GOMBE State has concluded plans, in collaboration with the National Population Commission (NPC), to conduct house-to-house census in order to check the influx of illegal immigrants into the state, Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo has said.

The governor disclosed this Wednesday during the visit of the Federal Population Commissioner, Bala Magaji, and his entourage, where the governor also advocated “special and speedy” provision of funds for the Commission from the Federation Account.

According to him, this should be done “especially now that the country is going through constitutional review,” adding that the suggestion for hands of friendship to the NPC became relevant since the body “provides all the basic data for planning an election in the country.”

To demonstrate his support for the Commission, Dankwambo directed chairmen of the local councils in the state to, as a matter of urgency, make available to the Commission an ad-hoc staff, which he believed, would facilitate its job at the grassroots.

In the meantime, Magaji has stated the readiness of the Commission to observe the Maternal and Infant Week slated for May 20 in the state, and further disclosed that the Commission currently has 35 birth registration centres across the 11 local councils of the state.

Meanwhile, the committee recently set up by the state government to facilitate mass weddings for divorcees (Zaurawa) in the state has submitted its report to the governor, suggesting the immediate establishment of an agency for that purpose.

Chairman of the committee, Dr. Mohammed Usman, while presenting the report yesterday, said the agency, if established, would hasten the periodic organisation of mass marriages among the divorced Muslim faithful, as well as widows and widowers.

It further suggested HIV and related diseases’ screening for intending couples to halt the spread of such infections, just as it asked the government to always give the “new couples” N50,000.00 to enable them go into any business of their choice.
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