The 2018 national population census proposed by the Federal government will cost an estimated N272bn, according to the Director-General of the National Population Commission, Dr. Ghaji Bello.

Bello told a correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in New York that the Federal Government was expected to fund the exercise by only 51 per cent while the international donor community would fund the remaining 49 per cent.

“The submission we have made to the Federal Government is in the region of N272bn. But the good thing is that that the N272bn is not for one single year.

“It is spread along a four-year tenure. There’s pre-census activities, that is the preparation; the actual census proper itself and the post-census enumeration activities.

“So maybe you are looking at an average of maybe N40bn in the first year, another N100bn during the actual census itself and then the balance during the last year.

“But the beauty again is that not all the resources are normally provided by the government of the federation.

“The international community does come in and supporters like EU, USAID ; from the previous record that we have, the ratio is 51 to 49 per cent.

“The 51 per cent is provided by the Federal Government while the 49 per cent is provided by the international donor community.

“Therefore, it is something that once government makes a proclamation, then it means that the country is ready and the international community will come and support the government,” he said.

Bello also said there was the need for the government to leverage on the international community to help with the necessary assistance, adding that this would go a long way in defraying the cost.

“Normally, there is no country that does census on its own and more so, it is a very capital-intensive activity. Funding is important because we have to demarcate.

“There is an exercise that is called Enumeration Area Demarcation which is supposed to be the foundation or the building block of census.

“And that is supposed to be carried out in every hamlet, every village, every local government, every household and then the entire nation.

“That is normally a costly exercise, very expensive. And of course, up till now we have only been able to do 74 local governments out of 774.

“It means we have done only 10 per cent. So for us to be able to do the remaining 700 local governments, it means there is a lot of work to do.

“Essentially we are on track; we have the capacity in-house but again there are quite a number of things, unless you are funded, you won’t be able to move forward,’’ Bello said.

According to him, census will enable the government to have correct data about its citizens in order to aid proper planning.

“That planning means you are going to optimise in terms of your allocation of resources to those sectors that really need that intervention.

“Census has implication for trade, for manufacturing and for security because we will have the biometrics of every Nigerian.

“Then it means making life easy for security outfits like the police, EFCC, ICPC and the military because you can monitor even the scene of crime from the data that you have collected.

“So serious countries actually collect data and it is the data that they use in order to govern their society,” he said.
Source: http://www.informationng.com/2017/04/2018-census-will-cost-nigeria-n272bn-npc.html

In this economic situation? Pls disband the NPC

DickDastardly:
In this economic situation? Pls disband the NPC

Lol!

Census is a fraud and a waste of public fund.

272 billion jus to count person?

Another avenue for some people to acquire fat deposits in their bank accounts!




And at the end of the exercise, there will be padded census figures everywhere! The politicians will hijack everything to favour their regions!


We're yet to get anything right in this country, in every exercise we carry out I. Nigeria, there's always tones of corruption embedded!


God have mercy on this country!

Getting the international donor community to fund 49% is a good strategy. The major concern is to ensure concrete plans are in place to ensure judicious use of the money. Every naira should be well accounted for.

[/b]Nonsense waste of public fund[b],census that will be supervised by Buhari led northern cabals.
[/b]Kano state will have a population of 20m while Lagos will have 15m[b].Anambra will have a population of 3m while zamfara will have 8m.

like say they go even count us well

zinachidi:
272 billion jus to count person?

Love Machine:
Census is a fraud and a waste of public fund.

You can say that again!

I participated in the 2006 census exercise, believe me, I only work for just one day, my conscience could not allow me to continue. The level of corruption embedded in that exercise no be here! It's merely waste of time and resources! Let each politicians just come up with any number they want for their region respectively instead of this jamboree we call census exercise they're using to deceive us!


I'm out before DSS start looking for themselves!

Epositive:
like say they go even count us well ;Dlike say they go even count us well

aaswear guy,, last census,, i nor see any cencus person for my side... No house was marked at all... E mean say we nor follow for naija population bah?

Nigeria is showing us Ayetoro style in jenifer's voice.

Pls dont bother oga bello.

Cos we knw the region that will count cows,camels,donkeys rams etc as humans.

Instead use the money empower youths.

Who census epp sev

zinachidi:
aaswear guy,, last census,, i nor see any cencus person for my side... No house was marked at all... E mean say we nor follow for naija population bah?

na so we see am o, the census officers too lazy, na rough estimation sure pass

272 billion naira, just like that. Any way the amount too small, make them increase am to 272 trillion naira, so that we go know say na quality market we dey buy. abi wetin remain..

Spending that kind of money will not stop some people in counting their livestocks as human beings as usual

What is the essence of squandering this kind of fund in a recession .. One might ask

So Buhari has changed the headship of Director-General in NPC to his Fulani man. Ghaji Bello.

There is no longer any need wasting oil money to conducting a fake political census. Just write that the arid desert north which shares boundary with about 10 million people in Niger has 200 million people while the whole fertile savanah south has just 5 million people.

I'm sure the yoruba muslims will jump up for joy and hail you as usual.

greatgod2012:




You can say that again!

I participated in the 2006 census exercise, believe me, I only work for just one day, my conscience could not allow me to continue. The level of corruption embedded in that exercise no be here! It's merely waste of time and resources! Let each politicians just come up with any number they want for their region respectively instead of this jamboree we call census exercise they're using to deceive us!


I'm out before DSS start looking for themselves!

I worked as a Supervisor in the North. I made close to 300k as deal cos the place is arid and humans were sparsely there.



I did it for them because it was a Christian LGA and they were fighting aganst Muslim domination.



I was transferred from the East to the North for that exercise.



There will Never be Census again because Nigeria is polarised and nobody will feel safe going to another state to do supervision job

BudeYahooCom:
So Buhari has changed the headship of Director-General in NPC to his Fulani man. Ghaji Bello.

There is no longer any need wasting oil money to conducting a fake political census. Just write that the arid desert north which shares boundary with about 10 million people in Niger has 200 million people while the whole fertile savanah south has just 5 million people.

I'm sure the yoruba muslims will jump up for joy and hail you as usual.

No. The DG is the Technical person while the National Commissioner is the political appointment.

For 9ja

Save the money

Nigeria census is rigged just like our elections

We dont want useless census to enrich some fools

Census wey be say na leg and cow dem go dey count for some region...abeg make dem divert the money use am do another thing ooo...na by force make we know how many we be?

Ndi ori