The Federal Government through the National Population Commission has signed N85bn deal with Zinox, for the supply of tech components and other accessories for the 2023 national census project.
According to the firm, it had already commenced supply of the first batch of about 100,000 units of the Personal Digital Assistants devices required for the census.
The Managing Director, Zinox Technologies, Mrs Kelechi Okonta, said, “It is a privilege for the Federal Government to consider us among many other companies in the world. They know we have the capacity. We are deploying all our resources to make sure it is successful.”
During the handover ceremony, the NPC chairman noted that the 2023 census would signal a new dawn in housing and human headcount in the country.
He stated that the next census would not be plagued by over-counting or under-counting.
The NPC Chairman said, “With all enhancement that the National Population Commission is provisioning the devices with, e.g., the Mobile Device Management, we can monitor the enumerators on the field and ensure that the data provided by Nigerians are secured and well managed for their privacy.
“The geospatial resources that NPC has acquired will be deployed on the devices. This will ensure that all Nigerians are counted where they are and live. We will also be able to collect statistics on housing type and characteristics for better physical and social planning by government for the nation.
“The homeless will be counted, tied to their usual place of abode, referenced with geo-coordinates; the Special Population: nomads, migrants, people in transit, etc, will be counted with geo-reference to where they are found at the time of the Census. Everyone will be counted because all Nigerians count.”
