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2022 census: NPC recruits 110 in Ekiti

By Victor Akinkuolie, Ado-Ekiti

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The Federal Commissioner representing Ekiti at the National Population Commission (NPC), Mr Deji Ajayi, has disclosed  that a total of 110 indegenes of Ekiti State were recruited by the agency to participate in the forthcoming trial census scheduled to begin June 27, to July 30, 2022.

The Commissioner futher disclosed that over one million Nigerians will also be recruited by the Federal Government for the conduct of the 2023 National Population Census.

Ajayi made the remarks in Ado-Ekiti on Tuesday at a press conference heralding the commencement of the training of officials  participating in the trial census to be conducted in some local governments in the State.

The federal 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 elite from hijacking or manipulating the process.

Ajayi, a  former Ekiti State Head of Service added that  nine towns across nine local governments selected out of the 16 councils state, had been delineated into Enumerated Areas(EAs) to ease the trial census.

He said areas to be enumerated  in the trial census in Ekiti include: Ado, Emure, Iro, Ijero, Ikole, Iworoko, Ise, Ikun and Omuo Ekiti.

According to him, “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.

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“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 the 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  and knowing the number of active population.

Assuring that 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 registration.

“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 or politicised.

“The commission has intensified preparatory activities deploying technological innovation on a massive scale to conduct 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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