The Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak has described action of the Foreign Affairs minister, Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, of cutting the National Flag in China, as a sign of disrespect for Ghana and has to be cautioned for repeating such acts in the future.
He also raised legal concerns to what the law says to those who disobey to give the National flag the needed respect it deserves.
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.
