2023 Census: Those residing in Sambisa Forest will also be counted  – NPC

The Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Nasir Kwarra, has said insecurity will not deter it from conducting the 2023 census as those residing in Sambisa Forest will also be counted during the exercise.

He said houses in the forest had already been enumerated during the Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD), thus that nothing would stop it from conducting the census in other parts of the country.

Kwarra said this during a presentation at the 24th edition of President Buhari Administration Scorecard yesterday in Abuja.

He said the enumeration had made the commission have digital data of all houses in the country, stating that the method would prevent the wrong capture of data during the exercise.

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When asked on how much had been spent on the exercise so far, he said over N100bn had been put into the preparatory stage of the exercise.

He said, “We started the enumeration area demarcation about five years ago; the money that was given was small, but when Mr President came on board and made up his mind that the census should hold, he gave us an initial sum of N10bn for us to do the EAD.