Wednesday, June 3, 2015

THE DAY OF RECKONING: POA 2013

The pitted, epic and silent battle between the Seychelles Gang of Four and the People of Seychelles, as the people fight to reclaim power, draws to a close as the Constitutional Court is set to deliver judgement today on the Constitutionality of the Public Order Act 2013.

There is plenty of anxiety as to the outcome of the court case, especially as the National Assembly colluded with the Executive to criminalise the fundamental rights and freedom of the citizens, leaving only the judiciary to defend the people. Is the judiciary virtuous and independent? Enough to guarantee the people their fundamental rights and freedom, as given to them by the constitution of the Seychelles?


 When the judicial hammer falls this morning, what will be left of the fundamental human rights and freedom of the people of the Seychelles? Will the Judiciary (along with the National Assembly and the Executive) have crucified the people of Seychelles? Criminalising their fundamental rights and freedom? Would the Seychelles Gang of Four have won? Will the Seychelles Constitutional Court give the Gang of Four (as opposed to the Chinese Gang of Four) the absolute power over the people, power they so badly seek? What, if any, fundamental rights and freedom will the People of Seychelles have left, after the judicial hammer comes down on the morning of 2 June, 2015?

This is a battle between a Law and Order system the Seychelles Gang of Four wants to impose on the people V/S a system where there is the Rule of Law (as long as the laws are legal and constitutional) that the people want, a rule of law that has been promised by the constitution, but that they are not enjoying.

The only thing that is certain at this moment is that the people cannot afford to lose this battle for that would take us back to the dark days of the Second Republic and we guarantee that if necessary we will carry this fight against James Michel, Patrick Herminie, Ronny Govinden and Joel Morgan to the International Courts of Human and People’s Rights and Freedom- but win we will.

If James Michel et al. are so bent on having these extraordinary powers over the citizen, something they clearly badly want to have, then they should have done a Coup d’état: They have the blue print to do so. But there is just no way they will get these extraordinary powers over the people of Seychelles through the POA, legislated and enacted. This is not going to happen!


This case provides the Constitutional Court with the opportunity to showcase itself as being a defender and protector of the Constitution, the people, the weak and the voiceless, whilst by legislating and enacting the POA 2013, both the National Assembly and the Executive were in breach of the Constitution and were antipeople.


Viral Dhanjee