看到岡比亞推出新措施和現代化計劃真是令人驚訝和興奮, 但願景 2020 獨裁者的幻想只是吸引投資者並可能欺騙他們的另一種幻想.
在非洲, 私有財產不受保護: 破壞, 沒收, 和叛國行為普遍存在. When the Union of the Comoros (a small country in South East Africa) were unstable, the Governor of the island of Anjouan started an identical scheme. The aftermath after some years?… He had to flee the Comoros to Bénin in fear of his life: his dictatorship, fake polls results, and policy made the population fed up. His scheme was completely abandoned, and the Central Bank of the Comoros as well as its President took years to tackle and clean up all of it. If you are serious about a long term business: The Gambia is not for you. If you are a kid with a startup idea, a temporary or seasonal business for a year or two: even a local club registered in your country will be more appropriate.
Apart from the morality of giving money indirectly to support a dictator, the country and its scheme face considerable problems :
* it is not part of the Apostille Convention: in the real world, you need to authenticate documents, like your certificate of corporation ;
* it has no history record, it is completely new and could change from one year to the next, with just a political change ;
* the so called stability of the current President is non-existent, as himself came into power by a coup d’état ;
* there is only 1 bank of international dimension in The Gambia, that is The Standard Chartered Bank
* the website of the registry is funny and inaccurate (keep reading).
At the bottom of this page of their website there are tax papers from… France!
Their Enterprise Zone project is just probably a scheme to donate to the government, as you can see the beautiful picture of a Seychelles landscape.