Source: newsthemegh.com
Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice president, claims that digitization has saved the nation millions of cedis.
For instance, he stated that the National Service Secretariat had eliminated 44,000 ghost workers, saving the nation over GHC356 million, while Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) had saved GHC480 million by deleting 29,000 ghost pensioners.
Vice President Bawumia expressed her excitement that digitization was a crucial part of the Chief Justice’s vision during the launch of LEADing Justice, a strategic framework document outlining the Chief Justice’s vision for the Ghanaian judiciary and judicial service, in Accra. She noted that Ghana had achieved significant progress in a short amount of time thanks to digitization.
He expressed his enthusiasm for the fresh direction, vitality, and focus the Chief Justice has given the Judiciary since assuming office a year ago.
For instance, according to him, in 2014, just 4% of adults possessed Tax Identification Numbers from the time of independence until 2017.
The key pillars of law, ethics, asset management, due process, and digitization, he claimed, were critical to the progress of the judicial system and determined how the public perceived the court.
“It is my hope that today’s event will herald a new dawn in the history of our judicial system propelled by efficiency, excellence, knowledge, and integrity.” he said
“When we digitalized and gave everyone a Ghana Card and made the decision to make the Ghana Card Tax Identification number, we increased the proportion of individuals with Tax ID, the number moved from four percent to 85 per cent just like that.
“We have also seen through digitalization that you can deal with corruption. We have eliminated ghost workers at the Controller and Accountant General Office just by using the Ghana Cards because the ghost don’t have fingerprints.”
The vice president stated that he was thrilled to witness the improvements the electronic system had made to the way justice was administered, having personally established a case monitoring system inside the criminal justice sector in 2018.
He made a plea to every Ghanaian to support the Chief Justice’s vision in order for the court to fulfill its duties and accomplish the nation’s objectives.
“As a government we shall continue to do more for the Judicial Service to ramp up the other parts of the E-Justice system of the court and beyond the High Courts in Accra.
“We shall continue to invest in court infrastructure, residential accommodation for judges and magistrates and general re-tooling of the human resources of the institution to improve justice delivery. It is in our interest as a country to do so.”