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Child Registration Awareness, a task for all-OGSG

Nigerian has been called upon to promote birth registration by sensitising people around their communities, particularly the rural dwellers.

          The call was made by the State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Otunba Dayo Adeneye, at a stakeholders’ meeting on Media Campaign for Promoting Birth Registration, organised by National Population Commission (NPC), in collaboration with United Nation’s Children Fund (UNICEF).

          Represented by the Director, Strategy, Alhaji Tajudeen Sokunbi, Adeneye lamented the poor rate of birth registration in the country, which was put at 30 percent by 2013 demographic and health survey report, decrying the 35.6 percent rate in Ogun State, by the same report, saying it was unacceptable in the present dispensation.

          ‘’It is clear that we all should be worried because a nation without a reliable data on the registration of its under-five children, is heading for doom’’, Adeneye said.

          Calling on all stakeholders to transmit the message to various communities, the Commissioner pledged that the State government would continue to create awareness through massive publicity.

          ‘’As a government, we remain committed to doing the needful, with reference to awareness creation and sensitisation through massive publicity, to see that every one embrace the need for birth registration in the country at large and our State in particular, so as to make available reliable data for meaningful socio-economic planning and development’’, he stated.

          In his remark, the Head, Vital Registration Department, National Population Commission, Mr. Olaniyi Alayaki said birth registration was compulsory, as only the National Population Commission was empowered to register all births and deaths in Nigeria.

          In their goodwill messages, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Babatunde Ipaye, represented by Director, Planning, Research and Statistics, Dr. Ranti Oladeyinde and the Commissioner for Education, Mrs Modupe Mujota, represented by the Director, Education Support Services, Mr. Akinsola Martins, agreed that a child not registered, was being denied his fundamental human right, as such a child was in danger of being shut out from the society.

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