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NPC Stresses Need for Proper Demography C/River From Amby Uneze in Calabar The National Population Commission (NPC) has said no nation can actually develop without a proper demography delineation Cross River State Chairman of the Census Publicity Committee and Commissioner representing the state at NPC, Barrister Harry Ezeoke has said. Ezeoke observed that in order to meet with the United Nations census demand, the country is embarking on conduct the census by next year which calls for peoples support to ensure that all parts of the state are demarcated. He appealed to Nigerians to cooperate with the enumerators and present themselves for actual head count, assuring that his committee will ensure that the state receives the correct and actual population by ensuring that every nooks and crannies is reached and every head counted. Ezeoke who spoke while his committee was being inaugurated by Governor Donald Duke, explaining that the training for the second phase of the Enumeration Area Demar-cation (EAD) had been slated for Ikom which was chosen for the pilot programme. Inaugurating the committee, the governor enjoined indigenes to cooperate with the enumerators and present themselves for the expected head count. Duke, represented by his deputy, Elder Walter Eneji, said the call became necessary to ensure that every part of the state and person is counted and covered, adding that though the state did not contest the 1.9 million figure given it in the 1991 National Census, many parts were not demarcated while many Cross Riverians were not enumerated during the head count. The governor blamed the low level of the figure allocated the state on ignorance on the part of the people, as some chased the enumerators away, while others shunned the exercise by remaining in their farms. He said that it was based on this that the state approved the constitution of the publicity committee to create awareness on the need for the people to cooperate with officials of the NPC during the ongoing demarcation. He said that the history of census enumeration in the country which dates back to 1911, has had a chequered history until 1973 when the first full head count was conducted but was cancelled by the military because of the controversy associated with the figures while the 1991 census put the Nigerian Population at 88.5 million people. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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