Ensure credible census, Ondo monarch tells NPC

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Ensure credible census, Ondo monarch tells NPC

As the nation prepares for population and housing census, the Deji of Akure Kingdom, Oba Aladetoyinbo Aladelusi, has charged the National Population Commission to conduct a credible and internationally acceptable exercise.

The monarch recalled that the previous exercise had suffered credibility test, thereby making the data inaccurate and unreliable for national planning.

Oba Aladelusi, who is also the Chairman of the Ondo State Council of Obas, made the call while receiving the Local Government Coordinators of the NPC in Ondo State, who had come to brief him of their preparedness ahead of the exercise scheduled for May, 2023.

This was contained in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the monarch, Mr Adeyeye Michael, on Saturday.

The monarch said, “We now have a very good opportunity to right the wrong of the past and ensure that all the data that will be collected will be realistic, reliable and fit for national planning and development. We can no longer go back to the dark days of falsifying figures and depriving ourselves the true reflection of things.”

Responding, the Akure South Coordinator of the NPC, Mr Onoda Jubril, thanked the monarch for supporting the commission and for setting up a committee to collaborate with the commission in the discharge of its duties.