Goem, Goemkar and Goemkarponn laid to rest with the arrest of Maclon - By Nisser Dias

Goem, Goemkar and Goemkarponn was finally laid to rest with the arrest of Maclon Fernandes, who made a statement to the entire Goan community all over the globe by selling mangoes and Goan produce from his swanky Skoda car at the Ponda circle.

In bad times

Those in power could not simply digest the growing publicity this youth was generating for himself by selling Goan produce and spreading a message urging the wayward, unemployed youth to be self-employed. The ‘dalal’ from Fatorda used many tricks to stop Maclon from selling his agricultural produce, but at every turn his well wishers stood by him, sending clear message that the general public will not take it lying down if the civic body tries to stop this Goan youth.

In good times

Finally the police bowed down to the dictat of their handler on Sunday (8^th July 2018) seized Maclon car with goods and even his cellphone, The purpose for which Fatorda police station was commissioned was fulfilled by a stooge of a police inspector Navlesh Desai. This spineless disgraceful of a police officer has failed to realize that his salary is being paid from the earnings of these small timers and not the politicians.

It is ironical that the dalal was instrumental is selling land in Curtorim to a non-Goan, but Maclon being the son of the soil of that village was arrested in Fatorda for selling fruits that are grown and harvested in Goa.While on the topic of non-Goans, the dalal is promoting non-Goans and the tagline of Goem, Goemkar and Goemkarponn is just an eyewash. The whole-sale fish market is being run by a non-Goan, vegetable and fruit sheds in Margao are occupied by non-Goans, beef and mutton stalls are allotted to non-Goans, fish cutters are non-Goans and slowly non-Goans are taking over the selling of fish in the renovated fish shed. All are situated in Fatorda but one Goan selling fruits at Fatorda in a private was arrested for allegedly causing nuisance for traffic, while hundreds of ‘ghattis’ are doing illegal business on carts and even with rickshaws.

Social activists showing solidarity with Maclon when the
harassement started before his arrest by Fatorda police.

It could also be that Maclon’s message of urging youth to be gainfully self-employed was piercing the conscious of the strongman as his own source of income is shrouded in secrecy.

Secondly in his younger days his used to use goons to settle scores with his rivals in college and now using the men-in-uniform to do the same. But the coward that the dalal is cannot take on people of his stature and resorted to targeting a youth whose parents are abroad and he lives all by himself in Goa and has no political backing and to humiliate him got him arrested thereby blackening the clean police record.

Nisser Dias

However the move did boomerang against the dalal when plenty of people rushed to the police station in support of the youth and under pressure from the public the police had to release Maclon’s cellphone and car.

In conclusion while Maclon has come out as a hero because every Goan in each and every nook and corner of world has read and heard about  him selling mangoes and spreading a message of self-employment, every Goan all over the world who is responsible for using police to stop selling Goan produce in his iconic Skoda car.