Ras Mubarak jabs Foreign minister for cutting Ghana flag in China
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 the flag during a ceremony to officially open Ghana’s new consul in Guangzhou, China.
According to Ras Mubarak, the act of cutting the flag with a pair of scissors goes against the country’s laws which forbids anyone from undertaking such acts.
He said the act have the tendency of ridiculing the official national flag or emblem of Ghana.
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“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 post on his Facebook page, Ras Mubarak said, in many jurisdictions, the Minister would have been in serious trouble for mutating or desecrating our national flag in public.”
He added that in the US for instance, whoever knowingly mutilated, defaced, physically defiled, burned, maintained on the floor or ground, or trampled upon any flag of the United States was to be fined or imprisoned for not more than a year or both.
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He mentioned that he would 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.
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