Samuel Ortom, the governor of Benue State, appealed to the federal government on Thursday (today) to halt the conduct of the 2023 National Population Census.
As you may recall, the federal government planned for the drill to occur in May 2023.
However, Ortom stated that many residents of the state were living in IDP camps and would not be counted because they must first be in their local communities in order to take part in the exercise while serving as host to a delegation from the Middle Belt Forum led by its president, Dr. Bitrus Pogu, at Government House in Makurdi today.
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Before conducting any census, the federal government, according to the head of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), must provide appropriate security for the IDPs in Benue and everywhere in the nation to go back to their homes to be counted.
“I want to say that the Federal Government should suspend the issue of census because it looks like the proposed census is coming with an agenda. So, until they are able to restore security and all our IDPs go back to their ancestral lands to give all of them opportunities to be counted in the homes of birth. Because I understand from the National Population Commission that those to be counted must be counted in their localities,” Daily Trust quoted Ortom saying.
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