Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has charged the newly constituted legal service board to ensure that the nation’s legal services are the best in the sub region.
According to the Dr. Bawumia, an efficient and reputable legal service will boost Ghana’s credentials and also positively impact other sectors of the political economy.
He made these remarks in an address to the nine members of the legal service board after administering the official oath and the oath of secrecy to them at the Jubilee House.
“As part of the committee of nations, we must always be above our peers when it comes to the provision of legal services for the state. Having a competent workforce will have a positive multiplying effect on the sectors of our political economy”.
The vice president also tasked the board to work hard at earning the confidence of the public and ensure there is discipline in the legal service sector.
“Ghana can’t afford to have a legal service that is made up of people whose competence and diligence to work are in doubt…Similarly, a workforce that is bereft of discipline has a seismic negative impact on the forward march in our quest to be a model democratic developmental state”.
Again, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia expressed government’s commitment to the legal services sector saying that the office of the president will give the Attorney General’s Department and the board its fullest support in actualizing its goals, vision and mission.
Additionally, he said that government being mindful of the need to have a first-class legal service has provided additional funding to retool the office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice in addition to the additional funding required to fully complete the 12 storey Law House office complex.
The law house, he says when completed will make it possible for more lawyers and other staff to be employed to beef up the existing strength of the ministry. “Again, the ministry is receiving its share of the digitization drive of the government and very soon when the system becomes fully functional the use of many reams of paper or hard copies will be significantly reduced. The system will also ease to a large extent the pressure involved in delivering and accessing services at the office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice”, he concluded.
