ARCN Intern The Need for T Governan G Department of Religious and Cu of Education, Rumuolemini, P dr Abstract: The crave for political of that such offices are accompanied person from poverty to a life of we live’ this paper will x-ray the need employed the historical and socio discovered that the drift from the tr event of failure to conform to the te that peoples religious life should be oath; it therefore recommends that aids and profess to be adherents of e of oath-taking in order to curb the h Key words: Good governance, tradi Preamble Prior to the era of colonialism m uprightness and integrity becaus senses would want to risk involv not necessarily need to swear or fact children were warned to alw people’s lives were guided by t he people’s cultural heritage. How intercultural cum interreligious society became legal and a comm civilization and religious mix, th stage; these forms of oath-taking because in the traditional settin severe consequences or immed punishment in the oath of Chr thereby resulting to a drastic d politics, thus, despite the oath ad insincerity in governance as poli gains. Oath-taking today is seen lacks the potency to enforce its different deities of the land. All ARCN International Journal of Social Sciences a ISSN: 2384-8942. Volume 12, Issue 1, (April, 20 journals@arcnjournals.org www.arcnjournals.org national Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities journals@arcnjournals.org Traditional Oath-Taking for G nce in the Niger Delta Region Grace Lawrence-Hart, PhD ultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Ignatius A Port Harcourt, Rivers State | Phone No. 0803545 rgrace.lawrence-hart@iaue.edu.ng ffices in recent times is overwhelming, this is as a re with plenty of financial benefits which are capabl ealth and recognition. Using the African philosoph to swear oath of office based on ones religious incl ological methodology in its analysis, in course of raditional form of oath-taking is as a result of the co enets of the traditional oath of office. The paper con e properly scrutinized before they are allowed to tak those who secretly patronize African Traditional d either Christianity or Islam should be subjected to th high level of corruption in governance in the Niger D itional oath-taking. morality was a cherished virtue of Africans. Peop se good name was more than money thus no ving himself with activities that will dent his int take an oath to live in conformity to the norms ways remember whose children they were. Thus eir different family values because morality was wever, at the dawn of independence and th interface, oath taking which was also part o mon feature in the law court (Deezia 2014.). F he Christian and Islamic form of oath-taking has g became preferred to the traditional form of oat ng any deviation from the ground norms of th diate punishment thereby making it look dr ristianity and Islamic religion is futuristic (E decline in morality in virtually every works o dministered to public office holders today, there itician loots public funds and use tax payers mo n as ‘fulfilling all righteousness’ or ‘window d s sanction as it is practiced in the traditional s legiance to oath has been so trivialized that on and Humanities 018) pages 01 - 08 1| Page Good Ajuru University 55185 | Email: esult of the believe le of catapulting a hy of ‘live and lets lination. The study this study, it was onsequences in the ncludes by positing ke the conventional deities for personal he traditional form Delta. ple lived a life of man in his right tegrity. People do of the society. In s, subconsciously s seen as part of a he high level of of the traditional Furthermore, with s taken the center ath-taking. This is he society attract readed since the Ecclesiastes 8:11) of life including is still a show of oney for personal dressing’ since it setting under the ne wonders if the