After meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, NPC Chairman Nasir Kwarra told State House media.
“By March 29 to April 2, our employees will be in the field enumerating people,” the NPC leader said.
Kwarra stated that high-tech will make the exercise different from past ones, which were controversial.
The NPC chief emphasised that the census would be trustworthy, ensuring no manipulation.
For this reason, the commission will employ satellite pictures, GPS, and coded every building in the country.
The NPC chief added that local recruitment of ad hoc employees and demarcation of enumerated areas had been completed in all 774 local governments ahead of the April 2 exercise.
He added: “This census will be different from earlier censuses. The principle and technique are the same, but we're utilizing high-tech census equipment that can't be tampered with. Nobody will count twice.
“We're visiting households to do direct interface with the household, collect data, and in the past, if you're doing an operational manually, it's very cumbersome, but this is being aided by technology and I believe it's going to be transparent, very fast, and verifiable because we can provide data up to the local government, up towards level. It's always verifiable.”
(Source: eyewitnessngr.com)
