Mrs. Jemima Mamaa Oware, the Registrar-General, says the government is losing between GH¢
300,000.00 and GH¢ 500,000.00 daily as revenue as a result of the shutdown of
the department’s systems.
This is due to an industrial strike by workers of
their main service provider, GCNet, which has a private partnership agreement
with the Government since 2011.
GCnet is the developer and administrator of an
electronic system known as E-Registrar for the Registrar-General’s Department
(RGD) which gives them all the electronic registrations carried out throughout
their offices.
She said when RGD found out that
it could not to access its systems, it communicated with management and workers
of GCNet and it turned out that the workers had withdrawn their services in
solidarity with laid off staff whose redundancy package had not been paid.
This, she said, had had an impact on their work since
GCNet managed their electronic systems and that other services such as
Industrial Property Right, marriages and estates had also been affected.
“It is a sad day for RGD and all our offices since we
are not working and have not been able to make payments for any of our services
because our services are linked up to this electronic system. We have not taken
any revenue since last week Friday,” she added.
The Registrar-General expressed worry that the
shutdown would impact negatively on the business community and the population
as a whole since many transactions could not be done.
“We are not able to process transactions and we were
registering as many as 200 companies a day but now since last week Friday we
have absolutely nothing to do,” she said.
She called on the government and
the Ministry of Finance to intervene and find solutions to this challenge.
She apologised to the general public for any
inconvenience caused and said management was working around the clock to get
the challenge resolved.
Clients would be informed when their services
resumed, she said.
Meanwhile, GCNet Staff Welfare Association had
communicated to Management its decision to resume the suspended strike with
immediate effect in accordance with section 159 of the Labour Act withdrawing
all support services including services provided by some redundant staff.
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Source: GNA
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