THE Registrar General Mr Tobaiwa Mudede has said his department will not relax the birth registration process as there is a danger of fuelling child trafficking and registering children that are not Zimbabweans.

Officials in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education told Mr Mudede at a registration workshop in Bulawayo on Friday that most children were failing to write examinations because they had no birth certificates.

The officials called for the relaxation of the birth registration process, saying it would go a long way in reducing school dropouts especially in the rural areas.

They said some pupils that needed birth certificates were failing to meet the stringent requirements.

Mr Mudede insisted that the process was already relaxed and therefore there was no need for any changes.