Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has said his government will fight gays in the same way mosquitoes are fought.
“We will fight these vermin called homosexuals or gays the same way we are fighting malaria-causing mosquitoes; if not more aggressively,” he said.
The remarks were contained in the President’s speech Tuesday marking the country’s 49th Independence Day.
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”.
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).
“As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for Leprosy, Gonorrhoea, Bacteria and Tuberculosis; all of which are detrimental to human existence,” the President said.
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.
“We will not accept diplomats that are homosexuals,” President Jammeh warned.
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”.
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