The Head of Department, Vital Registration in Kogi National Population Commission
(NPC), Mrs. Omatah Ralli has said that the ongoing E-birth registration will ensure every child in Nigeria has legal identity.
She also stated that It will close a lot of gaps, thereby ensuring that every child counts.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in conjunction with the National Population Commission (NPC), has commenced e-birth registration training for enumerators in Kogi states.
The training is taking place simultaneously in three locations; each at the headquarters of the three Federal constituencies in Kogi East.
Over 130 volunteers are trained as enumerators who will in the next 14 to 25 days work on the field to collate data.”
Speaking on Saturday in Anyigba, headquarters of Dekina, Bassa federal constituency, the Head of Department, Vital Registration in Kogi NPC, Mrs. Omatah Ralli said the training is to equip enumerators on the basics of Electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (e-CRVS) system under the National Population Commission (NPC).
“The platform will digitalise all civil documentation such as birth and stillbirth registrations, birth attestation, adoption, marriage notification, divorce notification, migration, and death.
Mrs. Ralli said the manual registration for children has become obsolete hence the need to migrate to digital platform that will enhance proper planning and documentation, The E-birth registration will ensure every child in Nigeria has legal identity. It will also close a lot of gaps, thereby ensuring that every child counts.
The Head of Department, Vital Registration appealed to Journalists in the sensitization of the scheme as the enumerators will be sent to the field as soon as the three-day training is completed.
She said the training will also avoid the enumerators’ opportunity to allocate National Identity Number to each child captured on the field.
She eulogized UNICEF for their partnership as well as the provision of logistics for the scheme.
One of the enumerators who spoke with Nigerian Tribune he would make sure he did his job accordingly.
He noted that he would move from door to door and make sure he did his capturing according to the rules and regulations given to them by UNICEF and NPC.
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