Naomi Gabriel —
The Federal Commissioner, National Population Commission (NPC), Akwa Ibom state, Benedict Ukpong yesterday in Uyo, the state capital, solicited for the collaboration of the media and other relevant stakeholders in Akwa Ibom for effective publicity of the forthcoming population and housing census in the state.
Mr. Ukpong revealed this at a capacity building workshop for media practitioners, ahead of the 2023 population and housing census.
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In an exercise themed “Effective Reporting of the 2023 Population and Housing Census”, he described it as the first ever digital and green census.
The census will be conducted between March 29 and April 2,
While expressing that with optimal engagement of the media and other stakeholders, credible, reliable and acceptable census was assured, the federal commissioner said that the commission had earlier carried out series of activities, preparatory to the 2023 population and housing census, such as enumeration area demarcation (EAD).
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He added that first and second pre-tests as well as the trial census, where all the instruments and methodology for the exercise were subjected to credibility, integrity and reliability tests, came out successful.
“There is the need for effective collaboration and partnership with the state government and other relevant stakeholders, particularly the media practitioners in Akwa Ibom for effective publicity and propagation of census messages.
“I am optimistic that the workshop will open serious intellectual, social and informative discourse that will in turn widen our horizon.
”It will also build strong media strategies to attract the stakeholders of our dear state to be fully involved in the process, so that we can achieve the set goals and target at the end,” Ukpong said.
