Heartbreaking plight of Golden Key depositors
View(s):Year after a year, month after month, week after week there are articles, news reports and letters to the editors clearly narrating the history of this grand swindle, not of a company not by the Government of banks, but of the life savings of thousands of middle class income earners ranging from middle level private sector employees and public servants down to that of workers, labourers and Middle East returnees.
GK depositors at a protest campaign
While the President, the Supreme Court has made certain orders aimed at providing relief and some kind of equitable solution, the wolves and financial predators who were entrusted with the task, first, set up expensive outfits, paid themselves huge salaries and perks and drained out what was available for distribution to the unfortunate depositors, went straight into the professorial and professional pockets, all in the full glare of the Central Bank, the Government and the public.
Now, according to the recent article under the name of one victim (Business Times), a group or, more fittingly, a gang, of depositors have also seen the plight of their fellow depositors as an opportunity and gold mine for them to act as predators and, use some unlawful powers to build the corporate empire for their advantage. That the Presidential Office, the Supreme Court, the jumbo Cabinet of Ministers and the legal faculty have turned a blind eye to the scandal of scandals is, beyond comprehension.
Why cannot the following intervene: The President and the Presidential Secretariat; Prime Minister and his Secretariat; the Cabinet of Ministers and their army of advisors; Government Politicians and advisors; the Supreme Court and the law fraternity and the Bar Association?
Can’t any one of these powerful people take up the gauntlet on behalf of the aged pensioners of the public and the private sector some, in their sick bed and with many one foot in the grave? Where is the Buddhist compassion we advertise so much of Sri Lanka?
Struggling Government
Penioner Colombo.