Herald: What’s next for Churchill Alemao after returning from Prison?
Churchill Alemao: All I remember in jail is the Herald raising my issue of having properties worth hundreds of crores. In a way, I was elated to know that I have left quite a bit for my children to inherit. But in a way, I was also saddened because you got the math wrong and valued properties of all my married daughters into my assets and made me look rich, bad and corrupt. Nothing I can do now, got to study the bail plea and wait and watch.
Herald: Tell us about your five star treatment in the new Colvale jail?
Alemao: I have this knee cap problem so I requested the jail authority to put me in the mini three bed hospital in Colvale and not a prison cell. So life was not all that bad but being in confinement is horrible. All I kept thinking of was the pain a parrot or a love bird in a nest goes through.
Herald: How much of your jail time in 2 months and 3 days did you spend thinking of political moves?
Alemao: I watched a 25-year old tiatr where a girl is raped at the age of nine and gets justice at the age of fifty but no one is willing to marry her then. My baseless Louis Berger case in the Indian courts will face the same fate. I will get justice but I will be long gone by then. Not much of a future for me politically in these circumstances.
Herald: Give us an insight on life in prison at least. Colvale had some prison outburst, just a day after you came out.
Alemao: I don’t want to hear or talk about cops. I am glad that the Colvale jailor is suspended. He used to harass innocent prisoners in jail. I would hear terrible screams of prisoners being beaten by cops at night in jail. Even with me they would for no reason send back my old and frail supporters who came to jail to visit me on visit days. I even interacted with the Dupatha killer Mahanand Naik and he would tell me how he was framed in those murders.
Herald: You missed Vailankanni feast, Ciabro’s death anniversary but just managed to attend the last mass at the Fama.
Alemao: They told me go for Ciabro’s death anniversary mass with a police escort and jeep. My thoughts were on the emotional supporters I have in Varca, who may go berserk and attack the police convoy and the cops are waiting for a reason to put my people in jail, so I cancelled the visit. I am not a murderer or a thief to treat me like this. I didn’t go to Vailankanni for the feast after 35 years. I came for the fama at the eleventh hour and heard mass and I am so glad to spend time with my triplet grandsons.
Herald: Where will you and Valanka contest polls?
Alemao: Navelim and Benaulim cannot be in question now because I don’t know how this case or bail will affect my political movements as of now and I’m waiting for legal advice. I want to go to Vailankanni and Potta and also a medical checkup in Bombay but can’t till I understand if my bail allows me to travel.
Herald: Do you feel Parrikar or Parsekar and the BJP got you in jail for political reasons?
Alemao: First Parrikar found some road works nonsense and send the ACB to measure roads and how much tar I put on them, then the cops started counting water tanks to frame me in some tank case and now they’re tracking water pipelines to finish my career, not happening I must say. Churchill will fight.
