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From Okey Sampson, Umuahia
The National Population Commission (NPC) would employ about 1.5 million adhoc staff for the 2023 population and housing census.
Federal Commissioner of the National Population Census (NPC) in Abia State, Johnny Nwabuisi disclosed this, yesterday, at a press conference in Umuahia.
He assured that the 2023 population census data would be accurate because it would be technologically driven.
Nwabuisi said e-registration portal of the commission would be opened in the state for prospective adhoc staff to submit their application, stressing that the essence of the online registration process was to ensure equity, fairness, promote competence and to eliminate any form of corruption in the adhoc staff recruitment.
He said the population census data capturing process would be electronically done. He said the commission adopted the process to check falsification, corruption or data manipulation as there won’t be any form of paper work during the exercise.
On the fears that the process would clash with the 2023 general elections, Nwabuisi said the 2023 census would be holding in April next year.
On a possible population census apathy as witnessed in 2006 in the state following the warning by the leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of a Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), the Commissioner while calling on Abians to ensure that they come out and be counted, said the census was in the interest of all including pro-biafra groups.
He said the census would serve as a platform to let the world know the actual population of the Igbo which he said would be th
