Doom awaits gays in Gambia
afrol News, 20 May - Gambian leader has given a 24-hour ultimatum to
homo***uals to leave his country before they face doom. President
Yahya Jammeh said anti-gay laws - stricter than those in Iran - are in
place in The Gambia.
Mr Jammeh said he would not tolerate "sinful and immoral acts like
homo***uality" in The Gambia, a country of civilised people and
believers.
"Foreigners are cordially welcomed in The Gambia, but not bad
elements," Gambian President told a rally outside the capital Banjul,
giving homo***uals and criminals, including drug barons until last
Friday to leave the country.
He ordered landlords and hotel owners to kick out homo***uals ahead of
a mass patrol to be conducted by the security. This exercise is meant
to weed out bad elements in the society, and "we will not hesitate to
close down any hotel or lodge that accommodates homo***uals."
Jammeh said his government will never accept "dirty individuals" in a
predominantly Muslim country that has high regards for positive
cultural and religious practices.
Few months ago, a dozen of Senegalese homo***uals fled to The Gambia
after they they feared their lives. The publication of a story and
photos of a gay wedding by a local magazine, Icones, culminated in
arrests and detentions of homo***uals.
Gays quickly moved to Mauritania after seeing signs of danger in the
neighbouring Gambia whose leader****p has been known for being
intolerant to homo***uals and homo***uality.
Gambian President also attacked Gambians, accusing them of
underutilising what he called "a lot of op****tunities created by my
government", leaving foreigners to make fortune out of them. He said
this was why foreigners dominate most public markets in the country's
urban and peri-urban areas.
He vowed to seize all Gambian-owned stores rented to foreigners
because "we are sick and tired of investing for only foreigners to
benefit."
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