The Lagos State Government has expressed its plan to solicit the support of state-level stakeholders for the conduct of the 2023 population census.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Special Duties and Intergovernmental Relations, Mr Mobolaji Ogunlende, disclosed this on Thursday during a press briefing organised in preparation for the Lagos State census summit, held in Alausa, Ikeja.
Ogunlende said, “A national stakeholders summit on the 2023 National Population and Housing Census was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, August 11, 2022, thereafter it became imperative for all the states in the federation to hold a state stakeholders’ summit between September and December 2022.
“Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved that the state summit holds next week Tuesday, and the goal of the summit is to create public awareness on the conduct of the 2023 census, including its imperatives and methodology and also to solicit the cooperation and support of the state-level stakeholders for the conduct of the census.”
The Federal Commissioner of the National Population Commission, Lagos State, Bimbola Salu-Hundeyin, said, “The 2023 census will be Nigeria’s first digital census exercise and 80,000 ad-hoc staff members have been recruited by Lagos State; they are residents who understand the terrain and will guide householders on the exercise.
“We are also working with the state government because at the NPC, we believe this is a crucial time for Nigeria, especially Lagos State, and we ask that residents in the nook and cranny of the state must cooperate during the exercise.”
