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John Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n Former President John Mahama has expressed worry about how governments and institutions of state \u201ctreat persons of different cultural and language backgrounds differently and in a discriminatory manner.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOne\u2019s language and background shouldn\u2019t be the measure to his or her access to opportunity, public goods or services. I do not think it serves our collective conscience right as a people for persons of Zongo tribes Hausas to face challenges open discrimination when trying to register for their voters ID card, Passport, NIA card, etc,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n He was speaking during the World Hausa Day event at the forecourt of the State House last Friday.<\/p>\n Tribe or ethnicity, he said, should not be the defining criteria of citizenship. \u201cWe are a nation that is united and great as a result of our diversity. This is most unfair and this must stop!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n As we celebrate this day, he said \u201cwe must all strive for unity of purpose and coexistence. Whatever our ethnic origin, we are all first and foremost Ghanaians, we are all one people with a common destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n He described as progressive \u201cthat most of the Radio and TV stations in Ghana today have programmes that communicate in the Hausa language to reach their ever-growing audience in the Zongos. The likes of Marhaba FM, Zuria FM, Alpha Radio, Aske Radio, Gaskia TV, Baina TV and many others are doing very well to educate and inform our Zongo brethren using the Hausa language. They deserve the most of commendations and support from us.\u201d<\/p>\n The theme for the celebration was \u201cHausa, an indispensable tool for Ghana\u2019s development.\u201d<\/p>\n Since the entry of the Hausa merchants and Muslim priests from Northern Nigeria into Ghana, the language has taken root and continued to expand with almost every zongo now speaking the Hausa language, he said.<\/p>\n This, he added, \u201cis a testament to how attractive and inclusive the character of the Hausa language has been.\u201d<\/p>\n The people of Hausa descent have contributed significantly to the course of our dear nation right from the processes leading to the birth of our dear nation \u2013 Ghana, he said.<\/p>\n Though the Northern soldiers were not limited to only persons of Hausa descent, Hausas played an immensurable role and support for the struggle for the independence of Ghana through the active role of the Northern soldiers, he went on.<\/p>\n The Hausa language is celebrated annually through the Hausa Day event.<\/p>\n By A.R. Gomda<\/strong><\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John Mahama Former President John Mahama has expressed worry about how governments and institutions of state \u201ctreat persons of different cultural and language backgrounds differently and in a discriminatory manner.\u201d \u201cOne\u2019s language and background shouldn\u2019t be the measure to his or her access to opportunity, public goods or services. I do not think it serves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1074404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[341,15259,85,1125,7550],"class_list":{"0":"post-1194766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-card","9":"tag-discrimination","10":"tag-ghana","11":"tag-mahama","12":"tag-queries"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}