Ms Ebi Bright, the Tema Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE), has disclosed that she will engage the Tema Metropolitan Education Director on how to promote the teaching and learning of the Ga language in schools in the metropolis.

Ms Bright was speaking at the launch of a self-help initiative by the education directorate to construct an ultramodern office complex to house the directorate, which has been operating from rented apartments scattered in the metropolis for the past 60 years of its existence.

She said, “Those of us staying in Tema and learning the Ga language, it’s a pride for us.”

She stated that if Tema was to have its original value to attract people to the centre of the world, it was important that the metropolis have a strong culture.

Ms Bright, “We must have a strong culture, and it begins with the language. We need to get Ga teachers. We must look at what incentives we can put in place.”

She said she would discuss with the directorate how to fuse in more of the cultural elements in the schools.