By Yusupha Jobe
The Leader of the Gambia Democratic Congress has replied to the European Union Ambassador’s comment on campaign for Gay rights, revealing that the practice of homosexuality will not be allowed in the country.
The EU delegation to the Gambia last month announced in its official Facebook Page that the EU is ready to campaign for the rights of those people who wanted to be gays and lesbians in the country, adding that “every Gambian has the right to participate in the societal discuss of the country.”
GDC leader Mama Kandeh, in an interview with local online newspaper, said the issue of Gay marriage has never become a culture or a religious belief to the people of the Gambia, stressing that the country is build on society of moral standard.
“The Gambia will never allow any financial assistance from the European Union that is meant to undermine the religious and cultural values of the Gambian people.
No Gambian will allow the practice of Gay and Lesbians in the country.
“The issue of condemning the Gay marriage in the country is not even a question on my site,” he pointed out.
He added: “What I wanted to tell the European Union Ambassador is that his intention to campaign for Gay marriage in the country will never happen. If this is reason for the EU is giving us financial assistance to impose the practice of Gay marriage in the country. I want to inform the EU that it will never take place even if it will go until the last person in the country, it will not be accepted.”
He said the Gambia has never imposed anything on the European countries that might have an effect on their lives, adding that no one is even mad to beat a child in the European nations.
“Let the EU leave us to live peacefully with our cultures and traditions. We have never as African and Gambia in particular to impose anything that will undermine their cultures and values of European. Why will the EU even have the audacity to voice the campaign of Gay marriage in the country? But I can only blame the government of President Adama Barrow who has already given them the space to utter such a statement without any condemnation,” GDC leader Kandeh said.
“The EU was not mad enough to express such announcement during the time of former President Yahya Jammeh. And they were still here so why did they not express their readiness to support Gay marriage. I believe they would not have spent night in the country,” he added.