NIGERIANS TO BE FINED N100,000 FOR ABUSING THE NATIONAL FLAG
The House of
Representatives on Thursday, May 4, approved the second reading of a bill
seeking to impose N100,000 fine on anyone who abuses the country’s national
flag.
According to the sponsor of the bill, Hon.
Sam Onuigbo, representing Ikwuano/Umuahia North/South in Abia state, there has
been high rate of abuse with the national flag, The Guardian reports.
Discussing the general principles of the bill
at plenary, Onuigbo urged the House to do everything possible to preserve the
national flag.
The PDP lawmaker said the bill, which would
amend the Flag and Coat of Arms Act 2004, would further make provisions to
safeguard all the country’s national heritage, when passed.
He expressed concern that there are
underground efforts to change the national flag as many public and government
offices now include the coat of arms in it.
He said: “It is important to declare that any
addition, subtraction or super imposition outside the version designed by Pa
Michael Akinkunmi in 1959 is not the Nigerian flag.”
“Section 10 of the Principal Act is being
amended by removing the fine of N100 and replacing same with N100,000.”
The Nigeria flag was designed in 1959 and
first officially hoisted on October 1, 1960.
Earlier, NAIJ.com had reported that Michael
Taiwo Akinkunmi, the man who designed Nigeria’s flag is still alive but his
present living condition is that of a forgotten hero.
“I was well-known all over the place,”
Michael Taiwo Akinkunmi says. “Everybody was calling me Mr Flag Man.”
He designed the flag in October 1959, a year
before Nigeria gained independence. He was paid – 100 pounds, equal to $281 in
1959.
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NIGERIANS TO BE FINED N100,000 FOR ABUSING THE NATIONAL FLAG
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