Mr Kwame Pianim, an economist, has asked the government to fix the situation surrounding the controversial history textbooks or face public outrage.
“If you are in a group and you know there are people who are non-Ewes, non-Akans, use English language,” Mr Pianim said in an interview with TV3’s Etornam Sey in response to the degrading textbooks. That’s what we were taught: “Don’t make anyone think I don’t belong here.” This country belongs to us all. People should not be made to feel like they are on the outside looking in.”
Meanwhile, The Most Rev Phillip Naameh, the President of the Catholic Bishop Conference, has stated that the publication of the controversial textbooks that aim to denigrate Ewes in Ghana is unworthy of the Akufo-Addo administration.
He stated that the government’s goal should be to unite rather than divide all ethnic groups in the country, and that the publishing of textbooks is a bad idea.
“We should be talking about social harmony among Ghanaians as one family,” he said in an interview with TV3. “If a text book is drawn up in a way that denigrates the integrity of a particular ethnic group, this is something not even worthy of Ghana’s pre-independence situation.”
We’ve come so far that no matter what racial group we belong to, we’re all becoming one people. And that should be every government’s policy for uniting the roughly 52 separate ethnic groups into one people. As a result, putting together a text book that aims to diminish the integrity of one ethnic group is unworthy of the government at this time.”
Many Ghanaians were dissatisfied with the quality of the textbooks, which were withdrawn from the market.
North Tongu lawmaker Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, on the other hand, had brought the question to the attention of parliament.
“To inquire if the publications titled: History of Ghana, Text Book 3 by Badu Nkansah Publications authored by Badu Nkansah and Nelly Martinson Anim and Golden English Basic 4 authored by Okyere Baafi Alexander, both of which contain bigoted content targeted at the Ewe ethnic group, have come to his Ministry’s attention,” he wrote on Monday, March 15.
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SOURCE: ATLFMNEWSONLINE
