The government will assign registration plates to all houses in Ghana

General News of Saturday, July 13, 2019

Source: 3news.com

2019-07-13

The Government is preparing to deploy 12,750 Nation Builders (NaBCo) personnel across the country to generate a digital address for each home and property, and emboss a registration plate. .

The house number, the numerical address of each household, as well as the name of the street on which the property is located, will be embossed on each plaque to be affixed free of charge to each building in Ghana.

Ghana Post currently charges 50 Cedis for labeling residential buildings and 100 Cedis for commercial buildings with GhanaPost Digital Address plates.

About four million households across the country should be identified in the new fiscal year that will begin August 8th and that the government has designated as the day of the numerical address, also known as the "8: 8 day".

As part of the government's national addressing system, this exercise is expected to be completed within six weeks.

Before the start date, the vice president, Mr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, met on Saturday with the various actors of the project.

Including the heads of the various MMDAs, Ministry of Local Government, Ministry of Special Development Initiatives and NABCo, Ghana Post, Land Commission, Ghana Statistical Service, Ghana Post and Spatial Planning, among others.

"At the end of the project, we will have four million households labeled with a street number, a street name, a digital address," said NABCo Director General Dr. Ibrahim Anyars at 3news. meeting.

What is the benefit of the project?

Mr Anyars welcomed the project, stating that it will ensure that emergency services will be delivered to people 's doors on time.

"This is very good for our country, because it is able to provide emergency services tailored to the needs, to be able to be properly identified if you need financial badistance and all the other benefits that come with it. in terms of our own security.

"If you look at your home, if an emergency was needed for security reasons, you could easily be identified by the police or the emergency services. This can only be a good thing for the owners and we are counting on it. on everyone to support that, "he said.

Who pays for the license plate?

Although he stated that the project would entail costs for the government, he was not able to indicate the amount of his involvement, but indicated that the use of NABCo staff would not add to the burden of the government because it is already paid under the program.

When asked if the generation of digital address and embossing license plates would result in costs for homeowners, he replied in the negative.

"This is going to have a cost, but this is going to be delivered free to the households, and I point out that every home that will be tagged with the plaque with the house number, the street name and the numerical address is going to be made free of charge for the household.

"No owner should pay," he said.

Mr. Anyars also stated that no staff member should be paid for the generation of the digital address or for any protocol service in order to have expedited service because "every household will receive the plaque that will be paid by the government. ".

On the issue of households without a house number, NABCo's general manager stated that the Spatial Planning Authority "has systems that can now automatically generate identical house numbers"

He added that the staff would rely on the existing database of different MMDAs.

Enough preparation

He stated that the relevant authorities and stakeholders in the different districts and regions were all met and informed about the project.

He said the NABCo staff to be deployed will be supervised in collaboration with the physical planning department of the MMDA.

Dr. Anyars said they would work so that by the end of the year, every home carries the tag "the identifier in the same way that we want the citizens of the country to have a system of national identity; the properties should also have ".

Staff distribution

Each district will have 50 people, which will translate daily into 25 teams and 6,350 teams across the country.

"We could have done it in two weeks, but to avoid mistakes and because it's human-centered, we're slowing it down to six weeks," Dr. Anyars said.