‘Letter to Mr. President’
41 Block C Farmland,
Post Office Box 279,
Mankesim.
THE PRESIDENT,
FLAGSTAFF HOUSE,
ACCRA.
Dear Sir,
HERALDIC CASTLE AND SEA VIS-A-VIS FLAGSTAFF HOUSE ON THE COAT OF ARMS.
I write from my humble, quite village of my village thought to put a
question to your thinking cup perhaps if that might have escaped your
knowing.
Serveral years after Indepence in 1957 and a Republican status in
1960, the Coat of Arms have emerged as the highest national emblem of
our motherland. It has shot itself from been just a symbol to that of
a unifying epistle. On the head of your letters, he can be seen
smiling broadly thus indicating his highest form of importance.
On the right hand top corner of the Coat of Arms is found the heraldic
castle on the heraldic sea. Truly, I don’t know much about what it
means but the little I know concerning this is that it represents the
‘National Government’. To me a village dweller with my calabash still
serving as my drinking cup in this ?21st Century, I think it simplest
form of interpretation is that, it means the ‘Seat of Government’.
Indeed the truth is, the heraldic castle to any commoner is the
Christianborg Castle or put it the Osu Castle.
Sir, as we all know, not quite long in years that the ‘National
Government’ symbolising a castle was changed into the ‘Flagstaff
House’. The question I wish to ask you Mr. President who by virtue of
your position serves as the face of our beloved motherland to the
outside community is , how well do we as citizens relate your office
of ‘Flagstaff House’ to that of the Coat of Arms?
Sir, in my little village’s microscopic view, isn’t it high time as we
look at the dynamisms of the world in relation to our constitution and
it review, do same to our national symbols especially the Coat of
Arms?
It is the hope of this village I sit pensive under the cocoa tree am
leaning against that you, and your eminent body of government would
take some time off your busy schedules to ponder over this.
Yours faithfully,
Signed
The Village Thinker.
