President Michel is being made to go back on the campaign trail early to work the field and defend his controversial policies which are responsible for making the lives of ordinary Seychellois harder. The condition in the country is now so bad and the people so frustrated with the current economic crisis that the ruling party has been forced into an early “save our skin” (SOS) campaign. On Saturday 30th August President Michel was dispatched to Praslin in an early bid to save his party’s fur at the next election.
From a photograph on the front page of the Seychelles Nation of Monday September 1st Issue No. 160, we could make out some members of the accompanying party. The Editor of The Rising Sun is standing far left in the photograph with camera in hand. What is so special about The Rising Sun, which allows them to form part of the President’s press entourage? We are not aware if Regar or The Independent for that matter received an invitation but this publication did not. This is the kind of accessibility to information this government is practicing, a segregated style probably modeled on China; “a one country two system approach”. We guess they need all the help they can muster…
For the past two weeks The Independent has mysteriously disappeared from public view. Some are saying that Percy Ah-mane, the paper’s editor, has received a slap on the wrist by the good doctor Ramadoss after he inadvertently leaked the story about the Seychelles Government defaulting on its loan obligation to the International Financial market. Others have said that the SPPF are not happy with Ah-mane’s lackluster performance of late as he seems to have run out of steam and cannot counter the systematic and relentless criticisms leveled at them as they stumbled from blunder to blunder. Whatever the reason, Dr. Poppit is being sorely missed!