The National Population Commission (NPC) has said that the 2023 population and Housing census exercise would be centered on digital capturing to avoid manipulating figures.
The NPC Federal Commissioner in charge of Kogi State, Professor Isah Habibat Jimoh, disclosed this over the weekend in Lokoja, the state capital.
Professor Jimoh said the era where politicians and other interest groups would manipulate the exercise and record wrong results is over.
According to Professor Jimoh, once the machine captures an individual, it goes directly to their centre cyber at the headquarters, and there is no way anybody can change the information as recorded.
He assured that NPC is determined to successfully conduct the trial Census to “deliver a credible, reliable, acceptable and verifiable census to the nation“.
Professor Jimoh further stated that the Commission had introduced new technologies such as Census PAD and CSP to ensure that the upcoming trial census exercise serves as a good rehearsal that will make the 2023 population and Housing Census credible, reliable and acceptable.
He said, “To ensure that the trial Census does not lose focus in view of predetermined objectives and processes, Monitoring and Evaluation instruments have been developed to assess the extent to which objectives are being met or not, and whether the processes are being adhered to or not.”
The NPC Boss noted that the Commission had tackled all loopholes in the previous census exercise; hence, the forthcoming population and Housing census exercise will be different.
He disclosed that the staff of the Commission had been adequately motivated to minimise being corrupted by host people, community and politicians.
