Conscience is the Chamber of Justice

The Mauritius Islands in the Indian Ocean have no laws to regulate political parties. When the islands gained their independence from the UK in 1968, the integrity of politicians rendered regulation redundant. Today, the sons of those leaders have taken over the family business and political parties now have more in common with the Mafia than their democratic counterparts in the US and Europe. A lone crusader has set out to challenge their domination of the nation. His story, like a John le Carré novel, stretches the bounds of credibility.

Absolute Bullshit

Oops! They killed me (well almost!). Not exactly part of the plan, but a possibility that had to be entertained and mined. And this is the big one: an accusation from beyond the grave that the directors of the Absolute group companies murdered one of their members to protect their reputation. How will they bribe and intimidate their way out of this?

Well they won’t. The writing is on the wall. Absolute’s latest business model has mananged to sink further into the sewer from hard selling nothing to a virtual pyramid scheme.

Absolute’s fractional ownership with guaranteed return over three years is a Ponzi Scheme for the following reasons:

1. Income stream is almost exclusively from selling fractional ownership, not renting rooms. The rooms are given free/at cost to prospective clients. The Agoda rates are not competitive with nearby hotels.
2. When all units are sold, rental income will be approximately 25% of current guarantees, immediately causing Absolute losses (unless they use the property to get sales for new ones – making the pyramid even bigger).
3. At the end of the guarantee period (or sooner if the word gets out) the value of the properties will fall 75%.

Who made these phone calls? (And maybe killed me?)

Dear FCO Mumbai

Thank you for providing the contact details of lawyers in Mumbai. As you can see from the attached letter, one of them drafted an FIR for me (kindly note their change in address). Following your advice to not go directly to the police for fear of being intimidated, the plan was for the statement to be sent by registered post once out of the country. Unfortunately, by the time the draft was complete, it was too late to book a flight for that night on line or over the telephone and it seemed unnecessarily stressful to go to the airport and risk there not being any availability.

 

Very few people know about my continued presence in Mumbai: the lawyers, Standard clothes shop in Santa Cruz, Air India and my current hotel. Others who know that my departure did not take place on time are the staff of the Sea Princess Hotel, the police at Santa Cruz/Juhu station and yourselves.

 

Imagine my surprise, therefore, to have just received two phone calls to my Indian cell phone as shown in the attached photograph. A single male voice delivered a non-stop stream of expletives such as “fuck you, go to hell, fucking bitch, fuck yourself, fuck your mother”. This call has put me once more in fear of my safety and so this email is sent to you and copied to the lawyers AS A MEASURE OF PRECAUTION. 

 

Please call me (+91 8879042505) to acknowledge receipt of this email and accept my plea that you extend to me the full protection of Her Majesty’s Government. Obviously it is sensible for me to book on the earliest available flight and to avoid Air India. This will be done. Please request the appropriate agencies to seek the source of the phone calls and inform me so that retaliatory action (such as informing the public via facebook.com/WeLuvMu) targets the actual culprits rather than all the suspects. If you do not call by midday, this email will be automatically published on-line for my own protection.

 

Your kind understanding is deeply appreciated.

 

Dr Richard Luke Munisamy

On Saturday, May 4, 2013, priyam wrote:

Hi Richard,

 

Copy of the FIR attached for your reference.

 

 

 

Regards,

Ms. Priyam.S.Dhamankar

Oasis Counsel & Advisory Pvt. Ltd. 
Udyog Bhavan, 1st floor,

29, Walchand Hirachand Marg,

Ballard Estate,

Mumbai – 400038

Board Line: (91 22) 6129 4600/4646 

Fax:              (91 22) 6129 4647

Direct:         (91 22) 6129 4623

 

 

 

Is there any Justice in this World?

**** OPEN LETTER ****

Dear Secretary-General

Please refer the following to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group:

We are deeply concerned that the State of Mauritius has fallen into systemic violation of the Harare Declaration. Please take note of the email below (copied to the Chief Justice) to which We have still received no reply.

We apologise for the jocular language – it is an expression of Our utter frustration. The precursor to the application refered to therein can be found here.

