Due to insecurity, some people of Borno State might not be included in the upcoming national population and housing census.
According to Kachalla Yerima, director of the National Population Commission’s Borno State office, there may need to be an approximation made to the population of areas that were inaccessible during the exercise due to insecurity.
In order to be counted, Borno State refugees in the neighbouring nations may need to be shipped home during the exercise period. They won’t be located and counted in their refugee nations.
He revealed this to media in the state at a one-day course on developing their skills in preparation for the population and housing census in 2023.
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Responding to a question on the fate of Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists and their captives in Sambisa Forest and other enclaves across the state, Yerima said, “if an area is a high-risk area during the exercise, we cannot risk the life of any of our functionaries to venture there for the enumeration.”
On inaccessible areas across the state, especially Abadam Local Government Area and parts of Gwoza LGA, he said unless the security situation of the areas improves to the point of guaranteeing safety for the enumerators, the population of such areas will only be approximated using the hybrid enumeration areas.
“In spite of insecurity in those areas, we still have the satellite images of the demarcated enumeration areas of those areas, which we will use to approximate the population of the occupants of each household captured in the satellite images,” the director said.
“For Borno State refugees in the neighbouring countries, it is unfortunate we can only count them if we see them practically in their respective home communities in Nigeria during the exercise,” Yerima said.
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“We have talked to their local government chairmen to consider transporting them back home to be counted; otherwise, they will not be counted outside the Nigerian borders,” he explained.
Earlier, in his keynote address, the Federal Commissioner for Borno State for the Commission, Barr. Isa Audu Buratai, expressed confidence that with the digitalization of the process, the exercise could be conducted in five days.
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