There’s No Provision For Scheduled 2024 Population Census In Budget – Senator Ningi

The Chairman, Senate Committee on National Population Commission, Senator Abdul Ningi (PDP Bauchi Central) has come out to say that there is no provision for the scheduled 2024 population and housing census in the budget proposal for the National Population Commission.

He recently informed the lawmakers about the development while presenting a report on the NPC 2024 budget to the collating Committee.

According to him, and if the money for the census is not provided in the budget, the country would lose about N200bn which the National Population Commission has spent.

He added that NPC would appear on Wednesday with its documentation on how much they need to conduct the 2024 population census.

His words, “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.”

Senator Olamilekan Adeola added, “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.”

WOW.