Dr. Bawumia interacted with owners of businesses and Ghanaians who were at the Department to register their businesses.

He met a lot of people at the registry who also expressed their frustrations with the “bureaucratic processes” in registering their establishments.

According to Dr. Bawumia, the vision of the NPP administration is to make Ghana a “business friendly country” and that dream must begin with the Registrar-General’s Department.

Rwanda is currently ranked the most business-friendly country in Africa.

Speaking later with the acting Registrar General Mrs. Jemima Oware, who was visibly surprised about the visit, Dr. Bawumia noted that, the Akufo-Addo-led administration is hoping to use the East African country’s feat as a “benchmark.”

He thus urged authorities of the department to learn lessons from Rwanda, and implement same.

“It was a fulfilled visit and there will be follow-up discussions,” Dr. Bawumia told the media after being briefed about the business registration process.

He served notice there will be more of such surprise visits to other state institutions to make sure “things work in Ghana.”

Dr. Bawumia appealed to officials at the Department to speed up the processes and to do their best to position Ghana as a business-friendly environment.

Mrs. Oware complained about the three-month-old state attorneys strike which she said is taking a toll on the process because state lawyers are needed to review people’s applications.
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The e-Registration portal is aimed at demystifying registration process of businesses and provides user friendly services geared towards widening the scope of RGD’s operations.

Speaking at a one day sensitization workshop in Bolgatanga, chief of state Attorney, Nana Ama Akyiaa Prempeh said, the e-registration portal for companies and individuals to easily register their businesses, marriages, estates and also make payments online.

She added that, the e-registration portal was launched in 2015 to enable them improve accessibility of RGD services to its stakeholders and the public irrespective of their locations to reduce the delays in the registration processes which hitherto was done manually.

“The challenges that RGD had was, because it was manual it was faced with delays. To search for a name it will probably take 2 to 3 months because you must check through all the books to find out whether the name was there or not. But now it’s been put on the data base and with the click of a buttom, you can search of a name which was our major challenge.”

Nana Prempeh said, the e-portal will bring relief to persons who would have travelled to Tamale or Accra to register their businesses to now do their business registration anywhere in the country with internet connectivity.

He further reiterated that, the e-registration portal is aimed at saving time and cost of registrants.

Participants were taken through the procedure for registering their entities using the e-portal.

One requires a Taxpayer registration number (TIN) from the Ghana Revenue Authority to log onto the e-registration portal for registration process.

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Today [Tuesday]’s meeting is the first of three to be conducted across the country by the close of the week.

About 70,000 customers have so far been validated by the Registrar General’s Department (Official Liquidator) and are expected to receive their locked up cash from next month.

The Acting Registrar General, Jemima Oware explained to Citi Business News the meetings will outline to the creditors the modalities for the repayment of their investments.

“We will be informing them on schedules in relation to when and how much and how many people will be paid so we urge all the creditors to be present,” she said.

Earlier, some of the concerned customers raised their dissatisfaction at what they said was the lack of official correspondence from the Official Liquidator.

But Jemima Oware responded as, “We have published the information in the national news papers… there are about 63,000 to 70,000 creditors; as such we cannot be able to call them up individually. So once we are aware that the media has been able to get wind of the information, we consider it circulated. And we equally expect them to inform other creditors.”

DKM’s operations were suspended by the Bank of Ghana in 2015 after the central bank cited the company for failing to comply with laid down rules on operations in the financial industry.

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The Registrar General’s Department, which is the official liquidator previously had challenges accessing assets and documents of DKM which intricated moves to round up their search for information.

Over 63,000 DKM customers will receive their funds from the Registrar General Department.

Acting Registrar General at the Registrar General’s Department Jemima Oware tells Citi Business News the liquidation process is set to commence soon.

“We have been able to get some hard drive so we are now finalizing the list of who are the real creditors. So we look at the asset, we liquidate the asset then we pay.”

She further states that customers will be directed to the exact bank to receive their monies in October when it is ready.

“After that we will indicate to them sometime in October which banks they will be asked to go collect their monies”.

Registrar General to meet customers of DKM

The Registrar General earlier called for a first creditors meeting with customers to process payment of customers locked up funds.

In a statement copied to Citi Business News the department urged all affected customers to be at the said meeting.

According to the statement, the move is in accordance with section 23 and 42 of the bodies corporate (official liquidator), Act 1963 (Act 180).

The statement further clarified that the Brong Ahafo meeting will be held on September 20, 2016, 10am at the Sunyani Coronation Park.

The Upper East region creditors meeting is expected to take place on September 22, 2016 at the Bolgatanga Jubilee Park, while the last creditors meeting will be held in the Upper West region at the Wa Jubilee Park on September 24 2016.

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