About one hundred and eight, (108), persons have been trained and commissioned as Commissioners of Oath for the Northern sector in Tamale.
The Commissioners of Oath will be engaged to assist the National Identification Authority, (NIA), programme in the Northern zone as it embarks on the nation-wide registration of Ghanaians for the Ghana Card.
They will also be required by the judicial system to serve the general good of the Ghanaian public as far as administering of oaths is concerned.
At a short Swearing-In ceremony in Tamale, the Supervising High Court Judge for the Northern Sector, Justice Richard Kogyapwah has admonished, the commissioners to be guided by the principles of honesty, fairness and integrity in the performance of their duty. JKK has filed this report
The first batch of 285 Commissioners for Oaths were commissioned in June last year and deployed to help in the registration exercise in the Adentan and La-Nkwantang-Madina municipalities and is currently ongoing in the Ga East Municipality.
Today’s exercise brings to 1,503 the total commissioners of Oaths who have been commissioned so far across the country.
The Supervising High Court Judge for the Northern Sector, His Lordship Justice Richard Kogyapwah, said as Commissioners of Oaths, the integrity of this sensitive national exercise now lies in their hands as they are requested to play an important role in the prevention of fraud and act as official unbiased witnesses to documents and consequences thereof.
He advised them to exhibit fair knowledge and understanding of the duties and responsibilities of the profession.
Head of Training, NIA, Abudu Abdul-Ganiw said his outfits intends to deploy some 1500 commissioners of Oath during the mass registration exercise to ensure that every citizen without any of the identity documents required for the Ghana Card is identified through a solemn process.
This, according to him, signifies the commitment of the NIA and government at ensuring that no true citizen is left out of the process of acquiring the card.
He pointed out that by assisting with the process; the country is poised to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goal sixteen on the right of all persons to legal identity.
The Principal State Attorney from the State Attorney’s Department, Tamale, Salia Abdul-Quddus and the Lawyer Issah Mahamudu from the Northern Regional Bar Association all took turns to echo the need for the commissioners for Oaths to exhibit professionalism.
Some of the Commissioners Radio Ghana spoke with expressed readiness to accept postings to wherever their services may be needed and pledged to do their best to serve the country.
