THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE/ATTORNEY GENERAL BUSINGYE JOHNSTON URGES COURT BAILIFFS WHO SWORN IN TO EXERCISE THEIR DUTIES WITHOUT PASSING THEIR OWN PROFITS BEFORE JUSTICE.

While he was receiving the vows of new court bailiffs and notaries, the Minister of Justice Busingye Johnston emphasized on the message that urges all those sectors to serve the general public with justice in a professional way through integrity and avoiding to make people loose their time for no reason.

At the supreme court, the total of 178 bailiffs and notaries have taken oath to officially enter their profession. Those included 50 professional bailiffs, 78 non professional bailiffs, 30 private notaries and 20 public notaries.

The minister of Justice/Attorney general Johnston Busingye has advised all categories of bailiffs to serve the people with values of integrity before everything, to act on time, to avoid any kind of corruption and especially to never pass their own profits before the justice.

He Said: To work professionally following the law, to cherish values of honesty and integrity, are the keys of the functions that you are swearing for, in the perspective of providing people with justice and that what Rwandans and the government are expecting from you.

Me SEBERA Nyunga Antoine the president of the Professional Bailiffs Association, in his speech, also urged courts’ bailiffs who sworn in to join others in the battle of completing the justice cycle and reminded them that without the good conscience and integrity they cannot fulfil the functions for which they took oath.

Currently the number of professional bailiffs in Rwanda is reaching on 504, while non professional bailiffs are counted according various posts they occupy in the local governmental levels.