The Minister of Education, Alex Tettey-Enyo on Tuesday urged teachers and other education workers to take the ongoing Public Sector Educational Workers Census (PSEWC) seriously.
He said the exercise in terms of logistics and manpower was very expensive and should not be toyed with.
Mr Tettey-Enyo made the remark when he paid a working visit to some of the Census registration centres to learn at first hand how things are going and challenges they were facing.
The census, which started on Monday, is being organised by the Ministry of Education (MoE) in collaboration with the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and the Ghana Audit Service (GAS).
The programme that would last for the next three weeks is expected to audit and give a head count of all educational workers under the MoE.
The first point of call of Mr Tettey-Enyo, who was accompanied by Professor Nicholas Nsowah, Deputy Government Statistician and Mr Henry Nii Odai, Head of Operations, PSEWC, was Manle Dada Cluster of Schools near La in the Kpeshie Sub-Metro.
He said the exercise would be extended to cover all the Senior High and tertiary institutions in the country after the completion of the registration of educational personnel in the primary and Junior High Schools.
Ms Elizabeth Konney, a registration assistant from the Audit Service, explaining the process to the Minister said they had so far registered 22 out of the 24 teachers at the Manle Dada while the other two teachers were said to be on sandwich courses.
She said because the exercise was to capture personal information of all education workers they have to come along with their pay-slips, National Health Insurance Registration cards and list of staff from the headteachers.
However, the workstation, which was supposed to print the pictures taken to fill forms, was not working because of faulty cable.
The Minister and his team also visited the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) Metro Education Office at Kinbu where another registration was taking place.
Mr Moses Ansah, GSS personnel in charge of the Kinbu area, said out of the 300 education workers in the AMA Metro area only 10 have been registration so far.
He said the names of some people who refused to comply with a similar exercise during the health registration census last year were deleted from the list and had now come to beg to be considered.