By Correspondent in Lokoja.
(L-R) Mr. Ojo Abiodun Titus, State Director and the Federal Commissioner,NPC in Kogi State.
As all eyes are on the National Population Census,NPC, to conduct the 2023 population and housing census, its Federal Commissioneri n Kogi state, Prof. Jimoh Habibat Isah, has assured the people of the state that the Commission would conduct transparent exercise in the state.
He gave the commitment on Tuesday in Lokoja during a Press Conference as part of the preparations to ensure the success of the all important national assignment.
Prof.Isah further assured residents and citizens of the state that, there would be no increase in the number of a segment of the state or reducing the counted number of another part of the state during the exercise.
He promised that being a citizen of the state from the Ebira extraction would never prompt him to favour any part of the state or even the people from his own community.
The federal commissioner disclosed that special provisions had been made by the commission to ensure that far reaching places are captured during the headcount.
He further revealed that the commission had procured speed boats for places like Ibaji and Bassa Local Governnent Areas surrounded by water.
The federal commissioner added that sensitive issues like religion, language and ethnicity had been removed from the templates, because of crisis and clashes associated with the aforementioned in some parts of the country.
Prof.Isah said the commission had learnt lesson from the hackening INEC server and resolved to guard against any thing that would stop it from achieving an acceptable population and housing census for the state, by securing its server.
According to him, the effort is yielding dividends as NPC server has neverh been hacked despite several attempts by hackers to invade the facility.
The federal commissioner,who described server as one of the most important aspects of the census, stressed the need to protect it from being hacked.
He said:"In the time past, censuses have been conducted using paper and pen but this time, the census will be conducted using Android devices such that,once the information is gotten, it will go directly to the server.
"As against lies and rumours that have been peddled, National Population Commission Server has never been hacked, because we have never rested and we won't rest until the programme becomes successful.
"Apart from our actions against hackers and intruders, we have been able to conduct series of training for different stakeholders of the commission, including the Federal Commissioners.
" The recent training for Federal Commissioners was held in Port Harcourt while the state directors and other officials of the commission are undergoing continuous training".
According to the federal Commissioner, the need to take census serious becomes important because it is a tool for national development.
He added," No serious government is supposed to take census as a joke. Any serious minded government should take the population and housing census as an issue of key interest".
Prof.Isah revealed that the leadership of the commission would meet with the federal government at the Federal Executive Council meeting to brief the executive arm of the government about the level of preparedness.
Edited by Dada Ahmed.
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