‘We need enabling acts to bring sanity to records management’
Founder and Chief Executive of Havilah Merchants Nigeria Limited Mr. Olanrewaju Adesuyi owns the foremost Information & Records Management and Archive/Library Development Company in Nigeria. He established the Havilah Group in 2001 after serving meritoriously for 22 years at the Oxford University Press , which he left as the National Field Sales Controller.
Perhaps, the biggest problem is the absence of legislation to compel people to keep records. That is why you will be shocked to see the rather shoddy, careless and embarrassing manner in which records are kept; from the least government department to the highest office in the bureaucracy. That is why it is so easy for civil servants to wilfully alter their records of service.It is because people are just not aware of the importance of keeping their records.
With proper legislation, the office of the National Archivist would be able to function with the same level of recognition and empowerment as the office of the Accountant- General of the Federation or the Auditor- General of the Federation, with clear powers to ensure compliance with extant rules on the keeping and safety of public records.
One way to achieve this goal is for individuals and groups or associations to lobby the National Assembly to pass enabling Acts to bring sanity to records management in public sector organisations. An example of such associations is the Records and Archives Practitioners of Nigeria to which I belong. It is new and so not quite strong. Again, it has not been very effective because practitioners have not been forthcoming in their participation in the activities of the association.
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