The Yobe State governor, Hon Mai Mala Buni said a successful 2023 National Population and Housing Census remained crucial to the implementation of all recovery processes outlined by his administration.
Buni stated this while flagging off a stakeholder summit on the 2023 Population and Housing census held at the government house Damaturu.
The governor stated that as a state, which suffered a series of destruction from the nefarious activities of Boko Haram insurgents, Yobe needs accurate statistics and data that will help in the execution of its post insurgency recovery plans.
“The state government in its resettlement and recovery programme is building new infrastructures, reconstructing and upgrading others to meet the needs of the affected communities.
“It therefore becomes obvious for us to give the population and housing census the desired support and attention for a successful enumeration exercise that will support our recovery process.
“As we are all aware, the census exercise apart from establishing the numerical strength of communities, states or the nation, also provides the government with the required data for effective planning, and allocation of resources and infrastructure for development.
“Similarly, the census provides us with statistics categorising gender, age group and other variables, and also serves as a guide to judicious allocation and utilisation of scarce resources to meet the needs of our people.
“There is no doubt, the population of a community will determine the requirement of schools, health facilities, water projects and other public facilities. This, therefore, calls for the needed attention to succeed for the government to be adequately guided against over or under-allocation of resources and infrastructures,” Buni disclosed.
