By Mohammed Nasir Shuaibu (Bauchi State Correspondent)
No fewer than 750 special workers across the 20 local government area councils have commenced a four days refresher training ahead of the 2023 population and housing census in the State.
The State Coordinator of the National Population Commission (NPC) in Bauchi, Musa Haruna, disclosed this on Thursday during the commencement of the training at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University. He said that the training is a refresher training because of the gap and preparatory activities taking place in the Commission.
He noted that the same people were been trained sometime in January and February, and the Commission felt because of the gap and preparatory activities, it's very important to conduct a refresher training for them again.
According to him, the primary aims of the training was to re-train and update the candidate on some of the applications to be used during the field exercise, particularly house listing, house numbering, and the actual enumeration. Since it's a digital census and you are using a PDA like a table and it's the operation of that table and several applications that are inside the table, the special work were being trained on.
He explained that the special work that was being trained will be the trainers at the local government level, adding that the Commission wants them to get it well to understand all the nitty and gritty of the whole program thoroughly so that when they're training enumerators and supervisors at the next level, they will not have any problems. Because once they get it correctly now, we believe that the actual people that will go to the field with the enumerators and supervisors will also get it correctly.
The state coordinator, Mal. Haruna, however advised the desperate candidate that they should follow the legal means through the NPC, rather than the legal means of engaging into the program.
He said that the State were only being allocated 750 slots and candidates were shortlisted through the Commission website link. He urged the applicants to be patient.
NIGERIAN NEWSLEADER Correspondent reports that the four days training is taken place at the old campus of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University where the 750 special workers are undergoing the four days training exercise. NNL.
