2023 Census: Mentally-Challenged, Homeless Nigerians Will Be Counted – NPC

The National Population Commission (NPC), has declared that the mentally-challenged, homeless people and every living being in Nigeria would be counted in the upcoming 2023 housing and population counting.

Prince Diran Iyantan, the NPC Federal Commissioner representing Ondo State, said this in Akure on Wednesday, at a one-day capacity building workshop for the 2023 population and housing census publicity committee.

Iyantan, who assured Nigerians that the 2023 census would have at least 98 per cent success, explained that the purpose of the workshop was not to undermine the professionalism of the publicity committee members.

“But it is to enhance their capacity to deliver on their mandates. He noted that the committee was one of the most important committees to drive the exercise, due to the psyche of the public.

Speaking on the digital innovations in the 2023 census, the State Director of NPC, Mr Oluyemi Falusi, said digitisation of the census was in line with UN recommendations.

Falusi said that the 2023 exercise would be the first digital census to be conducted by Nigeria, adding that it would facilitate faster processes, reduce error, track progress, ensure efficiency and ensure prompt publication of results, among others.

Similarly, the Head of  Census Department in the state, Dr Olufunbi Olowookere, said that the conducts of population census in the country had been irregular.

Olowookere added that the current population figures in the country had  been on estimation and postulations, hence the need to conduct the 2023 population and housing census.

She explained that census was needed for economic and socio-political planning and implementation of government policies.

Speaking on how to generate media contents for the exercise, the Head of Public Affairs Department in the state, Mrs Santos Odunayo, said journalists in the state had been trained to improve professional media contents.

“They have also been trained to inform, educate, enhance acceptability and refute negative perceptions and wrong criticisms of the exercise. She added that the commission relied on the media to gain public support and ensure total success of the process.”

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