Provision Not Made For Population Census In 2024 Budget- Senator Abdul Ningi ..No Cause For Alarm- Senator Adeola
It was revealed on Tuesday that no provision has been made for the scheduled 2024 population and housing census in the budget proposal for the National Population Commission, NPC.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the Chairman, Senate Committee on National Population Commission, Senator Abdul Ningi , informed his colleagues of this development while presenting a report on the NPC 2024 budget to the collating Committee.
He told the committee that if the money for the population census is not provided in the budget, the country would lose about N200 billion which the National Population Commission has spent.
He, however, disclosed to the committee that NPC would appear on Wednesday with its documentation on how much they need to conduct the 2024 population census. Ningi said,
‘They will appear tomorrow (Wednesday) with proper documentation of how much they need. If we don’t get the money, the nation will lose, the people will lose, the money spent on the preparation for the census will go down the drain and it is a humongous amount of money, over N200 billion already spent that is my take’ he said.
Reacting to this development, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Olamilekan Adeola , assured Ningi that the committee would look for funds to cater for the 2024 population census in the budget.
He added that the head of the agency should appear in the company of the committee chairman to tell them what is needed for the conduct of the census which was scheduled to hold in the first quarter of next year.
‘Let me assure you that the country will not lose and we are going to work very closely with them that a 25 per cent component is included, we must find a way to accommodate it in this 2024 budget.
We would like the agency to appear along with the chairman of the committee, with a synopsis of the idea of what is going on about the issue of the census and whatever the issues are, I can assure you that we will resolve it and the population census will come up by the first quarter of 2024’ he said-Team@orientactualmags.com
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