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THE propaganda strategy adopted by President James A. Michel to get himself elected President and to give the SPPF another 5 years of power after being in office for nearly 29 years is an affront to human intelligence and a reflection of the utter failure of SPPF under Rene’s rule. It is not being forgotten that Michel was a vital part of Rene’s system all throughout that period.
In its issue of Saturday 22nd April 2006, the Seychelles Weekend Nation published a full page of endorsements of Michel as Presidential candidate for the next election. In fact, this is nothing but a cheap attempt to get people to vote for Michel.
Angelique Lesperance of the Department of Employment endorses Michel because - “Our job is secured, so is our future”. Oh yeah? Well, Ms Lesperance, after 29 years of SPPF rule – is it only now that you feel you have a secured job?
For Daisy Romain of Daisy’s Upholstery of Beaufond Lane, Michel’s Presidency is about a brighter future for business. Well, dear Daisy, you do realize that Michel could have brought this about when he was the Minister of Finance. Your statement therefore accepts the fact that for 30 years, businesses have had no future under Rene and Michel.
And as for Patrick Victor, what a masterpiece of utter “nonsense”? “Mizisyen Nepli Tousel” only because Michel is giving back what he took away from all artists over the last 29 years which would suggest that you are now back where you were 30 years ago. Imagine how much further you would have been had Michel and his cronies had not poked his nose in your business!
Next we have taxi driver 63-year-old Godfrey Bonnelame who said that Michel is a man of his words. Foreign exchange conveniently made available 15 years after you have been forced by Michel’s policies to run your taxi down must indeed qualify as a promise kept. I’m surprised you survived long enough to see it, others did not. In any case, Mr Bonnelame, do I detect the suggestion that France Albert René was not a man of his words? And so far as Mrs Juliana Brutus is concerned, Michel has provided the key to food security by assisting local farmers in their ability to increase production. Which farmer would not be happy with the situation where a consumer has to pay Rs.20 for four tomatoes, Rs.40 for a pineapple, Rs.15 for an eggplant and Rs.15 for a kilo of carrots?
The whole page of impressions about our state of affairs published in the Seychelles Weekend Nation of Saturday 22nd April is nothing more but a political exercise to paint a dark picture in a colourful way.
After considering the involvement of James Alix Michel since he took up arms to accomplish a Coup d’Etat, I find him guilty on many counts of contributing to the development of a Seychelles where everything is “napa” – and recommend that the people of Seychelles this time vote for the changes which the country deserves in the interest of their children and posterity.
(Contributed)