The Gambian Vice President, Aja Dr Isatou Njie Saidy, has commissioned the country’s first ever ICT Devices Assembly Plant Complex owned by Rlg Communications Ltd in Serekunda near the capital Banjul over the weekend with an announcement that her government had granted Rlg a 5 year tax holiday.

The Plant cost $ 500,000 bringing the total cost of Rlg’s investment in the West African state to $7.5 million since 2009.

The plant complex has two training centers, an ultra modern showroom, a two-line state-of-the art production plant capable of producing 500 phones a day and 200 laptops on daily basis as well as after sales and repair facilities.

Scores of people including an array of dignitaries from the Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Liberia witnessed the historic ceremony watched by a large number of elated ordinary Gambians.


Ghana’s Deputy Minister for Communications, Victoria Hammah, said the government of Ghana is strongly behind this relationship between a proudly Ghanaian firm collaborating with governments of neighboring countries to expand ICT services, accelerate the job creation agenda and revitalize the economies of the beneficiary countries.

She said “by so doing, we will also be seeking to render a unflinching commitment towards trade and economic integration among our neighbors and members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)”.