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No Provision For Census Next Year – Senate

by Sunday Isuwa
2 years ago
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The Senate has disclosed that there is no provision in the 2024 budget for census.

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The chairman, Senate Committee on National Population Commission, Senator Abdul Ningi, told members of the National Assembly Joint Committee on Appropriations yesterday that there was no provision for the population and housing census scheduled for next year in the NPC’s budget proposal submitted to the federal parliament for consideration.

Ningi stated this when he appeared before the joint National Assembly Committee on Appropriation to submit his panel’s report.

He informed the committee that if the money for the census was not provided for in the budget, the country would lose about N200 billion which had been spent by the National Population Commission.

He said that the NPC would appear tomorrow with their documentation to state how much they would need for the conduct of the 2024 population census.

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Ningi said, “They will appear tomorrow 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 for the preparation for the census will go down the drain and the amount of money, over N200 billion, already spent.”

Reacting to the development, the chairman of the Joint National Assembly Committee on Appropriation, Senator Solomon Adeola, assured the panel on NPC that the federal parliament would look for funds to cater for the 2024 population census in the budget.

He said, “The head of the NPC should appear in company with the committee chairman to tell them what was needed for the conduct of the census which was scheduled to be held in the first quarter of next year.

He said, “Let me assure you that the country will not lose and we are going to work very closely with them. That 25 percent component is included, we must find a way to accommodate it in this 2024 budget.

“We will like the agency to appear along with the chairman of the committee and a synopsis of the idea of what is really going on about the issue of census and whatever the issues are; I can assure that we will resolve it and the population census will come up by the first quarter of 2024.”

Meanwhile, the Joint Committee on Appropriation has supported the inclusion of the controversial N1bn in the 2024 budget of the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment.

The panel gave the support after receiving the report of the Joint National Assembly Committee on Industry, Trade and Investment on the Ministry’s 2025 budget.

The chairman of the Appropriation Committee of the federal parliament, Senator Solomon Adeola, however said the federal lawmakers would carry out aggressive oversight to ensure that the fund was appropriately utilised.

A member of the National Assembly standing committee overseeing the affairs of the ministry, Senator Adams Oshiomhole, during the budget defence session, said the ministry planned to spend the money on foreign trips next year.

The minister, Doris Uzoka-Anite, had issued a statement to explain that the N1bn was for the maintenance of the ministry’s desk office at the World Trade Centre in Geneva, Switzerland.

However, the chairman of the joint panel on Industry, Trade and Investment, Senator Sadiq Umar, told the Appropriation panel on Tuesday that the money was actually meant to attract foreign investors across the world to Nigeria.

Umar said, “The N1 billion is not for foreign trips. It was meant to attract investors to Nigeria from all over the World.

“We are beginning to think that we need to review our trade interest structuring in the country. The government today thinks that we need to strengthen the trade office here.

“However, Mr Chairman, we think that as a committee, we are going to be working with the minister going forward to see how they make use of the foreign services the best way possible because that is primarily the job of foreign services.

 

“All the ministers, foreign affairs, ambassadors, their primary job is to be ambassadors for the country as far as trade is concerned.”


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Sunday Isuwa is an award winning journalist with over 15 years of experience. Currently at LEADERSHIP Media Group, he has published thousands of articles that have helped in shaping Democracy, Good Governance in Nigeria, Africa and the world at large. His Twitter handle is @IsuwaSunday 

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