The Samaritan Act I Scene II - The Rift
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The act takes place in the morning second Monday of January the following year at the Maracas municipal headquarters in the Mayor’s boardroom. The room displays affluence. It is an urgent meeting convened by the mayor comprising of key leaders in the municipal administration. Present members in this meeting are the Municipal Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Harvester; the principal judge, Justice Ian Jaden, The Municipal Inspector General of Police, Inspector Bembe, Hon.Ted, secretary Department of Health and Environment; Hon Seymour ,secretary, Department of planning and development and the Deputy Mayor, Hon. Ramdaye.
It is an emergency meeting called by the Mayor Hon. Mossi after attending a closing ceremony at Sagrada secondary school. The skit is also available on the App called The Samaritan which is likely to be have been viewed by millions of people.
Mossi finds out whether the members have read the Newspapers .They negatively swing their heads confirming that they haven’t read the Newspapers. The Mayorthen picks the newspapers and reads the headlines aloud. The mayor finds out that the headlines are exposing the rot in Maracas municipality.
All of them have suggestive titles, for example, The Caribbean Watch writes “Municipal leadership: A Criminal Enterprise”, The Insight writes “Rot in Maracas Municipal Council Exposed”, and The Spotlight writes ‘Municipal Leaders Face Imprisonment’.
The Mayor is worried about this exposure and to him he is aware that the source of all this information is the skit organized by Nicole at Sagrada secondary school.
Surprisingly, Ted claims that such headlines are common. According to him rot is a common thing in Maracas Municipality.
Jaden feels that to stop such writings in the newspapers the reporters and editors should be given boxes of chocolate. The judge displays corruption meaning he is an
unjust judge.
Ted seems to be more aware of the situation; he is relaxed and not even surprised about the Samaritan. According to him such online allegations cannot form a strong basis for prosecution and conviction. According to the Newspapers Mossi points out that Ted and Seymour are the culprits who supplied Air whereby details of payments to the company have been unearthed. Harvester goes further stating the allegations unearthed by the Newspapers; drug trafficking, grabbing of public land,inflation of the cost of municipal living, undertaking shoddy public works , murder and gang warfare. Bembe is accused of illegally owning Madingo Golf Club.
In this meeting members are thinking on how they can intimidated the developers
of this app, humiliate even the press men just to cleanse themselves of the menace.
Some people like Harvester and the Jaden remain liberal minded. Jaden states that he does not wish to be part of the criminal proposals, he says he is not ready to help clean the mess. Seymour proposes that they approach the boy and the girl to the matter. Mossi feels that it is the Ethics and innovation teacher to be dealt with.
Harvester believes that it’s only the truth that can set everyone free, he feels that
such can be done through the conduct of a truth and reconciliation exercise.
At the end of this scene a rift occurs between Mossi, Ted and Seymour. Seymour
and Ted feel that Mossi is not willing to help them out of the trouble .They are planning to mobilise the members of the Council Chambers against Mossi who threatens them that he is the smoke that thunders.