The Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak has raised legal concerns over the Foreign Affairs Minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway’s supervision of the cutting of the Ghana flag in China.
The minister was sighted in a phone video with other officials of the Ministry and a Chinese, cutting a flag during a ceremony to officially open Ghana’s new consul in Guangzhou, China.
According to Ras Mubarak, the singular action of cutting the flag with a pair of scissors goes against the country’s laws which forbids anyone from undertaking such acts.
He said that these acts have the tendency of ridiculing the official national flag or emblem of Ghana.
“What the Minister for Foreign Affairs, our Ambassador in China and other staff of the Ministry did in the attached photo constitutes mutilation of the National Flag,” he said.
In a Facebook post, Ras Mubarak said, “in many jurisdictions, the Minister would have been in serious trouble for mutating or desecrating our national flag in public.”
In the US for instance, “whoever knowingly mutilates, defaces, physically defiles, burns, maintains on the floor or ground, or trampled upon any flag of the United States shall be fined or imprisoned for not more than a year or both,” Ras Mubarak said.
He mentioned that he will file a motion in parliament on the matter to have the minister answer for her actions.
The Attorney General may not be interested in prosecuting her colleague Minister. In view of this I intend to bring a half hour motion in parliament with the view to having the Minister answer for her actions, he said.
The former Chief Executive Officer for the National Youth Authority (NYA) further proposed an amendment to the Criminal Offences Act, stressing that the Minister “should never be seen cutting into our flag.”
Read his post below:
Source: citinews
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It is time we Ghanaians "prune" Ghana parliament of ***barred word*** and arrogant MPs who via their utterances make Ghana look BAD. It has become a conversion that these nonentities who gained entrance to Ghana parliament through ETHNOCENTRIC and tribal overtures in their "SMALL ENCLAVES" are making every right thinking Ghanaian nervous and irritated. Ras Mubarak, Sunhinyi, Adongo (unfortunately all from the North) are people who should never have made it to Ghana parliament. I believe there should be standard in the selection and admission of our parliamentarians. GOD SAVE GHANA
I know this man does not deserve to be in parliament but NDC act of wooing people with money and goods he is now in parliament.He tried in Accra at Ablekuma and failed woefully.Ever since he became a parliamentarians for Kumbungu I dare him to pinpoint just one thing he has done for the constituency.He is always dwelling on trivial issues.What the honourable minister cut was strips made of Ghana colours with no black stars in it. How does Ghana clours without the black stars become Ghana flag. Daawa. Please, leave up to the expectation deserve a parliamentarian. Your share of the MP common fund has never been use to anything,the good people of Kumbungu should question you.All that you know is marrying new wives.You should come with clean hands.