OPINION BY ABIODUN KOMOLAFE: Is the 2023 census necessary? | TheCable
Nigeria is preparing for another round of population census rendezvous. Thanks be to God! But if at least, we must learn from past experiences, then the primary question is: is the 2023 census necessary? If one may also ask, when was the last time Nigeria held a census and how effective have previous exercises been? Or must we fulfil the ritual of population headcount in Nigeria just for its sake?
Since there are no other means of validating the figures, they are just left there. Not only that, since nobody uses the figures, it’s always an exercise in futility. Still, a huge sum of public funds is spent on the exercise with little or no benefits. Nonetheless, each time a national census is about to commence, those who are involved in it know vividly why they are into it; and they are always very enthusiastic about it.
In the United Kingdom, for example, when a young man or woman turns 18, he or she is fit to approach the city council for his or her apartment. Of course, this followed a survey in which it was discovered that children even up to 21 years of age were still living with their parents. As fate would have it, the UK also has programmes which encourage a child of 18 years and above to start taking responsibility. Well, that’s the UK where God works wonders.
Sad that the conscious understanding of the essence of the known figure of the population of a particular country has eluded Nigeria.
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