In an effort to have a generally acceptable digital population and housing census come 2023, the National Population Commission, Osun State chapter, on Thursday, took awareness campaign of the census to the streets of Osogbo, the state capital.
The campaign was to create awareness of the next year’s census by the Osun NPC official including the Federal Commissioner Senator Mudashiru Hussein marched several kilometers.
The campaign started at 7:am from the Osun NPC office through Lameco, Osun governor House, Oke-Fia, station road, Oja-Oba, Sabo, Ayetoro, Olonkoro, Old garage, and later terminated at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park.
Speaking, the Federal Commissioner , Senator Mudashiru Hussein disclosed that the next year population and housing census will be far better, accurate, and more reliable than the previous one.
Hussein said that Nigeria would be the first nation in all Africa to do census with digital instrument that would make it as the best of it kind.
He stressed that the census would allow the federal government to plan for the well-being of citizens of Nigeria.
He charged the people of the state to work together with the commission if truly they want meaningful development in Nigeria.
According to him, “The campaign is a kind of awareness, What we call sensitization. We have been doing this since almost two years ago, we did what we call Area Demarcation, survey, map up, and now is town to do the main census that scheduled for April tentatively.
“We are instructed by the Federal ministry that we should sensitize the public for them to know that kind of census is coming.
“President Muhammadu Buhari decided on his own time to do the census so that the incoming government we have something to do, we have something in plan. We have financial planning which lacks data, but now by God’s grace when we finish everything, we will know the incompleted houses, the completed houses, the public schools, the public hospitals, the private ones, and the household of each local government and state.” he added
However, the Osun state Director Mr. Owoeye Martins said that awareness programme is to express the readiness of the commission to the people in the state.
He stressed that the next year’s census is paperless and purely digital.
Martins added that the commission will engage the National Orientation Agency that will go to back to the grassroots to inform the people about the population census.
