I was lucky enough to be the sole outside observer during an internal meeting this week with journalists across the different publications of La Sentinelle. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the Yerrigadoogate, which has shaken the country recently.

As I am sure most of you people out there will agree, as soon as the Attorney General resigned, I instantly lost interest in the matter. I could not care less about the ongoing noise from the press over the allegations of sequestration, sextortion or even the use of Swiss bank accounts.

I instinctively could not believe that three journalists in Mauritius would have the audacity to kidnap a weight-lifting, protein-taking muscle man and force him to swear an affidavit. It sounded so much like a bad Bollywood movie starring an equally bad Shakti Kapoor.

As soon as the Attorney General came off his high horse and resigned, I realized how to the point the description in the secret BAI tapes was, claiming that Yerrigadoo was “not a very smart guy at all” and was a big softie. This is really the crux of the case: Three intrepid journalists getting enough damning evidence from a swindler – his own lawyer could not trust him – that could incriminate the Attorney General. There seemed to be no way out for Yerrigadoo from day one!

The former Attorney General stated, while crying at the same time, that “Durga Ma” had saved him. He did so live on a private radio when the self-confessed swindler retracted his accusations. The scene seemed to be taken out of The Simpsons TV show, when protagonist Homer Simpson suddenly becomes “ultra-religious”. This was hypocrisy at its peak. Surely “Durga Ma” knows how to recognise Yerrigadoo’s signature and handwriting.

John Dart, a writer for the Cristian Century, had said this about the jabs taken by The Simpsons against religious hypocrisy in the US: “The Simpsons is an equal-opportunity satire: it shrewdly targets all sorts of foibles and hypocrisies, not just religious one. Perhaps, it’s also because the show is exceptionally aware of the significant place religion has in the American landscape.”

We definitely need a show like The Simpsons based solely on Mauritian politics starring politicians, all our deities, religious leaders, and the rest of the chamchas. In the meantime, we will have to content ourselves with our three intrepid journalists calling out the oppressors and humble enough to answer the questions of their fellow colleagues.