Nineveh Governor Abdul Qader Al-Dakhil announced today, Wednesday, that there is great cooperation from the people with the committees concerned with the census, while he indicated that teams have been allocated to count the displaced people in the governorate .
Al-Dakhil said, “We have been waiting for the government’s program for this important program for a long time, and today these efforts have been crowned with the beginning of the actual steps for the general population census,” indicating that “the first phase includes the first visit to citizens’ homes, as Nineveh Governorate was the first to complete the task by 100 %.”
He added, “Today we have reached the second stage, which includes counting deaths and births, and the curfew has been fully implemented, and coordination has been made with the security services in order to facilitate the citizens’ urgent affairs,” noting that “there is great cooperation between the people of Nineveh Governorate and the committees responsible for the census .”
Al-Dakhil said, “We have more than 10,000 meters spread throughout Nineveh Governorate, and we were able to reach all areas, even remote areas throughout the governorate,” noting that “all matters that have contact with the borders of the Kurdistan Region have been smoothed out and mitigated .”
He continued: “There is high coordination between the Iraqi Ministry of Planning and the Ministry of Planning in the Kurdistan Region, and there is a joint team working in these areas, and it did not pose any obstacle or problem for us .”
Al-Dakhil explained, “We consider this program to be a governmental program par excellence, and it represents development and the economy. Therefore, it is necessary to mobilize and harness all efforts in order to make this national program a success. More than 100 vehicles have been allocated by Nineveh Governorate in the governorate’s statistics department and the Baghdad team.” He indicated that all areas adjacent to the borders of the Kurdistan Region have been reached, and that there are some geographical areas and villages in which there is an overlap between the administrative borders between Nineveh Governorate and Dohuk Governorate, especially from the side of Al-Hamdaniya District. All these problems have been resolved and all areas that include Nineveh’s administrative borders have been reached .”
He pointed out that “there are teams working to enumerate the displaced by confirming whether this is the final residence or the displacement residence in the form, and thus all residents of Nineveh Governorate will be enumerated in the governorate, and if they are displaced in the camps of the region, their original residential areas will be relied upon,” reassuring that “all components and all displaced persons have no fear of any of these matters .”
He pointed out that “the data and forms of the general population census guarantee the rights of Nineveh Governorate,” noting that “Nineveh has completed the first phase of the census by 100%, and today and tomorrow it will complete it by 100%.”
