Local news – 21.03.2012 - KAMAR FRANCIS - Awareness of birth registration certificate

The director of the registration explain the mode of registration saying every person notifying the birth or death of a person shall to the best of his knowledge and ability give the prescribed particulars which shall be entered forthwith by the registrar in the register and the person notifying certify to the correctness of the entry by signing or if his illiterate by fixing his mark to the register. The director of registration explain to the chiefs of lokori the meaning of birth certificate that its continuous and permanent compulsory recording of the occurrence and the characteristics of vital event primarily for their values as legal document as provided by law and secondarily for their usefulness as the source of vital statistics. He set the responsibility of reporting a birth for registration lies with: the officer in charge of the establishment in which the birth took place .He added when a baby is born at home, parents or other relatives should report the birth to the assistant chiefs in which should gave the parent the knowledge of birth notification(ABN)
The director of registration set out the benefit of registration to all people in which enables the child to provide accurate and reliable characteristics of the event(birth). The opposite happen when the event is registered late where is likelihood of inaccuracy on the prescribed particulars. He touches on the side of the death registration, it enables the authority to know the leading cause of death in a given area thereby making it easy for necessary intervention by the appropriate agencies. He urged more people to register death immediately after occurrence make it possible for the relatives to obtain death certificate without much problems as the only necessary document to be produced is a burial permit in respect of the deceased.

Local news – 17.8.11 - By Mary Tioko - Emphasize on Universal Birth Registration

The District Civil Registrar Mr. Joseph Orata has urged the Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs in Turkana Central to put more emphasis on the Current Birth Registration instead of relying on village elders for the deaths registration. Speaking in a workshop organized by World Vision, at Golden Guest House Lodwar, Mr. Orata said the chiefs need to be clear with the information they offer in the documents before submission to his office.
The 19 Chiefs and Assistants Chiefs drawn from Turkana Central were encouraged to put more emphasis on the Current Birth Registration instead of relying on village elders for the deaths registration which he said need to be accompanied by the professional documents. Mr. Orata said that their interest is to register the Births and issue Birth notifications in their areas of operations.
The officer encouraged the Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs to Submit their returns in person to avoid inconveniences which can lead to delay of reports. He also congratulated the chiefs and the Assistant Chiefs for their hard work and urged them to continue serving people with good hearts.
The World Vision Child protection officer Mr. Musa Bwino encouraged the participants to ensure that no child born in Turkana county is denied the fundamental right of birth registration. The participants will undertake their field visits in the two Locations of Kalokol and Kerio on 18th August 2011 to sample villages to register the children in an exercise conducted by the civil registrar, Chiefs and Assistant Chiefs facilitated by the World vision Child protection Office in Lodwar.