Finance Minister Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu has added his voice to requests by the Ghana Statistical Service for non-governmental organizations to feed the Service with requisite information.

While many consumers have questioned the veracity of statistics put out by the Service and sometimes labelled same as unreliable, the Service says it does not deliberately churn out unreliable data for public consumption.

A number of projects and investments by the NGOs are not properly captured in national data because the organizations are alleged to withhold such information or do not keep such records at all.

The situation is said to pose a serious threat and could delay the introduction of the re-based consumer price index used in calculating inflation.

Mr Baah-Wiredu, who conceded that a number of important information is not captured in the national data, urged the NGOs to be equally accountable to the state as they demand from the government.

“If all NGOs want Government to be accountable, we expect all of them too to be accountable so I think they all appreciate that it is in the interest of all of us to have the true data and if an NGO has been in a certain location for about 30 years or 20 years and lot of investments have been made by them, we need to recognize that investment and congratulate them.

“At the same time we should count them as part of the national account so the best thing is to 1. List all the NGO’s in their respective areas; 2. Get the directors and managers of the NGOs and talk to them so that they do understand and appreciate what the Government is doing and that it is in the mutual interest of all of us to have the right data and right information to move the nation forward.”