Okowa Tells NPC: Don’t Politicise 2023 Census As Old Exercise Variant To Current Developmental Indices

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa Delta State charged the National Population Commission ( NPC) to shun any form of political distractions during the upcoming population census in 2023.

Speaking yesterday in Asaba during the commission’s stakeholders summit, themed; Getting People Involved’, in partnership with the Delta state government, Governor Okowa who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Chief Patrick Ukah, tasked the commission on a well-conducted census in 2023.

He maintained that it has become imperative for the nation to conduct another national census due to the longevity of the period of the previous census, stating that there is a need for a population census to produce a new set of demographic and social-economic data that will provide the basis for national planning and sustainable development.

According to Okowa, the “2023 census should be devoid of politics. It should reflect the true data of the entire populace as geo-fenced by the commission. This is the only way the country can get vital information to address the current economic quagmire.

We must all resolve that this duty should be satisfactorily carried out. We should therefore resolve to divorce politics from census and consider it as a purely statistical exercise that will provide veritable data and tools for planning and sustainable development.”