{{Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has said his government will fight gays in the same way mosquitoes are fought.}}<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will fight these vermin called homosexuals or gays the same way we are fighting malaria-causing mosquitoes; if not more aggressively,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The remarks were contained in the President\u2019s speech Tuesday marking the country\u2019s 49th Independence Day.<\/p>\n
President Jammeh vowed homosexuality would never be tolerated and in fact would attract the ultimate penalty since, he said, it was intended to bring humanity to an “inglorious extinction”.<\/p>\n
He added that his government would not accept any friendship, aid or any other gesture that was conditional on accepting homosexuals or the so-called LGBT (lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transsexuals).<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for Leprosy, Gonorrhoea, Bacteria and Tuberculosis; all of which are detrimental to human existence,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n
He stated that Gambia would not spare any homosexual and that no diplomatic immunity would be respected for any diplomat found guilty or accused of being a homosexual.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not accept diplomats that are homosexuals,\u201d President Jammeh warned.<\/p>\n
The Gambian leader said no amount of blackmail, smear campaign or bullying tactics would make him deviate from his position and allow those “marauding locusts to loot our natural resources to our own detriment”.<\/p>\n
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