Yemi Kale, statistician general
of the federation, says the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has no data on
the job creation claims made by Chris Ngige, minister of labour and
productivity.
The data chief made this
statement in an interview with Abang Mercy.
Ngige had earlier said the
Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has created seven million jobs through its
programmes.
But Kale said during the interview:
“We don’t have the data anyway, that data of is 6 or 7 million, we don’t have
that. I can’t comment on what other data users or data producers say but I can
comment on what we produce here as the official source of data.
“We have not produced any data on
job creation, we produced data on people that were unemployed at the particular
time and that is what we are sticking to.
“We don’t do politics at the NBS,
the National Bureau of Statistics is the official source of data. Our law does
not allow us to be countered. The law says very clearly that NBS is the
official source of Nigerian data.
“Everybody else can have their
opinion, they can do their own computations if they want to but when it comes
to national data, the authoritative source, the custodian of all data is the
NBS.
“So we don’t comment on what
other people even ministers say as far as data is concerned. Our data is for
evidence based policy and decision making and that is what we do.”
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