Ms Sai Mizzi’s performance at her press conference was a dismal exercise in pulling the wool over one’s eyes.
That was the only choice left to her, considering the many, well, chinks in her armour. Her infamous “You finally found me” will come back to haunt her.
That utterance had echoes of Paul Bremer, the Head of the US Occupying Forces in Iraq some 10 years ago. Remember?
“Ladies and Gentlemen.......we got ‘im!”, on breaking the news of the capture of Saddam Hussein, who was run to ground hiding in a rat hole.
She alleges (what else?) that she managed to swing this deal, a deal involving a specialist company in cellular phone communication, a company on a scale that Malta’s GDP would look like the weekly bill the company runs up on hospitality expenses.....
It was an insulting performance at best. An insult (though unlike the one to the wider audience, perhaps in this case unintended) to this giant telecommunications company which has left her out on a limb without a phone connection.
No, Ms Sai, you’re no Chinese puzzle. You were as obvious as daylight, riddled as your armour was with so many chinks. And you couldn’t have chosen a more jarring venue to the inanities you assailed us with: Smart City.
The Lady says she doesn’t have a phone.
Go tell that to the Mandarins.
Joseph Genovese