By Septimus Senessie in Kono
District census publicity officer has told journalists at their office in Koidu that they have started the 2014 pilot census activities starting with three enumeration areas in Lei, Soa and Tankoro chiefdoms.
Albert Sahr Yambasu said the pilot was a two-week activity that started on 22 April and would end on 5 May, 2014.
He described the process as “an experiment for the actual population and housing census activities scheduled for 6 and 19 December respectively,” adding that the result from the exercise would serve as the actual projection for the December census this year.
Yambasu said “this year’s Population and Housing Census is very crucial and important,” noting that government and its development partners would not be able to undertake any tangible activities in the country to impact the socio-economic life of its people without knowing its actual population.
Yambasu therefore stated that the people of Kono district should treat the whole census with a maximum seriousness for better planning of the development of the district.
Updating the media on the cartography work in the district, he pointed out that the cartographers had already completed the mapping of all the 14 chiefdoms in the district, except Kamara Chiefdom whose cartographic work would start in early May. He encouraged the media to help disseminate key census messages in the district for counting of their people.
(C) Politico 29/04/14
