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While biofuel technology faces opposition in some quarters, Gambia’s president, Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, is most fervent in denouncing the technology. According to a statement made to reporters, biofuels is the Western world’s strategy to starve the third world.
Jammeh said that the strategy of biofuels is to starve the poor to enable the West “to infiltrate the poor people, who are hungry and give them money in order to bring puppets to power, to serve the West.”
The Gambian leader has rejected the idea of biofuels out right saying that the world has not been able to grow enough crops to feed people, let alone vehicles.
According to Jammeh, Africans should have a second thought over biofuels. “My message to Africans is that before you can drive; your stomach must be full. If it is empty, I don’t think you will think of filling a tank of a car,” he said. Jammeh said that Africa’s present needs are food and energy, not fuel.