The application was rejected by the Judge in Chambers on the basis of vice de procedure. (Click here to view what happened). We attempted to appeal to the Privy Council, but it has no Jurisdiciton in Chambers cases. We are unable to submit the main case because We cannot find an attorney to represent Us pro bono (We are a registered charitable institution funded entirely by donations). We are unable to apply in Person because of a change to the Supreme Court rules following a previous test of the judicio- political oligarchy.

Naturally, this email will appear on Our blog along with Your responses (or lack of them).

Regards

Dr Richard L Munisamy

Return of the Jedi: Take 2

The Light shone in the Darkness and the Darkness said: “You’re Home early Honey!”

The Application below was delivered to the Supreme Court on Monday, the Fourth Day of February 2013. (Because Jeff Lingaya’s Life was at stake, We couldn’t wait until May 4th). It had been cleared by the Master of the Court and sworn in front of the Registrar. For about an hour, Court Officers sent Our Director was sent from pillar to post and back again around the Court buildings. He didn’t see any geese, wild or otherwise, but did become sufficiently enraged to start video recording the farce. Under threat of private  prosecution  for perverting the course of justice, the Judges’ Secretaries finally accepted the Application. However, after the Judge in Chambers had considered it for some length of time, the Application was rejected it for ”vice de procédure”. Let the public give its judgement on whether or not the Judge was just.

The Hymn of the rLOVEution

[To the tune of dIre sTraits "Brothers in Arms"
Dedicated to Anjalay Coopen, Kaya and Berger Agathe]

These mist covered mountains
Are home now for We
And so are the lowlands
And even the Sea

We promise they’ll give you
Their fields and their farms
You’ll no longer burn to avenge
Your dead sister in arms

Through the streets of destruction
Baptisms of fire
We witnessed your suffering
As the battles raged higher

And though you were hurt so bad
In fear and alarm
We left you alone there
Oh brothers in arms

Orange-gate update: Political police?

The purpose of the Mauritian Police Force is supposed to be: “To uphold the law fairly and firmly, to prevent crime and bring to justice those who break the law. To protect the community and act with common sense, integrity and sound judgement…”. In his classic allegorical novel, Animal Farm, George Orwell warns us that even the most idealistic leadership can become irredeemably corrupt over time. The surest evidence for this is when the de facto law of the land has degenerated to: “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.” Is Mauritius sliding down this slippery slope?

With lightning speed the police responded to the complaint Nandanee Soornack (Labour activist) made on 10th December 2012. The acccused, Yogida Sawmynaden (MSM activist), was questioned, arrested and provisionally charged with a crime that doesn’t even exist in law merely eight days later.   The farce only ended when the the Director of Public Prosecutions intervened, ruling that there was “no case to answer”. Contrast this with a complaint first lodged over two and a half ago…

[Source for photo: kotzot.com]

Where there is no vision…

…the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. – Proverbs 29:18

Vision

The quote is from the Old Testament and was written by a prophet of Israel. His people spent 40 years wandering through the wilderness because they had no map to guide them to the Promised Land and a leader who had lost God’s favour. In the 1990s, our nation developed a long term strategy – Vision 2020 – to illuminate the path to a sustainable and prosperous future. It was the responsibility of the current Governor of the Bank of Mauritius and largely completed by the end of the golden age of Sir Anerood Jugnauth. A regime change in 1995 meant that its launch was delayed and with no communication programme, it soon disappeared from the consciousness of the people.

Saying YES to coal and NO to Greenpeace

Our leaders recently denied a request for Greenpeace’s vessel – the Rainbow Warrior -  to access Port Louis harbour during its tour of the Indian Ocean. Are they justified? Let us examine the objections reported to have come from Government House to find out.

Say NO! to coal – And yes to what?

“BLACKOUTS!” This is the threat that some quarters are using to argue the case for more coal-fired electricity production, i.e. CT Power. Environmentalists and local residents are protesting against this but have yet to present viable alternatives. What is the real situation and do we have other options?

Electric Vehicles: Green Leaf vs. Black Coal

During MID week at the University of Mauritius in March 2009, Nissan presented its plan for our island to be the 7th nation in the world where the Leaf, their new electric car, would be available for sale. In February 2012, we became the first country in the southern hemisphere to have the vehicles delivered, so why does it appear that we might be the last place on earth where one is actually sold? Some say this is because the government cannot determine what import duty to levy on each car, but might this apparent confusion actually be the fruit of incoherent policies?