Kanu’s Secretary Slams US For Excluding Igbo Language From Teaching Job Vacancies.
Kanu’s Secretary Slams US For Excluding Igbo Language From Teaching Job Vacancies.
By Rowlandgate.
Lot’s of Igbos people have been expressing their discontentment over the missing of their own indigenous language from the Foreign Language from the Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA) in the US schools.
Carolyn Uchenna Okoroafor, who is acting in the capacity of a principal secretary to the proscribed IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu has been eager to know the rationale behind why among the three major tribes in Nigeria, it was only Igbo language that was excluded from the list of the Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Program (FLTA).
The pan-Igbo activist and liberation fighter chose to take the fight to the microblogging platform (Twitter), calling out the US Embassy over its perceived ill-treatment of marginalization and discrimination as being observed in its recent job announcement that involved two out of the three major languages in Nigeria.
However, she also used the medium to call on all Igbos to sign the petition against the US Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria for excluding Igbo language in the aforementioned program. The petition was allegedly created by Simon Ekpa, and she implored Igbos to this petition and equally retweet it
It can be recalled that during the week, the US Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria announced that the US mission in Nigeria dearly needed Yoruba and Hausa teachers to teach these languages in US schools, which excluded the Igbo language. Odogwublog.com
This is obviously a perceived marginalization and discrimination being exhibited by the US mission in Nigeria to the Igbos, and the US mission in Nigeria should do what is needed by including the third major language which is Igbo in its teaching program in the United States.
What do you think about the step being taken by Carolyn Uchenna Okoroafor ? Do you think it is the right step in the right direction?
See some of the tweet reactions.
