The National Population Commission (NPC), has disclosed that
the Federal Government will recruit a total of one million Nigerians for the
conduct of the 2023 National Census.
The agency also assured that a reliable technological innovation
had been advanced by the NPC for the conduct of the exercise to prevent
politicians and interested elites from hijacking or manipulating the process.
The Commissioner representing Ekiti at the NPC, Mr. Deji
Ajayi, said this in Ado Ekiti, on Monday, at a press conference heralding the
trial census to be conducted in Ekiti preparatory to next year’s main census
exercise.
The former Ekiti State Head of Service added that nine towns
across nine local governments selected out of the 16 councils in the state had
been delineated into Enumerated Areas(EAs) to ease the trial census.
The retired Permanent Secretary said areas to be enumerated
in the trial census in Ekiti include: Ado, Emure, Iro, Ijero, Ikole, Iworoko,
Ise, Ikun, and Omuo Ekiti.
Ajayi said: “This is the first time we will be doing a
paperless census, everything will be digital to check corruption and bring
about accurate data that can help national development.
“Census is a massive operation that will engage one million
personnel and managing such a huge workforce manually will raise huge
logistical and documentation challenges.
“It is in recognition of this fact that the NPC resolved
that recruitment for the 2023 census will be done electronically. This trial
census will provide opportunity to test the feasibility of e-recruitment.”
Reeling out the significance of census to nation-building,
Ajayi said population statistics would be used by private organisations to plan
for the recruitment of young Nigerians by knowing the number of the active
population.
“The government will also use such statistics to plan for
our youth, students and the health needs of Nigerians. They will also know the
number of gerontocrats, who should be catered for,” he said.
Assuring that the exercise will be difficult to manipulate,
the NPC boss said: “Technology is open to manipulation, but NPC has gone a step
higher by having an updated technology innovation that can prevent multiple
registrations.
“The biometric technology will capture your face and
fingerprints and goes to the server and any similar information supplied will
be noticed and expunged from the data immediately.
“This time, no person, who is not seen will register as a
Nigerian. We have put everything in place to ensure that this exercise will
neither be hijacked nor politicised.
“The commission has intensified preparatory activities
deploying technological innovation on a massive scale to conduct a truly
scientific census that will not only be accurate and reliable but also
transparent to all Nigerians.”
“We have also brought in some eggheads from our universities
and retired experts from the civil service to train our workers for better
efficiency”, he stated.
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