He appealed to the media, Civil Society Organisations, religious and traditional leaders, as well as other stakeholders to sensitise the public about the exercise and encourage them to participate fully.‘’The media, community leadership, community ombudsmen, religious leaders, professional groups, everybody will be brought on board through conscious, extensive and expansive process and programmes to ensure necessary knowledge, awareness among Nigerians.
‘’It is not as if Nigerians are not aware of the census, perhaps what they need to see is continuous and consistency in awareness.‘’There will be consistent messages every minute through the media, radio, social media, town criers, newspaper, television and discussions,’’ he said.He reiterated the commitment of NOA in carrying out sensitisation programmes across every local government, especially rural areas, on the need to be captured in the exercise.All rights reserved.
Instead of this wastage can't the money be put to better use like buying free solar panels for rural and urban areas!
If you are in Lagos please do not participate in the census. It may not be much but you can use this to protest the voter suppression that happened there.