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Killing Rodrigues? autonomy softly
Baton down the hatches ? Ti-Ramgoolam is at it again! This time around, he is pushing through yet another amendment to the Rodrigues Regional Assembly Act; prostituting yet another law, to wrest control of Plaine Corail Airport from the Rodriguan people.
This bill, we are told, is not a scantily-clad ploy to chip away at our wobbly ?Autonomy?. No! Apparently losing custody of our airport, we are told, will somehow make it more efficient. This, we are told, is for our own good? Gee that?s great! So, why aren?t we dancing in the streets?
After all, haven?t ministers from Mauritius visited us in numbers lately? Haven?t they shown renewed interest in our ?welfare? and spread the good word, non-stop ? just before our election? Why then, aren?t we Rodriguans eagerly carrying them on our shoulders, embracing each other and weeping openly, that we should have been so privileged? What! Are we babes in the wood, as well as ingrates?
Not quite! But, we can hear the growling through gnashing teeth in the distance, just as we can see a cigar-smoking totalitarian toff, hell-bent on bringing us to heel, feverishly taking a sledgehammer to Rodrigues?Assembly. SOS ? Quixote looms large!
Yes, Ti-Ramgoolam is at it again ? and lately, it seems, that his ?mission? has shifted into overdrive. Which brings us to the ten Rupee question: How long can this domination last?
Ki Shakespeare ti dire la? ?De zour en zour, nou mure ek mure, nou fletri, nou disparet! (Ok, Ok, mo fine ajoute ene ti boute) Hence, we can take comfort, not in Schadenfreude, but in the certainty, that our bondage will barely endure a few more spins around the Sun.
In any case, long after decrepitude would have consigned a dribbling Quixote to the recycle bin of history ? a defiant Rodrigues will still be here ? for ages and ages and ?
Vive Rodrigues ? Libre Alain LÉVÊQUE
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