2023 Census: Osun Govt. vows to ensure accurate compilation of facts and figures

....... as it inaugurates Manisterial Committee 


Opeyemi Bello


Osun State Government today inaugurated inter-ministerial committee on year 2023 National Population and Housing Census, with a vow to ensure accurate compilation of facts and figures in the forthcoming head count exercise.

Secretary of the State Government, Honourable Teslim Igbalaye performed the inauguration  in the Exco Lounge, Governor's Office, Abere.

He stated that all the relevant agencies will be fully involved in the planning and execution of the population census in the State to ensure its success.

Honourable Igbalaye,who noted that Osun State was under-represented in the figures published for the 1991 National Population Census,said the committee was put together to ensure that facts and figures about Osun State are correctly compiled during the next National Population and Housing Census.

The State Scribe posited that information on the size, distribution and characteristics of a country’s population are essential for describing and assessing its economic, social and demographic circumstances as well as for developing sound policies and programmes aimed at fostering the welfare of a country and its population.

Hon. Igbalaye, therefore, directed members of the Committee to work out appropriate sensitization and mobilization strategies about the activities of the National Population and Housing Census Exercise, organize advocacy and sensitization programmes for Local Government functionaries, the media, NGOs, on population and related issues.

He also urged the committee to regularly liaise with the National Population Commission in the State with a view to fashioning out strategies for an effective and acceptable population census.

In his remarks, the Statistician General, Bureau of Statistics, Osun State, Mr. Abiodun Ijidele,who is also the Secretary of the Committee, appreciated Osun State Government for being proactive in ensuring that the outcome of the forthcoming census reflects the actual population of the state unlike 1991 Census.



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