AWKA - The ongoing National Demographic and Health Survey in Anambra has suffered a setback, according to the National Population Commission (NPC).
NPC’s Commissioner for the state, Mr. Beluchukwu Ene said in Akwa that the exercise had recorded a setback in the Idemili North Council area and urban centres in the state.
He said that Nkpor community and residents in the cities had resisted interviews by the commission’s enumerators.
“One finds it difficult to appreciate the uncooperative attitude of the people.
The survey is so misunderstood even when it had a wide publicity.
“It is a struggle to many of them to appreciate the contributions that are being made to uplift and upgrade their living standard which is the essence of the survey,” Ene told newsmen.
Ene, who said the resistance by the people might not have any cultural undertones, urged them to cooperate with the enumerators to ensure the success of the exercise.
The NPC boss explained that the information being gathered had nothing to do with tax, saying it was to assist the commission in collating data on the types of diseases and health problems prevalent in each area.
He, however, said the exercise in spite of the hitches in some parts of the state, had recorded 80 per cent success particularly in the rural areas.
NPC’s supervisor in Anambra North, Mr. Odenigbo Chijioke said the resistance might not be unconnected with what the people called non-usage of the results of previous surveys.
They complained that similar surveys had been carried out without any visible government intervention in their plights, he said.
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