President Michel’s Speech: State of A Nation Leader in Confusion!

Anyone who took the time to listen to President Michel’s most boring lack luster speech ever made in his political career recently, will have noticed the numerous issues that the Seychelles Freedom Party (SFP) has hammered home to Michel’s desk under pure unrelenting political pressure, that has threaten to destroy his PL spin off party from SPPF.

The effort by Michel is too little too late, and he should have consulted SFP on critical issues in an open and sincere manner before he opened his mouth to let the world know he does not know what he is doing. 

His speech and the thinking behind the ideas he advances reminds me of the MNA from La Digue infamous statement on SBC Two (2) weeks ago after La Digue was faced with flooding calamity. The MNA said to Mr. Michel “to release the captured flood waters, we must raise the road”. This is what President Michel told us on the array of problems he tried to address. Let’s look at the intellectual blunders one by one.

“Many Hands Are Needed and Hard Work”- He Says

In principle SFP agrees with President Michel on this fundamental point. But Mr. Michel, is it not your ministers who are the laziest bunch of hands in your government? Minister Lionnet, spends more time in Dubai frolicking with damsels then he does inspecting bridges walls and rivers in Anse Aux Pins. Planning Authority has lost all credibility today and the same goes for the Ministry of Environment, wherein your Minister is more preoccupied with being called “professor” then he is about really addressing pressing environmental issues. Your Minister of Tourism, uses your call to promote Seychelles, to travel the world without a clear tourism marketing strategy. He leisurely makes rounds around the World, as if he is trying to make it “Around the World in under 80 days”, with no destination, as long as he is travelling, the destination is not important, be it St. Kitts, Brazil, or Mexico. Is it not the PL that sent the SNP into pension, turning them into the laziest opposition ever to exist in Seychelles earning Scr. 20 Million in 10 years? 

What kind of example has Mr. Michel set with this policy for Seychellois to work hard?  How hard have the Savy Brothers worked for Seychelles? Do they work for Seychelles Mr. Michel, or do they work for their pockets in your view of things? Is it right to protect a family in that manner and demand sacrifice from the ordinary Seychellois who do not live under gilded protection becoming of royalty by your regime? You ask Seychellois to work hard, and be productive, yet you make the Minister of Health a woman that has financed kanbiz and pipili in Seychelles for years, to destroy our people’s brain cells, curtail their will to work and sometimes even the will to live. How can you ask us to work harder, when we already work harder than all the pathetic people you refer to as leaders in your government. Your Minister of Finance has disclosed that he is already “ready” for you to terminate him; he has financially arranged himself in a manner becoming of an exile king, before you can even blink at him. Where is the missing Scr. 600,000,000.00 from entrance fees to L’Union Estate over 18 years?

 How can Seychellois respect what you say, when you turn a blind eye to hundreds and millions in missing money? Are you serious?

If you are serious about work as you assert, live by example, personally go shut down the kanbiz and bakka clubs that your ministers finance and run from the back ground to keep our people’s minds in chains of submission. Hard working people question how their money is spent Mr. Michel, and they hold their government accountable. Mr. Michel says he is serious about hard work, yet, he helps a fake PDM play the role of a loyal opposition. 

What good is a loyal opposition if the whole country knows it is a fake opposition? By advocating such a bombastic policy, Mr. Michel, you have set the credibility of Seychelles far back to the early days after June 5^th 1977. We are just a fancy one party state. You have a fake opposition in the National Assembly, you finance a retirement for another opposition, and the third opposition, no opposition is financed by Dr. Ramadoss and is implicated in drug running, yet, they still exist. Grab a rake, and rake in some of that missing money at L’Union to put drain pipes and sewer lines in La Digue so citizens and Tourist alike do not have to drink what they release.

Misfortune Strikes Seychelles

Indeed misfortune has struck Seychelles. While Mr. Michel focuses on the rain being a misfortune, I see beyond that. Rain should never be a misfortune, it is a blessing. When asked to build more dams last year, Mr. Michel replied: “what are you going  to put in the dams?” Well Mr. Michel, God’s wrath has given you an answer: rain water. Before the rains came, your government, had over two weeks to clear rivers, clear drains, clear debris, provide advance warning and instruction to the people of Seychelles on proper course of action to prevent damage from heavy rains. For years, Planning Authority, turned into a corrupted office, of taking money to remain silent and to fast track projects, and slow down others. Before the rains, your government did nothing, and waited only for the damage to take place to react. The Disaster Relief Fund had only a pittance of SCR. 1.5 Million it to deal with a national disaster, about enough money to pay for 7 days meals for volunteers. I only ask this: “how can anyone take you to be a serious leader? “ While you foolishly film model agency girls holding picks and shovels and sporting hard hats to entice Seychellois to work hard, to carry your tonnage load of failure year after year, while you spruce about town in BMW 700 series, and dare park a Rolls Royce at State House while we are bankrupt, you neglect to reflect that your government , has been dispensing RU386 pregnancy termination pills to end the lives of thousands of unborn for over 18 years.

