Public Independent Conciliator North-West promotes free civil status registration in ongoing sensitization campaign
PIC Campaigns for Free Civil Status Registration
The Office of Public Independent Conciliator for North-West Region is on an intensive sensitization campaign to Promote Free Civil Status Registration
The Campaign which targets the populations who are service users of all 35 councils in the region will go up to 30 November 2023.
The Public Independent Conciliator, Mr. TAMFU Simon FAI, set the campaign rolling on Wednesday 20 September in Conciliator, the weekly radio program of the Office, broadcast on CRTV North West. He underscored the need for the councils to serve the people according to human rights prescriptions by the law.
On Thursday 21 September 2023, some stakeholders of the Office notably mayors joined PIC staff and the National Civil Status Centre (BUNEC) to preach the good news in a special edition of the PIC weekly half hour interactive radio programme My Council My Rights on Abakwa FM 99.9 extended to one fill hour in guise of the formal launch of the campaign that also featured a caravan that went through Bamenda I, Bamenda II and Bamenda III Councils, distributing flyers and other information on the Free Civil Status Registration Campaign.
Representing the Public Independent Conciliator, was the Research Officer Number 1 Ndi Nelson Ngayinkfu, accompanied by his colleagues, some mayors by phone and the North West Regional Head of the National Civil Status Centre held spellbound Abakwa FM 99.0 listeners. The startling revelation from BUNEC was that any stamp affixed on the original of any civil status document is illegal!
Grand Launching at Abakwa FM radio
Discussions from the panel explained to the public their right to civil status documents free of charge, except at the level of the courts where there could be fares levied for stamp duties.
The following day at Dream FM in Bamenda, a team from the Office of the Public Independent Conciliator campaigned with Bafut Mayor Ngwakongho Lawrence exposing some realities about civil status services in councils, which were contrary to the law.
