2023 census: NPC can’t afford to fail Nigerians – Kwara Federal Commissioner, Gidado

The National Population Commission, NPC, cannot afford to fail Nigerians on the conduct of the 2023 national population and housing census fixed for April.

This assurance came from the Federal Commissioner for Kwara State, Malam Abdulrazaq Gidado, at the commencement of a five-day training programme for 65 Computer Assisted Personal Interviewing, CAPI officers, in Ilorin on Friday.

Declaring the training programme open, Gidado said the choice of the officers was not by accident but by owing to their capacity to deliver the desired result for the commission.

The officers, he explained, would impact the technological knowledge gained in the course of the programme on enumerators to be engaged for the conduct of the first digital census in the country.

The federal Commissioner urged the officers to take their training seriously and give the commission their best for the resounding success of the census exercise.

Gidado said the commission was not only ready to weed out anyone found wanting, but would not compromise standard or allow any act that could jeopardize the mission of the commission to conduct an acceptable, credible and fair census exercise for the country.

Four participants were chosen from each of the 16 local government areas of the State for the training programme by the commission