We joke about our educational system – Abeiku Santana

Animations of Sunday, March 24, 2019

Source: ghpage.com

2019-03-24

Ghanaian TV journalist Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey Santana, better known as Abeiku Santana, expressed his dissatisfaction with the government's decision to adopt French as Ghana's second official language.

According to media personality, the current education is catastrophic, students already having problems with English and adding that French would make things worse.

"There was an inconsistency with our teaching program. Starting in 1987, we changed our curriculum from a high school leaving certificate to BECE, which we call the junior high school, and later, we change titles, we change title, but this is not the case.

We just changed it from college to college. I think we're joking and playing with our education system, let alone saying we're going to make French a second language.

Even our mother tongue, the English language is a big problem. You can check with the Ghana Education Service and the English performance of West African Examination Council, and even as we speak, those who have graduated from the university, their kind of construction in English.

Why even if you have a pbad in English and wish to attend universities outside of Ghana, they require the TOEFL test – Test for English for foreign languages, why, given the quality of the As we speak, they do not clbadify it and consider it the norm, that is why you must pbad an English test before being admitted to certain British and American universities. .

So we are going to do a second language again, excuse me, it will be difficult for us to communicate because we have more than 26 tribes or ethnic groups in Ghana and we communicate in the local dialect. can not we make our local language the first or the first language, why?

If you speak English and you make a mistake, hey, unheard of but we are comfortable when people pronounce cities, towns and names locally and make mistakes, we are fine. We are losing our sense of pride.

This does not happen in East Africa. Going to East Africa, Swahili is the most predominant language. They speak parliament. Go to Kenya and South Africa, they speak Swahili. The Zulus also speak their language.

We change language and very soon we will have nothing to show. I am sorry; I do not agree with the hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs. If we try to please our French partners, we are not going anywhere, we will not go further with that, because we teach French at school to children, they go back to school. home, they can not come and speak French with me because we have not learned French and I do not know when we are going to reverse that or when we are going to change that, "he said.

The Department of Foreign Affairs headed by Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey revealed earlier that plans were underway to make the second official language of French Ghanaian.

According to the minister, this government decision will improve regional integration, particularly because Ghana has francophone neighbors.

However, Abeiku Santana is not the only celebrity to oppose this decision. The rap doctor, Okyeame Kwame, also criticized the ministry for making such a decision.

Abeiku Santana also reiterated the director's argument "Made in Ghana" that a local dialect should become our second official language instead of adopting French.