Ghanaians Must Learn To Speak Patois Language -Murtala Mohammed

The Member of Parliament (MP) for the Tamale Central Constituency in the Northern Region Honourable Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, has advocated for the speaking of Jamaican Patois language.

He stressed that it is important for individual human beings to be endeavoured to learn how to speak patois language since it is very good and nice.

The Jamaican Patois; locally rendered Patwah and called Jamaican Creole by linguists is an English-based creole language with West African influences, spoken primarily in Jamaica and among the Jamaican diaspora.

 A majority of the non-English words in Patois come from the West African Akan language.[5] It is spoken by the majority of Jamaicans as a native language.

However, having being an Pan Africanist, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP has endorsed the language and entreated all Ghanaians to learn to speak the language.

Speaking on the Pan African Television Morning show segment on Friday September 2, 2022, Honourable Mohammed denied that notion that the Patois Patois Language is being spoken by the persons who smoke India hemp or wee and the Rastafarians or have dreadlocks in the society.

He stated that he never tested or smoke cigarette and its related products in his life before although he speaks Patois language frequently.

He pointed out that he likes everything about Africanisms and that he is an pan Africanist, saying that he takes his expiration from the Editor-In-Chief for Insight newspaper, Mr Kwasi Pratt Jr who is pan Africanist.

He noted that when they are in the University of Ghana, Legon, and every month he remembered that they used to invite Kwasi Prat Jnr, Kweku Baaku Jnr and Dr Yaw Graham to teach them pan Africanisms

He pointed out that whenever he seems Kweku Baako Jnr who is a Ghanaian journalist and the editor-in-chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper in regardless of his political difference in principle, he respects him and Mr Kwesi Pratt Jnr.

He pointed out that Kwesi Pratt Jnr and Kweku Baaku have been a mentor to "many many of us," saying that in other advance country, these individuals to be lecturing."

He pointed out that it is not necessarily need to hold PhD or being a professor or hold masters degree before you can lecture in the universities."

"I think in other jurisdiction that these people have enormous relents and experiences and l thaught that the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) should employed Mr Kweku Baaku Jnr, Kwasi Pratt and other personalities who have experienced to be lecturing in the Institute," the Tamale Central MP suggested.

According to him, these personalities would impact their good journalistic knowledge into the students before they may graduate from the institute to practice the real practical journalism.

He was of the view that Mr Kweku Baaku Jnr, and Kwasi Pratt have tremendous journalistic knowledge and skills to make the students acquire their experiences that "we need in this country."