy or the Attorney General to do that in order to enfranchise these bonafide Seychellois.

Overseas voters have even formed groupings on Facebook to have their voice heard. If these people cannot be placed on the Voters Register List, then that list is flawed to the extent that these names, cannot vote. There numbers are substantial and can turn an election.

You can scam, you can try to Sham, you can have lunch every day, using the People’s money, but we will expose you, until we get true Democracy in Seychelles!

SESEL POU SESELWA!

May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois!