Saga of Ghanaian birth certificate

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• ghanaman 8 years ago

  The author of the article has dwelt on an issue that has been bothering several thousands of Ghanaians. It is high time the processing (application and issue) of birth certificates became streamlined, with mobile and online p ...
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  The author of the article has dwelt on an issue that has been bothering several thousands of Ghanaians. It is high time the processing (application and issue) of birth certificates became streamlined, with mobile and online possibilities. The nation's e-government policy makes provisions.

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• Dabo 8 years ago

  Are you sure the Tanzanian system is safe? I'd like to know where the safeguards are.

  Are you sure the Tanzanian system is safe? I'd like to know where the safeguards are.

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• OKOE 8 years ago

  WHAT YOU EXPLAINED ARE ALL CORRUPTION TACTICS. THEY WANT YOU TO SEND THEM MONEY AND USE THESE USELESS METHODS IN TRYING TO TRICK YOU IN SENDING OR EXTORTING MONEY FROM YOU. GHANA IS BECOMING SOMETHING ELSE. NO WONDER PRESIDEN ...
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  WHAT YOU EXPLAINED ARE ALL CORRUPTION TACTICS. THEY WANT YOU TO SEND THEM MONEY AND USE THESE USELESS METHODS IN TRYING TO TRICK YOU IN SENDING OR EXTORTING MONEY FROM YOU. GHANA IS BECOMING SOMETHING ELSE. NO WONDER PRESIDENT MOGABI SAID " LOOK AT THEM". WHILE OTHER AFRICAN COUNTRIES ARE GOING FORWARD, GHANA IS GOING BACKWARDS. JUST LOOK AT THE JUST FINISHED WORLD ATHLETIC CHAMPIONSHIPS AND THAT TELLS YOU OF OUR ATATUS. KENYA WAS NO. ONE AND WHERE WAS GHANA? NOT EVEN ONE MEDAL TO SHOW. PATHETIC!!!

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• Dessie 8 years ago

  people just write anything without carefully analysis;ghana do not depend solely on foreign donors on our censors and data information;ghana manage it's data of censors and other data solely that brings protection for citizen ...
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  people just write anything without carefully analysis;ghana do not depend solely on foreign donors on our censors and data information;ghana manage it's data of censors and other data solely that brings protection for citizenry..i don't think Tanzania the writer is comparing is safe for the nation

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• Jasmine 8 years ago

  Nonsense. What protection when there's no verification on documents you provide for the establishment of the birth certificates? You can just go to anyone in charge, pay any amount demanded and have exactly what you want, any ...
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  Nonsense. What protection when there's no verification on documents you provide for the establishment of the birth certificates? You can just go to anyone in charge, pay any amount demanded and have exactly what you want, any name you want: I mean just anything you want on the birth certificate.
  
  Go to other countries in West Africa. If you don't have a birth certificate at birth, you'd find it very tough to have them when you grow up. The reason being that, the number attributed to you at birth is going to be the number you'd have on all your official documents including national IDs and passport, among other things.
  
  Ghana seems to be essentially, a country of fools and crooks to unrelenting limits. And politicians are happy with the name they're helping create for the country.

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• Truth 8 years ago

  Jasmine, you said it all. Ayekoo! Ghana is indeed country of fools and idiots who are always looking for loopholes to sap money from any victim which falls prey. Even in Guinea dogs are issued with documents which indicate th ...
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  Jasmine, you said it all. Ayekoo! Ghana is indeed country of fools and idiots who are always looking for loopholes to sap money from any victim which falls prey. Even in Guinea dogs are issued with documents which indicate the various vaccinations they have received towards rabies. The opposite is true in Ghana to the extend that human beings do not have any document showing that they exist. One can obtain a multitude of birth certificates with different names and different date of birth. But the normal way of obtaining a birth certificate is to show a hospital report indicating the birth. But any grown up person can pay his or her way through to obtain a birth certificate, which is very unfortunate. The Statistical Service which is an interested stakeholder in compiling and providing data as regards population and other vital statistics seem not to be bothered by this anomaly as they can twist the data obtained from the Birth and Death Registry, and hide behind the concept of 'margin of error'. Today's problem concerning the Voter Register could have been solved right from the very time of registration if birth certificates were available and authentic. There is no single document that can be used reliably to establish indigenous Ghanaians as foreigners have infiltrated our porous system with able abetment by Ghanaians. Our story is a pitiful one but "na who cause am" as late Eddie Donkor asked and responded "na me [we] cause am". The solution is for us to change our attitude and mindset. We should start asking questions and seek answers about what has bought us into such agony of life and sincerely seek and pursue what will be good for us today and deep into the future. If we continue to be fools and idiots then I am sorry we have no one to blame.

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• The truth 8 years ago

  Bro, I support your complaint 100% , our country lacks the forward match and the tech which now the order of the day.
  
  Instead relying on the new techs to do things simply, easier, faster, convenient, we choose to wallow in ...
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  Bro, I support your complaint 100% , our country lacks the forward match and the tech which now the order of the day.
  
  Instead relying on the new techs to do things simply, easier, faster, convenient, we choose to wallow in the darkness (man power or physically)
  
  Can you imagine that I imported goods to Ghana and it was sold alright and I needed my money to ship goods again.I needed it fast to pay advance for the order, I ask my bro to send the money through western Union money transfer. To my surprise, he told me can't be sent ,that GHA receives. I was so angry to death.
  
  Why? Most African countries like Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, Gambia, Togo , even Somalia can send money from their countries. But backward GH is just like that except noise.

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