The National Population Commission (NPC) Ebonyi state secretariat has said it could not access the warring Effium and Ezza-Effium communities in the Ohaukwu local government of the state.
The Federal Commissioner in charge of NPC in Ebonyi, Hon. Darlington Okereke, disclosed this during a press briefing at the commission’s office in Abakaliki.
Mr. Okereke noted that the state has about 9000 Enumeration Areas (EA) excluding the warring zone; Effium and Ezza-Effium in Ohaukwu local area which the commission could not have access to.
“We have about 9000 EAs except for Effiim and Ezza-Effium which we have not been able to enumerate, the day we wanted to go there one of the warring factions told us that they cannot guarantee our safety,” he said.
While the Federal Commissioner disclosed that the agency would be recruiting ad-hoc staff via e-recruitment, he stated that not less than 9000 enumerators would be employed in Ebonyi state for the exercise.
The recruitment exercise, he said, would be done online through the commission’s portal.
He said, “I wish to inform Ebonyians, that the Commission requests online recruitment process applications from the following categories of field officers that will be needed to execute the next Census: Facilitators, Training Centre Administrators, Monitoring& Evaluations Officers, Data Quality Managers, Data Quality Assistants, Coordinators, Super and vision rs, and Enumerators.”
The federal commissioner however noted that “the recruitment exercise would end on Decem10, 20222022; and warned that the exercise is for free.
