Mark Gasan is building himself a coastal villa with unobstructed sea views

While working hard on destroying life for Sliema residents and those who work there, with the construction of a large tower for which his company won planning approval from Muscat’s government-appointees last Thursday, Mark Gasan is building himself a home conveniently well removed from the chaos, dust, confusion and years-long problems he will be causing to others who will get the pain while he and his get the gain: an “elevated bungalow” in a villa area with unobstructed sea views and no possibility of any tower, ever.

Corruption rules.

Mark Gasan was one of those who campaigned heavily before the last general election for his contemporaries and those he knew to vote for Muscat. Afterwards, when the inevitable happened, he told people (including me): “We have to give them a chance.”

It didn’t take much imagination to work out why. There is only one reason why people like that campaign for one political party or another: money and contracts. They have no political ideals or beliefs and certainly no concept of the common good.

And it was just a few months later that everything fell into place with the announcement of the fixed, crooked power station deal for Electrogas Malta Ltd, a company incorporated in chaos and which will be investing just 10,000 euros of its shareholders’ money, with the rest coming from the Bank of Valletta under coercion and with taxpayer-money-guarantees stood by their crooked mate Muscat.

And now we have those five towers. X’ma jmorrux jivvutaw ghal Muscat for change. Not for small change, that’s for sure.