“The increase in the cost of living today, has nothing to do with any group of merchants but everything to do with SPPF”
WHILE all these external disasters made in our name are looming, internally SPPF Government offices are in disarray and chaos, NATCOF has rightfully sounded out People of Seychelles cry on the outrageous cost of living increases, which has every SPPF with an umbrella running for the nearest bin. SPPF has cleverly decided to use Jules Hoareau, a popular commentator from 'KOKSINEL', to be the poster child-vanguard for its political cause of finding a "pti group dimoun" to blame all the general public problems on. They are of course: "Serten Marsan". Some merchants are a sorry bunch of People under SPPF. They are the slaves of this feudal communist system. They are used and abused and tossed out when they reach their expiry
date. In Zimbabwe, Mugabe has chosen the farmers as his "pti group dimoun". The increase in the cost of living today, has nothing to do with any group of merchants but everything to do with SPPF. While they attack some merchants, they protect others. Nothing has changed since old days SPUP. Only now the prices are higher, the failure is greater under SPPF. Nothing has changed in Zimbabwe either from the early days of Zanu-PF, it is only worse now after Mugabe's 28 year reign.
When Jules Hoareau tells us "do not pay too much for the price of bread”, does he also tell us that the price of wheat and flour has increased by 127% in 12 months on the International Commodities Market? No. Does Mr. NATCOF tell us that merchants do not get foreign exchange any more from local banks and that they must pay a premium as much as 80% more than the official fake rate for hard currency on the Black Market? No. Does Mr. NATCOF tell us that the price of shipping goods to Seychelles has doubled and the price of fuel has nearly doubled since last year? No. Does Mr. NATCOF tell us that GST on imported goods is charged on a fictitious price based on 30% profit margin, which increases the selling price by more than 100%. This grave failure which the People of Seychelles must bear in the form of higher cost for all goods is the direct responsibility of SPPF? No. Why Not? A Consumer advocate must defend all Consumers not protect a political party from facing its failures. When pork chops have no fat on them Mr. NATCOF may blame the farmers for skinny chops. Be careful farmers. After the merchants have been slammed, you will be next.
As NATCOF goes overdrive on invisible issues and ignores the real issues facing Consumers, remember the whole exercise is just another effort to smoke-screen the real problem in the cost of living today: SPPF! Today, if a man has to take a boat from Mahe to Praslin to find and buy S-26 in any old merchant store, it is not the merchant he must blame to feed his baby, it is SPPF. No One But You, Baby! For it is easy to shake, wiggle and moutia your way along the beach at night, as you try to describe our Constitution with the vibrating of bodily parts, but hard to fix the economy of our country.