The project seeks to capture data provided by any of the revenue agencies to be shared online by the collaborating agencies and ensure online business registration.
This was made known by the Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Hon. Martin A.B.K. Amidu during the Ministry’s turn at the Meet the Press series held in Accra today.
The Minister stated that under this arrangement, all existing companies are required to update their records by acquiring a Tax Identification Number (TIN) for the Directors of the companies, and this will enable the Department migrate all existing companies onto the shared database platform.
Mr Amidu said that a six month comparative analysis of various cases handled by the Public Prosecutions Division for the period June 2010 to July 2011 showed a reduction in varied offenses, such as robbery, from 151 in 2010 to 76 in 2011; narcotics, from 87 in 2010 to 45 in 2011; murder from 59 in 2010 to 42 in 2011; miscellaneous cases from 95 in 2010 to 20 in 2011; motions from 619 to 410, among others.
On the Justice for All program, Mr Amidu said it was an initiative from his office adopted as a mode of decongesting the country’s prisons of the large numbers of remand prisoners, with the four thematic areas being dealt with as a remand Review Project; Sentencing review Project; Prosecutors’ capacity Building Project; and Systems and Procedures Analysis Project.
The Minister said Special Courts sat on 245 cases this year out of which 71 were discharged; 75 were granted bail; 9 were convicted and 90 applications were either refused withdrawn or adjourned to a later date.
The Minister pointed out some of the challenges facing the various divisions of the Ministry as acute shortage of office and residential accommodation in the regions, inadequate office furniture and equipment, inadequate official vehicles and insufficient budgetary provision.
He concluded by saying that with the level of commitment shown by his team, he was confident that the Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice would render professional, legal services based on transparency and accountability to the public.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Larry George Botchway & Benjamin Amaning
Quelle/Source: Ghana Government, 30.08.2011
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