By Onoriode Etatsemi
THE Delta State Attorney -General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Ekemejero Ohwovoriole, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has underscored the need to subject any person arrested for crime to biometric process so that whenever such a person is caught committing crime again it would not be difficult to track him or her.
He was of the opinion the introduction of the technology would go a long way to assist in tracking criminals seamlessly especially the serial offenders.
Ohwovoriole stated this in Asaba during a one day refresher course organized by the Ministry for selected members of staff in the Administrative and other cadres in the Ministry with the theme: ‘Improving service delivery through effective communication and good work ethics’.
The Commissioner emphasized the importance of training and retraining of non legal officers especially the staff of the Administrative Department for them to get some techniques for efficient service delivery as the ministry navigates through digital space.
According to him “the purpose of the training is to enable staff who are not Lawyers to be up to date in computerized record keeping”.
He recalled that during his recent visit to zonal offices of the Ministry that many of the staff were ready to work but the necessary tools were not there hence the need for continuous capacity building.
Ohwovoriole stated that the Ministry had some records that were kept online even though most of the work are still in paper form, noting that there was no proper computer system in place in these zonal offices.
Earlier, the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mr. Omamuzo Erebe, represented by the Director of Civil Litigation, Mr. Sunday Monye said that the in-house training was aimed at enlightening participants on the dos and donts in civil service.
He urged participants to take the training seriously, stressing that the resource persons were seasoned administrators who retired from civil service.
In an interview with some of the participants including the Functioning Director of Administration in Ministry of Justice, Mrs Fidelia Obeh, Mr. Alexander Osozizi, a senior Administrative officer and Emmanuella Kanebi, they lauded the Attorney -General and Commissioner for Justice as well as the Solicitor-General and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry for organizing the training for them.
They said that the capacity building would impact on their day to day activities in the Ministry just as the Functioning Director of Administration appreciated the Attorney- General for approving the seminar for them.
She particularly admonished the selected staff of her department to ensure that they make good use of all the tips they were told especially in the area of punctuality to work and their mode of dressing.
One of the resource persons, Mr. Sylvanus Eboagwu who also made presentation on record management, maintained that without proper record keeping, nobody would be able to do anything in office setting.
Caption: Mrs. Fidelia Obeh, Director of Administration Ministry of Justice (left) presenting certificate of participation to Mrs Bridget Orhorhoro at the end of the Refresher Course.