Mr. Baba Jamal, Deputy Minister of Information has warned the general
public to desist from using the national emblems such as the coat of
arms which they are not mandated use.
In
a statement issued to climax his two week nationwide tour last Tuesday
in Accra, the Deputy Minister said, through his interactions with the
public he observed that the national emblems were being misused and also
realised that the National Anthem was being played at private and
social gatherings such as funerals and weddings.
He said “nobody has the right to use the national emblems unless permission is given”.
Mr. Jamal added that, the Coat of Arms must not be seen on private cars, private houses, offices or complimentary cards but public institutions, official government offices and the general public have the right to use the national colours.
He advised that entrepreneurs in this country must be helped to grow by patronising their locally made products to indicate that we are a proud country and aim high as the shining black star of Africa.
Mr. Baba Jamal reiterated that, his tour highlighted on three main objectives namely; to monitor how effective government information is being managed on the ground by agencies that are entrusted with such responsibilities.
Also, to foster and deepen working relation between the Information Service Department (ISD) and other agencies under the Ministry of Information and various Regional Coordinating Council’s (RCC’s) and Metropolitan and Municipal Districts Assemblies (MMD’s) to ensure effective collaboration in informing and creating enlightenment of our people and to prepare the ground for the official launch of a project code named “Ghana Database Project” which is to collect and collate complete information on all institution across the country and to make them available to the public.
The Minister added that, the Ghana Database Project aim at branding Ghana from inside and making information assessable for the public, which will go beyond mentioning of names and statistics but will give concrete information of institutions and agencies across the country.
“We wish to acknowledge that some of this information exists in other portals and websites but the Ghana Database Project is to provide a one stop database where all information of the country can be assessed”.
This, he said, will help the public who goes to the internet and to the national portal and wants information on a particular ministry, to get all the addresses of that particular ministry. This will not be available only at the national level but also at the agencies and offices across the country and to give the public adequate information about them.
Another aspect of this Database is to help the various regions adopt regional slogans to make the regions unique.
He said three regions; Ashanti, Greater Accra and the Northern regions are yet to settle on their slogans which will be part of the database, but the slogans of the seven other regions are as follows; Upper East-the light of the North, Upper West-the smile of the Xylophone, Brong Ahafo-the Best of all, Eastern-the Best starts from the East, Volta-Very Reliable, whiles Central and Western Regions adopted the Centre of Excellence and the Best Comes from the West respectively.
Ekow Aidoo
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He said “nobody has the right to use the national emblems unless permission is given”.
Mr. Jamal added that, the Coat of Arms must not be seen on private cars, private houses, offices or complimentary cards but public institutions, official government offices and the general public have the right to use the national colours.
He advised that entrepreneurs in this country must be helped to grow by patronising their locally made products to indicate that we are a proud country and aim high as the shining black star of Africa.
Mr. Baba Jamal reiterated that, his tour highlighted on three main objectives namely; to monitor how effective government information is being managed on the ground by agencies that are entrusted with such responsibilities.
Also, to foster and deepen working relation between the Information Service Department (ISD) and other agencies under the Ministry of Information and various Regional Coordinating Council’s (RCC’s) and Metropolitan and Municipal Districts Assemblies (MMD’s) to ensure effective collaboration in informing and creating enlightenment of our people and to prepare the ground for the official launch of a project code named “Ghana Database Project” which is to collect and collate complete information on all institution across the country and to make them available to the public.
The Minister added that, the Ghana Database Project aim at branding Ghana from inside and making information assessable for the public, which will go beyond mentioning of names and statistics but will give concrete information of institutions and agencies across the country.
“We wish to acknowledge that some of this information exists in other portals and websites but the Ghana Database Project is to provide a one stop database where all information of the country can be assessed”.
This, he said, will help the public who goes to the internet and to the national portal and wants information on a particular ministry, to get all the addresses of that particular ministry. This will not be available only at the national level but also at the agencies and offices across the country and to give the public adequate information about them.
Another aspect of this Database is to help the various regions adopt regional slogans to make the regions unique.
He said three regions; Ashanti, Greater Accra and the Northern regions are yet to settle on their slogans which will be part of the database, but the slogans of the seven other regions are as follows; Upper East-the light of the North, Upper West-the smile of the Xylophone, Brong Ahafo-the Best of all, Eastern-the Best starts from the East, Volta-Very Reliable, whiles Central and Western Regions adopted the Centre of Excellence and the Best Comes from the West respectively.
Ekow Aidoo
paanyan7@gmail.com
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