The Ghana Statistical Service on Monday, 2 March, 2020, inaugurated a five Member Implementation Committee for the Tamale Metropolitan and Sagnarigu Municipal Assemblies in the northern region for the 2020 population and housing census slated later this year.
The Metropolitan, Municipal and District implementing committee has been tasked to have an oversight responsibility over the District Technical Team which will spearhead the data collection across the various MMDAs in the country.
The five member Implementation Committee is made up of the District Coordinating Director as Chairman, the District Health Director, District Education Director, District Information Officer and a Representative of the Traditional Authority in the District.
The Sagnarigu Municipal Chief Executive, Hajia Mariam Iddrisu explained in an exclusive interview with A1 radio said that, the technical team would have direct contact with the data collectors and supervisors throughout the period.
She posited that the data yet to be compiled will help the assemblies to plan well their people.
Hajia Mariam noted the Sagnarigu Municipal Assembly is very much poised for a successful program, stating, “We have held several capacity building meetings on this program and the technical team adequately trained on what to do and even today, the implementation committees were also trained on the technicalities involve in the exercise, therefore, giving this background I anticipate that the entire population census exercise will be successful.”
For his part, the Northern Regional Statistician, Mr. George Agbenyo underscored the importance of publicity and public education and awareness ahead of the population census.
He emphasized that, “from now till the end of the census the people must know the census is coming and they must know how the census will benefit and if they know all these things and the field staff goes to them to collect data, they will accommodate them.”
He assured that, Ghana Statistical Service is determined to explore the technology adopted, stating vehemently that, “We have tested our technology in two trial censuses, so where there are few challenges, we have corrected them and we are fully prepared for this census.”
Source:A1radioonline.com|101.1MHZ|Ghana
