The Births and Deaths Registry will soon have its own office complex. Its current premises is overstretched and is currently being housed by NALAG. For the Local Government Minister, Mr Martin Adjei -Mensah Korsah, it is important that the registry be elevated to an Authority, to properly handle its operations more effectively.
He spoke to the media during his working visit to the Registry and the Department of Parks and Gardens in Accra.
On Monday, the sector minister focused on the Births and Deaths Registry and Department of Parks and Gardens on his tour.
He first visited the Institute of Local Government which also houses the Births and Deaths registry workstation, including their documents, IT infrastructure and other equipment.
The minister gathered that there is a huge storage of data or backlog of data, spanning as far back as 1929, which they are trying to computerize to create and keep a backup.
The minister inspected how their IT infrastructure is built to manage their operations specifically their data and backup system, in order not to lose data.
He said this will help check criminals who infiltrate the system, tamper with data and duplicate people’s registration, ID numbers for their own benefit.
The Head of Statistics, Monitoring and Evaluation unit, at the Births and Deaths Registry, Miss Constance Anani, disclosed that the births and deaths registry has begun mass registration of births of children across the 261 districts of the country, which were not recorded since the beginning of the year.
This free of charge registration, covers births from age 0 to 12 months.
At the Department of Parks and Gardens, the Acting Director, Dr. Daniel Adams refuted claims that the department has sold part of its land to a private developer.
The Minister has instructed that the containers brought by the said private developer who claimed to have bought the land be removed immediately.
Dr. Daniel Adams added that the Parks and Gardens lands are designed for horticultural purposes and not for building high-rise structures.
