The National Population Commission has said it had put up measures to guard against all forms of malpractices ahead of the forthcoming population and housing.
The spokesperson for the commission, Isiaka Yahaya, said this in an interview yesterday said people would be counted at their places of residence, and citizens living away from their states of origin do not need to travel to home for the purpose of the exercise, as this totally against the essence of the census.
To check malpractices, the NPC spokesman added that practical questions about those who are living will be asked, although the commission had not finished the recruitment process for enumerators.
The National Population Commission had revealed that a total of 885,000 people will be recruited for the 2023 Population and Housing Census scheduled for five days in May, and the total amount needed to carry it out successfully is N869 billion.