The Upper East regional department of the Birth and Deaths Registry has received 8 new motorbikes from the government to aid in their work. The motorbikes are to support the mobility of district and municipal officers to go to hard-to-reach communities to register community members.
The Regional Registry Officer, John Yalmon Badenganoya at a brief ceremony to hand over the motorbikes to the officers thanked the government for the support.
“I wish to thank the government of Ghana for providing us means of transport which we have been crying for. But like Oliver Twist, we still ask for more for the rest of the assemblies”.
The Birth and Death Registry department in the year 2020, registered 29, 716 births and 306 deaths. Mr. Yalmon stated that even though the department is performing well, the lack of adequate logistics and low staff which remains a challenge is affecting productivity.
“There are places where it is inaccessible and when it’s rainy season my staff find it difficult to reach these areas. Another challenge is the naming of children because the delay in the naming of children by parents posed a serious challenge to officers who have to continually visit the family to get the child registered.”
“Another problem is, every district or municipal have only one registration officer, how will the officer cover the entire area so, we hope the provision of these motorbikes will help solve the problem of covering distance. We are appealing to the government to recruit more personnel because as we speak out of the 15 districts and municipalities and our staff strength as at now are 12 leaving the other 3 districts,” he said.
The Chief Regional Coordinating Director, Alhaji Mahamadu Azonko urged the beneficiary officers to use the motorbikes for the intended purpose.
“The motorbikes are for you to use to travel to hard-to-reach areas and register the citizens. So it is your responsibility to take care of the motorbikes and use them for the purpose for which they were provided. The government is supporting us to work and I think that we must be thanking the government and even donors”.
Sukairazu Inusah, a Registration Officer for the Kassena-Nankana West District stated that before the donation of the motorbikes, it was difficult to go to some communities due to the deplorable nature of the roads, “but with these new motorbikes, we can now reach these areas to register everyone”.
Source: A1Radioonline.com|Joshua Asaah|101.1Mhz
