THE Chairman of the National Population Commission (NPC), Festus Odimegwu has said that the 2006 census housing enumeration data was not published because it was altered by census officials due to corrupt practices.
He said this Thursday in Abuja at the request by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega during an official visit to the commission for "accurate and available" 2006 population census enumeration data of all localities.
Odimegwu said that publishing the 2006 census would have amounted to causing more crises because of no-end court cases that will result because of the questionability of such data.
He said that though the 2010 census data which have been updated was published "there is no officially certified data for all localities (for the 2006 census) because when I resumed office and saw what they called the compendium of localities, l found out how the enumerations area were bought and sold and how certain things where done in a way that is not professional. Odimegwu listed areas of collaboration between the two agencies to include the provision of data for electoral planning, logistic support, exchange programmes and population quality improvement.
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