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Eritrea
Tyrant: Need Slave Labor? Use Our Sea Ports
Commentary
Berhane
M Tekeste
19
May 2009
I am
serious, it is official and public, if you need slave labor please
come to Eritrea! Eritrea tyrant Isias Afewarki has, through his
surrogate for Port matters(Araia Tseggai), announced
the launching of Free Slave Labor Zones under the guise of Free Trade
Zones at the Eritrean Sea Ports of Massawa and Assab.
“When
you consider it in terms of convertible currency, our
salaries are peanuts. I
get paid the equivalent of $200 a month,”
Tseggai assured Reuters reporter Andrew Cawthorne in an interview.
There is no need to be a rocket scientist here, if the salary of a
chief executive are peanuts, then that of an ordinary laborer can
only be a peanut!
Even
for a peanut's worth of labor, the number of companies interested is
far from being impressive, though!
“Some
12 companies, including from China, Italy, Israel, India, Djibouti,
Sudan and Dubai, have registered to use Massawa, mainly for
small-scale plants for things like construction materials, foodstuffs
and batteries,” Tseggai told Reuters. Not impressive? But
Tseggai is ecstatic!
"About
two-thirds of those have said any time you contact us, we will start
... At the beginning, it will take long. If I get two dozen companies
in three years, that would be a good start. Then the jump will take
off." added Tseggai.
Tyrant
Afewarki is offering investors not only extremely strategic location
and literally a peanut's worth of labor but also freedom from being
aggravated by nagging human rights issues, labor disputes, or the
nuisance free media! No such things in Eritrea. Tyrant Afewarki has
long turned the country Eritea into his Private Estate Of Eritrea and
the people of Eritrea into his subjects with him as the Landlord.
There is no parliament and rule of law in Eritrea. All investors need
to do is strike a deal with Landlord Afewarki and they are in
business worry-free. Afewarki will deliver the labor force for even
less than a peanut's worth of labor!
"Who
would want to stay in Dubai now? It's very expensive for the small
companies. The small companies are looking for a place where they can
survive," Tseggai told Reuters further. Survive is well an
understatement. Companies don't live to survive but to make profits.
And at the rate of the slave labor that Afewarki is offering,
companies will survive big time because they will be doubling,
trippling and quadruppling their profits to the max in no time.
Indeed, forget Dubai!
Hurry
up investors! The Free Slave Labor Zone at Massawa on the Red Sea
coast will launch before the end of this year!
“The
Assab Free Slave Labor Zone will start in 2010 and others are planned
inland, including one for agro-industrial businesses on the border
with Sudan,”
Eritrea Free Slave Labor Zones Authority's enthusiastic
chief executive Araia Tseggai told Reuters. Good luck! Can't have it
better?
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