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
