Popular Nollywood actor and politician, Yul Edochie has expressed his frustration at teachers who beat students for speaking their own language, referring to it as vernacular.
The actor, one of the most vociferous Nigerian celebrities on social media these days lamented the rationale behind punishing students for speaking their own language.
Posting on his Twitter page, he wrote, “To think that some of our teachers flogged us back then in school for speaking our language. Calling it vernacular. Can you imagine?”
“You speak your own language you get flogged. All those teachers should be ashamed of themselves. Oyibo people really messed up our brains”.
Source: GhanaCelebrities.Com