Gambia's President: 'Gays will go down the dirty drain and garbage of hell'

Gambian president Yahya Jammeh has continued to make disgusting comments about the LGBT community.

Jammeh, who has previously labelled homosexuality as “one of the greatest threats” facing the world, made his latest remarks in a speech last weekend (January 10), where he argued that gay people are “doomed” and insisted that Gambia will “not change” their abhorrent views.

Read his controversial comments below:

“Let me make it very clear that if they think that they can be homosexuals and want to impose homosexuality on the globe, they are doomed. All empires before collapsed not at the time they were weakest, but at the peak of their might and when they equated themselves with the Almighty Allah. So this evil empire of homosexuals will also go down the dirty drain and garbage of hell.

They say I am intolerant, and that homosexuals are a minority that is being oppressed in this country.Let me warn those countries that think they are powers. They may be evil powers, but the Gambia is a righteous power protected by God. We will prevail by the grace of the Almighty Allah. All forces of evil that have bad intention towards the Gambia will perish. We will not change our way of life.”

The president signed draconian new anti-gay legislation into law late last year, with the country’s LGB citizens now facing life imprisonment for some homosexual acts – click here to read more.

The new law lead to the US cancelled a trade agreement with the African state – find out more here.

Gambia’s President: ‘Gays will go down the dirty drain and garbage of hell’

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