The National Population Commission, NPC, has said that the 2023 population census will be conducted electronically.
According to the Commission, the electronic approach against the previous manual method would make it impossible for anyone to manipulate.
The Federal Commissioner in charge of Kogi State, Isah Habibat Jimoh, disclosed this at a news conference in Lokoja, the state capital.
Jimoh noted that the era of manipulation is gone, where politicians and other interested groups manipulate the exercise thereby giving wrong results.
He pointed out that the 2023 census will be different as the commission is going to conduct a digital census adding that once one is captured it goes directly to the central server at the headquarters where it would be difficult if not impossible for the figures to be changed or tampered with.
He said the Commission is determined to successfully conduct the trial Census in their quest to deliver a credible, reliable, acceptable and verifiable census to the nation.
He stressed that all loopholes in the previous census have been blocked by the Commission and as such the coming population and housing census will be different.
He said staff have been motivated very well by the Commission in order to avoid people, communities and even politicians, from corrupting them. (PUNCH)
