Ghanaian youth risk losing their identity - Bagbin warns

Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin is warning that the country’s youth risk losing their true identity if the current trend of blind copying of foreign cultures and mode of dressing persists.

The lawmaker for Nadwoli Constituency in the Upper West Region bemoaned how some youth of the country especially ladies literally parade themselves naked on the streets in the country in the name of fashion underscoring the need for the youth to be imbibed in their culture and traditions.

Granting an interview on TV Africa, the longest serving lawmaker observed that Ghana has one of the rich and unique cultural values and traditions around the globe.

These values according to him, can be expressed in several ways including the various forms of dressing styles, celebration of events such as traditional festivals and coronation of chiefs and queen mothers as well as drumming and dance forms which carry a lot of wisdom and unique messages for the present and future generations.

At Anloga in the Volta Region during a celebration, Mr. Bagbin noted that culture and tradition are the defining spirits of a people, adding that once those values are lost, the uniqueness of such people are also gone.

He called on the youth to follow the good examples of the elders by imbibing their traditions and cultures.