Learn Lessons From GBC Boss – Alhaji Halidu Advices Birth And Death Registrar
A National Democratic Congress [NDC] communication team member, Alhaji Haruna Halidu has warned the registrar for Birth and Death registry to be very vigilant with his decisions while in office.
Registrar at the Birth and Death unit, Mr John Agbeko has said that his unit does not allow certain prefix and suffixes deemed as titles to be registered as part of names on birth certificates.
He further explained that local names like “Nana, Nii and Togbe” are mostly used as stool names or title for leaders in the traditional setup and must only be used in our homes house or community and not to be added to names for birth registration.
“If we allow ourselves as a nation to give names the way we want . . . there will come a time that we will have wonderful names in Ghana. So it is just a control measure to make sure that there are moderating factor on us citizens to direct how our naming should go”, he said.
The Registrar pointed out that it is not the case that his outfit is against only the local names (title) because it does not accept the English ones either as that is how their system operates.
“Nobody is against a local name. The only difference is that I have a baby and I want to name this baby by giving a name like for example where I come from, you have Dzibgordi, which is Patience and also using Mabel and you want to make Dzibgordi the first name, by our operations we tell you this cannot occupy the first name but Dzibgordi can be in the middle name to have Mabel Dzibgordi Agbeko”, he explained.
Mr Agbeko stated that “If you still want the Dzibgordi, then you can leave Mabel and we will use Dzibgordi for you as your first name, but because we are English-speaking people, if you take Mabel and Dzibgordi together I do not know how it will look on paper if we do Dzibgordi Mabel Agbeko.”
According to Alhaji Halidu in a discussion on the matter on UTV’s ‘Adekye Nsroma’ programme, “His [Mr John Agbeko] approach to addressing the issue was the same formula that led the GBC boss out of office, therefore he should be chary”.
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