The Governor of Ekiti State, Dr.
Kayode Fayemi, on Monday banned state government officials and other
participants from speaking the English language at cultural and traditional
functions.
Fayemi said his government is
desirous of promoting arts and culture in the state and reignite communication
through Yoruba and Ekiti dialect, stressing this makes the step imperative at
this point in time.
He made this known in Ado Ekiti
during the first Ekiti State Arts and Culture Stakeholders’ Forum with the
theme: ‘ Arts and Culture for Economic Prosperity” held at the state capital.
The Governor, represented at the
event by the Head of Service, Mr. Deji Ajayi, revealed that the state will hold
its Festival of Arts and Culture in December, 2019, as part of the ways to
boost the economy of the state, adding that there were empirical statistics and
evidence to prove that there was need for the state to enhance the skills and
capacities of the youths, since government alone can’t solve the issue of
endemic unemployment in the system.
He said, “From today henceforth,
the government has banned the speaking of English in any cultural programme.
Whoever that will participate in any traditional programme must speak Yoruba or
our dialect”.
Speaking on the relevance of arts
and culture to national development, Fayemi said: “In the primary school
teachers’ recruitment exercise we advertised recently, we wanted to employ
1,100 teachers and over 19,000 had applied on our website. This shows that
government must develop the skills and capacities of our youths to be able to
be on their own.
“We are going to organise Ekiti
State Festival of Arts and Culture in December this year to enhance our
capacities in crafts, dancing, weaving and other vocational areas of arts.
” We should not forget to teach
our children those values that will make Ekiti to remember their heritage and
sustain our culture as a people.”
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