The House of Representatives is urging the executive to direct the Nigerian Orientation Agency to embark on public enlightenment and re-orientation on the need to put an end to the misuse of the national flag and other national symbols.
In a motion sponsored by Honourable Sam Onuigbo, the House considered the fact that some Nigerians do not know the national flag, as a distinct national symbol from the coat of arms.
The House said this was a situation that should be reversed.
“The television houses, newspapers keep coming out with the corrupted version of the Nigerian flag.
“For instance, yesterday’s Guardian has a corrupted version of the Nigerian flag,” Mr Onuigbo told the Senate.
Some of the lawmakers said that the misuse tells the world that Nigerians could hardly do things right.
The problems and challenges of the nation, one of them claimed, were present because most Nigerians fail to do the correct thing.
The House is also urging the executive to ensure that the Nigerian Orientation Agency would be the only source of obtaining the national flag to ensure that the correct format of the flag was produced.