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I don’t subscribe to usage of local dialects in parliament - Osei Kyei Mensah

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  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    awfful

  • Akan man 7 years ago

    But you can call 10 millon black people speaking the same language tribe

  • Mensah 7 years ago

    Are you looking for a job? Between 18-50 yrs?Are U a graduate or secondary school leaver?Are u retired, sacked or tired of salary work? You want a biz with high returns, skill as capital, lowest startup costs? ?Make average $ ...
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  • APONKYE 7 years ago

    Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu is the real name of the Majority Leader. His real name is Lawrence Addae. He changed his name on entering KNUST to hide his embarrassing background.

    Lawrence Addae was a thief in the secondary and ev ...
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  • TULA 7 years ago

    OH Massa; Lawrence Addae aka Mensah -Bonsu and that is your proper name do not disguise yourself because you are a known thifman ; why on earth should not people speak in their local languages ; this is the problem with us Gh ...
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  • APONKO BODAM 7 years ago

    If you disagree with Lawrence Addae, which language do you propose? To me Hausa is the natural language for West Africa. I hope you will not mention any of the local languages,

  • F9 7 years ago

    Like the majority leader I subscribe to using English solely in parliament. However, if I were to play devil's advocate, I certainly will go for Hausa (spoken widely in West Africa), Nzema (spoken in GH and Ivory Coast), Ewe ...
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  • Niibi Agbo 7 years ago

    The next thing we know, banks will be required to provide information in 9 languages. Then all ministries and who knows where the road will end.

  • Nana Kuffuor. Abeka. La Paz. 7 years ago

    Thank you Honourable. This is the most sensible thing I have ever heard from you. English is the only business language internationally recognized. Instead of improving it, we messed it up. Graduates, politicians , journalist ...
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  • AYITEY SANTANA 7 years ago

    IF INTELLECTUALS IN SPAIN, FRANCE, CHINA, MYANMAR, SWITZERLAND, ITALY....WERE TO ARGUE LIKE OSEI KYEI MENSAH BONSU !!!!!

    FIRST, WE NEED TO IDENTIFY ONE OR TWO LOCAL LANGUAGES THAT MAYBE USED ALONGSIDE ENGLISH. JOBS WILL B ...
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  • B..k 7 years ago

    Ayitey , grow up ,we don't need any local language to be used in Parliament or any officer as official language apart from English period...

  • zain 7 years ago

    you are a fool simple

  • AYITEY SANTANA 7 years ago

    THE BLACK MAN WILL NEVER MAKE THE EFFORT TO UPGRADE, USING HIS OWN MEANS OR DEVELOPING HIS UNIQUE TRAITS BUT ALWAYS COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT OTHERS HAVE INITIATED. IN GA, WE SAY "MODIN SAME." IF YOU WON'T WORK ON YOUR NATIVE LAN ...
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  • Jo Alaa 7 years ago

    Akuffo Addo should send Ama Sey back to school to obtain at least JHS certificate.

  • NANA ADDO 7 years ago

    The only solution is to elect educated people to parliament.

  • father 7 years ago

    some Ghanaians MPs are funny!A whole MP cannot speak English? Wow!

  • F9 7 years ago

    Well said. Those who brought this up in the first place may have been largely motivated by trying to impose one language on Ghanaians stealthily. It will not happen so get over yourselves and confine your language to your tra ...
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  • NANA AKOMEA 7 years ago

    This is the first time Hon Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has spoken sense. Arrange for Ama sey attend the university to obtain a degree. She is a disgrace to Ghana.

  • Nana Asumadu sakyi 7 years ago

    U better get used to that .check any of d developed countries and see what language they use other than their native language.please lay out d stats, the percentage of parliamentarians that speak akan and those who don't .a ...
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  • Pops 7 years ago

    BARMY, HOW COULD ANYONE UNDERSTAND A LANGUAGE THEY DONT SPEAK AND DONT UDERSTAND. WILL THERE BE A TRANSLATER AND HOW COULD THÉY HAVE GONE THRU VE?TING WITHOUT THEIR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND.

  • Pops 7 years ago

    BARMY, HOW COULD ANYONE UNDERSTAND A LANGUAGE THEY DONT SPEAK AND DONT UDERSTAND. WILL THERE BE A TRANSLATER AND HOW COULD THÉY HAVE GONE THRU VE?TING WITHOUT THEIR EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND.

  • Nana Asumadu sakyi 7 years ago

    For those advocating for only d so called educated people to make laws in d country, we have tried that for several decades. What we got in return is looting d coffers of d state, greed, selfishness.please God help us at this ...
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  • dd 7 years ago

    NPP is worse when it comes to slaves mentality

  • NON-ALIGNED 7 years ago

    Osei, WISDOM is of GOD and everything else is of man......So, if you lack WISDOM you will believe that speaking somebody else's language and aping around their lifestyle, will make you be like them.

    It is the WISDOM that c ...
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  • Michael K. Tettevi. 7 years ago

    Akan, Dagbani, Ewe, Ga, Nzima and Hausa are the local languages spoken in Ghana. Europeans speak their own languages. German in Germany, French in France & Switzerland, Latin in Italy, English in UK, Greek in Greece, etc. Our ...
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  • NON-ALIGNED 7 years ago

    Michael, when are we ever going to be innovative? Why can't we speak all the languages we have? It has been a challenge to us since time in memorial.......what have we done?....by utilizing OUR GOD-GIVEN BRAINS??????

    The s ...
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  • F9 7 years ago

    "Why are we still where we are after all this speaking of English? Please tell me."

    and you think our progress is linked to speaking English in parliament? and you think your local language will somehow miraculously speed ...
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  • NON-ALIGNED 7 years ago

    F9 or whatever you call yourself.......it's either you are still in the same bubble of the enslaved minds or have no clue at all what lingo does to a nation's progress.

    It's obvious you didn't get what I was driving at.... ...
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  • F9 7 years ago

    I speak and understand the English language just as well as my native Adangme. If I were a Member of Parliament my fluency or skills in speaking either of the aforementioned languages will certainly not affect the critical th ...
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  • NON-ALIGNED 7 years ago

    F9, I never mentioned Twi in any of my submissions. And to be precise, I am a GHANAIAN none of the ethnicity crap!

    You judged me already to be Twi......and that is why you find it hard to understand what I was getting at.
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  • chief vandal 7 years ago

    There is no need for a debate. It is one dumb idea.

  • Abrokwah 7 years ago

    In my opinion Ghana has come a long way to nationalize one language which is widely spoken in Ghana. All dialects under Akan can be classified as one under this nationalization proposal. In other words "Twi, Fanti,etc which i ...
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  • F9 7 years ago

    The day that happens will be the day Ghana goes Pop! :) Go ask the Rwandese

  • ADE 7 years ago

    THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD BE AMENDED TO BAN ILLITERATES FROM BECOMING MPS, MINISTERS OF STATE,AND PRESIDENT. THERE ARE MORE EDUCATED PEOPLE IN GHANA.IT APPEARS IT IS ONLY THE AKAN SPOKEN WEALTHY PEOPLE WHO CAN BUY THEIR WAY TH ...
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  • Kofi mensah 7 years ago

    This is pathetic! The Parliament passed a standing order some years ago to use some of the Ghaianaian languaages. The modus is to use the 14 or 11 depending on how you count languages and you can find interpreters for them as ...
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