National Population Commission (NPC) in Borno has commenced Enumeration Area Demarcation (EAD) in Biu LGA by deploying sophisticated technology methodology to carry out the EAD aimed at achieving full geographic information system (GIS) compliance.
The commission is also constantly updating and improving its methodology to enable data collection in a more efficient user friendly manner, in collaboration with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) registration area (RA) boundaries.
Federal Commissioner, NPC Borno and Yobe states, Alhaji Mohammed Buba Makkau, who stated this yesterday at a press briefing held in his office in Maiduguri, added that the commission has put in place adequate logistics arrangement for effective deployment of personnel and materials in the selected LGA.
He further solicited for the support of the local government council, community leaders and traditional rulers as well as the state government and other stakeholders, to assist and support the exercise and its personnel to carry out the exercise successfully.
The federal commissioner, who was represented by the state Director of the NPC, Borno state, Alhaji Bukar Gajiram, said the EAD exercise was not the enumeration of persons living in the country and its outcome will not in any way determine the population of any community, local government or state.
The commissioner noted that it was in recognition of the significance of the exercise that the commission adopted a meticulous and gradual approach to the EAD exercise to carry out a periodic stock taking on the quality of the job executed and personnel involved in the field work consistently reviewed.
Mohammed recalled that the commission had previously demarcated 34 LGAs in all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, under the previous EAD, pointing out that the next EAD will take place in 16 LGAs in 16 states of the federation and FCT, Abuja. Among the selected 16 states, Borno and Adamawa states are from the North east zone.
