TEMPORARY HOUSING IS A DEATH SENTENCE OVER ITS INHABITANTS

TEMPORARY HOUSING IS A DEATH SENTENCE OVER ITS INHABITANTS

It is no secret that President Michel is using the various housing projects around the country as his mantle for a successful presidency. Each day of the week, we are shown on SBC TV and in the Seychelles Nation pictures and photographs of the President touring construction sites and completed projects. These visits take place mostly in the weekends, Saturday. The same pictures and photographs are sometimes used repeatedly to give the impression that there are more projects on the go than there really are. The SBC TV and the Seychelles Nation are sadly involved in these sad manipulative political games. Le Nouveau Seychelles Weekly and others (media) not directly associated with the political people in government are never invited on these visits.

This week it was no different from recent weeks. The SBC TV and the Seychelles Nation did not disappoint. We are in an election year after all, are we not? The last such charade took place last Saturday at Port Glaud and Grand Anse, when the Head of State visited the two districts. According to the Seychelles Nation, Thursday 25th January, 2007, strategies were drawn or debated, there and then (very unlikely) during that visit on how to go around housing hurdles in the districts to ensure that all who were on the waiting list for houses by July 2006 will have their own accommodation within five years, YES, another five years after having waited for over twenty already. Having been in power for the last thirty years the SPPF’s housing record is appalling and does not equate with the funds that has been spent on the various projects already.

Temporary Housing

Almost every district in the country has one or more units of temporary accommodation; most has been in occupation for at least five or more years. Some as much as twenty years. After the demolition of “Kan Poul” at Anse Aux Pins – the inhabitants were transferred into temporary accommodation at a place higher up on the hill above the ex “Kan Poul” known as “Dan Bodanmyen”. They are still there after more than twenty years in their corrugated iron sheets houses “Dan Tol”. Examples are plentiful all over the country; Les Mammelles; Petit Paris and Cascade to name a few. These facilities has become a death sentence over the people who inhabits these units.

Temporary bathroom

Looks like a ditch