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Gov't
offices join hands to work for respect of law in nation
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ADDIS
ABABA(August 1,2008) - A joint-up forum of government
Commissions, ministries and institutions engaged in the respect of
law was established on Wednesday.
The newly established forum has 11 members who full filled the minimum
requirement of being a partner with two of the three institutions
namely, Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, Ethiopian Ombudsman institute
and the Federal Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission, as set by the
technical committee.
Thus, the legal and administrative affairs standing committee with
the house of peoples' representatives, Ethiopian Human Rights Commission,
Ethiopian Ombudsman institute, the Federal Ethics and Anti-corruption
Commission, the Federal Police Commission, the Federal Supreme Court,
Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Capacity Building, the Federal Civil
Service Agency, Ministry of Women's Affairs, and the Office of the
Federal Auditor General are the members of the joint-up forum, officials
from the technical committee said.
The aim of the new forum is to work together in respect of justice
and law, to assure the good governance, to eliminate working for similar
cases separately and solve redundancy, and capacity building of each
institution's staffs for the achievement of their goal.
The technical committee opens up the membership access to include
some other related institutions in the future however; it said it
faced challenges from the participants. Participants were debated
whether it has to be closed for other institution or not. The reason
was that the forum will be immense and hard to achieve its goal easily
and they also debate on the rules and regulations of the forum, said
participants.
"The establishment of this forum will help to join forces to
work towards the respect of law and good governance by eliminating
redundant of activities, waste of time and resources", speaker
of the House of People Representatives, Ambassador Teshome Toga said
on the occasion.
The Ethiopian Ombudsman institute took the initiative and has been
working on it for the last one year to the existence of the forum.
The forum will have a meeting twice a year and each institution will
have an opportunity to organize the yearly summit, according to the
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