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It has become so obvious that if you can insult people very well, you are awarded a position when your government comes to power, and that is bad.

— Nana Anima Wiafe-Akenten

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We can start from somewhere by making Ghanaian languages compulsory subjects from the kindergarten (KG) to the senior high school (SHS) level.

Politicians mostly speak their indigenous languages during campaigns. If you speak people’s language, they are able to easily identify or flow with you.

There are things that are known to be taboos but are mentioned anyhow on radio by some of these Twi presenters on both TV and radio.

It is common to see some politicians, presenters and other dignitaries trading insults on air, forgetting that children are equally listening and might pick the indecent Twi Language spoken on air.

Because we are failing to teach our children, a lot of them lack wisdom which leads to the lack of maturity among many of the youth and that translates into our politics.

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