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OPINION BY MIKE OWHOKO: Why the 2023 population census must be postponed | TheCable

PIC.43.VOTERS QUEUE TO CAST THEIR VOTES DURING THE GOVERNORSHIP AND STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS IN JOS ON SATURDAY.

Perhaps, if the government had painstakingly carried out a risk assessment of the timing of both the elections and census within the context of Nigeria’s sociological complex configuration, both exercises would have been staggered apart by a minimum of one year. No amount of risk mitigation strategy can contain associated emotions, particularly under a government that is challenged by a trust deficit.

Currently, Nigeria lacks peace that is adequate enough to guarantee a free and fair census. Except to live in denial, the country is faced with unresolved multifaceted crises. Peace is not only the absence of war but also the existence of impediments to human endeavours. Human delivery capacity in Nigeria is currently at its lowest ebb.

There are many families that have been displaced from their places of abode and ancestral homes, while others are either taking refuge in the bushes or are in internally displaced people ’s camps. Those that have not returned to their homes owing to fear of being killed or kidnapped have not been accounted for. Traces of these groups of persons have not been established to date by relations or friends, and so, are unavailable for enumeration.

Where is the peace when the credibility and capacity of the present administration under President Muhammadu Buhari to deliver on such an important project is smeared by scepticism induced by nepotism and presidential preferences, which have fragmented the country along ethnic and religious lines? Suspicion and lack of trust among citizens have deepened more than ever before.

 

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