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Gov Fayemi Reveals Why He Banned Ekiti Officials From Speaking English

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Ekiti State governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, today banned state government officials and other participants from speaking the English language during any cultural and traditional functions.

Fayemi explained that his government is aimed at promoting arts and culture in the state while adding that it is important the English language is banned.

This he made known at the first Ekiti State Arts and Culture Stakeholders’ Forum with the theme: ‘ Arts and Culture for Economic Prosperity” held at Ado Ekiti.

Fayemi, represented at the event by the Head of Service, Mr. Deji Ajayi, made it known that the state will hold its Festival of Arts and Culture in December, 2019.

According to him, this would enable a boost to the state’s economy. He added that there were empirical statistics and evidence to prove that there was a 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”.

While addressing that need for 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.”