BREAKING: 37000 Workforce Needed In Kwara Ahead Of 2023 Census

BREAKING: 37000 Workforce Needed In Kwara Ahead Of 2023 Census—-The National Population Commission (NPC) says 37,000 workforce is needed for the 2023 Population and Housing Census in Kwara.

Alhaji Abdulrasak Gidado, the Federal Commissioner, NPC Kwara, revealed this during a news conference on Wednesday in Ilorin.

Gidado said that the Online e-recruitment portal for the 2023 Population and Housing Census opened on Oct. 28  and would close after two months, by Dec. 28.

He said that the commission had received 7,000 applicants of both males and females as at Nov. 5, urging for more applicants for the successful conduct of the exercise.

“I express profound appreciation to the Governor of Kwara, Malam AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, for his unprecedented support for the preparatory activities of the 2023 Population and Housing Census.

“The need to be fair and transparent in the recruitment process has led the commission to introduce the online e-recruitment portal and train officers that will supervise the recruitment process.

“I am happy to inform the people of Kwara that the commission, through the online recruitment process request for applicants from the following categories of field:

“Facilitators, Training Centre Administrators, Monitoring and Evaluation Officers, Data Quality Managers, Data Quality Assistants, Supervisors and Enumerators,” he said.

Gidado however said that the number of functionaries to be recruited in each category would depend on the number of available vacancies in each Local Government Area (LGA).

He said that in order to ensure a fair, efficient and transparent recruitment selection process, the commissioner would, in addition to the existing team at the State level, constitute an LGA Recruitment Team (LRRT).

The team would comprise three persons; a Comptroller (Chairperson), one NPC staff who has NPC file number (as Desk Officer/Secretariat) and Local Government Official.

The commissioner explained that State Recruitment Review Team (SRRT), who are already profiled, are to train the LRRT in conjunction with officers that will be sent from the headquarters.

He said that the Local Government Recruitment Team would work to ensure that prospective applicants in difficult terrains and areas with no network coverage have the opportunity to apply to serve as census functionaries.

Gidado said that the Headquarters Recruitment Team (HRT) in conjunction with State Recruitment Review Team (SRRT) would train the LRRT and monitor the recruitment exercise in the LGAs.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the commission assured that the advertisement requesting for application will be placed in national print and electronic media, as well as the Commission’s website and social media platforms.

The bulk of personnel for the 2023 Census would be drawn from the communities where they are resident, in order to remove the huge logistics of moving personnel across the LGAs.

Also, every community will have the opportunity of contributing to the census workforce, thereby ensuring that the people are adequately counted