MONROVIA – There seems to be probable reasons to give credence to the insinuation making the rounds that the 2022 National Housing and Population Census may have ended into a limbo as there has not been any tangible information from Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) or any organ of government about the outcome of the exercise which dragged on for a very long time until it kicked off on November 22, 2023 after some setbacks.
The exercise which should have been done in 2018 in compliance with the constitution which stipulates that a census should be conducted every 10 years since it was last done in 2008, suffered series of setbacks ranging from allegations of corruption involving authorities at the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS), irregularities, including poor timing, ineffectiveness, and inefficiency in the training of enumerators, among others.
The process was initially billed to have ended on December 2, 2022 but according to the Vice President, Jewel Howard Taylor who had stepped up her intervention in the midst of all the challenges said the realistic date was December 10, 2022 at which time the process will officially come to an end and the date for announcement of the outcome made public. Read more
