The National Population Commission (NPC) has commended Benue State for coming third among the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory in the ongoing birth registration, slated to end in November 2024, based on the available data.
This is even as the federal commissioner representing Benue State at the NPC, Patricia Kupchi lamented that over 200,000 children in the state are yet to be captured in the registration even as she appealed to parents and caregivers to make their children available for capturing.
According to her, “over Fifty Two Thousand children between the ages of zero and five have already been registered and issued birth certificates by the commission in the state.”
The commissioner disclosed this in Makurdi at the launch of a one day State Advocacy and Press Conference for the kick off of a Campaign on the Importance of Birth Registration organised by the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Benue State Directorate in collaboration with NPC and United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF).
She pointed out that the essence of the exercise was to give the children a national identity and help government to plan better for their welfare. expressing worry that over 200,000 unregistered children were yet to be captured in the state.
