Students urged to educate the people to co-operate with census enumerators

Akim Manso (E/R), April 2 GNA - Students of tertiary and second cycle institutions have been urged to educate members of their communities to make themselves available to be counted during the current National Population and Housing Census (NPHC).

The Senior Bishop's Deputy of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (AMEZ), the Right Rev. Dr Godfred Zormelo made the appeal, when he addressed the closing session of a youth convention attended by about 1,000 members of the church at Akim Manso on Saturday.

The government is incurring huge expenditure to collect basic data needed for effective planning and nothing should be done to derail the exercise. He said the youth wing of various churches should play active roles to get the people to appreciate the importance of the census, adding that farmers, fishermen and fishmongers must be made to see the need to sacrifice some of their time to get counted.

Rev. Zormelo added his voice to the call on Ghanaians to provide President Jerry John Rawlings and his family with a decent settlement after his tenure of office. He advised followers of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to refrain from acts that might erode the laudable achievements of President Rawlings.