{"id":282261,"date":"2015-06-27T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/write-the-constitution-in-twi-blakk-rasta-appeals-to-parliament\/"},"modified":"2015-06-27T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T10:36:00","slug":"write-the-constitution-in-twi-blakk-rasta-appeals-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/06\/27\/write-the-constitution-in-twi-blakk-rasta-appeals-to-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Write the Constitution in Twi &#8211; Blakk Rasta appeals to Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Entertainment of Saturday, 27 June 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Pulse.com.gh<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2015\/06\/b29812760128.295.jpg\" alt=\"Blakk Rasta Parliament\" title=\"Blakk Rasta Parliament\" width=\"295\" height=\"166\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\">Blakk Rasta<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Outspoken radio presenter, Blakk Rasta is advocating for Ghana\u2019s constitution to be written in the Twi language.<\/p>\n<p>The host of Hitz FM\u2019s Taxi Driver show who was summoned before the Privileges Committee of Parliament for comments he made which suggested that 80% of Ghanaian parliamentarians smoke \u201cwee\u201d said it will be of great help if the laws are written in Twi.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwi is the most spoken Ghanaian language In Ghana and if the laws are written in Twi, it will help us. Even with all my education, I sometimes find it difficult to read the lawyer\u2019s English,\u201d he said when he was asked whether it was true that he has been suggesting that laws be written in Twi.<\/p>\n<p>Blakk Rasta is reported to have asked for the constitution to be translated into Twi because according to him, Parliamentarians speak bad English.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy God I check on this grammar and it\u2019s terrible. And I really want to know if our laws can be written in Twi so we will understand that better, rather than this English that we are terrorising ourselves with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The controversial presenter, however, apologised for alleging that about 80% of parliamentarians in Ghana smoke marijuana. He described his comment as \u201can unfortunate remark\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 24 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Entertainment of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}