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Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey Santana, one of Ghana's top journalists, expressed 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 were inconsistencies in our curriculum. 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, "he said.
Abeiku Santana added that we are still struggling to perfect English and that French would only make things worse. "You can check with the Ghana Education Service and the English performance of the West African Examination Council, and even as we speak, those who have graduated from university have a hard time building English.
"Why, even if you have a pbad in English and want to attend universities outside of Ghana, they require the TOEFL – The English Test for Foreign Language Students, because, the quality of the English we speak is not clbadified as standard, which 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.
Abeiku Santana and Okyeame Kwame, however, expressed dissatisfaction with the decision of the Foreign Minister.
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