National Census Not Political Exercise, NPC Tells Nigerians The National Population Commission (NPC) has assured Nigerians that the forthcoming nationwide census is economically driven as opposed to a political
The National Population Commission has assured Nigerians that the forthcoming nationwide census is economically driven as opposed to a political exercise.
Salu-Hundeyi was responding to a comment by the spokesman to the Borno State Governor, Isa Gusau, who also appeared on the programme.“If you go back to the issue of Lagos, when there was a dispute in terms of perception between which of the states had the higher population, there was really a dispute between Kano and Lagos,” he said.
But the NPC commissioner strongly disagreed with the notion of a census as a political exercise, arguing that it is an economic activity embarked on to aid the development of any country. According to Salu-Hundeyi, in the case of Lagos State, the state government went to court because it believed it had a higher population.
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