Today, after we minus the thieves, minus the drug addicts, we have no work force to build Seychelles. That is why you need models to wear hard hats to tell us to go to work. Why don’t you place your Mont Blanc on the table, or return it to the manufacturer, tell them it does not work and grab a shovel and get to work with your over weight ministers. Have you not cut enough red ribbons in vain all these years and delivered us enough failure for enough generations? You really need to take a look in the mirror Mr. President.

Our Economy Is Open

The State of the Nation is not stand up comedy, Mr. Michel. If you are serious, you have no idea what an open economy is. An open economy means it is open first for your people, not for Khalifa and company first.

5% GDP Surplus

Mr. Michel calls for surplus of GDP by 5% per year. The funny thing about this impossible assertion is that the PL sitting in red chairs, those under pressure wearing red shirts, that are posed on top of a ragged red carpet, clap hands. 

If it was a circus and a clown made a joke, we would all clap hands and laugh as well. Unfortunately, Mr. Michel in his wacky wild fanciful World of opulence, where no one questions him, he was dead serious.

Allow me to say this: Mr. Michel, you cannot achieve 5% surplus on GDP unless you sell us from the feet up to Khalifa, you’re willing purchaser. Your government is still bankrupt after all these years and this year, we start to repay our national debt created mostly by your own joy riding, and a lesser bit by Albert Rene’s foolish socialist experiments, that left many of his associates bald and constantly dying their hair red.

If you want us to take you seriously, be serious, stop making these silly comments, and having people clap, only because they are afraid of losing their perks and driver. 

“Kennedy and Americans Put A Man on the Moon”

Mr. Michel says the Americans had unity of purpose and worked hard to put man on the moon.

Well, I believe that by 2018, Seychelles too can put a man on the moon. That man should be you Mr. President, you should have the honor to be our first citizen on the Moon. All that agree should say: “Sesel Pou Seselwa!” If all Seychellois say Sesel Pou Seselwa, we will put one man on the Moon by 2018. This is unity of purpose.

Mr. Michel wants to Eliminate Speculation

In one phrase, Mr. Michel says, we are in a “free economy”. In another phrase, same speech, he says we must eliminate speculation, as if it is a bad word. What will happen to the Eden Island Villa purchasers Mr. Michel? Are they obliged to sell their homes at a loss now that you are eliminating speculation in the market place, which is a runoff of the basic open market principle of Supply and Demand? Perhaps the Minister of Health can give Mr. Michel a checkup.
Mr. Michel says open economy but under pressure, he is functioning more and more like a communist, perhaps worse than even Mr. Rene ever was. What you should be doing Mr. Michel is insuring that Seychellois have a proper and acceptable role to play in our economy and not selling us out to every Saudi, UAE, Bahraini citizen that turns up to your door step much like James Mancham did in the Kashoogi days.

Today, Mr. Michel, what is the difference between you and Ex- President James Mancham, when it comes to selling out Seychellois interests?

Foreigners Cannot Buy Land Presidential Claim Now

After years of selling passports to foreigners, then selling land to foreigner’s inconsequential of its impact on Bona Fide Seychellois ability to purchase land, use, enjoy lands, Mr. Michel says he will stop this practice, and lease land for 70 years.

Do we trust Mr. Michel? No. Should we trust Mr. Michel? No. Is Mr. Michel to be trusted? No. Why? He does not trust himself, when it comes to the land and patrimony of the people of Seychelles. Is there examples? Yes. How many? Many. Does Mr. Michel have a defense? No, only a weapon to impose his will. How long will it take for you to see that what you are doing to your people is wrong?

Education Failing Mr. Michel Says Success

No Comment, beyond help under Michel!

Health System New Beds But Collapsing

Minister Larue has a knack for doing the expedient. It is her nature. Today, in the hospital system, fresh paint is being placed all over fungus walls without curing the fungus. In three (3) months, the fungus will penetrate through the fresh paint with a vengeance. Then we will be back to where we were, but worse. The same thing is happening inside the hospital. New beds roll in, Winnie the Pooh is painted on the children’s ward, but the real issues facing Ministry of Health are going unaddressed for another decade. I remember well when Mr. Michel said he was going to fix Ministry of Health once and for all. He bought a few air conditioners installed them then handed the ministry to someone else. We deserve better than this and we must expect better.

Youth Development= Indoctrination

All communist regimes run youth development programs. PL is no exception. Yet today, Seychelles population growth rate is 0%. We are running out of youths now for 20 years. Does PL intend on addressing this issue or does it envision to continue to indoctrinate the few youths we have. When the indoctrination fails, and bites back, who is to blame?

