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”.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi/Peacefmonline.com
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I will come and register my name as Nana and if you are man with balls, tell me ***barred word*** things. We will see what happens. You need 1945 revolution. What right have you. Somebody is called Fish, ***barred word*** and even Drinkwater. What is your business. You guys have to learn lessons the hard way.
Mr. Agbeko why can't digbordzi be the first name b4 Mabel?if your explanation is that it wouldn't sound well on paper then I can't do that job better than you... You must be fired immediately
Massa; this CEO idiotic full at Birth and Death office is definitely an EWE/ayigbe NDC man attempting to undermine the progress of the NPP government ; these are the toxic people Ken Agyepong is talking about ; how on earth can you dictate to individuals how they name their own children ; what this NDC full should understand is that if things get out of hand politically he will be sackePERIOD !!! ; the QUESTION IS WHAT IS IN A NAME ? ; even in europe/far east ; China people name their children after Kings ; Queens; famous people or people who influenced ones life in the past ; Who is this ewe/ayigbe NDC man to come and change our traditions because people nane their children for kinds of reasons ; so how about Nana Addo the president ; is the ***barred word*** saying Nana Addo 's parents made a mistake by nioming their child Nana Addo as such ; AYIGBEMAM THINK besides how about everybody in Ghana dropping their christian biblical names and every body using Ghanaian names ONLY ; THIS EWE NDC MAN SHOULD SACKED NOW !!!!!!!!!!!
When we have more important issues as a nation to think of we are busy wasting time on names and naming! No matter which name you are given it won't solve corruption which is crippling our country.We should direct all our efforts towards addressing the menace of corruption..I ***barred word*** if some one decides to name his/her child '***barred word*** ***barred word***-Licky Stones Dedevi'. After all the whites have names such as Rice, Drinkwater, Chilwell but that has not stopped them from progress. character is more important than the name of the person.
Am sorry sir, but this dioesn't make sense to me at all
What business has the Registrar got to do with how we name our children in Ghana? I can even choose to name my child "Shithole". Who cares?