Mr. George Muller, head of Maps Production Unit of the GSS, explaining a point to the Minister during his visit to the unit. Looking on (middle) is Dr. Grace Bediako, Government Statistician. Picture: Douglas Akwasi Owusu
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12th August, 2010
Information Minister Visits Census Secretariat
The Minister of Information, Mr. John Akolgu Tia, on Tuesday paid a familiarization visit to the Statistical Service to see, at first hand, the state of preparedness of the service towards the 2010 Population and Housing
Census.
The visit also afforded the Minister the opportunity to interact with the staff and to know the problems they were encountering in the discharge of their duties.
Mr. Tia, who is also the chairman of the National Census Publicity and Education Committee (NCPEC), was accompanied by Mr. Xola Senaya, acting Chief Director of the Ministry and members of the committee.
The Minister and his entourage were taken round the offices of the service by Mr. David Kombat, Operations Manager. Among the units and departments visited were visited were the cartographic unit, the recruitment section, the field operations unit, data processing unit and the publicity and public education unit.
Briefing the press after the visit, Mr. Tia said he was quite impressed by the zeal and enthusiasm of the workers as they discharged their duties.
He said as chairman of the committee which gave communication and publicity advice to the Service for implementation, it was imperative for him and the committee to know haw the pieces of advice were being utilized.
He highly commended workers of the Service for their sense of dedication and hard work and pledged government’s readiness to support the work with logistics to enable them to achieve the set goals.
The Minister stressed the need for the media to give prominence to the enumeration exercise by putting out the right message so that people can be confident to give the right answers to enumerators.
Dr. Grace Bediako, Government Statistician, on behalf of the workers, thanked the Minister and members of the committee and said their visit had brought encouragement to the staff of GSS.
She pointed out that with the official announcement of the Census date, it has become critical for the media to help the service to intensify education and publicity, adding “the work is everybody’s business”.
She said the service was looking forward to good working relations with the media as the census takes off in the next few weeks.
The Government Statistician urged all institutions to begin to think of ways of marking September 26 in such a way that it would leave a lasting impression on their minds.
Census.
The visit also afforded the Minister the opportunity to interact with the staff and to know the problems they were encountering in the discharge of their duties.
Mr. Tia, who is also the chairman of the National Census Publicity and Education Committee (NCPEC), was accompanied by Mr. Xola Senaya, acting Chief Director of the Ministry and members of the committee.
The Minister and his entourage were taken round the offices of the service by Mr. David Kombat, Operations Manager. Among the units and departments visited were visited were the cartographic unit, the recruitment section, the field operations unit, data processing unit and the publicity and public education unit.
Briefing the press after the visit, Mr. Tia said he was quite impressed by the zeal and enthusiasm of the workers as they discharged their duties.
He said as chairman of the committee which gave communication and publicity advice to the Service for implementation, it was imperative for him and the committee to know haw the pieces of advice were being utilized.
He highly commended workers of the Service for their sense of dedication and hard work and pledged government’s readiness to support the work with logistics to enable them to achieve the set goals.
The Minister stressed the need for the media to give prominence to the enumeration exercise by putting out the right message so that people can be confident to give the right answers to enumerators.
Dr. Grace Bediako, Government Statistician, on behalf of the workers, thanked the Minister and members of the committee and said their visit had brought encouragement to the staff of GSS.
She pointed out that with the official announcement of the Census date, it has become critical for the media to help the service to intensify education and publicity, adding “the work is everybody’s business”.
She said the service was looking forward to good working relations with the media as the census takes off in the next few weeks.
The Government Statistician urged all institutions to begin to think of ways of marking September 26 in such a way that it would leave a lasting impression on their minds.
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