National Population Commission (NPC) will spend N719 billion to conduct digital census in 2023.
Already, the commission has spent N187 billion, which was domiciled in the 2022 budget approved by the National Assembly for trial census.
Appearing before the Senate Committee on National Population and Identity Management, the Chairman of the Commission, Alhaji Nasir Isa Kwarra, told the lawmakers that the Commission will need N532.7billion to conduct national population census scheduled to hold in April 2023 .
NPC boss said that the N532 billion is purely proposal for conduct of the 2023 census which he said would be digitally done.
budgetary proposal for 2023 fiscal year earmarked for NPC , the sum of N532. 795, 604, 726billion is estimated for conduct of 2023 Census.
“NPC is ready to re- write the history of census in Nigeria by making the 2023 one not only accurate, credible, reliable but acceptable to all Nigerians”.
He added that the proposed sum for conduct of 2023 census, covers post enumeration survey and that the exercise will be a great departure from the past in terms of keying into the issue of climate change.
In the 2023 budgetary proposal for the agency, Kwarra said envelope of N1.05billion was earmarked for capital expenditure , N655million for overhead and N8.6billion for personnel .
For the 2022 fiscal year, the NPC boss said a total of N206.85billion was appropriated for the commission out which N107.7billion was earmarked for capital expenditure, N615million for overhead and N7.8billion for personnel cost.
However, the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Sahabi Ya’u, told the NPC boss to furnish the committee with details of projects executed with the 2022 appropriation line by line and those proposed for the 2023 fiscal year
