Kogiflame
UNICEF in conjuction with the National Population Commission (NPC) Kogi State has trained 120 enumerators on Birth Registration Training Activities from four local government areas in Idah federal Constituency of Kogi state.
The local governments are Idah, Ibaji, Igalamela/odolu and Ofu local government areas in Kogi state.
The three days event witnessed 120 enumerators, 30 each from the four local government areas trained at St. Peter School in Idah on Friday.
The ICT Co-ordinator Mr. Ehimoni Kolawole while addressing the 120 enumerators at St. Peter in Idah, he said the exercise was necessary to enable them have accurate data of children given birth to in their various communities in Idah federal Constituency.
He noted that enumerators will be fully equipped for the exercise so that they can give accurate report at the end of the exercise.
Mr. Kolawole stressed that this will enable government to plan effectively for the people by knowing numbers of children given birth to during a particular year.
” You are expected to visit wards, houses to house registration. You must also capture children given birth to by women on the street. Those of you that may have some challenges especial in Ibaji where their is no network, you are expected to record it in a sheet and then later you transfer them in to you Android where their is network”, he said.
He also cautioned them to avoid recording fake data where by some enumerators will sit-down in one place and recorded everything by himself without actually going to where they were posted to conduct the exercise.
The three days training also took place in Ayingba, Ankpa and Dekina local government areas.
