The Chairman, Senate Committee on National Population Commission, Senator Abdul Ningi says there is no provision for the proposed national population and housing census in the 2024 budget.
Senator Ningi stated this when he submitted his committee’s report to the National Assembly’s Joint Committee on Appropriation recently. He disclosed that if there is no provision for the census in the budget, the country would lose about #200bn already spent by the commission.
The legislator stressed that there would be no proper documentation tomorrow if the National Population Commission did not get the money. He added that the money spent for the preparation for the census will go down the drain and it is a humongous amount of money.
Responding, Chairman of the Joint National Assembly Committee on Appropriation, Senator Solomon Adeola, assured that the money would be provided for the census. To this end, he invited the head of the population and the committee chairman to tell the joint committee what was needed for the conduct of the census which was scheduled to be held in the first quarter of next year.
Meanwhile, the Joint Committee on Appropriations supported the inclusion of the controversial #1bn in the 2024 budget of the Ministry of Industry , Trade and Investment.
