The Senior Special Assistance to president Buhari on public Affairs, Ajuri Ngelale has chided the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) that some of the data they dished out to the public is completely wrong. Ngelale made this accusation last night when he appeared on Trust TV “Daily Politics”. The President's aide revealed that the NBS despite being considered a serious public office usually dishes out wrong statistics especially the one concerning employed adults wrong.
According to him, how can serious statistics ignore those employed in the informal sector of the economy?
In his statement, “I am saying very clearly that the NBS has a serious problem with accurate data till today.
He recalled “The same statistics suggested that somewhere in 2014, that the unemployment rate on the nation was eight percent that is less than 10 percent… will you suggest anytime in your lifetime in this country, Nigeria, that we are all living in, that out of the adult population in the country, with well over 100 million people, that 92 million out of the working adults, even worst that.
“The Statistician-General told us that we have a handful of NBS staff. Go to the NBS yourself and see what their employment roles look like, how many staff do they have to be able to send out to the nooks and crannies of the entire Nigerian federation. They send out a handful of people state by state…”, he concluded.
