Speaking to journalists in Maiduguri on Saturday, he argued that the majority of people from the 10 local government areas in Northern Borno, who are still in displacement in locations within the country or taking refuge in neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroun Republic due to Boko Haram terror for over a decade now, needed to be returned home to be counted.
Lawan posited that conducting the 2023 census would amount to an infringement of human rights of a substantial population of the IDPs and refugees.
“Honestly, I commend President Muhammadu Buhari for postponing the National Population and Housing Census scheduled for May 2023,” the helmsman of the Borno State Legislature said, reasoning, “Majority of our people from the 10 local government areas in Northern Borno, especially, Guzamala, Abadam, Kukawa, Marte and Mobbar are still displaced, while others are taking refuge in neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroun Republic for over a decade.”
He said the rescheduling of the census would enable all the IDPs and refugees to return to their ancestral homes to be counted among their fellow Nigerians.
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