The Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, recently announced that the NDC would introduce the teaching of Arabic as a compulsory subject in basic and senior high schools in Ghana commencing from next year.
Debrah was speaking to members of the Nsawam Zongo when he made the pledge, an obvious ploy for votes – and right on cue the NPP has come forward to claim the idea was stolen from them.
There seems to be no original idea in Ghana politics as whatever one party would bring forward, the other would claim it was stolen from them. It doesn’t matter the merits or demerits of an idea it’s just a rush for votes.
NPP Communicator Mustapha Hamid, who is spokesperson for the flagbearer Nana Akuffo-Addo, claimed on Citi Fm Thursday that the idea to teach Arabic in schools in Ghana was stolen from the NPP.
“It is the usual panic reaction of copying everything the NPP says or puts in its manifesto and because it is not their original idea, they do not know the dynamics that are involved, they have not thought about it , they speak about it in ways that are unfathomable.” Hamid said on Eyewitness News.
“We have it in our manifesto so it is very clear that it was after our manifesto came that they thought about it” he added, saying that there is no way they can implement it in 2017.
“From next year, they are going to begin the teaching of Arabic in JHS and SHS but I don’t know how they are going to do that next year because you need to do the training of teachers, you need to do the recruitment of teachers and since it is not their idea, I do not know how they are going to do that.”
Julius Debrah made the NDC’s initial pledge whilst interacting with the Muslim Community at Nsawam Zongo as part of his campaign tour of the Eastern Region.
“President Mahama has agreed that from 2017 Senior High School students will study Arabic like they do in the English language and we will introduce it at the basic level in 2018 and make it examinable,” he said.
He continued; “The good news is that for the first time we have a teacher training college in Wenchi that will train our Arabic teachers to be posted to other schools after completion.”

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