OVERCROWDING DUE TO LIMITED BANDWITH There has been overcrowding at the Civil and National Registration (CNR) office in Francistown due to limited bandwidth giving rise to poor performance of the births and deaths registration and the national identification systems. Answering a question in Parliament from MP for Francistown West, Mr Wynter Mmolotsi recently, the Minister of Labour and Home Affairs, Mr Edwin Batshu said overcrowding had been there until November 2013. He said bandwidth problem has since been resolved giving rise to a significant improvement from overcrowding to manageable queues. The minister said the current cause of queues at the office was due to the city being the main centre for accessing various services by customers from the catchment area. Mr Batshu said many people who visited the city for various services including registration services prefer to use Francistown registration office instead of utilising their respective offices such as Tonota, Sowa and Masunga among others. “The other cause is the high demand of registration services such as births, deaths, national registration, marriages and societies,” he said. Mr Batshu acknowledged the need for a second CNR office in Francistown, saying he was looking at the option of opening such if resources permit. He further said his ministry has been sensitising people coming from outside Francistown to use their respective areas to ease the congestion experienced in the Francistown office and that they would continue to embark on this publicity drive and appeal to MPs to do the same. MP Mmolotsi had asked the minister what was the cause of overcrowding at the National Registration office in Francistown and what would the minister do to ameliorate this situation. BOPA
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 04:15:00 +0000
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