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The Minister-designate of the Greater Accra region, Henry Quartey has pledged to provide scholarships to motivate students to study the Ga language.
He believes that the granting of scholarships will serve as an incentive to force more students to develop an interest in the Ga language.
“Some other factors may be that the few Ga teachers that we have in some cases are transferred to other jurisdictions, Mr. President, when the grace of God gives me the nod, I will collaborate with the Minister of Education and the Ghana Education Service to ensure that the few Ga teachers we have are brought back to teach Ga in schools.
“We will bump into other thought leaders to help us try, in a way, to give scholarships to get people interested in learning the Ga language at the Ghana Language Bureau.” Henry Quartey told Parliament’s appointments committee.
Ayawaso’s central MP added that his office will also work with the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to secure funding to provide scholarships to these students.
The former Deputy Minister of National Security assured that his office will work effectively with the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service (GES) to prioritize the teaching and learning of the Ga language in the region.
“I’m going to lead a cause to work hand in hand with the Ghana Education Service, it should be in the curricula but the challenge here is that there are enough teachers to be able to teach Ga in the schools and we have to do it.” a priority, ”said the candidate who is also a Member of Parliament for Ayawaso Central.
The former Deputy Home Minister also urged parents to encourage their children to speak the Ga language.
“Parents should also try to encourage their children to speak Ga instead of speaking Ga slang and although it is a cosmopolitan area, let’s also encourage us to try to speak Ga,” urged the parents.
He also asked why Ga’s few teachers in the Greater Accra region are being transferred to other areas, adding that when Parliament nods to him, his office will work with the Minister of Education to bring back the local language teachers transferred or seconded outside their region of origin.
This follows a notice from Valley View University Basic Schools to parents that they are phasing out the teaching and learning of Ga, as a Ghanaian language, in their schools.
This, according to a notice signed by the principal, Beatrice Ama Ntanu, and dated February 3, 2021, is due to the fact that they had difficulty finding qualified teachers to teach the subject.
For this reason, all relevant pupils from elementary level 1 to 3 only have the opportunity to learn Twi as a Ghanaian language at school.
However, the statement said that all other classes, from Basic 4 to Basic 9, will continue to have the option of choosing between Twi and Ga as the languages to study for their Ghanaian language courses.
Following the announcement, there was an outcry on social media after base schools at Valley View University notified parents.
The school said it was struggling to find qualified teachers to teach Ga and therefore replaced the subject with Twi.
Some legislatures and traditional leaders, including the Oyibi Gonten Mantse, Nii Bortey Kofi Frankwa II, who described the development as worrying to phase out the Ga language in some schools in the Greater Accra region. Nii Frankwa therefore called on the Ministry of Education to make teacher training in the subject a priority.
But appearing before the parliamentary appointments committee, Henry Quartey said he would ensure that all professional teachers assigned outside the greater Accra region are brought back to the region and that the necessary incentives are provided to students in the different schools.
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