The Kaduna Planning and Budget Commission (PBC), in collaboration with the National Population Commission (NPC), has inaugurated media and publicity and security committees for the May 2023 population and housing census in the state.

Inaugurating the committees in Kaduna on Thursday, Umma Aboki, PBC commissioner, explained that the committees would ensure a hitch-free census.

Ms Aboki explained that she would chair the media and publicity committee, with the deputy director of state planning, as the secretary. She identified other committee members as the commissioner for human services and social development and special adviser to Governor Nasir El-Rufai on media and communication.

They also include the zonal manager of the News Agency of Nigeria, the zonal director of the National Television Authority, the zonal manager of the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, and the state director of the National Orientation Agency.

Others are the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, the chairman of Jama’atu Nasril Islam, and the co-chair of the Open Government Partnership.

According to Ms Aboki, the committee will be responsible for awareness creation and community mobilisation for the exercise.

“The committee will also develop television and radio jingles, carry out media engagements and carry out community sensitisation and advocacy to relevant community stakeholders for a hitch-free exercise,” she stated.

(NAN)