Domestic
One Year After September 25, 2025
"If you can see the work of your life destroyed and, without saying a word, start rebuilding it, you will be a man, my son." Andry Rajoelina apparently made this excerpt from R. Kipling's poem his own following the looting and burning of his company in Ambodivona. One year, almost exactly, after the wave of looting that swept across the shores of "Tana Water Front" and destroyed several commercial establishments in its path, including INJET, this digital printing company that had barely recovered is once again in turmoil. One fine morning—though not so fine after all—the leader of large-format advertising in Madagascar had the unpleasant surprise of seeing all his bank accounts frozen. Before being unblocked that same afternoon, but completely emptied. Not a single ariary across all three accounts. Three, like the number of misfortunes experienced by this company whose success earned its owner election in 2003 as manager of the year by a major local bank, which was supposed to grant him a zero-interest loan as a reward. Zero, like the current state of the company's bank accounts, which had suffered multiple political upheavals. Season 1 was filmed in December 2007, following TGV's victory in the race for Tana's mayor against TIM's candidate, who had previously had INJET's advertising signs removed. Season 2 took place in January 2009 with the ransacking and closure of Viva station, which was then located in Ambodivona. The very place where Season 3 occurred on September 25, 2025. A dark day—literally and figuratively—that the "mpitolona" apparently intend to celebrate (note: not commemorate) for the first anniversary. One must wonder whether the seizure of the company's accounts in Ambodivona is part of the festivities, or rather the celebrations, marking the first anniversary of Andry Rajoelina's fall as both a physical and political person, even though INJET is a legal entity. It remains to be seen whether the man would also make his own the rest of R. Kipling's poem, which said: "If you can lose in one stroke the gains of a hundred games, without a gesture and without a sigh."
Source: Midi Madagasikara