East African Gazette
At the commencement of the National Population and Housing Census 2024, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Maama Janet Museveni took a moment to respond to Census inquiries about their household prior to being enumerated.
The National census exercise which officially kicked off May 10 is to running for 10 days till May 19, 2024
Dr. Chris Ndatira Mukiza, the Executive Director of the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) and National Census Commissioner, supervised the President and his wife’s enumeration process on the initial day at State Lodge, Nakasero.
President Museveni and the First Lady, Maama Janet, were officially counted at 12:30 pm by Dr. Vincent Fred Ssenono, the Head of the Department for Demography and Social Statistics at UBOS.
Speaking after the enumeration exercise, the President congratulated Dr. Mukiza and his team for what he termed as a ‘comprehensive exercise’, stating that the questions being asked are very comprehensive and detailed.
‘’I congratulate Dr. Mukiza and his team, if this is what they are doing everywhere then it is good. I was happy with the questions because I could see that they are aiming at getting data that is useful for planning,” he said shortly after being enumerated.
The President went on to ask all Ugandans to cooperate with the enumeration teams for them to be able to capture necessary information for future planning.
“I ask people to cooperate with them. I hear there is a group of people who say they do not want to be enumerated; they should stop that because they interfere with our work. This information is used for planning and to get solutions for your problems,” he pointed out.
The 1st technologically driven census (Digital Census) aims at generating a total population of Uganda as per census night.
The National Census Commissioner, Dr. Mukiza noted that this census will generate baseline information on persons who benefited in different government programs such as Parish Development Model (PDM) funds, Emyooga, persons with disability funds, among others.
He added that the census for the first time will generate a day’s population in eleven major cities, such as Kampala, Mbarara, Fort Portal, Jinja and Mbale, among others.
Dr. Ssenono, revealed that the exercise will help in identifying populations which are still in the subsistence economy, youth unemployment as well as persons with disabilities by type.
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