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Former President John Mahama has expressed worry about how governments and institutions of state “treat persons of different cultural and language backgrounds differently and in a discriminatory manner.”

He described as progressive “that 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

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.

This, he added, “is a testament to how attractive and inclusive the character of the Hausa language has been.”

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 – Ghana, he said.

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.