Let’s Clear the Dirty Water At La Misere Part One (1)
The PP government of James Michel has done all it can to keep the murky relations with Sheik Khalifa under wraps. The special treatment given to Sheik Khalifa has been crafted with due legal advice it would appear, to circumvent the laws of Seychelles or subscribe to exceptions within the laws, to treat one person very specially, contrary to the democratic norms of our Country, which requires, that all people be treated equally.
It can reasonably be said, that James Michel has bent over backwards in a characteristically weak leadership posture to please Sheik Khalifa. Michel has set new boundaries of what bending over backwards to please someone means.
A most recent and glaring example of this bend over backwards syndrome was when James Michel turned up to the door step of a family affected by Delo Kaka last week. He brought along SBC and bodyguards, to face a family victimized by his own doing misfeasance.
We will see where Michel is grossly at fault in a series of articles as one article will not do justice to the effort.
• Sale of La Misere in violation of State Lands and Rivers Act;
• Gross Violation of the Vienna Convention 1961, by alluding that the Convention affords immunity to Heads of States and tax fee entry of all goods when it does not;
• Allowing ASCON an unregistered construction company to operate in Seychelles;
• Allowing 2,700 ASCON construction workers into Seychelles, without paying GOP, when all Government Ministries, including Ministry of Finance, knew, or should have known that ASCON itself was not registered to carry on any business activity in Republic of Seychelles;
• Ministry of Health failed to inspect the site of La Misere to determine that normal Health and Safety precautions were being undertaken to accommodate 2,700 workers; after all, with 2,700 workers on site, it becomes Seychelles largest construction site, and necessary precautions should have been taken to prevent risking the water source in the area;
• Ministry of Environment grossly failed to inspect the construction site;
• Ministry of Internal Affairs, and Department of Immigration failed to review the granting of GOP exemption to these workers by Ministry of Finance which is itself against the law as it is not the per-view of Ministry of Finance to deal with Immigration and GOP related issues;
• Ministry of Finance, Trades Tax Division and Customs, allowed over $280 Million in uncollected tax revenue to slip by uncollected, relying falsely according to Mr. Barry Faure, Secretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Seychelles, “on the Vienna Convention affording tax exemption on goods imported for Sheik Khalifa’s project”;
• It must be noted that under the Trades Tax Act, Section 4.2 provides in part: Notwithstanding subsection 1 , the Minister, may , by regulations, exempt goods and services from the payment of Trades Tax. No application for Tax exemption has ever been filed according to Secretary of State Barry Faure. To do so now, would be fraudulent and infer that back dating of documents would be necessary to grant Sheik Khalifa tax exemption on goods that would be reasonably assessed $280 Million in taxes;
• To infer that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the power of Tax Exemption as Mr. Barry Faure did on SBC, infers that the State of the Republic ‘s functioning of state affairs has been reduced to nothing more then some kind of mish mash like pig food, under the weak, leadership of James Michel since 2006-2010.
I have now counted Ten (10) bullet points for this week, I hope JJ can wait patiently for the next Ten (10) points, don’t run and get a bullet proof vest, it will not help you.
Remember, Sesel Pou Seselwa!
May God Bless All Freedom Loving Seychellois!
Source: STAR 8-13-10