Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi, has banned officials of the state and other participants from speaking English Language at cultural and traditional functions.

Igbere TV reports that Fayemi instituted this on Monday at the first Ekiti State Arts and Culture Stakeholders’ Forum with the theme: “Arts and Culture for Economic Prosperity.”

Fayemi said it was important to take this step in order to promote arts and culture in Ekiti and reignite communication through Yoruba and Ekiti dialect.

The governor was represented at the event by the Head of Service, Deji Ajayi.

“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,” he said.

Fayemi said the state would hold its Festival of Arts and Culture in December 2019, as part of plans to boost the state’s economy.

He 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.”

http://igberetvnews.com/913138/just-in-governor-bars-state-officials-from-speaking-english-at-cultural-events/

Lalasticlala Mynd44 Dominique

Barbaric.


If your officials speak Ekiti kind of Yoruba ,where an Ibadan man is, how do you expect him to understand?




Dividends of staying too long with the lifeless FC

Yes, I support it, they should all speak Fulani instead as a mark of respect for our president

He was trying to train his people culture and value so they will not go out to plan on how to insult molest their leaders and elders .

BlackfireX:
Barbaric.


If your officials speak Ekiti kind of Yoruba ,where an Ibadan man is, how do you expect him to understand?




Dividends of staying too long with the lifeless FC

That's Ibadan man problem. Ibadan man should worry about that not the Governor or Ekiti people.

Davash222:

That's Ibadan man problem. Ibadan man should worry about that not the Governor or Ekiti people.

See contradiction.....



An Ekiti man will always confuse an Ibadan man if he speak Ekiti kind of Yoruba, have you heard ondo man speak his own version of Yoruba it sounds like a mixture of Benin and Igbo language wrapped up in Yoruba language.


Anyway

Mgbati mgbati ti take ova

Ibo will invade this thread now...1, 2, 3 go...

BlackfireX:
Barbaric.


If your officials speak Ekiti kind of Yoruba ,where an Ibadan man is, how do you expect him to understand?




Dividends of staying too long with the lifeless FC

So should they now speak English in there Cultural Events?
The state is Ekiti nt Ibadan, nd the culture is for Ekiti also, Its the problem of the Ibadan Man if he likes he should learn it or not.

Nigeria is a mixture of American democracy, Chinese communism, Russia mafia, mussolini fascism, Hitler's tribalism and nebuchadnezzar dictatorship

How will a sitting governor wake up and ban a language spoken by over 500 million people

Will the event be for ekiti people?
Will their be translators?

Banning another language doesn't protect tradition and custom cos even the Chineese provide English interpreters and translators when speaking their language

Ok

and the invited guess will be looking like bubu

BlackfireX:
Barbaric.


If your officials speak Ekiti kind of Yoruba ,where an Ibadan man is, how do you expect him to understand?




Dividends of staying too long with the lifeless FC

Who told you the core traditional Ibadan man does not understands Ekiti and who told u core traditional Ekiti, egba, ijebu, owo, okun, ijesha and other Yoruba variation can't speak and understand Oyo variant of Yoruba?

Nonsense move.

This is a violation of human right wrt freedom of expression.

Yeye peepu...

A welcome development

Good move or bad move? Undecided

BlackfireX:
Barbaric.


If your officials speak Ekiti kind of Yoruba ,where an Ibadan man is, how do you expect him to understand?




Dividends of staying too long with the lifeless FC

you need to get rid of your hate and bitter soul.
You'll live longer.

BlackfireX:





See contradiction.....



An Ekiti man will always confuse an Ibadan man if he speak Ekiti kind of Yoruba, have you heard ondo man speak his own version of Yoruba it sounds like a mixture of Benin and Igbo language wrapped up in Yoruba language.


Anyway

Really..

An ilesha man's language must be def wrapped with Tiv and egbira language then

A yoruba is able to understand any dialect of yoruba origin as long as he communicates and leaves in yorubaland, cos even in England, london English is deff from Manchester English

JOHNSONSOLAFUNMI:


Really..

An ilesha man's language must be def wrapped with Tiv and egbira language then

A yoruba is able to understand any dialect of yoruba origin as long as he communicates and leaves in yorubaland, cos even in England, london English is deff from Manchester English

U dey mind the guy I'm not too sure the guy is a Yoruba person.