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2021 Census: Ablakwa Tells Ghanaians To Ignore Conspiracy Theories, Get Counted

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The Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa has approached Ghanaians to disregard some overarching paranoid ideas and misinterpretations against the current year’s Population and Housing Census and benefit themselves for tallying.

Denoting the cross country enumeration night, occupants in the North Tongu regions were occupied with various sensational exercises to make mindfulness in front of the authority headcount of individuals which starts today.

The exercises drove by the DCE, MP, and some customary rulers started with a parade through the main roads of Battor and Mepe which was peaked with a short durbar profound into the evening.

As a component of the refinement crusade, key partners at the occasion alternated addressing the social event and entreated them to help out the enumerators in guaranteeing a fruitful exercise.

Talking uninvolved of the occasion, the MP noticed that some of such fear-inspired notions compromise the achievement of the activity in the North Tongu region specifically, accordingly should be overlooked.

He said, “I have been having conversations with the enumerators, especially when they went around doing the numbering of designs and its arising that there are various paranoid fears that as common has portrayed this activity.”

“A few groups think this is political – that a few groups need to know how they vote, some think this is to recognize specific needed individuals you realize that in the not so distant past, there was an arrangement of Western Togoland assaults thus some are connecting it that they are presumably searching for certain suspects whatnot. So these are all paranoid fears that have no premise by any stretch of the imagination, that are unwarranted and, significantly, our kin is informed that this is only for improvement, is for public arranging so we can have precise information to seek after a logical advancement way,” he added.

Region Chief Executive for the North Tongu District, Collins Arku accepts the evaluation isn’t only a public exercise however an information assortment plan that will direct the advancement of the Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) the nation over.

“Each part of our advancement needs information that will truly advocate our course of ensuring that anything we desire to do would not be founded on presumptions however on logical information. On the off chance that it’s a school we need to construct, we would require the number of inhabitants nearby to settle on an extremely educated choice thus, in fact, this isn’t only a public exercise however an activity that would direct advancement at the region level.”