Mr Mboge it is sad but don't blame him.He believe in
power in just a way that he can be diplomatic in his
approach.Having know Yahya Jammeh since 1986 I don't
think nothing in his action surprise me.He has
dictatorial tendency.It is just action which makes us
to pay millions of dalasis to Alimento.Yahya Jammeh's
immature behaviors is causing more harm than good to
our nation.
--- momodou olly-mboge <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> This is President Jammeh's encouraging words for
> investors and
> entrepreneurs.
>
>
> “if a businessman wants to fight the government
> within one minute we can
> make you disappear from the map of The Gambia”.
>
> regards
> Mboge
>
>
>
>
>
> The Independent Published Friday, April 12, 2002
>
> Gambian economy in a mess
>
> Email
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> Omar Jallow the spokesperson for the Peoples’
> Progressive Party has blamed
> the APRC government for what he called the messy,
> retrogressive slide of the
> Gambian economy. OJ who returned from Zimbabwe as a
> Commonwealth Election
> Observer there recently said the situation of the
> economy offers no hope in
> view of the “absence of any viable economic policy
> that is geared towards
> encouraging the productive base of the economy to
> enable The Gambia generate
> more foreign exchange, and meet the challenges of
> regional and international
> economic scales”.
> “We have seen in the past few months the rapid
> deterioration of the Dalasis,
> which has serious effects on the purchasing power of
> individual Gambians,
> because of high foreign exchanges rates” he
> observed. He said the groundnut
> industry, which is the mainstay of the economy has
> been totally destroyed as
> farmers are left at the mercy of mismanaged or
> misguided policies, which
> culminated in abject poverty. “The fact that over
> D45 million is still owed
> to farmers, by different buying agents, as announced
> by the SOS for
> Agriculture implies that the economy is in a slump,
> and registering a
> disastrous situation” he pointed out.
> He said it was unimaginable for Gambian farmers to
> survive whose livelihoods
> depend on agricultural produce for which they are
> not being fully paid. He
> lamented that the Gateway Project, which was
> conceived by the PPP with over
> 100 companies registering their interest to invest
> in cotton and light
> industries, faltered because of what he called the
> irreparable damage
> brought to the country’s economy by the AFPRC coup.
> He suggested that cotton
> industries should be encouraged to create employment
> for under-privileged to
> alter the fact that the country has one of the
> highest unemployment rates.
> He said he found it difficult to envisage change
> when “there is no serious
> policy on the part of the government to remedy the
> situation”.
> He said by now there should have been viable
> policies to create conducive
> environments for international investments. He said
> since The Gambia was
> supposed to be a private sector led economy, it was
> imperative that a
> conducive environment should be created for investor
> confidence. He said
> liberalization policies, foreign exchange control
> systems, non-interference
> of the government in private sector activities could
> go a long way to
> changing the “bleak picture presented by our
> economy”.
> However, OJ charged that all this will not be
> possible going by a President
> Jammeh interview with Entrepreneur magazine, in
> which he quoted the Gambian
> leader as saying “if a businessman wants to fight
> the government within one
> minute we can make you disappear from the map of The
> Gambia”. Such
> statements from a head of state he said corrode the
> economic environment,
> undermine investor confidence, and scare away
> potential investors. He said
> most of the agricultural projects operated during
> the PPP days like the
> Jahally Pachar Rice Development Project, the Small
> Scale Water Control
> Project, the Cotton Project, the Livestock
> Development Project, and the Sapu
> Agricultural Project are phasing down, if not
> abandoned by the current
> regime.
>
>
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