“Michel Says Order Peace Security”

When the People of Seychelles said we want order, peace and security, Mr. Michel, what we meant is we want a professional, diligent Bona Fide Seychellois Police Force. We do not want Gurhkas or Irish running around our country lording over us Seychellois, even if they are the best Gurhkas and the best Irish Police in the World. We want the best possible Bona Fide Seychellois Police running and maintaining order, peace and security in our country. This is the promise of Independence and the promise of the Seychelles Charter which while being drafted, you were organizing the sale of the Malo Arms to Hutus in Rwanda.  In Kenya Jomo Kenyatta when asked how will the trains work without the British on the heels of Independence replied: “it does not matter if our train does not run on time, what matters is that it is run by Kenyans”. Take a lesson from history Mr. Michel, before history bins you as a leader. “Sesel Pou Seselwa”! Learn the meaning of this in 2013 and stop living in 1964.

Mr. Michel is correct when he says NDEA has achieved success. But NDEA has a budget of 49 Million and with that much money, it should be able to do much better. NDEA success has been targeting the small fish in drug trafficking and drug dealing. Mr. Michel, we want the big fish, who finance Scr. 50 Million in drugs and the 10 million drug seizure with no arrest until today. We want the SNP drug Escobars, the PL Escobars and the NDP Escobars. This is who we want. We want you to divorce political affiliation from drug trafficking. This means that NDEA cannot be an apparatus of State House, it must be independent, because your high profile glory boys raised from the system from Cuba to State House are involved in drug trafficking. If State House runs NDEA, you will protect them. For that Mr. Michel, the current scenario is not acceptable. It brings great disrepute to your government.

On Rehabilitation Mr. Michel Just Talks

The reality is that Mr. Michel initially had a policy not too different to his personal view on drugs. He had no policy for drug rehabilitation, he would rather allow the 3,000 plus addicts to die off, much like the 2,000 or more unborn infants whose life is terminated prematurely by medical intervention each year in Seychelles. This raises the country development index, but it is artificial because we must rely on foreign labor to do our work and we then export the fruits of that labor in overseas remittances. This means that while Seychelles may appear to look successful as a middle income country, she is in fact a basket case failure. Stop playing social engineering Mr. Michel, stop playing with our lives. This generation will not take it. We will expose you and you failing PL.

 

Michel Cannot Speak On Rule of Law 

Mr. Michel can speak only to PL salary men and woman on rule of law. He cannot speak to the public on the issue without being questioned on the veracity of his commitment to rule of law. Today, we still have colonial laws running Seychelles. Michel has not amended these laws to earn our respect. Instead, he has used the colonial masters laws to lord over Seychellois and give preferential treatment to foreigners who disrespect our culture, and disregard our people, who are simple by nature and emotional disposed to being sensitive because we are islanders. Mr. Michel uses laws to please himself and meet his sense of self worth like any dictator does. How did Jules Egbert Savy get a Seychelles passport, Suleiman Al Dakhial, Radovan krijir? How did Shiekh Khalifa get La Misere and barbaron? How did he get tax free status on $400 Million in building materials? How did Siva get an Island Ile Theresse? Mr. Michel broke the law, to please his own wish to play dictator. In return he was invited to Formula One races and cocktails in UAE. Mr. Michel is not much different from James Mancham is he?

You know the old saying: “Birds of the same feather flock together”. Zwazo Menm Nik, tou sa la.

When Mr. Michel speaks of rule of law, why has he yet to file a Human Rights Country report, required under every UN Convention of Human Rights signed by Seychelles since 1993? There is no answer, because Mr. Michel does not believe in rule of law, it appears he believes in “rule by only a few”. This little tidbit details is now becoming common information worldwide, thanks to SFP and the largest Twitter account in Seychelles in collaboration with LAVERITE and Seychelles reality blog which has gone over 200,000 last week.

Mr. Michel Wants the Next Generation to Inherit Seychelles 

Mr. Michel you cannot bequeath Seychelles to the next generation, if you have already sold it in this generation, under your watch. 

What you have done as a leader, to sell our patrimony, chastise those who warn you of this great dangerous action, selectively reduce population growth by terminating pregnancy with intervention of the Ministry of Health, ignoring our drug addicts, penalizing small token marijuana smokers, while releasing the real Escobar’s at the expense of society are great transgressions against your people.

No other leader has stood in office while he took a country into BANKRUPTCY and kept her there while his political apparatus became richer than ever. 

A true Leader Mr. Michel, we will know him from his heart for Seychellois, not his quest for a full pocket of Dirham’s.

We see right through you.

The next generation will not take it lightly.

Seselwa Unite!

Sesel Pou Seselwa!

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