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Oil in Seychelles Waters???!

The SPPF over the years have devised numerous scams by which to enslave the people of Seychelles. The latest con that has been in circulation in the last few years, ever since President Michel took up residence at State House, is “The Oil Scam”.

This Administration never misses an opportunity to play the ‘Oil’ card whenever it feels threatened that the people are losing hope of ever finding prosperity under the SPPF. Somebody of top ranking within the Government or President Michel himself will play the ‘Oil’ card. In fact the supposedly oil exploration has become their ‘Joker’, using it at every given opportunity when things are down.

The fact is that there is no oil reserve of commercial value in our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). The British before granting us autonomy scanned our waters to established that the Black Gold was not present in our waters, otherwise they would never have granted us independence – remember ‘Beagle’ and ‘Bulldog’ scanning every inch of the waters that surrounds the islands in the seventies and there might have been other covert operations that we do not know of – please stop playing the “be patient we will be getting rich soon” card…

WHO WAS IT WHO SAID PARADISE WAS BORING?

Things are coming together slowly but surely. Key personnel are being appointed in areas in this Administration where they should have been a long time ago. Recently the first official “Bean” man was appointed by President Michel. Now we know exactly who to blame if our backyard remains like it has been in the last few years. We are confident that the new man, Mr. Bean, will do a good job. Recently he proved his worth by collecting fifteen full size bins from Eden Island. This week he appeared on our collective TV screens simultaneously. The man must be a genius to manage such an extraordinary feat. He was harping on about everything rubbish. O.K, Antom (short for uncle tom) did not for obvious reasons put the 4.5 million dollar question to him, but maybe just maybe, he might come across our money he lost, whilst rummaging through the piles and piles of rubbish he is going to have to go through as punishment for not being careful with other people’s money which never belonged to him in the first place. 

Last week we saw the self appointment of an official milkman extraordinaire. He too appeared on our TV screens. They must be following in the footstep of the new Boss – His Excellency Kim James 1st.  The man just loves looking at himself on TV, according to lady numero uno (number one, the number before number two).  For, whenever he sees himself on the box, his little eyes lit up and this causes him to jump up and down in excitement on the Arabian rug.  He is of the view that His Excellency Kim, the country in Europe nearest to Great Britain, did not appear enough on the box. Anyway, let us get back to our milkman aka Sadayam. He had graphs and charts to demonstrate how to milk the populace dry in making our tea or coffee a lighter shade of black.  He must have learned all this magic from his former boss; the one who can turn anything into something else at a flick of a switch, like beer into backside paper or plastic pipe.  Have you ever wondered why there are no words printed on backside paper?  Simply, asks Mr. Milkman; his product often makes us go a lot. He will tell you that it is because Backside cannot read a word of English or Kreol for that matter and that is probably why he is selling us crap in generous portions. This is the “true-face” of reality in Paradise, Seychelles, in 2007. We have a Mr. Bean who has been given the task to go through tons and tons of rubbish  in search of five million minus half a million, which we all know it has already been desalinated (like the plant at Providence), in somebody else’s back-pocket or backyard down under. And a milkman who is milking the wrong beast, the man beast instead of the animal beast, and the cow shed as well. Who was it who said life in Paradise must be boring – not this Paradise matey!

August 10, 2007
Copyright 2007: Seychelles Weekly, Victoria, Mahe, Seychelles