This is in regards to the donations sent to Goa from abroad by Goans for Goan causes and for political parties. Very few Goans were involved from abroad as Kuwait Goans to send donations from Kuwait for Goan causes in Goa in lakhs of rupees
The donations sent thus were not always properly utilized by the recipients who at many times desliked our questioning the accountability and in the bargain the recipients misused our donations. I am given to understand that some Goans in the West are sending donations for an organization IN Goacampaigning against those non- Goans who are depriving the Goans of their rights to have priority over everything Goan. The accountability of this donation must be maintained properly otherwise there is every possibility for the recipients to misuse the donation as it happened to our donations sent from Kuwait. In Goa now you will not easily get a good man with good character though they will talk good as if they are saints.
While supporting this move of working for the cause of Goans opposing the non-Goans, they must also raise issues of destruction of natural beauty of Goa especiaIly the rampant Hills cutting, filling our fields with mud and many such activities affecting the nature. The non-Goans are not interested in protecting the ecology of Goa and hence there should be pressure on them to protect Goa for the next and future generations.
The other issue which is degoanising our Goa is the rampant employment of non-Goans in our Banking sector especially on the upper posts where they use their clout and power to help employment in the Banks of their own non-Goans and help their non-Goans to get loans easily while the applications for loans and other benefits for Goans are rejected on silly grounds. In this way Goans are deprived of the loan and job facilities where they should get priority. The other issue the Goans campaigning against non-Goans must take on is the abolishing of dual voting by the migrants. This is the top political issue that must come to an end.
A.Veronica Fernandes