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Detained ‘Gays’ Released On Bail In Gambia
Friday, 18 January 2013 00:05
(JollofNews) – A court in The Gambia Wednesday granted bail to two men who were charged with attempt to commit an
unnatural offence.Allan Hughes, a British national and his Gambian friend, Assan Mballow, were arrested and detained by police on Monday in Kerr Serign some 11 miles away from the Gambian capital, Banjul.
They were alleged to have been found playing with each other’s cocks, with the intent to satisfy their sexual desires, thereby committed an offence.
Both men denied the charges and were released on bail at sum of D100, 000 by Principal Magistrate Sheriff Tabally of the Kanifing Magistrates’ Court.
The case continues
Homosexuality in the Muslim dominated in tiny west African state is regarded as a taboo and the country’s President, Yahya Jammeh has vowed to come down heavily on gays and lesbians in the country.
The president described homosexuality as an abomination and an alien norm that is being imposed on Africans by the West in the name of freedom and rights.
He said while he remains president, Gambians will live and behave according to Gambian and African cultural norms and nurture faith in the supremacy of God.
Written by PK Jarju
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How about in the Gambia??
You(hypocrits)c annot conceal the unspoke truths in your hearts.
Wash off the evil-cloud in your heart, is better for you.
"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully".
Oh! now I get it...sorry.
Its the local chicken change exchange.
That is exactly my point. that the govt chooses to focus on minutiae like what people do in the privacy of their rooms, in bid to distract people.
This is the small mindedness that kills Gambia. We need to focus on the 'big picture'. Having read your previous posts, I will henceforth refrain from engaging you in a discussion because you are nothing short of a sycophant. The state does not dictate ones sexuality. I am not defending/supporting being Gay, I am only saying that at this point, given the larger issues in Gambia, two men having sex is just as irrelevant in the greater scheme of things as a man and woman fornicating (which by the way is also frowned at by many religions/cultures) yet the state does not go and arrest these people. Selective justice is a tool used by the state to distract people from the horrendous crimes committed by Jammeh et al.
Playing with each others what ???
Are we back to male chickens ?
There is also topic about Imam Baba Leigh and Brother, Mamburay Njie.
Why do GAYS have children with real women and yet claimed to be GAY? This is real nonesense!!!!
Baba Leigh is still incommunicado, yet the state has not claimed or refuted his whereabouts! We hope he does not meet the fate of Deyda Hydra.
It should be more worrying for the state that prominent Gambians are disappearing than what people do in the comfort of their room. Who cares what your cultural/religious beliefs are- we will never share the same grave! Each person will be judged as an individual by whatever God(s) you believe in.
Mamburay Njie- could have stayed in the west, chose to go home to build a country, is currently trying to win his freedom. Gambia is broke from the corruption of a Greedy president and we (by that I mean average Gambians) risk loosing supplementary aid that helps run our country's budget and our president chooses to respond by throwing a tantrum like a toddler. These r the issues
At my job i got many GAY co-workers and most of them have children,they later turn GAY. Waaw!!! ouhu!!! yepp!!!
I know many Gambians under 30 don't remember a Gambia before Yaya. But let me clarify here that contrary to the assertions of the Sheikh Yaya Liars Club (SYLC), there was never any kind of hostility towards gays before Yaya. I remember growing up and having Mam Tamsir a very famous gay griot entertaining us and being loved by everyone.
It is sheer nonsense that it is our "culture" to hate gays and to hunt them down and imprison them. Maybe that is the culture over there in Casamance. But in Gambia, gays never had anything to fear. This culture of fear and repression is all new and was brought to Gambia by the Kanilai Monster. The SYLC just wants to distract us from the failures of the Jammeh presidency. We Gambians don't share a culture or religion with Yaya. Yaya is someone who sacrifices human beings and has different beliefs from us. His culture of fear, repression and injustice is alien to us. Yaya is not one of us.
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