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From Magnus Eze, Enugu
National Population Commission, (NPC) has restated its commitment to conduct a world class census through the use of digital technology.
The Federal Commissioner, representing Enugu State in the commission, Ejike Ezeh, gave the assurance, yesterday, while inaugurating a 21-member state census publicity committee and assured it would generate evidence-based demographic data for development and planning purposes.
“The overarching vision of the 2023 census is to produce not only accurate, reliable and acceptable census data but also an inclusive and user-friendly data that will be used by all segments of the society for development planning and critical programme intervention.
“Therefore, as part of this commitment, the commission will leave no stone unturned in ensuring the results of the census are acceptable to Nigerians and the quality of data to be generated meets international best standards.
“Given this scenario, information, they say, ‘rules the world’ as such targeted advocacy and sustained publicity is no doubt imperative to the successful conduct of the census exercise.
“Therefore, the mobilisation of critical stakeholders to support and take ownership of the process to achieve the desired outcome is imperative and it hinges absolutely on our ability to speak to the people in the language that will galvanise and mobilise them to participate in the census.”
Special Adviser to Enugu State Governor on Information, Steve Oruruo, who chaired the event, expressed confidence in the ability of the commission to deliver credible and acceptable census.
He assured the committee would put in its best to ensure the census data when collected would be used to correct all anomalies in the country.
