By Jeff Ngawe Yufenyu
Statistics at the Civil Status Registry office of Ndop Council, Northwest Region, shows that 2199 births were registered in 2008.The Civil Status Secretary, Dorothy Njoya, made the revelation to The Post January 6.
According to Njoya, the Civil Service Registry can account only for children whose parents bothered to register their births at the council and obtained birth certificates."A good number of children, in their thousands, could also have been born in 2008, but their parents did not care to come to the council to register their births," Njoya said.
A scrutiny of the statistics, as carried out by The Post, showed that of the total births registered in 2008, a majority of them were males.According to the statistics, 63 marriages were conducted, while the number of deaths registered at the council stood at 47.
The Civil Status Secretary said many people died in 2008, but the 47 deaths registered, concerned only workers whose families registered their deaths, so as to obtain death certificates, to enable them claim money the deceased might have left before dying.
She also said a good number of the marriages were carried out in the month of December 2008 involving mostly "bush fallers" who came home for end-of-year holidays with their families.
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