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Protocol gaffe: Foreign Affairs Minister cuts through national flag

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.


June 30, 2019


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