By Adekola Afolabi

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Ahead of the 2023 Population and Housing Census, the National Population Commission (NPC), Ondo State has begun online E-recruitment for seven different categories of field staff.

The NPC Federal Commissioner representing Ondo State, Prince Oladiran Iyantan, who made the announcement on Tuesday while addressing journalists at the NPC State office, Akure, informed all eligible residents of Ondo State to visit the E-recruitment Portal to apply for ad-hoc staff of the Commission.

Prince Iyantan said the portal can be accessed through http://2023censusadhocrecruitment.nationalpopulation.gov.ng

He explained that to carry out the task of conducting an accurate and reliable census there is the need for the recruitment of quality manpower that will carry out the exercise, adding that the Commission is on course and will continue to be fair as the 2023 Population and Housing Census approaches.

The Federal Commissioner listed the categories of field staff to be recruited to include Facilitators, training Centre Administrators, Monitoring & Evaluation Officers, Data Quality Managers, Data Quality Assistants, Supervisors and Enumerators.

Prince Iyantan said the need to be fair and transparent in the recruitment process has led the Commission to introduce the online E-recruitment Portal and train the officers that will superintend over the important census recruitment process.

He assure all the people of Ondo State that the bulk of personnel for the 2023 Census will be drawn from the communities where they are resident, saying that the development will remove the huge logistics of moving personnel across the LGAs.

“The number of functionaries to be recruited in each category will depend on the number of available vacancies in each Local Government, which will be derived largely from the total number of Enumeration Areas (EA) in the LGAs. Detailed information on this will be made known later.

“To ensure a fair, efficient and transparent recruitment selection process, the Honourable Federal Commissioner will, in addition to the existing State Recruitment Review Team (SRRT) at the State level, constitute a Local Government Area Recruitment Team (LRRT) which will comprise of 3 persons, the NPC LGA Comptroller (Chairperson), One NPC Staff who has NPC file number (as Desk Officer/Secretariat), One Local Government Official/Nominee”, Iyantan added.

Prince Iyantan emphasised that the qualities of the staff that will perform the census activities are very important to the Commission, noting that having good knowledge of the content of the census document , the technique and the organisation of the census process is key to the success of the population and Housing Census.

He revealed that the Commission will immediately embark on aggressive sensitisation of the public and also hold meetings with traditional rulers community leaders and other relevant stakeholders to further ensure a successful and hitch free conduct of the Population and Housing Census.

The Federal Commissioner particularly applauded the state Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, for his unprecedented support for the preparatory activities of the Commission towards the successful conduct of the 2023 Population and Housing Census.