“COMMISSIONER OF OATH STAMP” MISSING; COURT OFFICERS WARNED

By Vicky BAUNKE, Goroka

Since the Magisterial Service ceased all appointments for commissioner of oaths services at the Goroka District Court in June this year, the Commissioner of Oath stamp also mysteriously disappeared.

Senior Provincial Magistrate for Goroka District Court, Madam Josephine Nidue has made an appeal to the public to report any court officer using the commissioner of oaths stamp to stamp any court documents, statutory declarations, passports and certificates outside of the court premises.

Magistrate Nidue warned that no officers at the court house should be collecting any money from the general public.

“No one at the district courts has any power to stamp documents with the commissioner of oaths seal. Those are now done by lawyers only.”

“I want to make it clear that the district court -house is a service provider and all services are free of charge. If there are any monies to be paid then it has to be at the bank with receipt issued by the Bureau of Management Service (BMS), and brought to us”.

“It’s weird when I keep asking about the stamp and no favorable response is forthcoming”, she stressed.