The Gambia has denied claims it is in the process of selling a land to a Siberian businessman to enable him revive the Russian monarchy.
According to the Gambian government such claims are false as it said The Gambia “has not signed any memorandum of understanding with the Romanov Empire represented by Arch Chancellor Prince Anton Bakov,”
Those denials were contained in a statement on the Gambian president’s website.
Mr Bakov had said that The Gambia had agreed to let him build artificial islands on its Bijol islets as a base for his Romanov Empire micro-state.
He said the land sale for his project is in return for $60m.
But the Gambian government has described those claims as untrue and has not agreed to Mr Bakov’s proposal during his visit to the Gambia in November.
President Adama Barrow’s website said the Government lawyers rejected the plans of the business man on the grounds that the Romanov Empire is “not a real state… and does not have the authority to enter into an international treaty”.
Environmental and financial implications of the artificial islands project became areas of contention and concerns for the Gambian government.
Mr Bakov, created the Romanov Empire micro-nation in 2011 for “people unhappy with President Vladimir Putin’s regime“.
It has little support among Russia’s traditional monarchists.
Source: Africafeeds.com
